103A.51 - DEFINITIONS.
103A.51 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this division, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Ground anchoring system" means any device or combination
of devices used to securely anchor a manufactured or mobile home to
the ground.
2. "Ground support system" means any device or combination of
devices placed beneath a manufactured or mobile home and used to
provide support.
3. "Home" means a manufactured home, mobile home, or modular
home.
4. "Manufactured home" means a factory-built structure built
under the authority of 42 U.S.C. § 5403, that is required by federal
law to display a seal required by the United States department of
housing and urban development, and was constructed on or after June
15, 1976.
5. "Manufactured or mobile home distributor" means a person
who sells or distributes manufactured or mobile homes to manufactured
or mobile home retailers.
6. "Manufactured or mobile home manufacturer" means a person
engaged in the business of fabricating or assembling manufactured or
mobile homes.
7. "Manufactured or mobile home retailer" means a person who,
for a commission or other thing of value, sells, exchanges, or offers
or attempts to negotiate a sale or exchange of an interest in a home
or who is engaged wholly or in part in the business of selling homes,
whether or not the homes are owned by the retailer. "Manufactured
or mobile home retailer" does not include any of the following:
a. A receiver, trustee, administrator, executor, guardian,
attorney, or other person appointed by or acting under the judgment
or order of a court to transfer an interest in a home.
b. A person transferring a home registered in the person's
name and used for personal, family, or household purposes, if the
transfer is an occasional sale and is not part of the business of the
transferor.
c. A person who transfers an interest in a home only as an
incident to engaging in the business of financing new or used homes.
d. A person who exclusively sells modular homes.
8. "Mobile home" means a structure, transportable in one or
more sections, which exceeds eight feet in width and thirty-two feet
in length, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to
be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when
connected to one or more utilities. A "mobile home" is not built
to a mandatory building code, contains no state or federal seals, and
was built before June 15, 1976.
9. "Modular home" means a factory-built structure which is
manufactured to be used as a place of human habitation, is
constructed to comply with the Iowa state building code for modular
factory-built structures, as adopted pursuant to section 103A.7, and
displays a seal issued by the commissioner.
10. "New home" means a home that has not been sold at retail.
11. "Permanent site" means any lot or parcel of land on which
a manufactured or mobile home used as a dwelling or place of business
is located for ninety consecutive days, except a construction site
when the manufactured or mobile home is used by a commercial
contractor as a construction office or storage room.
12. "Preowned home" means a home that has been previously
sold at retail.
13. "Retailer's inventory" means homes offered for sale at
the retailer's licensed address or at any mobile home park or
land-leased community so long as the title of the home is in the
retailer's name and the home is not being occupied.
14. "Sell at retail" means to sell a home to a person who
will devote it to a consumer use.
15. "Tiedown system" means a ground support system and a
ground anchoring system used in concert to provide anchoring and
support for a manufactured or mobile home. Section History: Recent Form
2006 Acts, ch 1090, §1, 26
Referred to in § 103A.3, 103A.10, 321.45