4781.01 Manufactured homes definitions.
4781.01 Manufactured homes definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(A)”Industrialized unit” has the same meaning as in division (C)(3) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code.
(B)”Installation” means any of the following:
(1) The temporary or permanent construction of stabilization, support, and anchoring systems for manufactured housing;
(2) The placement and erection of a manufactured housing unit or components of a unit on a structural support system;
(3) The supporting, blocking, leveling, securing, anchoring, underpinning, or adjusting of any section or component of a manufactured housing unit;
(4) The joining or connecting of all sections or components of a manufactured housing unit.
(C)”Manufactured home” has the same meaning as in division (C)(4) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code.
(D)”Manufactured home park” has the same meaning as in division (A) of section 3733.01 of the Revised Code.
(E) “Manufactured housing” means manufactured homes and mobile homes.
(F) “Manufactured housing installer” means an individual who installs manufactured housing.
(G)”Mobile home” has the same meaning as in division (O) of section 4501.01 of the Revised Code.
(H) “Model standards” means the federal manufactured home installation standards established pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 5404.
(I) “Permanent foundation” has the same meaning as in division (C)(5) of section 3781.06 of the Revised Code.
(J) “Business” includes any activities engaged in by any person for the object of gain, benefit, or advantage either direct or indirect.
(K) “Casual sale” means any transfer of a manufactured home or mobile home by a person other than a manufactured housing dealer, manufactured housing salesperson, or manufacturer to an ultimate consumer or a person who purchases the home for use as a residence.
(L) “Engaging in business” means commencing, conducting, or continuing in business, or liquidating a business when the liquidator thereof holds self out to be conducting such business; making a casual sale or otherwise making transfers in the ordinary course of business when the transfers are made in connection with the disposition of all or substantially all of the transferor’s assets is not engaging in business.
(M) “Manufactured home park operator” has the same meaning as “operator” in section 3733.01 of the Revised Code.
(N) “Manufactured housing broker” means any person acting as a selling agent on behalf of an owner of a manufactured home or mobile home that is subject to taxation under section 4503.06 of the Revised Code.
(O) “Manufactured housing dealer” means any person engaged in the business of selling at retail, displaying, offering for sale, or dealing in manufactured homes or mobile homes.
(P) “Manufacturer” means a person who manufacturers, assembles, or imports manufactured homes or mobile homes.
(Q) “Retail sale” or “sale at retail” means the act or attempted act of selling, bartering, exchanging, or otherwise disposing of a manufactured home or mobile home to an ultimate purchaser for use as a residence.
(R) “Salesperson” means any individual employed by a manufactured housing dealer or manufactured housing broker to sell, display, and offer for sale, or deal in manufactured homes or mobile homes for a commission, compensation, or other valuable consideration, but does not mean any public officer performing official duties.
(S) “Ultimate purchaser” means, with respect to any new manufactured home, the first person, other than a manufactured housing dealer purchasing in the capacity of a manufactured housing dealer, who purchases such new manufactured home for purposes other than resale.
Amended by 128th General Assembly File No. 9, HB 1, § 101.01, eff. 10/16/2009.
Effective Date: 08-06-2004