55-248.45 - Demands and charges prohibited; access by tenant's invitees; purchases by manufactured home owner not restricted; exception; conditions of occupancy.
§ 55-248.45. Demands and charges prohibited; access by tenant's invitees;purchases by manufactured home owner not restricted; exception; conditions ofoccupancy.
A. A landlord shall not demand or collect:
1. An entrance fee for the privilege of leasing or occupying a manufacturedhome lot;
2. A commission on the sale of a manufactured home located in themanufactured home park unless the tenant expressly employs him to perform aservice in connection with such sale but no such employment of the landlordby the tenant shall be a condition or term of the initial sale or rental;
3. A fee for improvements or installations on the interior of a manufacturedhome, unless the tenant expressly employs him to perform a service inconnection with such entrance, installation, improvement or sale;
4. A fee, charge or other thing of value from any provider of cabletelevision service, cable modem service, satellite master antenna televisionservice, direct broadcast satellite television service, subscriptiontelevision service or service of any other television programming system inexchange for granting a television service provider mere access to thelandlord's tenants or giving the tenants of such landlord mere access to suchservice. A landlord may enter into a service agreement with a televisionservice provider to provide marketing and other services to the televisionservice provider, designed to facilitate the television service provider'sdelivery of its services. Under such a service agreement, the televisionservice provider may compensate the landlord for the reasonable value of theservices provided, and for the reasonable value of the landlord's propertyused by the television service provider.
No landlord shall demand or accept any such payment from any tenants inexchange therefor unless the landlord is itself the provider of the service.Nor shall any landlord discriminate in rental charges between tenants whoreceive any such service and those who do not. Nothing contained herein shallprohibit a landlord from requiring that the provider of such service and thetenant bear the entire cost of the installation, operation or removal of thefacilities incident thereto, or prohibit a landlord from demanding oraccepting reasonable indemnity or security for any damages caused by suchinstallation, operation or removal; or
5. An exit fee for moving a manufactured home from a manufactured home park.
B. An invitee of the tenant shall have free access to the tenant'smanufactured home site without charge or registration.
C. A manufactured home owner shall not be restricted in his choice of vendorsfrom whom he may purchase his (i) manufactured home, except in connectionwith the initial leasing or renting of a newly constructed lot not previouslyleased or rented to any other person, or (ii) goods and services. However,nothing in this chapter shall prohibit a landlord from prescribing reasonablerequirements governing, as a condition of occupancy, the style, size orquality of the manufactured home, or other structures placed on themanufactured home lot.
(1975, c. 535; 1987, c. 513; 1989, c. 87; 1992, c. 709; 2008, c. 329.)