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Licensed dealers, manufacturers, mechanics, and installers may install, service, manufacture, sell, or repair certain manufactured housing, and some are exempt from other licensing requirements.
The board must adopt rules and establish standards under section 9005-A to administer and enforce this subchapter.
The board must adopt standards for manufactured housing, and certified housing gets exemption and occupancy-certificate protections subject to a narrow safety-based denial process.
1. Inspection agency. Any manufacturer seeking inspection and approval of manufactured housing subject to the requirements of this subchapter may contract with an inspection agency authorized by the board to perform the necessary services
The board must set standards for qualifying private or public inspection agencies, qualify only those that meet the standards, and suspend an agency’s qualification if it is no longer qualified after notice and hearing.
Fees for new dwelling units and manufactured housing inspections are set elsewhere, and the inspection fee must be paid by the manufacturer, dealer, developer dealer, installer, or mechanic whose act or omission made the inspection necessary.
On complaint, the board may investigate whether the unit complies with established rules and must notify the complainant of the right to relief.
Manufacturers must notify specified people and the board about certain defects in manufactured housing, and dealers or transporters must give written notice of certain damage- or modification-related defects, with listed exceptions. Licensed persons responsible for a safety hazard or noncompliance must promptly repair
The board may accept manufactured housing certified by another state if that state’s standards meet Maine’s objectives and are satisfactorily enforced, and it may later suspend or revoke that acceptance for listed reasons.
The board may investigate complaints, buyers of new manufactured housing may complain about defects within 1 year and 10 days after installation, any person with knowledge of a violation may complain within 1 year, and complaints may be filed in a board-approved form if they include required information.
This section defines terms used in the subchapter, including Board, Commissioner, Dealer, Department, Distributor, Manufacturer, manufactured housing, Secretary, and State administrative agency.
The board must delegate administration of the state administrative agency program to the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation.
The commissioner may issue, amend, and revoke rules needed to carry out required state administrative agency procedures, including consumer complaint handling and hearings.
The department must adopt, administer, and enforce manufactured housing construction and safety standards, and may adopt rules needed to enforce them.
The fee for a preoccupancy inspection of manufactured housing, as required pursuant to 24 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 3286, is set pursuant to section 9021, subsection 2‑A. [PL 2009, c. 241, Pt. A, §6 (NEW).]
The department may, through authorized representatives, enter certain manufactured-housing facilities at reasonable times to check compliance.
A person who violates manufactured housing compliance rules or department rules is subject to a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per violation, with a $1,000,000 cap for a related series of violations within one year.
A person or corporate officer, director, or agent who willfully or knowingly violates listed state-law provisions in a way that threatens a purchaser’s health or safety may be fined up to $1,000, imprisoned up to one year, or both.
The department must establish a monitoring inspection fee, with the amount set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary.
Manufacturers, distributors, and dealers of manufactured housing must keep records, make reports, provide information requested by HUD, and allow inspection of relevant books and documents by a person designated by the Secretary.
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