FINAL BILL REPORT

                  HB 1041

                          C 7 L 95

                     Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Authorizing a trade association representing manufactured housing dealers to use a manufactured home as an office.

Sponsors:  Representatives Quall, Schoesler, Robertson and Sheldon.

House Committee on Commerce & Labor

Senate Committee on Labor, Commerce & Trade

Background:  Vehicle dealers who buy and sell vehicles are required to have an established place of business.  This "established place of business" must be a permanent commercial structure.

Manufactured home dealers are included as vehicle dealers, and must comply with the requirement to provide a permanent commercial structure as their established place of business.  They are expressly authorized to use a mobile home as their business office if the structure is connected to utilities and is set up in accordance with state law.

There is no express authority for an association that represents manufactured home dealers to use a manufactured home as a business office.

Summary:  A state-wide trade association representing manufactured home dealers is expressly authorized to use a manufactured home as a place of business if the manufactured home complies with all other applicable building code, zoning and other land-use regulatory ordinances.

Votes on Final Passage:

House     93 0

Senate   40 7

Effective:  July 23, 1995