What's happening
This bill strengthens notice requirements and restricts eviction proceedings when manufactured home parks change land use or ownership.
Why it matters
Strengthens transparency for residents. Manufactured home park owners must now provide detailed written notice—including a description of intended land use changes and copies of all related local government applications—before initiating evictions, ensuring residents have clear, early information about park changes that may affect their housing.
Delays eviction proceedings. Even after notice is served, owners cannot start eviction proceedings based on land use changes until local government approvals are secured, and not before six months after notice or lease end, whichever is later, giving residents more time to prepare and seek alternatives.
Protects against eviction after ownership changes. When a park is sold, new owners who certified no intent to change land use are barred from evicting residents for at least 60 months (five years), and similar restrictions apply to changes in corporate ownership, discouraging abrupt displacement after park sales or transfers.
Limits pretextual park closures. The bill prohibits owners from using the legal process to force a park’s complete vacancy if their real intention is to close the park, closing a loophole that could have allowed owners to circumvent tenant protections under the guise of land use changes.
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- Referred to housing, construction and community development
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Protect Mobile Home Residents
In Assembly Committee · Judiciary · Sponsor Fred Thiele
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STATE OF NEW YORK
S. 1603 A. 942
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2017
IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to manufactured home park owners and change in the use of the land comprising such manufactured home park
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph 6 of subdivision b of section 233 of the real property law, as amended by chapter 561 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
6. (i) The manufactured home park owner or operator proposes a change in the use of the land comprising the manufactured home park, or a portion thereof, on which the manufactured home is located, from manufactured home lot rentals to some other use, provided the manufactured home owner is given written notice of the proposed change of use and the manufactured home owner's need to secure other accommodations. Such notice shall include: (a) a description of the change of use proposed by the manufactured home park owner or operator; and (b) a copy of all applications required to affect such change of use that have been submitted to the local government with jurisdiction. Regardless of when such notice may be served, no eviction proceedings based on a change of use shall be commenced until such applications have been approved by the local government. Whenever a manufactured home park owner or operator gives a notice of proposed change of use to any manufactured home owner, the manufactured home park owner or operator shall, at the same time, give notice of the proposed change of use to all other manufactured home owners in the manufactured home park who will be required to secure
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other accommodations as a result of such proposed change of use. Eviction proceedings based on a change in use shall not be commenced prior to six months from the service of notice of proposed change in use or the end of the lease term, whichever is later. Such notice shall be served in the manner prescribed in section seven hundred thirty-five of the real property actions and proceedings law or by certified mail, return receipt requested. Nothing herein shall be construed to diminish or excuse the requirement for factual articulation required by any notice which heretofore may have been made pursuant to this section.
(ii) Where a purchaser of a manufactured home park certified that such purchaser did not intend to change the use of the land pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision two of section two hundred thirty-three-a of this article, no eviction proceedings based on a change of use shall be commenced until the expiration of sixty months from the date of the closing on the sale of the park. No manufactured home park owner or operator shall proceed under this paragraph to the extent that it is the intention of the manufactured home park owner or operator to cause the manufactured home park to be vacated.
§ 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 233-a of the real property law, as added by chapter 561 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
(a) If a manufactured home park owner markets for sale or receives a bona fide offer to purchase a manufactured home park that such manufactured home park owner intends to accept, such manufactured home park owner shall require [the] any prospective purchaser to provide, in writing, the certification required by paragraph (b) of this subdivision, and shall not accept any offer to purchase, nor respond with a counteroffer until such manufactured home park owner has received such certification.
§ 3. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 233-a of the real property law are renumbered subdivisions 4 and 5 and a new subdivision 3 is added to read as follows:
3. In the event that the manufactured park owner or operator is a corporation, company, limited liability company, partnership, or limited liability partnership, said corporation, company, limited liability company, partnership, or limited liability partnership shall be prohibited from serving the notice required pursuant to paragraph six of subdivision b of section two hundred thirty-three of this article, within sixty months of the sale, transfer, conveyance, or assignment, by operation of law or otherwise, of any portion of ownership interest in said corporation, company, limited liability company, partnership, or limited liability partnership.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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Title of bill
An act to amend the real property law, in relation to manufactured home park owners and change in the use of the land comprising such manufactured home park
Purpose
This legislation builds upon the provisions of the Real Property Tax Law relating to the rights of manufactured home park homeowners' associations or the tenants thereof that arise at the time of sale of a manufactured home park by limiting the ability of manufactured home park owners to vacate a park and then selling it without specifying a reason for a change in the use of the land comprising the manufactured home park.
Summary of provisions
Subparagraph (i) of paragraph 6 of subdivision b of Section 233 of the Real Property Law, as amended by Chapter 551 of the Laws of 2000, is amended to require specific documentation be included with the written notice a manufactured home park owner or operator provides when alerting home owners of a proposed change in the use of the land comprising a manufactured home park and that alternative accommodations need to be secured. It also amends Section 233-a of the Real Property Tax Law to further protect the rights of manufactured home park homeowners.
Justification
This legislation would protect the rights of manufactured homeowners from being evicted from a manufactured home park without knowing the specified intent of a proposed change in the use of the land in which their home is situated. Under current law, manufactured home park owners or operators must provide manufactured home owners written notice of a proposed change of use and alternative accommodations need to be secured. Eviction proceedings based on a change in use cannot be commenced until six months has passed from the date in which the notice was served, or the end of the lease term whichever is later.
This legislation would require the manufactured home park owner or operator to include with the written notice of a proposed change of use a description of the proposed change of use and a copy of all applications required to affect such change of use submitted to the local government with jurisdiction. It further provides that eviction proceedings cannot be commenced until such applications have been approved by the local government.
Legislative history
2015-16 S.363/A.159; 2013-14 S.1873/A.1523; 2011-12 S.4761
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
Immediately.
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