44TH LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST SESSION, 1999

RELATING TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE; AMENDING SECTIONS OF THE MANUFACTURED HOUSING AND ZONING ACT REGARDING INSTALLATION OF MANUFACTURED HOMES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. Section 3-21A-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1987, Chapter 196, Section 2) is amended to read:

"3-21A-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Manufactured Housing and Zoning Act:

A. "manufactured housing" means a manufactured home or modular home that is a single-family dwelling with a heated area of at least thirty-six by twenty-four feet and at least eight hundred sixty-four square feet, constructed in a factory to the standards of the United States department of housing and urban development, the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 [(42 U.S.C. 5401 et. seq.)] and the Housing and Urban Development Zone Code II or the Uniform Building Code, as amended to the date of the unit's construction, and installed consistent with the Manufactured Housing Act [(Chapter 60, Article 14 NMSA 1978)] and with the regulations made pursuant [thereto relating to ground level installation and ground anchors] to that act; and

B. "mobile home" means a movable or portable housing structure larger than forty feet in body length, eight feet in width or eleven feet in overall height, designed for and occupied by no more than one family for living and sleeping purposes, but does not include structures built to the standards of any municipal building code and other technical codes."

Section 2. Section 3-21A-5 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1987, Chapter 196, Section 5) is amended to read:

"3-21A-5. IMPERMISSIBLE REGULATIONS.--No ordinance or regulation authorized by the Manufactured Housing and Zoning Act shall regulate the original construction or installation of the manufactured home or mobile home."