PRINTER'S NO. 2241

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No.

1808

Session of

2023

INTRODUCED BY WEBSTER, MADDEN, CIRESI, FREEMAN, HILL-EVANS,

GUENST, McANDREW, DONAHUE, KAZEEM, KHAN, DELLOSO, HANBIDGE,

HOWARD, SANCHEZ, CERRATO, KRAJEWSKI AND OBERLANDER,

manufactured home owners or operators and manufactured home

lessees," further providing for closure of manufactured home

communities.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 11.2(a) and (b) of the act of November

24, 1976 (P.L.1176, No.261), known as the Manufactured Home

Community Rights Act, are amended to read:

Section 11.2. Closure of Manufactured Home Communities.--(a)

In the event of the closure of a manufactured home community, in

to the discontinuance of the use of the land as a manufactured

home community or the proposed closing upon the sale of the

manufactured home community, whichever is earlier. The notice

shall include the estimated date residents and tenants will be

expected to vacate the community, which shall be no less than

180 days from the date of the notice, and the estimated date the

community will be closed.

(2) Notify any prospective resident in writing, prior to

leasing a manufactured home space, and any known prospective

tenant, prior to leasing a manufactured home in a manufactured

at the request of the residents of at least 25% of the spaces

and shall negotiate in good faith with the entity submitting the

offer. The following shall apply:

(1) The resident association or authority representing the

interests of the residents , notwithstanding if the association

is formally recognized, may notify the owner of the manufactured

home community that it is interested in purchasing the

manufactured home community. The notice must be made to the

owner of the manufactured home community within 30 days after

the owner of the manufactured home community notifies residents

been given to purchase the manufactured home community through

negotiation to reach an agreement with the manufactured home

community owner for purchase of the manufactured home community

and to close on the sale. Upon the request of the resident

association, the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency shall

assist the resident association in developing financing for the

purchase of the manufactured home community.

(2) If the resident association and the manufactured home

community owner cannot agree upon a purchase price, the resident

association shall have the right to purchase the property:

home community to the resident association at a purchase price

to be established by an appraiser chosen by the resident

association and the manufactured home community owner.

(3) A manufactured home community owner may not unreasonably

refuse to enter into, or unreasonably delay the execution or

closing on, a purchase and sale agreement with a resident

association that has made a bona fide offer to meet the price

and substantially equivalent terms and conditions of an offer

for which notice is required to be given under this subsection.

(4) If the two parties cannot agree upon one appraiser,

The three appraisers shall establish a value of the manufactured

home community. If the manufactured home community owner refuses

to select an appraiser within 15 days of the notice, the

Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency shall choose an appraiser

for the manufactured home community owner. The costs of

appraisers shall be paid equally by the resident association and

the manufactured home community owner.

(5) If, within 30 days from the mailing of the notice under

paragraph (1), an agreement for the sale of the manufactured

home community signed by the resident association and the

recorded notice filed under paragraph (1) shall be void.

(6) A resident association that has the right to purchase

under this subsection may, at its election, assign its purchase

rights to the municipality where the resident association is

located, the housing authority for its area, an agency of the

Commonwealth or a nonprofit organization for the purpose of

continuing the use of the property as a manufactured home

community.

(7) The requirements of paragraphs (2), (3), (4), (5) and

(6) shall apply separately to each substantially different offer

owner or to a trust, the beneficiaries of which are family

members of the owner;

(ii) the transfer is by gift, devise or required by

operation of law;

(iii) the sale, lease or transfer is by a partnership to one

or more of its partners;

(iv) the conveyance of an interest in the manufactured home

community is incidental to the financing of such manufactured

home community;

(v) the lease is the lease of a lot within the manufactured

manufactured home community to residents of the manufactured

home community in compliance with the requirements of this act

shall be exempt from payment of State conveyance taxes otherwise

due based on the sale price of the manufactured home community,

provided that the entity purchasing the manufactured home

community is owned by at least 25% of the residents of the

manufactured home community or an organization exempt from

taxation under 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) (relating to exemption from

tax on corporations, certain trusts, etc.), and that the sale

terms require the guaranteed maintenance of the property as a