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SENATE BILL 98

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires manufactured housing park owners to provide notice of the sale of the park to the New Hampshire housing finance authority.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

148:1 Manufactured Housing Parks; Notice to New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority Required Before Sale. Amend RSA 205-A:21, I to read as follows:

I. No manufactured housing park owner shall make a final unconditional acceptance of any offer for the sale or transfer of a manufactured housing park without first giving 60 days' notice:

(a) To each tenant:

[(a)] (1) That the owner intends to sell the manufactured housing park; and

[(b)] (2) Of the price, terms and conditions of an acceptable offer the park owner has received to sell the park or the price, terms and conditions for which the park owner intends to sell the park. This notice shall include a copy of the signed written offer which sets forth a description of the property to be purchased and the price, terms and conditions of the acceptable offer.

(b) To the New Hampshire housing finance authority that the owner intends to sell the manufactured housing park.

148:2 Notice to New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority by Certified Mail. Amend RSA 205-A:21, III to read as follows:

III. The notice required by paragraph I shall be served by certified mail, return receipt requested, to each tenant at such tenant's abode and to the New Hampshire housing finance authority at its main office. A receipt from the United States Postal Service that is signed by any adult member of the household to which it was mailed, or a notation on the letter that the letter was refused by any adult member of the tenant household, or that the addressee no longer resides there, or that the letter was returned to the post office unclaimed, shall constitute a conclusive presumption that service was made in any court action in this state. A receipt from the United States Postal Service that is signed by an employee of the New Hampshire housing finance authority shall constitute a conclusive presumption that service was made on the authority in any court action in this state.

148:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2002.

(Approved: June 29, 2001)

(Effective Date: January 1, 2002)