§ 21-70a — Displacement of residents due to change in land use. Relocation expenses and compensatory payments. Notice of closing of park, requirements.

Connecticut § 21-70a

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut
• Title 21: Licenses
• Ch. 412: Mobile Manufactured Homes and Mobile Manufactured Home Parks. Park Owners and Residents

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(a) A mobile manufactured home park resident who owns a mobile manufactured home and is required to remove the home from the park because of a change in use of the land on which said mobile manufactured home is located shall be entitled to receive from the mobile manufactured home park owner (1) relocation expenses to a mobile manufactured home park satisfactory to the resident within one hundred miles of the existing park site up to a maximum of (A) seven thousand dollars if the notice given pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 21-80 or subparagraph (E) of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 21-80 expires before October 1, 2000, regardless of whether such notice was given before or after June 23, 1999, or (B) subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, ten thousand dollars if the notice given pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 21-80 or subparagraph (E) of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 21-80 expires on or after October 1, 2000, regardless of whether such notice was given before or after June 23, 1999, or (2) in the event a satisfactory site is not available onto which the mobile manufactured home may be relocated, the sum of (A) seven thousand dollars if the notice given pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 21-80 or subparagraph (E) of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 21-80 expires before October 1, 2000, regardless of whether such notice was given before or after June 23, 1999, or (B) subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, ten thousand dollars if the notice given pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 21-80 or subparagraph (E) of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 21-80 expires on or after October 1, 2000, regardless of whether such notice was given before or after June 23, 1999. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, in any case in which a mobile manufactured home park containing two hundred or more units in which a majority of residents have been given written notice, prior to June 23, 1999, pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 21-80 or subparagraph (E) of subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 21-80 , regardless of whether one or more of such notices or the service of such notices is subsequently deemed invalid or ineffective, the amount of the relocation or compensatory payments required to be paid to such resident under the provisions of this section shall not exceed seven thousand dollars, regardless of whether a subsequent valid notice or notices are properly served subsequent to June 23, 1999, and such subsequent notice or notices expire on or after October 1, 2000. (c) The owner of a mobile manufactured home park, who intends to close the park, shall notify, in writing, the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, the Commissioner of Housing and the chief elected official in the town in which the park is located at least ninety days prior to refusing to renew any leases because of the impending closing, or on any earlier date the owner gives any notice of the closing of the park as may be required by the general statutes.

Legislative History

(P.A. 91-203, S. 1, 2, 4; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 99-201, S. 2, 6; P.A. 01-195, S. 87, 181; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c); P.A. 04-189, S. 1; P.A. 13-234, S. 2.) History: P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; P.A. 99-201 amended Subsec. (a) to increase maximum allowable distance for relocation assistance from 20 to 100 miles, to increase maximum allowable amount of relocation assistance from $4,000 to $7,000 in cases where notices of a park owner's intended discontinuance of the use of land as a mobile manufactured home park expires before October 1, 2000, and from $4,000 to $10,000 in cases where such notices expire on or after October 1, 2000, added new Subsec. (b) to increase maximum allowable amount of relocation assistance from $4,000 to $7,000 in cases where subsequent notices of a park owner's intended discontinuance of the use of land as a mobile manufactured home park were given to affected residents after June 23, 1999, and such notices expire on or after October 1, 2000, and relettered former Subsec. (b) as Subsec. (c), effective June 23, 1999; P.A. 01-195 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b), effective July 11, 2001; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 replaced Commissioner of Consumer Protection with Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Commissioner of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Commissioner of Housing in Subsec. (c), effective June 19, 2013.