§ 246-5 — Definitions

246-5. Definitions.

In this chapter: 1. LICENSEE means any person licensed to operate and maintain a manufactured home community under this chapter. 2. MANUFACTURED HOME means either a structure that is designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation and that is certified by the federal department of housing and urban development as complying with the standards established under 42 USC 5401 to 5425, or a mobile home, unless a mobile home is specifically excluded under the applicable statute. It does not include a mobile recreational vehicle as defined in sub. 5. 3. MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITY means any plot or plots of ground upon which 3 or more manufactured homes that are occupied for dwelling or sleeping purposes are located. It does not include a farm where the occupants of the manufactured homes are the father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or sister of the farm owner or operator or where the occupants of the manufactured homes work on the farm. 4. MOBILE HOME means a vehicle manufactured or assembled before June 15, 1976, designed to be to towed as a single unit or in sections upon a highway by a motor vehicle and equipped and used, or intended to be used, primarily for human habitation, with walls of rigid uncollapsible construction, which has an overall length in excess of 45 feet. It includes the mobile home structure, its plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems, and all appliances and all other equipment carrying a manufacturer's warranty. 5. MOBILE RECREATIONAL VEHICLE means a vehicle which is built on a single chassis, measures 400 sq. feet or less when measured at the largest horizontal projection, designed to be self-propelled, carried or permanently towable by a licensed, light-duty vehicle, licensed for highway use if registration is required and designed primarily for use not as a permanent dwelling, but as a temporary living quarters for recreational, camping, travel or seasonal use. Manufactured Home Communities 6. SITE means a plot of ground within a manufactured home community designed for and designed as the location for only one unit. 7. TEMPORARY DWELLING means a dwelling occupied no more than 4 continuous months in a 12-month period. 8. UNIT means one manufactured home, mobile home or mobile recreational vehicle subject to this chapter.