1. License application. A manufactured or mobile home retailer shall file in the office of the department an application for license as a manufactured or mobile home retailer in the same manner as a motor vehicle dealer applicant under section 322.4 or as the department may prescribe. A manufactured or mobile home retailer license may be issued in the same manner as a motor vehicle dealer license pursuant to section 322.7.
2. License fees. The license fee for a manufactured or mobile home retailer is seventy dollars for a two-year license, one hundred forty dollars for a four-year license, or two hundred ten dollars for a six-year license. If the application is denied, the department shall refund the fee. Fees and funds accruing from the administration of this chapter shall be accounted for and paid by the department to the treasurer of state monthly for deposit in the road use tax fund of the state.
3. Surety bond. Before the issuance of a manufactured or mobile home retailer's license, an applicant for a license shall file with the department a surety bond executed by the applicant as principal and executed by a corporate surety company, licensed and qualified to do business within this state, which bond shall run to the state of Iowa, be in the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and be conditioned upon the faithful compliance by the applicant as a retailer with all of the statutes of this state regulating the business of the retailer and indemnifying any person dealing or transacting business with the retailer in connection with a manufactured or mobile home from a loss or damage occasioned by the failure of the retailer to comply with this chapter, including, but not limited to, the furnishing of a proper and valid document of title to the manufactured or mobile home involved in the transaction.
4. Permits for fairs, shows, and exhibitions. Manufactured or mobile home retailers, in addition to selling homes at their principal place of business and lots, may, upon receipt of a temporary permit approved by the department, display and offer new manufactured homes for sale and negotiate sales of new manufactured homes at fairs, shows, and exhibitions. Application for temporary permits shall be made upon forms provided by the department and shall be accompanied by a ten dollar permit fee. Temporary permits shall be issued for a period not to exceed fourteen days.
5. Manufactured or mobile home hookups. A manufactured or mobile home retailer or an employee of a manufactured or mobile home retailer may perform water, gas, electrical, and other utility service connections in a manufactured or mobile home space, or within ten feet of such space, located in a manufactured home community or mobile home park, and the retailer or an employee of the retailer may install a tiedown system on a manufactured or mobile home located in a manufactured home community or mobile home park. The connections are subject to inspection and approval by local building code officials and the manufactured or mobile home retailer shall pay the inspection fee, if any.
[C81, § 322B.3; 82 Acts, ch 1009, § 1]
92 Acts, ch 1175, § 16; 98 Acts, ch 1075, §28; 98 Acts, ch 1126, §3, 4; 99 Acts, ch 114, §22; 2001 Acts, ch 32, §38; 2001 Acts, ch 153, §3
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