HF 106 (LSB 1159YH (2) 90)

HOUSE FILE 106

BY  ISENHART

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to technical and financial assistance provided by the Iowa finance authority to cities, counties, and non-profit entities for the acquisition and improvement of certain mobile home parks.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  16.50A  Mobile home park improvement assistance fund.
   1.  As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:
   a.  “Fund” means the mobile home park improvement assistance fund.
   b.  “Manufactured home” means a factory-built structure built under authority of 42 U.S.C. §5403, that is required by federal law to display a seal from the United States department of housing and urban development, and that was constructed on or after June 15, 1976.
   c.  “Mobile home” means any vehicle without motive power used or so manufactured or constructed as to permit its being used as a conveyance upon the public streets and highways and so designed, constructed, or reconstructed as will permit the vehicle to be used as a place for human habitation by one or more persons; but shall also include any such vehicle with motive power not registered as a motor vehicle in Iowa.
   d.  “Mobile home park” means a site, lot, field, or tract of land upon which three or more mobile homes or manufactured homes, or a combination of any of these homes, are placed on developed spaces and operated as a for-profit enterprise with water, sewer or septic, and electrical services available. The term “mobile home park” shall not be construed to include manufactured or mobile homes, buildings, tents, or other structures temporarily maintained by any individual, educational institution, or company on their own premises and used exclusively to house their own labor force or students.
   e.  “Mobile home space” means a parcel of land for rent which has been designed to accommodate a mobile home and provide the required sewer and utility connections.
   f.  “Tenant” means a person entitled under a rental agreement to occupy a mobile home space to the exclusion of others.
   2.  a.  A mobile home park improvement assistance fund is created within the authority, and the authority shall administer the fund in a manner to provide technical and financial assistance to cities, counties, and nonprofit entities for the acquisition and initial improvement of mobile home parks, located within the city or county, in which the majority of tenants are low or moderate income and are at risk of displacement.
   b.  The fund may consist of any moneys appropriated by the general assembly for purposes of this section and any other moneys that are lawfully available to the authority. The authority shall use any moneys specifically appropriated for purposes of this section only for the purposes of this section. The authority may use all other moneys in the fund, including interest, earnings, and recaptures, for purposes of this section.
   c.  The executive director of the authority may transfer any unobligated and unencumbered moneys in any fund created pursuant to section 16.5, subsection 1, paragraph “s”, for deposit in the fund.
   d.  If the moneys available under paragraphs “b” and “c” are insufficient to provide technical and financial assistance under paragraph “a”, the executive council may authorize payment of moneys as an expense paid from the appropriations addressed in section 7D.29 in an amount necessary to support the fund.
   e.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund or any other fund but shall remain in the fund for expenditure for subsequent fiscal years.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to technical and financial assistance provided by the Iowa finance authority (authority) to cities, counties, and nonprofit entities for the acquisition and improvement of certain mobile home parks.
   The bill creates a mobile home park improvement assistance fund (fund) within the authority, and the authority shall administer the fund in a manner to provide technical and financial assistance to cities, counties, and nonprofit entities for the acquisition and initial improvement of mobile home parks, located within the city or county, in which the majority of tenants are low or moderate income and are at risk of displacement. “Mobile home park” and “tenant” are defined in the bill.
   The fund may consist of any moneys appropriated by the general assembly and any other moneys lawfully available to the authority. The executive director of the authority may transfer any unobligated and unencumbered moneys in any fund created pursuant to Code section 16.5(1)(s) for deposit in the fund. If the moneys are insufficient to provide the technical and financial assistance, the executive council may authorize payment of moneys as an expense paid from the appropriations addressed in Code section 7D.29 in an amount necessary to support the fund.
   Notwithstanding Code section 8.33, moneys in the fund at the end of each fiscal year shall not revert to the general fund or any other fund but shall remain in the fund for expenditure for subsequent fiscal years.