Council on Manufactured Housing

Advisory Council on Manufactured Housing:

STATEMENT OF COMPLAINT AND CERTIFICATE OF APPLICATION TO THE COUNCIL ON MANUFACTURED HOUSING TO SUBMIT A DISPUTE TO NON-BINDING MEDIATION PURSUANT TO THE DELAWARE MANUFACTURED HOUSING ALTERNATE DISPUTE RESOLUTION ACT

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All meetings are open to the public. Click Here for a list of Council Member Names

November 25, 2007 -- The Governor's Advisory Council on Manufactured Housing was re-activated in the summer of 2002 at the urging of Delaware Manufactured Home Owners Association, landowners and elected officials, and held its first meeting in August.

The council, authorized by Title 29, Section 2519(b) of the Delaware Code, is intended to advise the Division of Consumer Protection in the Attorney General's office on matters relating to manufactured home owners and tenants, manufactured housing and manufactured home communities.

The Governor appointed the Council, whose members include representatives of the manufactured housing industry and both renters and owners of manufactured homes. Non-voting, ex-officio members from the Consumer Protection Unit and the Department of Justice, appointed by the Attorney General also attend the monthly meetings.

Several DMHOA members serve on the council, which vigorously seeks fair solutions to all matters brought to their attention, but the Council is not intended as a replacement for legislative remedies to problems facing homeowners, renters and landowners.

You can contact the Governor's Advisory Council on any matter relating to manufactured housing.

TITLE 29

State Government

State Offices Created by Constitution

CHAPTER 25. STATE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Subchapter II. Consumer Protection

§ 2519. Consumer protection advisory councils.

(b) Council on Manufactured Housing. --

(1) The Council on Manufactured Housing shall advise the Division on matters relating to mobile home owners and tenants, manufactured housing and mobile home parks. The Council may consider matters referred to it by the Division, and may, on its own motion, consider any issue or matter within its field of expertise. The Council shall report directly and exclusively to the Division. All funding for the Council shall be determined by the Division.

(2) The Council on Manufactured Housing shall be composed of 14 members, 12 of whom shall be appointed by the Governor: Six members representing the manufactured housing industry; and 6 members representing persons who live in mobile home parks, both those who own the mobile homes in which they reside and those who do not own the mobile homes in which they reside (at least 1 from each county). In the event a member ceases to be an owner or employee of a mobile home park, or a resident of a mobile home park, such person's membership shall cease upon the occurrence of such event. In addition to the 12 voting members appointed by the Governor, a representative of the Division appointed by the Director, and a representative of the Department of Justice, appointed by the Attorney General, shall serve as nonvoting ex officio members.

(3) Each member shall serve for a term for 2 years, and may successively serve for 1 additional term; provided, however, that where a member was initially appointed to fill a vacancy, such member shall successively serve for only 1 additional full term. Any person appointed to fill a vacancy on the Council shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term of the former member.

(4) Members of the Council shall serve without compensation except that they may be reimbursed for reasonable and necessary expenses incident to their duties as members of the Council. A Chairperson of the Council shall be chosen by members of the Council from among its members, shall serve in that capacity for a term of 1 year, and shall be eligible for reelection.

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