Amended in Senate June 25, 2015

Amended in Assembly May 13, 2015

Amended in Assembly March 26, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly BillNo. 682


Introduced by Assembly Member Williams

February 25, 2015


An act to add Section 18029.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to manufactured housing and mobilehomes,begin delete andend delete making an appropriationbegin delete therefor.end deletebegin insert therefore, and declaring the urgency thereof.end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 682, as amended, Williams. Mobilehome park: electric and gas service: master-meter customers.

Existing law authorizes the transfer of the ownership and operational responsibility for the provision of electric or gas service from an owner of a master-metered mobilehome park or manufactured housing community that provides electric or gas service to residents to the electric or gas corporation providing service in the area in which the mobilehome park or manufactured housing community is located. Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to adopt a standard form of agreement for transfer of gas and electric distribution facilities in these parks and communities that is required to be the basis for expedited approval of the transfers.

The Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to enforce various laws pertaining to manufactured housing, mobilehomes, park trailers, commercial coaches, special purpose commercial coaches, and recreational vehicles. The act makes it unlawful for a person to alter or convert, or cause to be altered or converted, the plumbing, heat-producing, or electrical systems and installations or equipment of a manufactured home, mobilehome, or multifamily manufactured home that bears a department insignia of approval or federal label when these structures are used, occupied, sold, or offered for sale within the state, unless its performance is altered or converted in compliance with specified provisions of the act and applicable regulations adopted by the department.

Existing law authorizes the department to establish a schedule of fees to pay the costs related to the administration and enforcement of the act that are deposited in the Mobilehome-Manufactured Home Revolving Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the department for carrying out the provisions of the act.

This bill would authorize a person, without filing an application for an alteration or conversion with the department, to alter or convert, or cause to be altered or converted, the structural, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing, or electrical systems and installations or equipment of a manufactured home or mobilehome in order to extend a gas line or electrical feeder line, or both, from a utility-owned service line to the electrical subpanel or gas inlet of the manufactured home or mobilehome only for the purpose of a natural gas or electric service utility upgrade, or both, within a mobilehome park that is subject to or consistent with a specified decision of the Public Utilities Commission.

The bill would also authorize a defect in the manufactured home or mobilehome relating to the heat-producing or electrical systems or installations or equipment to be repaired or replaced without filing an application for an alteration or conversion with the department if specified conditions are met.

The bill would require the department to inspect such an alteration or conversion to ensure that specified health and safety standards that are consistent with the mission set out in a specified decision of the Public Utilities Commission are met.begin delete The bill would authorize the department to establish, by rules and regulation, and charge an hourly technical service fee in an amount that is no more than necessary to cover the reasonable costs of the department to inspect that alteration or conversion of the manufactured home or mobilehome. The bill would require the fees collected to be deposited in the Mobilehome-Manufactured Home Revolving Fund.end delete

By increasing the duties of the department for which the department may charge fees that are deposited into a continuously appropriated fund and increasing the amounts deposited into that fund, this bill would make an appropriation.

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This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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Vote: begin deletemajority end deletebegin insert23end insert. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

Section 18029.1 is added to the Health and Safety
2Code
, to read:

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18029.1.  

(a) Notwithstanding Section 18029, a person may,
4without filing an application for an alteration or conversion
5required by this chapter, alter or convert, or cause to be altered or
6converted, the structural, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing,
7or electrical systems and installations or equipment of a
8manufactured home or mobilehome in order to extend a gas line
9or electrical feeder line, or both, from a utility-owned service line
10to the electrical subpanel or gas inlet of the manufactured home
11or mobilehome only for the purpose of a natural gas or electric
12service utility upgrade, or both, within a mobilehome park that is
13subject to or consistent with the requirements of Public Utilities
14Commission Decision 14-03-021 (March 13, 2014).

15(b) Notwithstanding Section 18029, if, at the time that natural
16gas or electric service is connected to a manufactured home or
17mobilehome as part of a natural gas or electric service utility
18upgrade, or both, within a mobilehome park that is subject to or
19consistent with the requirements of Public Utilities Commission
20Decision 14-03-021 (March 13, 2014), a defect in the manufactured
21home or mobilehome relating to the heat-producing or electrical
22systems or installations or equipment is found, the heat-producing
23or electrical systems or installations or equipment may be repaired
24or replaced without filing an application for an alteration or
25conversion required by this chapter if the repair or replacement is
26necessary to correct the defect, is made promptly, and is approved
27by the department.

28(c) The department shall inspect any alteration or conversion
29described in subdivision (a) or (b) to ensure that any health and
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2Section 18200), or any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to
3those parts, that are consistent with the mission set out in Public
4Utilities Commission Decision 14-03-021 (March 13, 2014) are
5met.begin delete The department may establish, by rules and regulation, and
6charge an hourly technical service fee in an amount that is no more
7than necessary to cover the reasonable costs of the department to
8inspect that alteration or conversion of the manufactured home or
9mobilehome. The fees collected shall be deposited in the
10Mobilehome-Manufactured Home Revolving Fund.end delete

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This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
12immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
13the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
14immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

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15In order to make the health and safety benefits available at the
16earliest possible time, and because the California Public Utilities
17Commission has determined that a pilot utility conversion program
18should begin in early 2015, which involves alterations to
19manufactured homes otherwise subject to Section 18029 of the
20 Health and Safety Code, it is necessary that this act take effect
21immediately.

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