Missouri · statute · Mo. Rev. Stat. ch. 700 · 57 active provisions
As used in sections 700.010 to 700.500, for the purpose of sections 700.010 to 700.500, the following terms mean: (1) "Authorized representative", any person, firm or corporation, or employee thereof, approved or hired by the commission to perform inspection services; (2) "Code", the standards relating to manufactured…
1. No person shall rent, lease, sell or offer for sale any new manufactured home manufactured after January 1, 1974, unless such manufactured home complies with the code and bears the proper seal. 2. No person shall manufacture in this state any manufactured home or modular unit for rent, lease or sale within the state…
Seals may be issued by the commission when applied for with an affidavit certifying that the person applying will not attach a seal to any manufactured home or modular unit that does not meet or exceed the code. Any registered dealer who has acquired a preowned manufactured home or modular unit without a seal may apply…
No dealer, manufacturer or their representative shall alter or cause to be altered any new manufactured home or modular unit or used modular unit used for educational purposes to which a seal has been affixed, if such alteration or conversion causes the manufactured home or modular unit to be in violation of the code.
Upon showing by a registered manufacturer or dealer that another state provides for the sealing of manufactured homes or modular units in compliance with standards which are at least equal to those provided in the code and upon determination by the commission that such standards are being adequately enforced, the commi…
1. If a manufactured home or modular unit carries a seal as provided in sections 700.010 to 700.115, no agency of this state, nor any municipality or other local governmental body shall require such manufactured home or modular unit to comply with any other building, plumbing, heating or electrical code other than the…
1. The commission shall, through its own inspection service or through a public or private inspection service acting as its authorized representative, perform sufficient inspections of manufacturing and dealer premises and manufactured homes and modular units to ensure that the provisions of the code are being observed…
1. There is hereby established a fund in the state treasury to be known as the "Manufactured Housing Consumer Recovery Fund" for the purpose of paying consumer claims under procedures the commission may promulgate by rule. The public service commission shall administer the manufactured housing consumer recovery fund an…
It shall be a misdemeanor: (1) For a manufacturer or dealer to manufacture, rent, lease, sell or offer to sell any manufactured home or modular unit after January 1, 1977, unless there is in effect a registration with the commission; (2) To rent, lease, sell or offer to sell any new manufactured home or new modular uni…
The issuance of seals to any manufacturer in violation of the provisions of sections 700.010 to 700.115 may be suspended by the commission and no further seals shall be issued to any such manufacturer except upon proof satisfactory to the commission that the conditions which brought about the violation have been remedi…
From and after January 1, 1974, the manufacturer shall cause a serial number to be stamped on the front cross member of the left-hand side so that it may be easily read. It may not contain more than fifteen digits. Any multiple units shall contain the same serial number with letters of the alphabet designating that eac…
Every dealer of a new manufactured home offered for sale in this state shall at the time of sale provide the purchaser with a bill of sale or the purchase agreement containing at least the following: the total price of the unit, serial number if available, if not, the manufacturer name and model number of the unit, and…
As used in sections 700.060 to 700.115, the term "manufactured home" shall also include units defined in section 700.010 if such units are in two or more separately towable components designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of being again separated into the components for repeated towing and includes two m…
All new manufactured homes located in this state shall be anchored and tied down in accordance with the standards promulgated by the commission pursuant to the provisions of sections 700.010 to 700.115 and 700.650 to 700.692.
1. The owner of a manufactured home shall secure the manufactured home to the ground by the use of anchors and tiedowns so as to resist wind overturning and sliding. However, nothing herein shall be construed as requiring that anchors and tiedowns be installed to secure manufactured homes which are permanently attached…
The commission shall approve or have approved, prior to being sold, being offered for sale or being installed, any anchor or tiedown system designed and intended for manufactured homes. Before any such system shall be sold, offered for sale, or installed, a letter of approval from the commission or its authorized agent…
The provisions of sections 700.060 to 700.085 do not apply to any manufactured home unit being offered for sale and parked temporarily on the sales lot of any person, firm, or corporation regularly selling or offering for sale manufactured homes as part of his or its usual business operations.
1. Every manufacturer or dealer who sells or offers for sale, on consignment or otherwise, a manufactured home or modular unit from or in the state of Missouri shall register with the commission each place of business at which the manufacturer or dealer sells or offers for sale a manufactured home or modular unit. 2. T…
1. Every dealer shall, on or before January fifteenth of each year, make application for registration or renewal and shall be required to maintain a bona fide established place of business and maintain a permanent enclosed building or structure, either owned in fee or leased and actually occupied as a place of business…
1. Each person registered as a dealer under the provisions of sections 700.010 to 700.115 shall file monthly reports with the commission, and such reports shall be in the form and manner and contain the information required by the commission by rules promulgated under chapter 536, and shall permit an employee of the co…
No insurance company, finance company, bank, or trust company shall be required to register with the commission in order to sell any manufactured home or modular unit repossessed or purchased by the company on the basis of total destruction or theft thereof when the sale of the manufactured home or modular unit is in c…
1. The commission may refuse to register an applicant as a dealer, or may suspend the registration of an existing dealer from one day to thirty days, or revoke the registration of a dealer after a written notice and a hearing when the commission is satisfied that the applicant or dealer has failed to comply with the pr…
1. The commission may refuse to register or refuse to renew the registration of any person who fails to comply with the provisions of sections 700.010 to 700.115. Notification of unfavorable action by the commission on any application for registration or renewal of registration must be delivered to the applicant within…
1. (1) The owner or owners of a manufactured home that is covered by a manufacturer's certificate of origin and that is permanently affixed to real estate as defined in subsection 1 of section 442.015, or which the owner intends to permanently affix to real estate as defined in subsection 1 of section 442.015, may surr…
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3 of this section, a violation of the provisions of sections 700.010 to 700.115 shall constitute a violation of the provisions of section 407.020. In addition to the authority vested in the attorney general to enforce the provisions of that section, he may petition t…