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9. Manufactured Homes (Mobile Homes). Most ordinances conflict with state law <br /> concerning the location of manufactured homes on residential lots. <br /> • No city zoning regulation may prohibit manufactured homes built in <br /> conformance with the manufactured home building code and which <br /> comply with all other zoning ordinances promulgated pursuant to the state <br /> law authorizing cities to zone. See M. S. § 327.31 to 327.35 and M. S. <br /> 462.357, Subdivision 1. <br /> • A manufactured home is defined by law as a structure, transportable in <br /> one or more sections, which in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or <br /> more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, <br /> is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and <br /> designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation <br /> when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, <br /> heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained in it, and which <br /> complies with the manufactured home building code established by M. S. <br /> § 327.31, Subd. 3. See M. S. § 327.31, Subdivisions 3 and 6. <br /> • Manufactured or "mobile" homes built before July 1, 1972, that is before <br /> there was a manufactured home building code, most likely do not comply <br /> with the code. Thus these older mobile homes are not included in the <br /> provisions of the zoning laws or manufactured home laws which prohibit <br /> the zoning out of manufactured homes. They may be restricted or <br /> prohibited within the city. Existing non-compliant mobile homes remain as <br /> non-conforming uses. <br /> • Other manufactured or"mobile" homes which do not meet the above <br /> requirements, including the size requirements, are not included in the <br /> definition of"manufactured homes" and thus are not included in the <br /> provisions of the zoning laws or manufactured home laws which prohibit <br /> the zoning out of manufactured homes. Existing homes which do not <br /> comply with the manufactured home building code remain as a non- <br /> conforming use. <br /> • For purposes of city land use controls adopted before August 1, 1981, M. <br /> S. § 327.36 re-defines the term "mobile homes" when it occurs in those <br /> ordinances to include the term "manufactured homes" as defined in the <br /> above law. Newer ordinances which define "mobile home" as structures <br /> which do not comply with the manufactured home building code, can <br /> restrict or prohibit the use of these "mobile homes" as residences within <br /> the city. However, existing "mobile homes" remain as non-conforming <br /> uses. <br /> • A city can not require a manufactured home which was built under the <br /> manufactured home code to comply with any other building, plumbing, <br /> heating or electrical code or any construction standards. See M. S. <br /> 327.32, Subdivision 5. <br /> 5 <br />