All Manufactured or Mobile Home Owners must register their home with the County Auditor within 30 days after acquiring situs in Williams County. After the conveyance is handled in the Auditor s Office, the title may be transferred by the Clerk of Courts exempt from sales tax. These property tax reductions that were only available to real property owners are now available to manufactured and mobile home owners. The only increase in revenue that taxing districts receive from voted levies are from the added value of new construction. This program reduces the taxable value of the property, thereby reducing the taxes owed.
Applications are available through our office.
The application may be filed between the first Monday in January and the first Monday in June each year in our office. This does not include the placement of a manufactured home or a mobile home in the inventory of a new motor vehicle dealer or the inventory of a manufacturer, remanufacturer, or distributor of manufactured or mobile homes. It must be built on a permanent chassis and transportable in one or more sections, and does not qualify under the act s definition of a manufactured home or industrialized unit. Units categorized as mobile homes under the act are primarily those units built before 1976, when the HUD standards became effective.