An Act to .Protect
Maine Legislature, Session 132, LD 1145
Committee Amendment CA_A_S273 (Senate)
Amends: 10 MRSA §9094-A

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
' A" to S.P. 477, L.D. 1145, ''An Act to .Protect 
Residents Living in Mobile Home Parks" 
Amend the bill by insetting after the title and before the enacting clause the following: 
'Emergency preamble, Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legish1tt1l'c do not 
become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless enacted as emergencies; and 
Whereas, current law requires a mobile home park owner that Intends to accept an 
offer lo purchase the mobile home park to notify the mobile hmne mvners in the mobile 
h<lme park and give the mobile home owners time to make a1t offer to purchase the mobile 
home park; 
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Whereas, cunent law allows a mobile home pal'k owner to reject an offer from al least 
% of the mobile home owners to purchase the mobile home park even if the offer is at 
the same pl'ice and has st1bstantially equivalent terms and conditions as the offer the mobile 
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home park owner intends to accept; 
Whereas, the sale of mobile home parks as patt of an investment portfolio is 
increasing in the State and oft-on results in an increase in lot rent and fees to the mobile 
home owners who live in the mobile home park; 
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,vhereas, this increase in rent and fees is reducing the affordability of mobile home 
ownership, ful'ther exacerbating the housing crisis in the State; 
,Vhereas, mobile home park owners at'e currently considerlng competing offers for 
the sale of mobile home parks as part of an itwestment portfolio and from a group of mobile 
home owners; 
Whereas, th[s legislation must take effect before the expiration of the 90-day period 
in Ol'der to address these issues; 
Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within 
the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and requil'e the foJiowing legislation as 
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immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, 
therefoi-e,i 
Amend the bil1 by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
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1Sec. 1. 10 MRSA §9094-A, sub-§1, as repealed and replaced by PL 2023, c. 378, 
§ 1, is amended to read: 
1. Notice required. 
The owner of a mobile home park shall give wrilten notice of 
the h1tent to sell the mobile home pnt·k to each owner of a mobile home in the mohile home 
park and to the Maine State Housing Authority. The owner of the mobile home park may 
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not make a final unconditional acceptance of an offer for the sale of the mobile home park 
eadier than the 60th day after the date the notice \1, 1as rauilee as req1::1irnd b)' this subseel'ion 
contajning the information regyirq!'.J. .. by this subsection is mniled as required by this 
subsection and received by the Mafae State HQ1IB.i!1g Authority. The not.ice must include: 
A. A statement that a group of mobile home owners or n mobile home owners' 
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association of the mobile home park flas a first option to pmchase the mobile h()me 
J?ark and may make an offer to purchase the mobile home park within 60 days of the 
mailisg sate ef the notiee date the notice containing the information t'equired by this 
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subsection is mailed in accordance with this subsection and received by the Maine State 
Housing Authority; and 
B. Either: 
(1) The price, terms and conditions fo1• which the owner of the mobile home pal'k 
intouds to sell the mobile home park; or 
(2) The pl'ice, terms at1d conditions of any acceptable offer the ownei· of the mobile 
home park has received for the mobile home park, includi11g a signed copy' of the 
written offer that contains a description of the property. The owner may redact the 
name, address, contact h1formation or other identJf),ing information of the party 
making the offer. 
If an owner of a mobile.home park intends to accept an offer to purchast.~ the mobile home 
park and the mobile home park is to be included in ~n iJJvestment pottfolio by the purchaser~ 
the price, terms and conditions specific to the mobile home park must be specified in the 
notice res1uireg hy this subsection. 
The notice must he mailed by ce11ified mail, return receipt requested, to each mobile home 
ownet at the mobile home owner's home address and to the Maine State Housing Authority, 
Sec. 2. 10 MRSA §9094-A, sub~§3 .. A, as enacted by PL 2023, c, 378, §4, is 
repealed and the following enacted In its place: 
.. A. Group of mobile ho.me owners or mobile home owners' nssociati91,l. first 
option to purchase. A gl'()up of mobile home owners or a mobile home owners' 
flSSociation has the first option to purchase 1J mobile home park, and the owner of a mobile 
home park shall consider an offer from a group of mobjJ~b.Qo1e owners or a mobile home 
owners' association subject to the following conditions. 
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A. An owner of a mobile home oark shall co11sider anx offer fron1.J1._gnmp of mobile 
homo owners or a mobile home owners• association received by the 60th day after the 
date the notice containing the information rc;guired by subsection l is mailed as 
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required by subsection 1 and received by the Maine State Hoy.sing Authority as long 
as the mobile home owners of at least 51 ~Q._QfJ.IJ.e mobile homes in the mobile home 
park that are occupied by the mobile home owner or a family member of the mobile 
home owner sign a petition or otherwise indicate in writing that they suooort making 
the offer. 
B. An owner of' a mobile hom~ park shall negotiate in good faith with a group of 
mobile home owners or a mobile home owners' association concerning a purchase offer 
made under this subsection1 
C. An offe1· made by a g;roup of mobile home owners or a mobile home owners' 
assQ_1riation 1]1J1st include a purchase and sale agreement: 
D. ff the propqfled purchase and sale agreement from a group of mobile home owners 
QL!!.l'l)_QhjJ~~home owners' association matches the price and q(herwise has substantiallx 
equivalent term~.Jm~L9..Q.l)9i1i.91'IB of the offer the mobile home park owner has 
conditiot1ally accepted or plans to accept. the group of mobile hoJ11~owners or the 
mobile home owners' association must have the first ORtion to purchase the mobile 
home park at the price, teL'lns and conditions staled in its purchase and sale agreeme11t. 
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A mobile home park owner may not tmreaso11ably refuse to e11ter_.i11to or 
unrcason,Ably delay tJ1e execul'ion of or closing on a purchase and sale agreement with 
a group of mobile home owners 01~ a mobile home owners1 association that has proposed 
il.Q.Q.P.Jtfi.4e purchase and sale agreement to meet the nrice an.9 subs(antially equivalent 
terms and conditions of an offer for which.JlQtice is required to be given 11nde1· 
subsection l. 
F. Notwithstanding the requirement that the offer from a grnup of mobile home ow·ners 
or a mobile home owners' association be on substantially ~valent J;enns _ and 
conditions, a mobile home park owne1· may not reject a )'.!l'O~osed purchase and sale 
agreement solely on the basis of the inclusion of a financing contingency. 
G. A group of mobile home owners or a mobile home owners' association may not be 
requjred to nay a nonrefundable deposit at the time of execution of a purchase and sale 
agreement as a condition of accep!tYlQ.~ 
H. If an owner of a mobile home_p_ork accepts the offer made by a group of mobile 
home owners_Qumohlle J1Qn1e owners' association, the grmm of mobile home owners 
or the mobile home owners' association must obtain aJ,pro11riate Jinancing and a 
commercially reasonable time to close on the sale before the- 90th day aftel' the 
execution date of the purchase and sale agreement. 
I. If a group of mobile home owners or a mobile home ow11ers
asso..9.iru:Jon fal Is to 
secul'c financing necessary for the purchase and sale agreement during this 90 ➔day 
period, or such longer period as the patties may agree to, or fails to close on the sale in 
~mn111li.!}nce witl1.the __ p.!JJ:Q.hase and sale agreement executed by the p_a1ties1 the mobile 
home gark ownel' has no forthet· duties ui1der this section witb1·e~pect to the pmposed 
sale, lease or transfel' of the mobile home park. 
J. If a purchase and sale agreement between a mobile home park owner and ... ~ group 
of mobile home owners or a mobile home ow11ors' association does not result in a 
purchase and the mobile hom~ park owne1· offers to sell the mobile home park at a 
different price or with different te1,ws and conditions or receives a sub_s.9quent· offer to 
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purchase at a different tirice or with different terms a11d conditions that the mobile home. 
.P.J;irk owner intends to accept, Jhe requil'ements of this section apply senal'ately to each 
§.llbsequent offer. 
Sec. 3. 10 l\fRSA §9094-A, sub-§6 is enacted to read: 
6, Assignment of rights. A grgup of mobile home ownxrs or a mobile home ownel's1 
association that has rights under this section may, upon a majority vote1 assign those rights 
to the foll.Q.\Y!Ugjllitities as long .. ~s the entity agrce~Jo continue opernting the property as a 
mobile home park: 
A,. Th~ municlP..fl!.ity in which the mobile home park is located; 
)3. The Maine State Housing Authority or a municipal housing authority established 
under Title.l0-A, section 4721 whose area of operation, as defined in Title 30-A. 
section 4702. subsection I. includes themunicipality ln which the mobile home park 
is located; or 
!,:;. A nonpLQfit organization.' 
Amend the bit\ by adding beforn the summary the following: 
1Emc1•gency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this legislation 
takes cff ect when approved. 
Amend the bill by rciettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section 
number to read consecutively, 
SUMMARY 
This amendment, which is the majority report of the committee, adds an emel'gency 
preamble and emergency clause to the bill. It retains the current law that a group of mobile 
home owners or a mobile home ow11ers1 association has 60 days within which to make an 
offer to a mobile home pm·k owner to purchase the mobile home pa1·k cm-rentiy on the 
market or for which the park owner has received a purchase offer the park owner intends 
to accept. It also adds or clarifies the following: 
1. If the offor from a group of mobile home owners or a mobile home ow11ers1 
association is at the same price and substantially equivalent terms and conditions as an offer 
the mobile home park owner intends to accept, the group of mobile home owners 01· the 
mobile home owners' association has the first option to purchase the pi11'k; 
2. A group of mobile home owners or a mobile home owners' association has 90 days 
after the execution of a purchase and sale agreement with the mobile home park owner 
within which to secm-e appropriate financing; 
3. The purchase and sale of a mobile home pmk must occur within a comtnercially 
reasonable time after the receipt of the commitment for appropriate financing; 
4. If a group of mobile home owners 01· a mobile home owners' association foils to get 
financing within the 90-day period or fails to close within a commercially reasonable time, 
the mobile home park owner has no further obligations with respect to the proposed sale; 
S. A mobile home park owner may not reject an offer from a group of m.obile home 
owners or a mobile home ovmcrs' association solely on the basis that the offer includes a 
financing contingency; 
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6. The obligation to provide notice and consider an offer from a group of mobile home 
owners or a mobile home owners' association applies if the mobile home park owner offers 
the park for sale or intends to accept an offor to purchase the park at a different price or 
different terms and conditions; and 
7. The Maine State Housing Authority, a municipal housing authority, a municipality 
where the park is located or a nonprofit organization may be assigned the first option to 
purchase provided to the mobile home owners ,mdel' the bill. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
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Approved: 05/27/25 l-Rl-
132nd MAINE LEGIS:LATU-RE 
LD 1145 
LR 1672(02) 
An Act to Protect Residents Living in M'obilc Home Parks 
Fiscal Note for nm as Amended by Committee Amendment 
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Committee: Housing and Economic Development 
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'Fiscnl Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cosl increase - Maine State Hotising Authority 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Any additional costs to the Maine Stale Housing Authority from the provisions of this bill arc expected to be minor 
aild can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
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