An Act to Ensure
Maine Legislature, Session 132, LD 1765
Committee Amendment CA_A_H672 (House)
Amends: 10 MRSA §9082

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "-It-" to H.P. 1184, L.D. 1765, "An Act to Ensure 
Affordability and Stability in Housing for Mobile Home Park Residents" 
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 
'An Act to Ensure Affordability and Stability in Residential Housing a·nd in 
Manufactured Housing Communities' 
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the enacting clause and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. 10 MRSA §9082, as amended by PL 2017; c. 210, Pt. B, §29, is further 
amended to read: 
§9082. License required 
A person may not conduct, control, manage or operate, for compensation, directly or 
indirectly, any manufactured housing community unless licensed by the board. Licenses 
issued must be displayed in a place readily visible to customers or other persons using a 
licensed establishment. 
Any person desiring a license shall submit satisfactory evidence, in a form acceptable 
to the board, of that person's ability to comply with the minimum standards of this 
subchapter and all rules adopted under this subchapter. 
An applicant for a license to operate a manufactured housing community shall include 
the following information with the license application: 
1. Applicant's name. The applicant's legal name: 
2. Parent or subsidiary corporation. The legal name of all parent or subsidiary 
corporations of the applicant and companies owned by the applicant: 
3. Number of sites in manufactured housing community to be licensed. The 
number of sites in the manufactured housing community to be licensed: 
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4. Number of sites in manufactured housing community occupied. The number of 
sites in the manufactured housing community occupied as of the date of the application, if 
any: 
5. Lot rent. The minimum and maximum lot rent in effect as of the date of the 
application, if any: 
6. Age or income requirements. Age or income requirements for homeowners living 
in the manufactured housing community: 
7. Seasonal. Whether the manufactured housing community is seasonal: and 
8. Common expenses. The most common expenses included in the calculation ofrent 
and fees, such as pet fees, vehicle fees, ground maintenance costs, snow removal costs, 
trash pickup costs, laundry facility costs and the cost of providing additional storage. 
Sec. 2. Office of Policy Innovation and the Future to design strategies; 
report. The Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, established in the Maine Revised 
Statutes, Title 5, section 3102, shall: 
1. Develop a model rent stabilization ordinance for use by municipalities and post the 
model ordinance on the office's publicly accessible website; 
2. Identify barriers to and solutions for building residential dwelling units in vacant 
lots; 
3. Explore opportunities to provide technical and financial support to manufactured 
housing community homeowners to maintain the affordability of rent and fees within the 
community; 
4. Recommend ways to proactively support manufactured housing community 
homeowners who seek to form a cooperative or other organization or align with a nonprofit 
organization to purchase the homeowners' housing community; and 
5. Evaluate traditional mortgages as a financing option for manufactured housing 
community homeowners who wish to purchase their manufactured housing community. 
In conducting activities required by this section, the Office of Policy Innovation and 
the Future may work with other state agencies or interested parties. 
By December 31, 2025, the office shall submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee 
on Housing and Economic Development with the results of the work required in this 
section. The committee may report out legislation based on the report to the Second 
Regular Session of the 13 2nd Legislature.' 
Amend the bill by relettering or renumbering any nonconsecutive Part letter or section 
number to read consecutively. 
SUMMARY 
This amendment, which is the majority report of the committee, replaces the bill. It 
requires additional information to be submitted by the applicant for a license to operate a 
manufactured housing community under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 10, chapter 951. 
It requires the Office of Policy Innovation and the Future to complete tasks designed to 
further protect affordable housing in the State. The office is required to submit a repo1t to 
the Joint Standing Committee on Housing and Economic Development by December 31, 
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2025, and the committee has the authority to report out legislation based on the report to 
the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
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Approved: 06/02/25 L-RL 
LD 1765 
LR 1109(02) 
An Act to Ensure Affordability and Stability in Housing for Mobile Home Park Residents 
F1scal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment A'( /-1--b o/2) 
Committee: Housing and Economic Development 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
Minor cost increase - General Fund 
Minor cost increase - Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
Any additional costs to the Office of Policy hmovation and the Future and the Manufactured Housing Board fror ·-e 
provisions of this bill are expected to b~ minor and can be absorbed within existing budgeted resources. 
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