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MN Stat § 327B.12 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327B — Manufactured Home Sales|Section 327B.12 — Additional Remedies And Enforcement.

327B.12 ADDITIONAL REMEDIES AND ENFORCEMENT. Subdivision 1. Private remedies. (a) Any person injured or threatened with injury by a dealer or manufacturer's violation of sections 327B.01 to 327B.12 may bring a private action in any court of competent jurisdiction. (b) A borrower injured by a violation of the standards, duties, prohibitions, or requirements of sections 327B.08, subdivision 6; 327B.09, subdivision 6; or 327B.095, shall have a private right of action and the court shall award actual, incidental, and consequential damages. Subd. 2. Fraud remedies. In addition to the remedies provided in sections 327B.01 to 327B.12, any violation of section 327B.08 or 327B.09 is a violation of section 325F.69, subdivision 1 and the provisions of section 8.31 shall apply. A private right of action by the borrower under this chapter is in the public interest. History:  1982 c 526 art 1 s 12; 2008 c 273 s 14; 2014 c 275 art 1 s 105
MN Stat § 327C.04 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.04 — Utility Charges.

327C.04 UTILITY CHARGES. Subdivision 1. Billing permitted. A park owner who provides utility service to residents may charge the residents for that service, only if the charges comply with this section. Subd. 2. Metering required. A park owner who charges residents for a utility service must charge each household the same amount, unless the park owner has installed measuring devices which accurately meter each household's use of the utility. Subd. 3. Permissible rates. Except as provided in subdivision 4, no park owner shall, directly or indirectly, charge or otherwise receive payment from a resident for a utility service, or require a resident to purchase a utility service from the park owner or any other person, at a rate which is greater than either of the following: (1) a rate which the resident could pay directly for the same utility service from some other comparable source in the same market area; or (2) a rate which is charged to single family dwellings with comparable service within the same market area. Subd. 4. Electricity. If a park owner provides electricity to residents by reselling electricity purchased from a public or municipal utility or electrical cooperative, and compliance with subdivision 3 would cause the park owner to lose money on the sale of electricity, the park owner may bill residents at a rate calculated to allow the park owner to avoid losing money on the sale of electricity. In calculating the cost of providing electricity, the park owner may consider only the actual amount billed by the public utility or electrical cooperative to the park owner for electricity furnished to residents. The park owner may not consider administrative, capital or other expenses. History:   1982 c 526 art 2 s 4
MN Stat § 327C.05 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.05 — Rules.

327C.05 RULES. Subdivision 1. Unreasonable rules prohibited. No park owner shall adopt or enforce unreasonable rules. No park owner may engage in a course of conduct which is unreasonable in light of the criteria set forth in section 327C.01, subdivision 8. Subd. 2. Presumptively unreasonable rules. In any action in which the reasonableness of a rule is challenged, any rule which violates any provision of Laws 1982, chapter 526, article 2, or of any other law shall be deemed unreasonable, and the following rules shall be presumed unreasonable unless the park owner proves their reasonableness by clear and convincing evidence: (1) any rule which prohibits the placing of a "for sale" sign on a resident's home by the resident; (2) any rule which requires a resident or prospective resident to purchase any particular goods or services from a particular vendor or vendors, including the park owner; (3) any rule which requires a resident to use the services of a particular dealer or broker in an in park sale; and (4) any rule requiring that more than one occupant of a home have an ownership interest in that home. Subd. 3. Other unreasonable rules. In addition to the rules listed in subdivision 2, a court may declare unreasonable any park rule if the court finds that the rule fails to meet the standard of section 327C.01, subdivision 8. The absence of a rule from the list contained in subdivision 2 is not evidence or proof of the rule's reasonableness. Subd. 4. Density restrictions. Subject to section 327C.02, subdivision 2, a park owner may adopt and enforce a reasonable rule that places limits on the maximum number of persons permitted to reside in a manufactured home if the limitation is reasonably related to the size of the home and the number of rooms it contains. History:  1982 c 526 art 2 s 5; 1986 c 444
MN Stat § 327C.06 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.06 — Rent Increases.

327C.06 RENT INCREASES. Subdivision 1. Notice of rent increases required. No increase in the amount of the periodic rental payment due from a resident shall be valid unless the park owner gives the resident 60 days' written notice of the increase. Subd. 2. Prohibition. No rent increase shall be valid if its purpose is to pay, in whole or in part, any civil or criminal penalty imposed on the park owner by a court or a government agency. Subd. 3. Rent increases limited. A park owner may impose only two rent increases on a resident in any 12-month period. History:   1982 c 526 art 2 s 6
MN Stat § 327C.08 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.08 — Removal After Repossession.

327C.08 REMOVAL AFTER REPOSSESSION. A secured party who repossesses a manufactured home located in a park and then removes the home from the lot owes the park owner rent for the period beginning when the secured party accepts voluntary repossession or takes an action pursuant to sections 327.61 to 327.67 and ending on the last day of the calendar month in which the home is removed. The secured party does not owe the park owner any lot rent or other charges which accrued prior to the time the secured party accepted voluntary repossession or took action pursuant to sections 327.61 to 327.67, if: (1) within seven days after accepting voluntary repossession or taking action pursuant to sections 327.61 to 327.67, the secured party notifies the park owner in writing that the home is being repossessed; (2) during a proceeding for repossession pursuant to sections 327.61 to 327.67 or chapter 565, the secured party pays each month's lot rent as the rent becomes due; and (3) within seven days of accepting voluntary repossession or obtaining a court order for repossession, the secured party removes the home from the park. If the secured party fails to meet any of these conditions, the secured party shall also be liable to the park owner for all overdue rent, not to exceed three months and not including late fees or other charges, owed to the park owner on account of the home. This section does not affect any liability or obligation which a secured party may have to a park owner who pursuant to a writ of recovery has removed a home from a lot and stored the home. History:  1982 c 526 art 2 s 8; 2015 c 21 art 1 s 109
MN Stat § 327C.096 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.096 — Notice Of Sale.

327C.096 NOTICE OF SALE. When a park owner offers to sell a manufactured home park to the public through advertising in a newspaper or by listing the park with a real estate broker licensed by the Department of Commerce, the owner must provide concurrent written notice to a resident of each manufactured home in the park that the park is being offered for sale. Written notice provided once within a one-year period satisfies the requirement under this section. The notice provided by the park owner to a resident of each manufactured home does not grant any property rights in the park and is for informational purposes only. This section does not apply in the case of a taking by eminent domain, a transfer by a corporation to an affiliate, a transfer by a partnership to one or more of its partners, or a sale or transfer to a person who would be an heir of the owner if the owner were to die intestate. If at any time a manufactured home park owner receives an unsolicited bona fide offer to purchase the park that the owner intends to consider or make a counter offer to, the owner is under no obligation to notify the residents as required under this section. History:  1991 c 26 s 8; 2017 c 40 art 1 s 121
MN Stat § 327C.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.10 — Defenses To Eviction.

327C.10 DEFENSES TO EVICTION. Subdivision 1. Nonpayment of rent. In any action to recover possession for failure to pay rent, it shall be a defense that the sum allegedly due contains a charge which violates section 327C.03, or that the park owner has injured the defendant by failing to comply with section 504B.161. Subd. 2. Nonpayment of rent increase. In any action to recover possession for failure to pay a rent increase, it shall be a defense that the park owner: (1) failed to comply with the provisions of section 327C.06, subdivision 1 or 3; (2) increased the rent in violation of section 327C.06, subdivision 2. Subd. 3. Rule violations. In any action to recover possession for the violation of a park rule, it shall be a defense that the rule allegedly violated is unreasonable. Subd. 4. Retaliatory conduct. In any action to recover possession it shall be a defense that the park owner has violated section 327C.12. History:  1982 c 526 art 2 s 10; 1999 c 199 art 2 s 12
MN Stat § 327C.11 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.11 — Eviction Proceedings.

327C.11 EVICTION PROCEEDINGS. Subdivision 1. Right of redemption. The right of redemption, as expressed in section 504B.291 and the common law, is available to a resident from whom a park owner seeks to recover possession for nonpayment of rent, but no resident may exercise that right more than twice in any 12-month period; provided, that a resident may exercise the right of redemption more than twice in any 12-month period by paying the park owner's actual reasonable attorney's fees as part of each additional exercise of that right during the 12-month period. Subd. 2. Waiver by accepting rent. A park owner who gives a resident a notice as provided in section 327C.09, subdivision 3, 4, 6, or 8, or 327C.095, does not waive the notice by afterwards accepting rent. Acceptance of rent for a period after the expiration of a final notice to quit waives that notice unless the parties agree in writing after service of the notice that the notice continues in effect. Subd. 3. Writ of recovery stayed. The issuance of a writ of recovery, other than a conditional writ, shall be stayed for a reasonable period not to exceed seven days to allow the resident to arrange to remove the resident's home from the lot. Subd. 4. Conditional writ. Where the interests of justice require the court may issue a conditional writ of recovery, which orders the resident and all those in the resident's household to stop residing in the park within a reasonable period not to exceed seven days, but which allows the resident's home to remain on the lot for 60 days for the purpose of an in park sale, as provided in section 327C.07. The writ shall also direct the park owner to notify any party holding a security interest in the resident's home and known to the park owner, of the provisions of the writ. If the court issues a conditional writ, the resident may keep the home on the lot for 60 days for an in park sale if: (1) neither the resident nor members of the resident's household reside in the park; (2) the resident complies with all rules relating to home and lot maintenance; and (3) the resident pays on time all rent and utility charges owed to the park owner. If the resident fails to meet any of these conditions, the park owner may, on three days' written notice to the resident, move the court for an order making the writ of recovery unconditional. Sixty-one days after the issuance of a conditional writ, the writ shall become absolute without further court action. History:  1982 c 526 art 2 s 11; 1986 c 444; 1987 c 179 s 9; 1999 c 199 art 2 s 13; 2015 c 21 art 1 s 109
MN Stat § 327C.12 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.12 — Retaliatory Conduct Prohibited.

327C.12 RETALIATORY CONDUCT PROHIBITED. A park owner may not increase rent, decrease services, alter an existing rental agreement or seek to recover possession or threaten such action in whole or in part as a penalty for a resident's: (1) good faith complaint to the park owner or to a government agency or official; (2) good faith attempt to exercise rights or remedies pursuant to state or federal law; or (3) joining and participating in the activities of a resident association as defined under section 327C.01, subdivision 9a. In any proceeding in which retaliatory conduct is alleged, the burden of proving otherwise shall be on the park owner if the owner's challenged action began within 90 days after the resident engaged in any of the activities identified in clause (1), (2), or (3). If the challenged action began more than 90 days after the resident engaged in the protected activity, the party claiming retaliation must make a prima facie case. The park owner must then prove otherwise. History:  1982 c 526 art 2 s 12; 1986 c 444; 1992 c 511 art 2 s 33; 1995 c 13 s 1
MN Stat § 327C.13 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.13 — Freedom Of Expression.

327C.13 FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION. No park owner shall prohibit or adopt any rule prohibiting residents or other persons from peacefully organizing, assembling, canvassing, leafletting or otherwise exercising within the park their right of free expression for noncommercial purposes. A park owner may adopt and enforce rules that set reasonable limits as to time, place and manner. History:   1982 c 526 art 2 s 13
MN Stat § 327C.14 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.14 — Right Of Access.

327C.14 RIGHT OF ACCESS. Subdivision 1. To the home. A park owner has no right of access to a manufactured home located within the park unless access is necessary to prevent damage to the park premises or to respond to an emergency. Subd. 2. To the lot. A park owner may come onto a manufactured home lot in order to inspect the lot, make necessary or agreed-upon repairs or improvements, supply necessary or agreed-upon goods or services or exhibit the lot to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, residents, workers or contractors. The park owner may come onto the resident's lot whenever necessary to respond to or prevent an emergency, but otherwise may not come onto the lot at unreasonable times or in a way that unreasonably disrupts the resident's use and enjoyment of the lot. History:   1982 c 526 art 2 s 14
MN Stat § 327C.15 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.15 — Remedies; Penalties; Enforcement.

327C.15 REMEDIES; PENALTIES; ENFORCEMENT. Any violation of sections 327C.01 to 327C.14 is a violation of a law referred to in section 8.31, subdivision 1. History:   1982 c 526 art 2 s 15
MN Stat § 327C.16 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 327C — Manufactured Home Park Lot Rentals|Section 327C.16 — Class I Manufactured Home Park.

327C.16 CLASS I MANUFACTURED HOME PARK. Subdivision 1. Qualifications. (a) To qualify as a class I manufactured home park, as defined in section 327C.01, subdivision 13, a park owner, or on-site attendant as an employee of the manufactured home park, must satisfy 12 hours of qualifying education courses every three years, as prescribed in this subdivision. Park owners or on-site attendants may begin accumulating qualifying hours to qualify as a class I manufactured home park beginning in 2017. (b) The qualifying education courses required for classification under this subdivision must be continuing education courses approved by the Department of Labor and Industry or the Department of Commerce for: (1) continuing education in real estate; or (2) continuing education for residential contractors and manufactured home installers. (c) The qualifying education courses must include: (1) two hours on fair housing, approved for real estate licensure or residential contractor licensure; (2) one hour on the Americans with Disabilities Act, approved for real estate licensure or residential contractor licensure; (3) four hours on legal compliance related to any of the following: landlord/tenant, licensing requirements, or home financing under chapters 58, 327, 327B, 327C, and 504B, and Minnesota Rules, chapter 1350 or 4630; (4) three hours of general education approved for real estate, residential contractors, or manufactured home installers; and (5) two hours of HUD-specific manufactured home installer courses as required under section 327B.041. (d) If the qualifying owner or employee attendant is no longer the person meeting the requirements under this subdivision, but did qualify during the current assessment year, then the manufactured home park shall still qualify for the class rate provided for class 4c property classified under section 273.13, subdivision 25, paragraph (d), clause (5), item (iii). Subd. 2. Proof of compliance. (a) A park owner that has met the requirements of subdivision 1 shall provide an affidavit to the park owner's county assessor certifying that the park owner, corporate officer, or on-site attendant has complied with subdivision 1 and that the park meets the definition of a class I manufactured home park as defined in this section, and is entitled to the property tax classification rate for class I manufactured home parks in section 273.13, subdivision 25. The park owner shall retain the original course completion certificates issued by the course sponsor under this section for three years and, upon written request for verification, provide these to the county assessor within 30 days. (b) A park owner must provide the county assessor written notice of any change in compliance status of the manufactured home park no later than December 15 of the assessment year. History:   2017 c 94 art 11 s 2
MN Stat § 329.095 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 329 — Peddlers, Transient Merchants|Section 329.095 — Deaf Or Masquerading As Deaf.

329.095 DEAF OR MASQUERADING AS DEAF. Subdivision 1. Prohibition. No person shall, while engaged in the business of peddling, sell or distribute finger alphabet cards or printed matter stating that the person is deaf, or use finger alphabet cards or such printed matter or masquerade as a deaf person in any way as a means of inducement in the sale of merchandise; and no state or local license as provided in this chapter shall be issued to any person for the purpose of peddling finger alphabet cards or printed matter stating that the person is deaf, or masquerading as a deaf person. Subd. 2. Penalties. Any person who, while engaged in the business of peddling, sells or distributes finger alphabet cards or such printed matter, or uses the same, or masquerades as a deaf person in any way as a means of inducement in the sale of merchandise shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. History:   1969 c 406 s 1
MN Stat § 329.099 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 329 — Peddlers, Transient Merchants|Section 329.099 — Definition.

329.099 DEFINITION. The term "transient merchant" includes any person, individual, copartnership, limited liability company, and corporation, both as principal and agent, who engage in, do, or transact any temporary and transient business in this state, either in one locality, or in traveling from place to place in this state, selling goods, wares, and merchandise; and who, for the purpose of carrying on such business, hire, lease, occupy, or use a building, structure, vacant lot, or railroad car for the exhibition and sale of such goods, wares, and merchandise. The term "transient merchant" does not include a seller or exhibitor in a firearms collector show involving two or more sellers or exhibitors. History:  (7340) 1911 c 39 s 4; 1913 c 504 s 1; 1984 c 654 art 2 s 123; 1995 c 64 s 1
MN Stat § 329.10 (2021)
2021 Minnesota Statutes|Chapters 324 - 341 — Trade Regulations, Consumer Protection|Chapter 329 — Peddlers, Transient Merchants|Section 329.10 — License Required.

329.10 LICENSE REQUIRED. It shall be unlawful for any transient merchant to engage in, do, or transact any business as such without first having obtained a license as hereinafter provided. History:  (7337) 1911 c 39 s 1