West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 64 - Health › Title 64 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES › Series 64-40 - Manufactured Home Communities › Section 64-40-3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
3.1. Approved. -- A
				procedure of operation, installation, or construction which is in accordance
				with the standards, specifications, and instructions established by the
				Commissioner.
3.2. Commissioner. --
				The Commissioner of the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health or his or her
				designee.
3.3. Health officer. --
				The state health officer or the executive officer of the local board of health
				or his or her duly authorized representative.
3.4. Management building. -- A building or
				structure used for supplying essential goods or services for the use of
				manufactured home community occupants.
3.5. Manufactured Home. -- A structure,
				transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode is eight
				body feet or more in width or forty or more feet in length or, when erected on
				site, is three hundred twenty or more square feet. The structure is built on a
				permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a
				permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, including the
				plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems contained in the
				structure. The term includes any structure which meets all the requirements of
				this definition, except the size requirements and with respect to which the
				manufacturer voluntarily files a certificate which complies with the applicable
				federal standards. Calculations used to determine the number of square feet in
				a structure will be based on the structure's exterior dimensions measured at
				the largest horizontal projections when erected on site.
3.6. Manufactured home community. -- Any
				individual site, area, tract or parcel of land upon which four or more
				manufactured homes used or occupied for dwelling purposes are parked either
				free of charge or for monetary consideration and shall include any roadway,
				building, structure, installation, enclosure, or vehicle used or intended for
				use as a part of the facilities of the manufactured home community. All
				existing mobile home parks which meet this definition shall be renamed as
				"manufactured home communities" by this rule. The Bureau for Public Health
				legislative rule, Fees for Permits, 64CSR30, establishes a permit fee for
				mobile home parks. The established fee applies to all manufactured home
				communities regulated by this rule.
3.7. Manufactured home site. -- A parcel of
				land for the accommodation of one manufactured home, its accessory building or
				structures, and accessory equipment for the exclusive use of the
				occupants.
3.8. Manufactured home
				stand. -- That part of a manufactured home site which has been reserved for the
				placement of the manufactured home, appurtenant structures or
				additions.
3.9. Occupant. -- A
				person using a manufactured home or a manufactured home community as a
				dwelling.
3.10. Operator. -- A
				person who is in charge of the operation of a manufactured home community, or
				who allows a lot, site, area, tract or parcel of land to be used for the
				parking or occupancy of four or more manufactured homes.
3.11. Permit. -- A written document issued by
				the health authority giving a person permission to construct, install, alter,
				remodel, extend or operate a specific manufactured home community.
3.12. Person. -- An individual, partnership,
				association, syndicate, company, firm, trust, corporation, government,
				corporation, institution, department, division, bureau, agency, or any entity
				recognized by law.
3.13. Potable
				water. -- Water free from impurities, in amounts sufficient to cause disease or
				harmful physiological effects. The potable water shall comply with
				bacteriological, chemical, physical and radiological quality standards
				established by the Commissioner.
3.14. Sewer connection. -- The connection
				consisting of all pipes, fittings, and appurtenances from the waste drain
				outlet of a manufactured home to the inlet pipe of the corresponding sewer
				riser pipe of the sewage collection system serving a manufactured home
				community.
3.15. Sewer riser pipe.
				-- The portion of the sewer system which extends vertically above the ground
				elevation and terminates at a designated point at each manufactured home
				site.
3.16. Sewage Collection
				System. -- The system of piping and appurtenances for the collection and
				transportation of sewage from the individual manufactured home units to either
				the designated sewage treatment plant or to approved off-site disposal. Piping
				within the collection system is referred to as sewer pipe.
3.17. Water connection. -- The connection
				consisting of all pipes, fittings, and appurtenances from the water connection
				inlet of a manufactured home to the outlet pipe of the corresponding water
				riser pipe of the water distribution system serving a manufactured home
				community.
3.18. Water riser pipe.
				-- That portion of the water supply system serving a manufactured home
				community and which extends vertically above the ground elevation and
				terminates at a designated point at each manufactured home site.
3.19. Water supply system. -- A system of
				pipes, appurtenances and equipment for the collection, treatment, storage, or
				distribution of the water from the source of supply to the ultimate
				consumer.