1.1                                        A bill for an act&#10;1.2     relating to manufactured homes; regulating manufactured home park conversions;&#10;1.3     amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 327C.095, subdivisions 1, 5.&#10;1.4     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:&#10;&#10;<a id="go.0.1.0"></a>1.5         Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 327C.095, subdivision 1, is amended to &#10;1.6     read:&#10;1.7         Subdivision 1. <b>Conversion of use; minimum notice.</b> At least nine months before &#10;1.8     the conversion of all or a portion of a manufactured home park to another use, or before &#10;1.9     closure of a manufactured home park or cessation of use of the land as a manufactured &#10;1.10    home park, the park owner must prepare a closure statement and provide a copy to &#10;1.11    <ins>the commissioners of health and the housing finance agency, </ins>the local planning agency<ins>,</ins> &#10;1.12    and <del>a copy to</del> a resident of each manufactured home where the residential use is being &#10;1.13    converted. A resident may not be required to vacate until 60 days after the conclusion of &#10;1.14    the public hearing required under subdivision 4. If a lot is available in another section of &#10;1.15    the park that will continue to be operated as a park, the park owner must allow the resident &#10;1.16    to relocate the home to that lot unless the home, because of its size or local ordinance, &#10;1.17    is not compatible with that lot.&#10;&#10;<a id="go.0.2.0"></a>1.18        Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 327C.095, subdivision 5, is amended to read:&#10;1.19        Subd. 5. <b>Park conversions.</b> If the planned cessation of operation is for the &#10;1.20    purpose of converting the part of the park occupied by the resident to a common interest &#10;1.21    community pursuant to chapter 515B, the provisions of section  515B.4-111, except &#10;1.22    subsection (a), shall apply. The nine-month notice required by this section shall state that &#10;1.23    the cessation is for the purpose of conversion and shall set forth the rights conferred by &#10;2.1     this subdivision and section  515B.4-111, subsection (b). Not less than 120 days before the &#10;2.2     end of the nine months, the park owner shall serve upon the resident a form of purchase &#10;2.3     agreement setting forth the terms of sale contemplated by section  515B.4-111, subsection &#10;2.4     (d). Service of that form shall operate as the notice described by section  515B.4-111, &#10;2.5     subsection (a).<ins> This subdivision does not apply to the conversion of a manufactured </ins>&#10;2.6     <ins>home park to a common interest community:</ins>&#10;2.7     <ins>(1) that is a cooperative incorporated under chapter 308A or 308B;</ins>&#10;2.8     <ins>(2) in which at least 90 percent of the cooperative's members are residents of the </ins>&#10;2.9     <ins>park at the time of the conversion; and</ins>&#10;2.10    <ins>(3) that does not require persons who are residents of the park at the time of the </ins>&#10;2.11    <ins>conversion to become members of the cooperative.</ins> &#10;