(a) There is established, within the Department of Consumer Protection, a Mobile Manufactured Home Advisory Council composed of fourteen members as follows: One member of the Connecticut Real Estate Commission, one employee of the Department of Housing and one employee of the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority to be appointed by the Governor; an attorney-at-law specializing in mobile manufactured home matters to be appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives; one town planner and one representative of the banking industry to be appointed by the Governor; three mobile manufactured home park owners, one to be appointed by the Governor, one to be appointed by the minority leader of the Senate and one to be appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives; a representative of the mobile manufactured home industry to be appointed by the majority leader of the House of Representatives; three mobile manufactured home park tenants or representatives of such tenants, each from different geographic areas of the state, one to be appointed by the Governor, one to be appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate and one to be appointed by the majority leader of the Senate and a senior citizen, who is either a resident of a mobile manufactured home park or a representative of other senior citizens who reside in mobile manufactured home parks, to be appointed by the Governor. The mobile manufactured home park owners and the representative of the mobile manufactured home industry shall be appointed from a list submitted to the appointing authorities by the Connecticut Manufactured Housing Association or its successor, if such organization or successor exists. The mobile manufactured home park tenants or tenant representatives and the senior citizen shall be appointed from a list submitted to the appointing authorities by the Connecticut Manufactured Home Owners Alliance or its successor, if such organization or successor exists. The Governor shall appoint a chairperson from among the members of the council. Members shall serve for a term coterminous with the term of the Governor or until their successors are appointed, whichever is later. Any vacancy shall be filled by the appointing authority for the position which has become vacant. Members of the council shall not be compensated for their services. Any council member who fails to attend three consecutive meetings or who fails to attend fifty per cent of all meetings held during any calendar year shall be deemed to have resigned from office.

(b) The advisory council shall: Monitor the implementation of statutes and regulations affecting mobile manufactured homes, promote mobile manufactured homes in the state, conduct a public education program to improve public perception and local acceptance of mobile manufactured homes and promote them as affordable, decent, safe and sanitary housing, and study additional issues related to mobile manufactured homes.

(P.A. 83-323, S. 1; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-3, S. 1; P.A. 90-230, S. 31, 101; P.A. 92-182; P.A. 95-250, S. 1; P.A. 96-68, S. 5; 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; P.A. 97-230, S. 1, 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1; P.A. 13-234, S. 2, 59; 13-299, S. 44.)

History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 83-3 changed term “mobile home” to “mobile manufactured home”; P.A. 90-230 made technical changes in Subsecs. (a) and (b); P.A. 92-182 amended Subsec. (a) by deleting provision which specified that governor shall appoint 10 persons to be members of the council and president pro tempore of the senate, minority leader of the senate, speaker of the house of representatives and minority leader of the house of representatives shall each appoint one person, substituting language to reduce the number of members appointed by the governor from 10 to 7 and to specify which specific members are to be appointed by the legislative authorities and by adding language providing that members' terms would be coterminous with that of the governor or until successors were appointed and that any vacancy was to be filled by the appointing authority for that position; P.A. 95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioner and Department of Housing with Commissioner and Department of Economic and Community Development; P.A. 96-68 amended Subsec. (a) by replacing Central Housing Committee with Housing Advisory Committee; P.A. 97-230 amended Subsec. (a) by requiring an additional member, revising the composition of the council to include employee of CHFA and a representative of the banking industry, eliminating one town planner, and providing for lists from which certain members shall be appointed, effective June 24, 1997; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 13-234 amended Subsec. (a) by changing number of members of council from 15 to 14 and removing representative of Housing Advisory Committee, effective July 1, 2013; pursuant to P.A. 13-234, reference to Department of Economic and Community Development was changed editorially by the Revisors to reference to Department of Housing in Subsec. (a), effective June 19, 2013; P.A. 13-299 amended Subsec. (a) by changing number of members of council from 15 to 14, removing representative of Housing Advisory Committee and making a technical change, effective July 1, 2013.