As used in the Mobile Home Park Act:

A. "landlord" or "management" means the owner or any person responsible for operating and managing a mobile home park or an agent, employee or representative authorized to act on the management's behalf in connection with matters relating to tenancy in the park;

B. "mobile home" means a single-family dwelling built on a permanent chassis designed for long-term residential occupancy and containing complete electrical, plumbing and sanitary facilities designed to be installed in a permanent or semipermanent manner with or without a permanent foundation, which dwelling is capable of being drawn over public highways as a unit or in sections by special permit. "Mobile home" does not include a recreational travel trailer or a recreational vehicle, as those terms are defined in Section 66-1-4.15 NMSA 1978;

C. "mobile home park", "trailer park" or "park" means a parcel of land used for the continuous accommodation of twelve or more occupied mobile homes and operated for the pecuniary benefit of the owner of the parcel of land, his agents, lessees or assignees. "Mobile home park" does not include mobile home subdivisions or property zoned for manufactured home subdivisions;

D. "mobile home space", "space", "mobile home lot" or "lot" means a parcel of land within a mobile home park designated by the management to accommodate one mobile home and its accessory buildings and to which the required sewer and utility connections are provided by the mobile home park;

E. "premises" means a mobile home park and existing facilities and appurtenances therein, including furniture and utilities where applicable, and grounds, areas and existing facilities held out for the use of the residents generally or the use of which is promised to the resident;

F. "rent" means any money or other consideration to be paid to the management for the right of use, possession and occupation of the premises;

G. "rental agreement" means a written agreement, including those conditions implied by law, between the management and the resident establishing the terms and conditions of a tenancy, including reasonable rules and regulations promulgated by the park management. A lease is a rental agreement;

H. "resident" means any person or family of such person owning a mobile home that is subject to a tenancy in a mobile home park under a rental agreement;

I. "tenancy" means the right of a resident to use a space or lot within a park on which to locate, maintain and occupy a mobile home, lot improvements and accessory structures for human habitation, including the use of services and facilities of the park;

J. "utility services" means electric, gas, water or sewer services, but does not include refuse services;

K. "first lienholder" means a person or his successor in interest who has a security interest in a mobile home, whose interest has been perfected pursuant to the provisions of Section 66-3-201 NMSA 1978 and whose interest is prior to any other security interest in the mobile home; and

L. "abandoned" means absence of the resident from the mobile home, without notice to the landlord, in excess of seven continuous days, providing such absence occurs after the mobile home lot rent is delinquent.

History: Laws 1983, ch. 122, § 2; 1993, ch. 147, § 2; 1997, ch. 39, § 2.

The 1997 amendment, effective June 20, 1997, added Subsections K and L and made related stylistic changes.

The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, added the second sentence in Subsection B, made minor stylistic changes in Subsections H and I, and added Subsection J.