Title Minnesota Statutes, Minnesota Statutes

327C.04 UTILITY CHARGES. § Subdivision 1.Billing permitted. A park owner who either provides utility service directly to residents or who redistributes to residents utility service provided to the park owner by a utility provider may charge the residents for that service, only if…

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.015, subdivision 12. § Subd. 2.Presumpti…

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 …

327C.07 IN PARK SALES. § Subdivision 1.Resident's rights. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a resident has the right to sell a home through an in park sale. The park owner may not charge a fee for allowing the resident to exercise this right, except to charge a fee of…

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 …

327C.09 TERMINATION. § Subdivision 1.Cause required. A park owner may recover possession of land upon which a manufactured home is situated only for a reason specified in this section or section 327C.095. § Subd. 2.Nonpayment of rent or utilities. The park owner gives ten days' w…

327C.095 PARK CLOSINGS. § Subdivision 1.Conversion of use; minimum notice. (a) At least 12 months before the conversion of all or a portion of a manufactured home park to another use, or before closure of a manufactured home park or cessation of use of the land as a manufactured …

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 each re…

327C.097 NOTICE OF UNSOLICITED SALE. § Subdivision 1.Definitions. For the purposes of this section, "nonprofit" means a nonprofit organization under chapter 317A. § Subd. 2.Scope. This section does not apply to: (1) a purchase of a manufactured home park by a nonprofit or a repre…

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 fa…

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…

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…

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. …

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 on…

327C.15 REMEDIES; PENALTIES; ENFORCEMENT. Any violation of sections 327C.015 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; 2022 c 55 art 2 s 3

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.015, subdivision 2, a park owner, or on-site attendant as an employee of the manufactured home park, must satisfy 12 hours of qua…