§ 6238. Charges and fees
(a) A prospective leaseholder or other person may not be charged an entrance fee for the privilege of leasing or occupying a manufactured home lot. A reasonable charge for the fair value of services performed in placing a manufactured home on a lot shall not be considered an entrance fee.
(b) A qualified park owner may charge the initial lessee or occupant of an eligible site a site improvement fee.
(1) The term “qualified park owner” shall mean:
(A) a limited equity cooperative organized to provide low or moderate income housing as defined in 11 V.S.A. chapter 14; or
(B) a Section 501(c)(3) organization or its wholly owned subsidiary organized to preserve housing for low income families.
(2) The term “eligible site” shall mean a lawfully created manufactured home site that becomes available for occupancy by a manufactured home for the first time after June 1, 1993, and:
(A) is located in a manufactured home park established in conformance with the requirements of this chapter after June 1, 1970; or
(B) is located in a manufactured home park established prior to June 1, 1970, that registered with the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources as a preexisting manufactured home park prior to July 1, 1989.
(3) A site improvement fee is a charge for the cost of establishing a designated manufactured home site located within a manufactured home park, including site clearing; grading; construction of a manufactured home pad; construction of utility improvements such as those for water supply, sewage disposal, electricity, telephone, cable television, and gas; payment of municipal fees such as school impact fees and sewer connection charges; and payment of other costs associated with improvement of a site. A site improvement fee may not exceed $8,000.00.
(4) A manufactured home park owner who has collected a site improvement fee may not terminate the park or change the use of any site that has paid the fee without offering to sell the park to the manufactured home owners in accordance with the provisions of section 6242 of this title. (Added 1973, No. 264 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. April 16, 1974; amended 1993, No. 96, § 1; 2007, No. 176 (Adj. Sess.), § 60.)