2009 Iowa Code
Title 14 - Property
Subtitle 2 - Real Property - Gifts
CHAPTER 562B - MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITIES OR MOBILE HOME PARKS RESIDENTIAL LANDLORD AND TENANT LAW
562B.14 - DISCLOSURE AND TENDER OF WRITTEN RENTAL AGREEMENT.

        562B.14  DISCLOSURE AND TENDER OF WRITTEN RENTAL
      AGREEMENT.
         1.  The landlord shall offer the tenant the opportunity to sign a
      written agreement for a mobile home space.
         2.  The landlord or any person authorized to enter into a rental
      agreement on the landlord's behalf shall disclose to the tenant in
      writing at or before entering into the rental agreement the name and
      address of:
         a.  The person authorized to manage the manufactured home
      community or mobile home park.
         b.  The owner of the manufactured home community or mobile
      home park or a person authorized to act for and on behalf of the
      owner for the purpose of service of process and for the purpose of
      receiving and receipting for notices and demands.
         3.  The information required to be furnished by this section shall
      be kept current and refurnished to the tenant upon the tenant's
      request.  When there is a new owner or operator this section extends
      to and is enforceable against any successor landlord, owner or
      manager.
         4.  A person who fails to comply with subsections 1 and 2 becomes
      an agent of each person who is a landlord for the following purposes:

         a.  Service of process and receiving and receipting for
      notices and demands.
         b.  Performing the obligations of the landlord under this
      chapter and under the rental agreement and expending or making
      available for the purpose all rent collected from the manufactured
      home community or mobile home park.
         5.  If there is a written rental agreement, the landlord must
      tender and deliver a signed copy of the rental agreement to the
      tenant and the tenant must sign and deliver to the landlord one fully
      executed copy of such rental agreement within ten days after the
      agreement is executed.  Noncompliance with this subsection shall be
      deemed a material noncompliance by the landlord or the tenant, as the
      case may be, of the rental agreement.
         6.  The landlord or any person authorized to enter into a rental
      agreement on the landlord's behalf shall provide a written
      explanation of utility rates, charges and services to the prospective
      tenant before the rental agreement is signed unless the utility
      charges are paid by the tenant directly to the utility company.
         7.  Each tenant shall be notified, in writing, of any rent
      increase at least sixty days before the effective date. Such
      effective date shall not be sooner than the expiration date of the
      original rental agreement or any renewal or extension thereof.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C79, 81, § 562B.14] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         2001 Acts, ch 153, §16
         Referred to in § 562B.6, 562B.7, 562B.9