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.7 - GENERAL DEFINITIONS.

        562B.7  GENERAL DEFINITIONS.
         Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent sections
      of this chapter which apply to specific sections thereof, and unless
      the context otherwise requires, in this chapter:
         1.  "Building and housing codes" include any law, ordinance,
      or governmental regulation concerning fitness for habitation, or the
      construction, maintenance, operation, occupancy, use, or appearance
      of any manufactured home community or mobile home park, dwelling
      unit, or manufactured or mobile home space.
         2.  "Business" includes a corporation, government,
      governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust,
      partnership or association, two or more persons having a joint or
      common interest, and any other legal or commercial entity which is a
      landlord, owner, manager, or constructive agent pursuant to section
      562B.14.
         3.  "Dwelling unit" excludes real property used to accommodate
      a manufactured or mobile home.
         4.  "Landlord" means the owner, lessor, or sublessor of a
      manufactured home community or a mobile home park and it also means a
      manager of the manufactured home community or a mobile home park who
      fails to disclose as required by section 562B.14.
         5.  "Manufactured home community" means the same as
      land-leased community defined in sections 335.30A and 414.28A.
         6.  "Mobile home" means any vehicle without motive power used
      or so manufactured or constructed as to permit its being used as a
      conveyance upon the public streets and highways and so designed,
      constructed, or reconstructed as will permit the vehicle to be used
      as a place for human habitation by one or more persons; but shall
      also include any such vehicle with motive power not registered as a
      motor vehicle in Iowa.  References in this chapter to "mobile
      home" include "manufactured homes" and "modular homes" as
      those terms are defined in section 435.1, if the manufactured homes
      or modular homes are located in a manufactured home community or a
      mobile home park.
         7.  "Mobile home park" shall mean any site, lot, field or
      tract of land upon which three or more mobile homes, manufactured
      homes, or modular homes or a combination of any of these homes are
      placed on developed spaces and operated as a for-profit enterprise
      with water, sewer or septic, and electrical services available.
         8.  "Mobile home space" means a parcel of land for rent which
      has been designed to accommodate a mobile home and provide the
      required sewer and utility connections.
         9.  "Owner" means one or more persons, jointly or severally,
      in whom is vested all or part of the legal title to property or all
      or part of the beneficial ownership and a right to present use and
      enjoyment of the manufactured home community or the mobile home park.
      The term includes a mortgagee in possession.
         10.  "Rent" means a payment to be made to the landlord under
      the rental agreement.
         11.  "Rental agreement" means agreements, written or those
      implied by law, and valid rules and regulations adopted under section
      562B.19 embodying the terms and conditions concerning the use and
      occupancy of a mobile home space.
         12.  "Rental deposit" means a deposit of money to secure
      performance of a mobile home space rental agreement under this
      chapter other than a deposit which is exclusively in advance payment
      of rent.
         13.  "Tenant" means a person entitled under a rental agreement
      to occupy a mobile home space to the exclusion of others.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C79, 81, § 562B.7] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         94 Acts, ch 1110, §23; 97 Acts, ch 121, §32; 2001 Acts, ch 153,
      §13
         Referred to in § 331.301, 364.3