2018 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 24 - Government - State
Principal Departments
Article 32 - Department of Local Affairs
Part 33 - Regulation of Factory-Built Structures, Multi-Family Structures Where No Standards Exist, Manufactured Home Installations, and Sellers of Manufactured Homes
§ 24-32-3301. Legislative declaration
(1) The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that:
(a) The comprehensive regulation of the manufacture of factory-built structures to ensure safety is a matter of statewide concern.
(b) The comprehensive regulation of the installation of manufactured homes to ensure safety, affordability, and performance is a matter of statewide and local concern.
(c) The protection of Colorado consumers who purchase manufactured homes from fraud and other unfair business practices is a matter of statewide concern and consumers can best be protected by:
(I) Requiring registration of persons engaged in the business of selling manufactured homes;
(II) Imposing uniform escrow and bonding requirements upon persons engaged in the business of selling manufactured homes; and
(III) Requiring persons engaged in the business of selling manufactured homes to include specified disclosures and provisions in any contract for the sale of a manufactured home.
(d) The imposition of registration requirements upon sellers of manufactured homes by both the state and political subdivisions of the state would impose an undue burden upon sellers of manufactured homes and discourage the sale of manufactured homes.
(e) The uniform registration, escrow and bonding, and contract requirements imposed on sellers of manufactured homes by this part 33 are exclusive and no political subdivision of the state shall impose any additional registration, escrow and bonding, or contract requirements on the sellers.
(2) The general assembly further declares that in enacting this part 33, it is the intent of the general assembly that the division establish through the board rules as it deems necessary to ensure:
(a) The safety of factory-built structures;
(b) Consumer safety in the purchase of manufactured homes;
(c) The registration of manufactured home installers and the creation of uniform standards for the installation of manufactured homes on a statewide basis; and
(d) The safety of hotels, motels, and multi-family structures in areas of the state where no construction standards for hotels, motels, and multi-family structures exist.
(3) The general assembly further declares that the factory-built structure programs administered and rules adopted pursuant to this part 33 shall apply only to work performed in a factory or completed at a site using components shipped with the factory-built structure as reflected in the approved plans for the factory-built structure.
