HB 183 Summary

• Renames Chapter 20, Title 55, Idaho Code from the "Mobile Home Park Landlord-Tenant Act" to the "Manufactured Home Residency Act" and updates terminology throughout to replace "tenant" with "resident" and "mobile home park" with "community."

• Adds comprehensive definitions including "abandoned home," "community," "home," "manufactured home," "park model," and clarifies distinctions between different types of residential units covered by the act.

• Establishes new procedures for sales of abandoned homes, including application processes to the Department of Transportation for authorization, notice requirements to legal owners (10 days minimum newspaper advertisement and 20 days certified mail), inspection requirements, and disposition of sale proceeds.

• Requires written rental agreements executed in duplicate, specifies rent adjustment notice requirements (90 days), limits rent increases to uniform amounts within rent tiers, and restricts landlord rule changes to no more than one per category per six-month period.

• Adds new section 55-2020 establishing service of notice procedures for three-day and longer notices, allowing personal delivery, certified mail, or posting with mail notice depending on notice duration.