MA H4228

Town of Athol authorized to regulate rents for manufactured housing parks and establish a rent board to set minimum occupancy standards and oversee tenant evictions

Rent board may adjust rents upward or downward based on factors including property tax changes, operating expenses, capital improvements, and park deterioration

Manufactured housing park owners required to register park accommodation information under penalty of perjury

Violations of adopted by-laws or rent board orders punishable by fines up to $1,000

District and superior courts granted jurisdiction over petitions for review and enforcement of the act