103A.52 - MANUFACTURED OR MOBILE HOME RETAILER LICENSE -- PROCEDURE. - Iowa Statutes

103A.52 MANUFACTURED OR MOBILE HOME RETAILER LICENSE -- PROCEDURE. 1. License application. A manufactured or mobile home retailer shall file with the commissioner an application for license as a manufactured or mobile home retailer as the commissioner may prescribe. 2. License fee. The license fee for a manufactured or mobile home retailer is an annual fee of one hundred dollars. If the application is denied, the commissioner shall refund the fee. 3. Surety bond. Before the issuance of a manufactured or mobile home retailer's license, an applicant for a license shall file with the commissioner a surety bond executed by the applicant as principal and executed by a corporate surety company, licensed and qualified to do business within this state, which bond shall run to the state, be in the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and be conditioned upon the faithful compliance by the applicant as a retailer with all of the statutes of this state regulating the business of the retailer and indemnifying any person dealing or transacting business with the retailer in connection with a manufactured or mobile home from a loss or damage occasioned by the failure of the retailer to comply with this division, including but not limited to the furnishing of a proper and valid document of title to the manufactured or mobile home involved in the transaction. 4. Manufactured or mobile home hookups. A licensed manufactured or mobile home retailer or an employee of a licensed manufactured or mobile home retailer may perform water, gas, electrical, and other utility service connections in a manufactured or mobile home space, or within ten feet of such space, located in a manufactured home community or mobile home park. The licensed retailer or an employee of the retailer is not required to obtain any additional state or local authorization, permit, or license to perform utility service connections. However, the utility service connections are subject to inspection and approval by the local building department and the manufactured or mobile home retailer shall pay the inspection fee, if any.          Section History: Recent Form 2006 Acts, ch 1090, §2, 26