71-4604.01 Manufactured home or recreational vehicle; seals certifying compliance with standards; exemption; rules and regulations; fees; Public Service Commission Housing and Recreational Vehicle Cas - Nebraska Statutes

71-4604.01. Manufacturedhome or recreational vehicle; seals certifying compliance with standards;exemption; rules and regulations; fees; PublicService Commission Housing and Recreational Vehicle Cash Fund.(1)(a) Every manufactured home or recreational vehicle manufactured,sold, offered for sale, or leased in this state more than four months afterMay 27, 1975, and before May 1, 1998, shall comply with the seal requirementsof the state agency responsible for regulation of manufactured homes or recreationalvehicles as such requirements existed on the date of manufacture.(b) Every manufactured home or recreational vehicle manufactured,sold, offered for sale, or leased in this state on or after May 1, 1998, shallbear a seal issued by the commission certifying that the body and frame designand construction and the plumbing, heating, and electrical systems of suchmanufactured home or recreational vehicle have been installed in compliancewith the standards adopted by the commission, applicable at the time of manufacture.Manufactured homes destined for sale outside the United States shall be exemptfrom displaying the seal issued by the state if sufficient proof of such deliveryis submitted to the commission for review. Recreational vehicles destinedfor sale or lease outside this state or the United States shall be exemptfrom displaying the seal issued by the state if sufficient proof of such deliveryis submitted to the commission for review. The commission shall issue therecreational-vehicle seal upon an inspection of the plans and specificationsfor the recreational vehicle or upon an actual inspection of the recreationalvehicle during or after construction if the recreational vehicle is in compliancewith state standards. The commission shall issue the manufactured-home sealin accordance with the National Manufactured Housing Construction and SafetyStandards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. 5401 et seq., as such act existed on January1, 2005. Each seal issued by the state shall remain the property of the commissionand may be revoked by the commission in the event of a violation of the conditionsof issuance.(2) The commission shall charge a fee inan amount determined annually by the commission after publishednotice and a hearing, for seals issued by the commission. A seal shall beplaced on each manufactured home. The commission shall assess any costs ofinspections conducted outside of Nebraska to the manufacturer in control ofthe inspected facility or to a manufacturer requesting such inspection. Suchcosts shall include, but not be limited to, actual travel, personnel, andinspection expenses and shall be paid prior to any issuance of seals.(3) The commission shall adopt and promulgate rules and regulationsgoverning the submission of plans and specifications of manufactured homesand recreational vehicles. A person who submits recreational-vehicle plansand specifications to the commission for review and approval shall be assessedan hourly rate by the commission for performing the review of the plans andspecifications and related functions. The hourly rate shall be not less thanfifteen dollars per hour and not more than seventy-five dollars per hour asdetermined annually by the commission after published notice and hearing basedon the number of hours of review time as follows:(a) New model, one hour;(b) Quality control manual, two hours;(c) Typicals, one-half hour;(d) Revisions, three-fourths hour;(e) Engineering calculations, three-fourths hour;(f) Initial package, fifteen hours; and(g) Yearly renewal, two hours plus the three-fourths hourfor revisions.(4) The commission shall charge each manufacturer an inspectionfee of two hundred fifty dollars for each inspection of any new recreationalvehicle manufactured by such manufacturer and not bearing a seal issued bythe State of Nebraska or some reciprocal state.(5) All fees collected pursuant to the Uniform Standard Codefor Manufactured Homes and Recreational Vehicles shall be remitted to theState Treasurer for credit to the PublicService Commission Housing and Recreational Vehicle Cash Fund. SourceLaws 1975, LB 300, § 5; Laws 1983, LB 617, § 24; Laws 1985, LB 313, § 9; Laws 1991, LB 703, § 50; Laws 1993, LB 536, § 88; Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 677; Laws 1996, LB 1155, § 33; Laws 1998, LB 1073, § 130; Laws 2003, LB 241, § 2; Laws 2005, LB 319, § 1; Laws 2008, LB797, § 15; Laws 2010, LB849, § 26.Operative Date: July 1, 2010