Section 3-21A-2 - Definitions. - New Mexico Statutes

3-21A-2. Definitions.

As used in the Manufactured Housing and Zoning Act [3-21A-1 NMSA 1978]:   

A.     "multi-section manufactured home" means a manufactured home or modular home that is a single-family dwelling with a heated area of at least thirty-six by twenty-four feet and at least eight hundred sixty-four square feet and constructed in a factory to the standards of the United States department of housing and urban development, the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 and the Housing and Urban Development Zone Code 2 or the Uniform Building Code, as amended to the date of the unit's construction, and installed consistent with the Manufactured Housing Act and with the rules made pursuant thereto relating to permanent foundations;   

B.     "mobile home" means a movable or portable housing structure larger than forty feet in body length, eight feet in width or eleven feet in overall height, designed for and occupied by no more than one family for living and sleeping purposes that is not constructed to the standards of the United States department of housing and urban development, the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 and the Housing and Urban Development Zone Code 2 or Uniform Building Code, as amended to the date of the unit's construction or built to the standards of any municipal building code; and   

C.     "excavated site" means a site that results in the upper plane of the concrete slab, or similar component of any other authorized permanent foundation system, being below ground level or grade.