Section SPS 368.20 - Definitions In this chapter:
(1) "Abandoned manufactured home" means a manufactured home that is either of the following: (a) Vacant or in need of extensive repair.(b) An unreasonable danger to public health, safety, welfare or the environment.(2) "Administrative costs" means the expenses incurred by a grantee in providing funds to or on behalf of participating households. This includes staff costs, office expenses, and costs for printing, mailing, travel, training, accounting, auditing and reporting.(3) "Critical repair" means permanent, essential rehabilitation to an owner-occupied manufactured home, that is intended to ensure that the home is decent, safe, and sanitary.(4) "Department" means the department of safety and professional services.(5) "Eligible homeowner" means an individual who owns and resides in a manufactured home that is in need of critical repairs; and whose income, when combined with all other members of the household, does not exceed 80 percent of the median annual household income, as established by the US department of housing and urban development, in the county where the household is located.(6) "Household" means one or more persons occupying a manufactured home.(7) "Manufactured home" has the meaning given in s. 101.91(2), Stats. Note: Under section 101.91(2) of the Statutes, "manufactured home" means either (1) a structure which is designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation, and which is certified by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development as complying with the standards established under 42 USC 5401 to 5425; or (2) a mobile home. Under section 101.91(10) of the Statutes, " mobile home" means a vehicle manufactured or assembled before June 15, 1976, designed to be towed as a single unit or in sections upon a highway by a motor vehicle and equipped and used, or intended to be used, primarily for human habitation, with walls of rigid uncollapsible construction, which has an overall length in excess of 45 feet. "Mobile home" includes the mobile home structure, its plumbing, heating, air conditioning and electrical systems, and all appliances and all other equipment carrying a manufacturer's warranty.
(8) "MHRR" means manufactured housing rehabilitation and recycling.(9) "Municipality" means any city, village, town, county or federally recognized American Indian tribe or band in this state.(10) "Rehabilitation" means a permanent improvement to an owner-occupied manufactured home; including installation or replacement of windows, doors, roofing, plumbing, water heaters, heating systems, insulation, tie downs, footings and foundations.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Safety and Professional Services SPS 368.20
Renumbered from Chapter SPS 456 by, CR 08-008: cr. Register August 2008 No. 632, eff. 9-1-08; correction in (4) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 6, Stats., Register December 2011 No. 672; Register November 2017 No. 743, eff. 12/1/2017