1. (1) No operator may:

   1. (a) Require any tenant to designate the operator, or any person named by the operator, as agent for the sale of a tenant’s manufactured home, or unreasonably restrict the sale of a tenant’s manufactured home by the tenant or an agent of the tenant’s own choosing.

      Note: Sections 710.15 (3) and (4), Stats., provide that:

      “(3) Prohibited consideration of age of mobile home or manufactured home. (a) An operator may not deny a resident the opportunity to enter into or renew, and may not include, exclude or alter any terms of, a lease to continue to locate a mobile home or manufactured home in the community solely or in any part on the basis of the age of the mobile home or manufactured home.

      (b) An operator may not require the removal of a mobile home or manufactured home from a community solely or in any part of the basis of the age of the mobile home or manufactured home, regardless of whether the ownership or occupancy of the mobile home or manufactured home has changed or will change.”

      “(4) Prohibited consideration of change in ownership or occupancy of mobile home or manufactured home. An operator may not require the removal of a mobile home or manufactured home from a community solely or in any part because the ownership or occupancy of the mobile home or manufactured home has changed or will change. An operator may refuse to enter into an initial lease with a prospective resident or occupant for any other lawful reason.”

   2. (b) Solicit or receive any payment or other thing of value as a condition to the assignment or sublease of a rental agreement by a tenant, or as a condition to the transfer of tenancy to a buyer of the tenant’s manufactured home.
   3. (c) Sell, for placement in a manufactured home community owned or operated by the operator, any manufactured home purchased from a tenant who was prohibited from selling the home directly for placement in the manufactured home community.
   4. (d) Refuse to rent a site to the purchaser of a tenant’s manufactured home except for reason specified under s. 710.15 (5m), Stats. This does not prohibit the screening of prospective tenants by an operator.
   5. (e) Limit a tenant’s ability to post, on the tenant’s manufactured home or on the site on which the mobile home is located, a “For Sale” sign or other advertisement announcing the tenant’s offer to sell the tenant’s manufactured home if the limitation is not applied uniformly to every person, including the operator and any manufactured home dealer, who sells or offers to sell a manufactured home on site in the manufactured home community.
2. (2) This section does not create or extend any interest in real estate, or prohibit the lawful screening of new tenants by the operator.

History

History: Cr. Register, May, 1976, No. 245, eff. 6-1-76; renum. from Ag 125.07, renum. (1) and (2) to (1) (a) and (b) and am., cr. (1) (intro.), (c) to (e) and (2), r. (3), Register, February, 1987, No. 374, eff. 3-1-87; CR 13-027: am. (title), (1) (a) to (e) Register December 2013 No. 696, eff. 1-1-14.