Pub. L. 95-128, tit. IX, sec. 902
mobile home safety
mobile home safety Sec. 902. (a) Section 604 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: “(h) The Secretary shall exclude from the coverage of this title any structure which the manufacturer certifies, in a form prescribed by the Secretary, to be: “(1) designed only for erection or installation on a site-built permanent foundation; “(2) not designed to be moved once so erected or installed; “(3) designed and manufactured to comply with a nationally recognized model building code or an equivalent local code, or with a State or local modular building code recognized as generally equivalent to building codes for site-built housing, or with minimum property standards adopted by the Secretary pursuant to title II of the National Housing Act; and “(4) to the manufacturer’s knowledge is not intended to be used other than on a site-built permanent foundation.”. (b) Section 610(a) of such Act is amended— (1) by striking out “or” at the end of paragraph (4); (2) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (5) and inserting in lieu thereof “; or”; and (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: “(6) issue a certification pursuant to subsection (h) of section 604, if such person in the exercise of due care has reason to know that such certification is false or misleading in a material respect.”.