O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 8-2-171 (2019)

Health and safety standards for pre-owned manufactured homes; inspections; immunity

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
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(a) On and after September 1, 2010, any person who is the owner of real property or who has a right to the use of real property may install and occupy a pre-owned manufactured home on such property, provided that such pre-owned manufactured home is in compliance with the provisions of this part and any applicable county or municipal zoning ordinances.

(b) No county or municipality shall impose any health and safety standards or conditions based upon the age of a manufactured home.

(c) A county or municipality may establish health and safety standards and conditions and an inspection program for pre-owned manufactured homes which are relocated from their current locations.

(d) Neither a county or municipality nor any inspector thereof inspecting a pre-owned manufactured home pursuant to this Code section shall be liable for any injuries to persons resulting from any defects or conditions in such pre-owned manufactured home.

History

Code 1981, § 8-2-171, enacted by Ga. L. 2010, p. 306, § 1/SB 384.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Statute did not protect inspector whose purported inspection was made four years before the statute was enacted. - O.C.G.A. § 8-2-171(d), providing that no municipal or county inspector inspecting a pre-owned manufactured home pursuant to that Code section shall be liable for injuries to

persons resulting from defects in the home, did not protect a city inspector whose inspection was made four years prior to the statute’s enactment. Vann v. Finley, 313 Ga. App. 153, 721 S.E.2d 156, 2011 Ga. App. LEXIS 1080 (2011), cert. dismissed, No. S12C0667, 2012 Ga. LEXIS 387 (Ga. Apr. 24, 2012).

PART 4 MANUFACTURED OR MOBILE HOMES RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 53A Am. Jur. 2d, Mobile Homes and Trailer Parks, § 1 et seq.

Subpart 1 General Provisions

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 2011–2011 · leading case: Vann v. Finley, 721 S.E.2d 156 (Ga. Ct. App. 2011).
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