The legislature finds that mobile home parks provide a significant source of homeownership for many Washington residents, but increasing rents and low vacancy rates, as well as the pressure to convert mobile home parks to other uses, increasingly make mobile home park living insecure for mobile home owners. The legislature also finds that many homeowners who reside in mobile home parks are also those residents most in need of reasonable security in the siting of their manufactured homes. It is the intent of the legislature to encourage and facilitate the conversion of mobile home parks to resident ownership in the event of a voluntary sale of the park.

[1993 c 66 § 1.]

NOTES:

     Reviser's note: Chapter 59.23 RCW was declared invalid in Manufactured Housing Communities of Washington v. State, 142 Wash.2d 347 (2000).