Bill Text: CA AB682 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Mobilehome park: electric and gas service: master-meter customers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 581, Statutes of 2015. [AB682 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB682-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 682	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 25, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 13, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2015

   An act to add Section 18029.1 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to manufactured housing and mobilehomes,  and
 making an appropriation  therefor. 
therefore, and declaring the urgency thereof. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 682, as amended, Williams. Mobilehome park: electric and gas
service: master-meter customers.
   Existing law authorizes the transfer of the ownership and
operational responsibility for the provision of electric or gas
service from an owner of a master-metered mobilehome park or
manufactured housing community that provides electric or gas service
to residents to the electric or gas corporation providing service in
the area in which the mobilehome park or manufactured housing
community is located. Existing law requires the Public Utilities
Commission to adopt a standard form of agreement for transfer of gas
and electric distribution facilities in these parks and communities
that is required to be the basis for expedited approval of the
transfers.
   The Manufactured Housing Act of 1980 requires the Department of
Housing and Community Development to enforce various laws pertaining
to manufactured housing, mobilehomes, park trailers, commercial
coaches, special purpose commercial coaches, and recreational
vehicles. The act makes it unlawful for a person to alter or convert,
or cause to be altered or converted, the plumbing, heat-producing,
or electrical systems and installations or equipment of a
manufactured home, mobilehome, or multifamily manufactured home that
bears a department insignia of approval or federal label when these
structures are used, occupied, sold, or offered for sale within the
state, unless its performance is altered or converted in compliance
with specified provisions of the act and applicable regulations
adopted by the department.
   Existing law authorizes the department to establish a schedule of
fees to pay the costs related to the administration and enforcement
of the act that are deposited in the Mobilehome-Manufactured Home
Revolving Fund, which is continuously appropriated to the department
for carrying out the provisions of the act.
   This bill would authorize a person, without filing an application
for an alteration or conversion with the department, to alter or
convert, or cause to be altered or converted, the structural, fire
safety, plumbing, heat-producing, or electrical systems and
installations or equipment of a manufactured home or mobilehome in
order to extend a gas line or electrical feeder line, or both, from a
utility-owned service line to the electrical subpanel or gas inlet
of the manufactured home or mobilehome only for the purpose of a
natural gas or electric service utility upgrade, or both, within a
mobilehome park that is subject to or consistent with a specified
decision of the Public Utilities Commission.
   The bill would also authorize a defect in the manufactured home or
mobilehome relating to the heat-producing or electrical systems or
installations or equipment to be repaired or replaced without filing
an application for an alteration or conversion with the department if
specified conditions are met.
   The bill would require the department to inspect such an
alteration or conversion to ensure that specified health and safety
standards that are consistent with the mission set out in a specified
decision of the Public Utilities Commission are met.  The
bill would authorize the department to establish, by rules and
regulation, and charge an hourly technical service fee in an amount
that is no more than necessary to cover the reasonable costs of the
department to inspect that alteration or conversion of the
manufactured home or mobilehome. The bill would require the fees
collected to be deposited in the Mobilehome-Manufactured Home
Revolving Fund. 
   By increasing the duties of the department for which the
department may charge fees that are deposited into a continuously
appropriated fund and increasing the amounts deposited into that
fund, this bill would make an appropriation. 
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute. 
   Vote:  majority   2/3  . Appropriation:
yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 18029.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   18029.1.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 18029, a person may, without
filing an application for an alteration or conversion required by
this chapter, alter or convert, or cause to be altered or converted,
the structural, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing, or electrical
systems and installations or equipment of a manufactured home or
mobilehome in order to extend a gas line or electrical feeder line,
or both, from a utility-owned service line to the electrical subpanel
or gas inlet of the manufactured home or mobilehome only for the
purpose of a natural gas or electric service utility upgrade, or
both, within a mobilehome park that is subject to or consistent with
the requirements of Public Utilities Commission Decision 14-03-021
(March 13, 2014).
   (b) Notwithstanding Section 18029, if, at the time that natural
gas or electric service is connected to a manufactured home or
mobilehome as part of a natural gas or electric service utility
upgrade, or both, within a mobilehome park that is subject to or
consistent with the requirements of Public Utilities Commission
Decision 14-03-021 (March 13, 2014), a defect in the manufactured
home or mobilehome relating to the heat-producing or electrical
systems or installations or equipment is found, the heat-producing or
electrical systems or installations or equipment may be repaired or
replaced without filing an application for an alteration or
conversion required by this chapter if the repair or replacement is
necessary to correct the defect, is made promptly, and is approved by
the department.
   (c) The department shall inspect any alteration or conversion
described in subdivision (a) or (b) to ensure that any health and
safety standards set forth in this part or Part 2.1 (commencing with
Section 18200), or any rules and regulations adopted pursuant to
those parts, that are consistent with the mission set out in Public
Utilities Commission Decision 14-03-021 (March 13, 2014) are met.
 The department may establish, by rules and regulation, and
charge an hourly technical service fee in an amount that is no more
than necessary to cover the reasonable costs of the department to
inspect that alteration or conversion of the manufactured home or
mobilehome. The fees collected shall be deposited in the
Mobilehome-Manufactured Home Revolving Fund. 
   SEC. 2.    This act is an urgency statute necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety
within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go
into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
 
   In order to make the health and safety benefits available at the
earliest possible time, and because the California Public Utilities
Commission has determined that a pilot utility conversion program
should begin in early 2015, which involves alterations to
manufactured homes otherwise subject to Section 18029 of the Health
and Safety Code, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.