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...o renew the license of any manufactured home installer for any of the following reasons: (1) Failure to satisfy the requirements of section 4781.08 or 4781.10 of the Revised Code; (2) Violation of this chapter or any rule adopted pursuant to it; (3) Making a material misstatement in an application for a license; (4) Installing manufactured housing without a license or without being under the supervision of a ...

...(A) The division of industrial compliance may establish programs and requirements for continuing education for manufactured housing installers. The division shall not require licensees to complete more than eight credit hours of continuing education during each license period. If the division establishes a program of continuing education, it shall require that only courses that the division preapproves be accepted fo...

...ns and is not located in a manufactured home park. (2) A person who installs manufactured housing in the manner described in division (B)(1) of this section is not entitled to claim any right or remedy or to bring a cause of action under this chapter. (C) No person shall install any manufactured housing foundation or manufactured housing support system unless that foundation or support system complies with the stan...

...(A) The division of industrial compliance may apply to an appropriate court to enjoin any violation of this chapter or the rules adopted pursuant to it. The court shall grant any appropriate relief, including an injunction, restraining order, or any combination thereof, upon a showing that a person has violated or is about to violate this chapter or a rule adopted pursuant to it. (B) The prosecuting attorney of a co...

...(A) The division of industrial compliance, pursuant to section 4781.04 of the Revised Code, may investigate any person who allegedly has committed a violation. If, after an investigation the division determines that reasonable evidence exists that a person has committed a violation, within seven days after that determination, the division shall serve a written notice to that person in the same manner as prescribed in...

...sive authority to regulate manufactured home installers, the installation of manufactured housing, and manufactured housing foundations and support systems in this state. It is the intent of the general assembly to preempt municipal corporations and other political subdivisions from regulating and licensing manufactured housing installers and regulating and inspecting the installation of manufactured housing and manu...

...The remedies provided in this chapter are in addition to remedies otherwise available for the same conduct under state or local law.

...facturer or distributor of manufactured homes that is contrary to the requirements of this chapter. (6) The applicant is insolvent. (7) The applicant is of insufficient responsibility to ensure the prompt payment of any final judgments that might reasonably be entered against the applicant because of the transaction of business as a manufactured housing dealer or manufactured housing broker during the period of t...

...(A) At the time the division of real estate grants the application of any person for a license as a manufactured housing dealer, manufactured housing broker, or manufactured housing salesperson, the division shall issue to the person a license that includes the name and business and mailing address of the person licensed. If a manufactured housing dealer or manufactured housing broker has more than one place of busin...

...The applications for licenses submitted under section 4781.17 of the Revised Code are not part of the public records but are confidential information for the use of the division of real estate. No person shall divulge any information contained in such applications and acquired by the person in the person's capacity as an official or employee of the division of real estate, except in a report to the division, or when ...

...(A) Each licensed manufactured housing dealer and manufactured housing broker shall notify the division of real estate of any change in status as a manufactured housing dealer or manufactured housing broker during the period for which the dealer or broker is licensed, if the change of status concerns either of the following: (1) Personnel of owners, partners, officers, or directors; (2) Location of an office or pri...

...The division of real estate shall adopt rules for the regulation of manufactured housing brokers in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The rules shall require that a manufactured housing broker maintain a bond of a surety company authorized to transact business in this state in an amount determined by the division of real estate. The rules also shall require each person licensed as a manufactured housi...

...d issuance of licenses for manufactured home parks; the location, layout, density, construction, drainage, sanitation, safety, and operation of those parks; and notices of flood events concerning, and flood protection at, those parks. The rules pertaining to flood plain management shall be consistent with and not less stringent than the flood plain management criteria of the national flood insurance program adopted u...

...n who intends to operate a manufactured home park shall procure a license to operate the park for the next year from the division of industrial compliance. If the applicable license fee prescribed under section 4781.28 of the Revised Code is not received by the division by the close of business on the last day of December, the applicant for the license shall pay a penalty equal to twenty-five per cent of the applicab...

...nnual license to operate a manufactured home park. The fee for a license shall be determined in accordance with section 4781.27 of the Revised Code and shall include the cost of licensing and all inspections. Any fees collected shall be transmitted to the treasurer of state and shall be credited to the industrial compliance operating fund created in section 121.084 of the Revised Code and used only for the purpose o...

...(A) The division of industrial compliance may charge a fee for inspector certification. The fees shall include all of the following: (1) The nonrefundable certification fee for inspectors shall not be greater than fifty dollars for each three-year certification period. (2) The nonrefundable certification renewal fee for inspectors shall not be greater than fifty dollars. (3) The nonrefundable late fee for certi...

...The division of industrial compliance may refuse to grant, may suspend, or may revoke any license granted to any person for failure to comply with sections 4781.26 to 4781.35 of the Revised Code or with any rule adopted under section 4781.26 of the Revised Code.

... operation or ownership of manufactured home parks within this state, except that the licensor may charge additional reasonable fees for the collection and bacteriological examination of any necessary water samples taken from any such park.

...en a flood event affects a manufactured home park, the operator of the manufactured home park, in accordance with rules adopted under section 4781.26 of the Revised Code, shall notify the division of industrial compliance and the board of health having jurisdiction where the flood event occurred within forty-eight hours after the end of the flood event. The division, after receiving notification, shall immediately no...

...(A) No person shall violate sections 4781.26 to 4781.35 of the Revised Code or the rules adopted thereunder. (B) The prosecuting attorney of the county, the city director of law, or the attorney general, upon complaint of the division of industrial compliance, shall prosecute to termination or bring an action for injunction against any person violating sections 4781.26 to 4781.35 of the Revised Code or the rules ado...

...(A) Subject to section 4781.37 of the Revised Code, a park operator shall not retaliate against a resident by increasing the resident's rent, decreasing services that are due to the resident, refusing to renew or threatening to refuse to renew the rental agreement with the resident, or bringing or threatening to bring an action for possession of the resident's premises because: (1) The resident has complained...

...(A) A park operator who is a party to a rental agreement shall: (1) Comply with the requirements of all applicable building, housing, health, and safety codes which materially affect health and safety, and comply with rules of the division of industrial compliance; (2) Make all repairs and do whatever is reasonably necessary to put and keep the premises in a fit and habitable condition; (3) Keep all common areas o...

...mpliance, and rules of the manufactured home park; (4) Personally refrain, and forbid any other person who is on the premises with the resident's permission, from intentionally or negligently destroying, defacing, damaging, or removing any fixture, appliance, or other part of the residential premises; (5) Conduct self and require other persons on the premises with the resident's consent to conduct themselves in a m...

...(A) If a park operator fails to fulfill any obligation imposed upon the park operator by section 4781.38 of the Revised Code or by the rental agreement, or the conditions of the premises are such that the resident reasonably believes that a park operator has failed to fulfill any such obligations, or a governmental agency has found that the premises are not in compliance with building, housing, health, or safet...

...(A) Whenever a resident deposits rent with the clerk of a court as provided in section 4781.41 of the Revised Code, the clerk shall give written notice of this fact to the park operator and to the park operator's agent, if any. (B) The clerk shall place all rent deposited with the clerk in a separate rent escrow account in the name of the clerk in a bank or building and loan association domiciled in this state...