HB465 Alabama 2013 Session

Existing law does not require owners of manufactured or mobile home parks to have a specific tornado safe space

This bill would require each owner of a manufactured or mobile home park to include a Federal Emergency Management Administration 361 approved safe room to accommodate the residents of the park during inclement weather

This bill would provide criminal penalties for failure to comply

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment

Relating to manufactured or mobile home parks; to require each owner of a manufactured or mobile home park to include a Federal Emergency Management Administration 361 approved safe room to accommodate the residents of the park during inclement weather; to provide criminal penalties for failure to comply; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.