Code of Virginia - Title 36 Housing - Chapter 4.2 Manufactured Housing Licensing And Transaction Recovery Fund Law

36-85.16 Definitions
As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning or construction is clearly required by the context: "Board" means the Virginia Manufactured Housing Board. "Buyer" ...

36-85.17 Manufactured Housing Board created; membership
A. There is hereby created the Virginia Manufactured Housing Board within the Department of Housing and Community Development. The Board shall be composed of nine ...

36-85.18 Powers and duties of Manufactured Housing Board
The Virginia Manufactured Housing Board shall have the following powers and duties: 1. To issue licenses to manufacturers, dealers, brokers, and salespersons; 2. To require ...

36-85.19 License required; penalty
A. It shall be unlawful and constitute the commission of a Class 1 misdemeanor for any manufactured home manufacturer, dealer, broker, or salesperson to be ...

36-85.20 Grounds for denying, suspending or revoking license
A. A license may be denied, suspended, or revoked by the Board on any one or more of the following grounds: 1. Material misstatement in ...

36-85.21 Notice and hearing
The Board shall not suspend, revoke, or deny a license or refuse the renewal of a license, or impose a civil penalty, until a written ...

36-85.22 Set-up requirements; effect on insurance policies
Manufactured homes shall be set-up in accordance with the Code. In the event that a manufactured home is insured against damage caused by windstorm and ...

36-85.23 Warranties
Each manufacturer, dealer, and supplier of manufactured homes shall warrant each new manufactured home sold in this Commonwealth, and the dealer shall warrant the set-up ...

36-85.24 Presenting claims for warranties and defects
Whenever a claim for a warranty service or about a defect is made to a regulant, it shall be handled as provided by this chapter. ...

36-85.25 Warranty service
When a service agreement exists between or among a manufacturer, dealer, and supplier to provide warranty service, the agreement shall specify which such responsible party ...

36-85.26 Dealer alterations
A. No alteration or modification shall be made to a manufactured home by a dealer after shipment from the manufacturer's plant, unless such alteration or ...

36-85.27 Determining length of manufactured homes
In any advertisement or other communication regarding the length of a manufactured home, a regulant shall not include the length of the towing assembly (hitch) ...

36-85.28 Limitation on damages; disclosure to buyer
A. If a buyer fails to accept delivery of a manufactured home, the manufactured home dealer may retain actual damages according to the following terms: ...

36-85.29 Inspection of service records
The Board is authorized to inspect the pertinent service records of a manufacturer, dealer, supplier, or broker relating to a written warranty claim or complaint ...

36-85.30 Other remedies not excluded
Nothing in this chapter, nor any decision by the Board, shall limit any right or remedy available to the buyer through common law or under ...

36-85.31 Recovery fund to be established
A. Each manufactured home manufacturer, dealer, broker and salesperson operating in the Commonwealth of Virginia shall be required to pay an initial assessment fee as ...

36-85.32 Recovery from fund generally
Any person who suffers any loss or damage by any act of a regulant that constitutes a violation of this chapter shall have the right ...

36-85.33 Revocation of license upon payment from fund
Upon payment to a claimant from the fund, the Board shall immediately revoke the license of the regulant whose conduct resulted in this payment. Any ...

36-85.34 Disciplinary action by Board
The Board may take disciplinary action against any regulant for any violation of this chapter or the regulations of the Board. Full repayment of the ...

36-85.35 Appeals from decision of the Board
Appeals from a decision of the Board shall be to a circuit court with jurisdiction in the Commonwealth. An appeal must be made within thirty ...

36-85.36 Recovery fund administrative regulations
The Board is authorized to promulgate regulations in accordance with the Administrative Process Act (§ 2.2-4000 et seq.) consistent with this chapter for the administration ...