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. (a) This part applies to all parts of the state and
supersedes any ordinance enacted by any city, county, or city and
county, whether general law or chartered, applicable to this part.
Except as provided in Section 18930, the department may adopt
regulations to interpret and make specific this part and, when
adopted, the regulations shall apply to all parts of the state.
(b) Upon 30 days' written notice from the governing body to the
department, any city, county, or city and county may assume the
responsibility for the enforcement of both this part and Part 2.3
(commencing with Section 18860) and the regulations adopted pursuant
to this part and Part 2.3 (commencing with Section 18860) following
approval by the department for the assumption.
(c) The department shall adopt regulations that set forth the
conditions for assumption and may include required qualifications of
local enforcement agencies. The conditions set forth and the
qualifications required in the regulations shall relate solely to the
ability of local agencies to enforce properly this part and the
regulations adopted pursuant to this part. The regulations shall not
set forth requirements for local agencies different than those that
the state maintains for its own enforcement program. When assumption
is approved, the department shall transfer the responsibility for
enforcement to the city, county, or city and county, together with
all records of parks within the jurisdiction of the city, county, or
city and county.
(d) (1) In the event of nonenforcement of this part or the
regulations adopted pursuant to this part by a city, county, or city
and county, the department shall enforce both this part and Part 2.3
(commencing with Section 18860) and the regulations adopted pursuant
to this part and Part 2.3 (commencing with Section 18860) in the
city, county, or city and county, after the department has given
written notice to the governing body of the city, county, or city and
county, setting forth in what respects the city, county, or city and
county has failed to discharge its responsibility, and the city,
county, or city and county has failed to initiate corrective measures
to carry out its responsibility within 30 days of the notice.
(2) Where the department determines that the local enforcement
agency is not properly enforcing this part or Part 2.3 (commencing
with Section 18860), the local enforcement agency may appeal the
decision to the director of the department.
(e) (1) Any city, city and county, or county may cancel its
assumption of responsibility for the enforcement of both this part
and Part 2.3 (commencing with Section 18860) by providing written
notice of the cancellation to the department. The department shall
assume responsibility within 90 days after receipt of the notice.
(2) Any local enforcement agency that relinquishes enforcement
authority to the department shall remit to the department any fees
collected pursuant to Section 18502 that have not been expended for
purposes of this part, except that, for fees collected pursuant to
subdivision (c) of that section, the local enforcement agency shall
pay to the department a sum that is equal to the percentage of the
year remaining before outstanding permits to operate expire. In
addition, the local enforcement agency that relinquishes enforcement
authority to the department shall remit to the department any fees
collected pursuant to this part for permits to construct or for plan
review, or both, for which a final approval of the construction has
not yet been issued.
(f) Every city, county, or city and county, within its
jurisdiction, shall enforce this part and the regulations adopted
pursuant to this part, as they relate to manufactured homes,
mobilehomes, or recreational vehicles, and to accessory buildings or
structures located in both of the following areas:
(1) Inside of parks while the city, county, or city and county has
assumed responsibility for enforcement of both this part and Part
2.3 (commencing with Section 18860).
(2) Outside of parks.
(g) This part shall not prevent local authorities of any city,
county, or city and county, within the reasonable exercise of their
police powers, from doing any of the following:
(1) From establishing, subject to the requirements of Sections
65852.3 and 65852.7 of the Government Code, certain zones for
manufactured homes, mobilehomes, and mobilehome parks within the
city, county, or city and county, or establishing types of uses and
locations, including family mobilehome parks, senior mobilehome
parks, mobilehome condominiums, mobilehome subdivisions, or
mobilehome planned unit developments within the city, county, or city
and county, as defined in the zoning ordinance, or from adopting
rules and regulations by ordinance or resolution prescribing park
perimeter walls or enclosures on public street frontage, signs,
access, and vehicle parking or from prescribing the prohibition of
certain uses for mobilehome parks.
(2) From regulating the construction and use of equipment and
facilities located outside of a manufactured home or mobilehome used
to supply gas, water, or electricity thereto, except facilities
owned, operated, and maintained by a public utility, or to dispose of
sewage or other waste therefrom when the facilities are located
outside a park for which a permit is required by this part or the
regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
(3) From requiring a permit to use a manufactured home or
mobilehome outside a park for which a permit is required by this part
or by regulations adopted pursuant thereto, and require a fee
therefor by local ordinance commensurate with the cost of enforcing
this part and local ordinance with reference to the use of
manufactured homes and mobilehomes, which permit may be refused or
revoked if the use violates this part or Part 2 (commencing with
Section 18000), any regulations adopted pursuant thereto, or any
local ordinance applicable to that use.
(4) From requiring a local building permit to construct an
accessory structure for a manufactured home or mobilehome when the
manufactured home or mobilehome is located outside a mobilehome park,
under circumstances when this part or Part 2 (commencing with
Section 18000) and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto do not
require the issuance of a permit therefor by the department.
(5) From prescribing and enforcing setback and separation
requirements governing the installation of a manufactured home,
mobilehome, or mobilehome accessory structure or building installed
outside of a mobilehome park.
(h) (1) A city, including a charter city, county, or city and
county, shall not require the average density in a new park to be
less than that permitted by the applicable zoning ordinance, plus any
density bonus, as defined in Section 65915 of the Government Code,
for other affordable housing forms.
(2) A city, including a charter city, county, or city and county,
shall not require a new park to include a clubhouse. Recreational
facilities, recreational areas, accessory structures, or improvements
may be required only to the extent that the facilities or
improvements are required in other types of residential developments
containing a like number of residential dwelling units.
(3) A city, including a charter city, county, or city and county,
shall not require the setback and separation requirements authorized
by paragraph (5) of subdivision (g) to be greater than those
permitted by applicable ordinances for other housing forms.