ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

House: COM DPA 9-1-0-0

HB 2168: long-term RVs; cooling; prohibition

Sponsor: Representative Gress, LD 4

Caucus & COW

Overview

Prevents a recreational vehicle park landlord from prohibiting the installation of cooling methods on a tenant's recreational vehicle.

History

The Recreational Vehicle Long-Term Rental Space Act regulates and determines rights, obligations and remedies for a recreational vehicle space that is rented in a recreational vehicle park or mobile home park by the same tenant under a rental agreement for more than 180 consecutive days (A.R.S. § 33-2101).

A landlord must adopt written rules concerning the tenant's use and occupancy of the premises. Such rules are enforceable against the tenant only if: 1) they apply to all tenants on the premises in a fair manner; 2) they are sufficiently explicit in prohibition, direction or limitation of the tenant's conduct to fairly inform the tenant of what the tenant must or must not do to comply; 3) they are not for the purpose of evading the obligations of the landlord; and 4) the prospective tenant has a copy of the current rules before entering into the rental agreement. A new tenant who brings a recreational vehicle into a park or who purchases an existing recreational vehicle or mobile home must comply with all current rules.

Statute outlines prohibitions for landlords pertaining to the tenant's use and occupancy, including requiring an existing tenant to furnish permanent improvements that cannot be removed without damage to the improvements or to the recreational vehicle space by a tenant at the expiration of the rental agreement (A.R.S. § 33-2132).

Provisions

1.   Precludes a recreational vehicle park landlord from prohibiting a tenant from installing reasonably necessary commercial cooling methods on the tenant's recreational vehicle. (Sec. 1)

Amendments

Committee on Commerce

1.   Adds an emergency clause.

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