8 DE Reg 732 11-01-04

DELAWARE HOME RELOCATION AUTHORITY TRUST FUND

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Delaware Manufactured Home Relocation Authority (the “Authority”) will hold a public hearing to discuss proposed regulations relating to the administration of the Delaware Manufactured Home Relocation Trust Fund (“Trust Fund”) established pursuant to 25 Del.C. §7012. The Authority was established by the Delaware Legislature pursuant to 25 Del.C. §7011. The primary purpose of the Authority is to: (a) provide financial assistance to manufactured homeowners who are tenants in a manufactured home community where the community owner changes the use of land or converts the manufactured home community to a condominium or cooperative community; and (b) to provide financial assistance to manufactured home community owners for the removal and/or disposal of non-relocatable or abandoned manufactured homes when there is a change in use or conversion. The Authority has set an initial $3.00 monthly assessment for deposit into the Trust Fund, effective April 1, 2004. Under the statute, one-half of the monthly assessment is the obligation of the Tenant of a rented lot and one-half of the assessment is the obligation of the Landlord. The monthly assessments collected by the Authority are deposited into the Trust Fund, and the Authority is responsible for administering this fund. To carry out its statutory responsibilities, the Authority has been directed to, among other things, establish procedures under which applicants for payment from the Authority may be approved and to set maximum benefits that may be payable to applicants under certain circumstances.

Pursuant to its statutory authority, the Authority is proposing for adoption a comprehensive set of regulations to be used for the administration of the Trust Fund. The proposed regulations published herein will, among other things: (a) establish criteria for tenant benefits, including the maximum relocation payment available to a tenant for a single section home and a multi-section home and the maximum benefits available to a Tenant whose home has been determined to be non-relocatable; (b) criteria for Landlord benefits, including the maximum relocation benefits for manufactured homes that have been abandoned or determined to be non-relocatable; (c) application procedures to be followed by applicants for benefits; and (d) application review procedures.

The public hearing will be on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 beginning at 3:30 p.m. and ending at 6:30 p.m. in the Richardson Conference Room located at the offices of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, 89 Kings Highway, Dover, DE 19901.

Copies of the proposed regulations are available for review by contacting:

William A. Denman, Esquire

Parkowski, Guerke & Swayze, P.A.

116 W. Water Street

Dover, DE 19904

(302) 678-3262