mobile home parks; submetering; fees

Plain English Breakdown

The official status indicates the bill passed both chambers, but no effective date is listed in the provided metadata or summary text.

HB2459: Changes to Utility Charges in Mobile Home Parks

This bill changes how mobile home park landlords charge tenants for utilities by allowing them to recover actual costs from utility providers plus a small administrative fee, instead of limiting charges to standard residential rates.

What This Bill Does

• Removes the rule that limits gas, water, or electricity charges to the basic single-family residential rate charged by the provider.
• Allows landlords to charge tenants for the actual amounts billed to them by utility companies for gas, water, or electricity.
• Permits landlords to add an administrative fee of up to $8 per billing period associated with submetering costs.
• Prohibits landlords from adding any other charges beyond the provider's bill and the allowed administrative fee for utilities.
• Requires rental agreements to list which utility services are charged separately and state the amount of the administrative fee.

Who It Names or Affects

• Landlords who own or manage mobile home parks in Arizona
• Tenants living in mobile homes within these parks

Terms To Know

Submetering

Using a separate meter to measure how much water, gas, or electricity each tenant uses.

Administrative fee

A charge added by the landlord for administrative costs related to submetering, limited to $8 per billing period.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not change how landlords may charge for waste removal or sewer services; these remain limited to prevailing single-family rates.
• The official text provided does not specify an effective date for when these changes begin.
• The source material states the fee is associated with submetering but does not explicitly define if it applies per tenant unit or strictly per billing cycle beyond that association.

Official Summary Text

HB2459 - 572R - House Bill Summary

ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th
Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

House
: COM DP 10-0-0-1

HB
2459
: mobile home parks; submetering; fees

Sponsor:
Representative Hendrix, LD 14

House
Engrossed

Overview

Revises
the charges made by a mobile home park landlord for utilities.

History

Statute governs how mobile home park landlords charge tenants
for utilities, waste removal and sewer services. Landlords that charge gas,
water or electricity separately must have a separate meter for every user.
Landlords that charge utilities separately cannot charge more than the
prevailing basic service single family residential rate charged by the serving
utility or provider. Landlords may charge separately for removal of waste,
garbage, rubbish, refuse and trash and for sewer services.� Such charges cannot
exceed the prevailing single family residential charge, fee or rate for these
services levied by the political subdivision or provider. (
A.R.S. �
33-1413.14
).

Provisions

1.

Removes the
restriction that charges for utilities be limited to the
prevailing basic service single family
residential rate charged by the serving utility or provider. (Sec. 1)

2.

Authorizes a
landlord to recover the charges imposed on the landlord by the utility provider.
(Sec. 1)

3.

Allows the
landlord to charge an administrative fee that is associated with submetering of
up to $8 dollars. (Sec. 1)

4.

Prevents a
landlord from imposing any additional charges for utilities. (Sec. 1)

5.

Requires the
rental agreement to disclose the utility services that are charged separately
and the amount of the administrative fee. (Sec. 1)

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Current Bill Text

HB2459 - 572R - H Ver

House Engrossed

mobile home parks;
submetering; fees

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HOUSE BILL 2459

AN
ACT

amending section 33-1413.01, Arizona Revised
Statutes; relating to the Arizona mobile home parks residential landlord and
tenant act.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 33-1413.01, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
33-1413.01.

Utility charges; waste, garbage and rubbish removal charges

A. If a landlord charges separately for gas, water
or electricity
,
there shall be a separate meter for every
user. For each billing period the cost of the charges for the period
shall be separately stated, along with the opening and the closing meter
readings and the dates of the meter readings. Each bill shall show
the computation of the charge generally in accordance with the serving utility
company billing format for individual service supplied through a single service
meter.

B. If the landlord separately charges for utilities
pursuant to subsection A of this section
, the landlord
shall not charge more than the prevailing basic service single family
residential rate charged by the serving utility or provider
may recover the charges imposed on the landlord by the utility
provider, plus an administrative fee for the landlord for administrative costs
only. The landlord shall not impose any additional
charges. The rental agreement shall contain a disclosure that lists
the utility services that are charged separately and shall specify the amount
of any administrative fee that is associated with submetering, which may not be
more than $8
.

C. For the purpose of regulating mobile home parks
as public or consecutive water systems, the state shall not adopt rules
pursuant to title 49, chapter 2, article 9, that are more stringent than
authorized by the federal government. Submetering solely to
determine the charges for individual water use by park tenants for the purpose
of water conservation, without other evidence indicating a transaction subject
to regulation under title 49, chapter 2, article 9, shall not be used as a
basis for treating any mobile home park as a public or consecutive water
system.

D. A landlord may charge separately for removal of
waste, garbage, rubbish, refuse and trash and for sewer
services. Any charges for removal or sewer services may not exceed
the prevailing
single family

single-family

residential charge, fee or rate for these services levied by the
political subdivision or provider.
END_STATUTE