Vehicles: transportation of manufactured homes.

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Transporting Manufactured Homes

This law changes how manufactured homes can be moved on highways by raising size limits and simplifying permit requirements.

What This Bill Does

• Raises the maximum width for permits from 16 feet to 16 feet and 8 inches.
• Sets new height, length, and weight limits for homes between 14 feet and 16 feet and 8 inches wide.
• Prohibits local authorities from adding extra requirements that would prevent applicants from getting a permit.
• Clarifies that an annual permit allows moving a home without needing a special permit each time.
• Exempts permitted manufactured homes from certain pilot car requirements.

Who It Names or Affects

• People who transport manufactured homes on highways
• Local authorities and the Department of Transportation

Terms To Know

Pilot Car Requirements

Rules about cars that lead or follow a large vehicle to help guide it safely.

Annual Permit

A permit that allows transportation of manufactured homes for an entire year, rather than just one trip.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill requires local jurisdictions to change their processes, which may need state funding.
• Local agencies and school districts might get reimbursed by the state if new costs are added.

Official Summary Text

AB 2012, as amended, Hoover.
Vehicles: transportation of manufactured homes.
Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation or a local authority to issue a special or annual permit for the transporting of a manufactured home that does not exceed
16
14
feet in total width, exclusive of lights and devices, upon any highway, as specified. Existing law prescribes specified requirements and conditions for transporting
manufactured homes not exceeding 14 feet in width, and additional requirements and conditions for homes exceeding 14 feet but not exceeding 16 feet in width, and prohibits the department from issuing a permit to move a manufactured home unless the department determines that all of those requirements and conditions have been met.
the above-described manufactured homes, and makes it unlawful for a person to violate any of the terms or conditions of the above-described permits.
This bill would instead require the department or the local authority to issue the above-described permits for manufactured homes under specified conditions.
The bill would raise the maximum allowable width for a permit from 16 feet to 16 feet and 8 inches and would impose specified height, length, and weight limits for a home between 14 feet and 16 feet and 8 inches. The bill would prohibit the department or the local authority from imposing any other technical or prescriptive requirement on an applicant that would prevent the applicant from obtaining a permit.
The bill would clarify that a special permit is not required to move a manufactured home if the applicant has obtained an annual permit.
The bill would exempt permitted manufactured homes from specified pilot car requirements.
By requiring local jurisdictions to modify their approval processes for the above-described permits, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

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