South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 47 - Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Act
Section 27-47-210. Definitions.

Subject to additional definitions contained in other provisions of law which apply to this chapter and unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Manufactured home" means a structure transportable in one or more sections which in the traveling mode is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length or when erected on site is three hundred twenty or more square feet and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained in the structure.
(2) "Manufactured home owner" or "resident" means a person who owns a manufactured home and rents or leases a lot within a manufactured home park for residential use.
(3) "Manufactured home park" means a use of land in which lots or spaces are offered for rent or lease for the placement of manufactured homes and in which the primary use of the park is residential.
(4) "Manufactured home park owner" or "owner" means an owner or operator of a manufactured home park.
(5) "Rental agreement" means a written mutual understanding or lease between a resident and an owner in which the resident may place his manufactured home on a lot for direct or indirect remuneration of the owner.
(6) "Tenancy" means the temporary possession or occupancy of a manufactured home park lot by a resident pursuant to a rental agreement.
(7) "User fees" means the amounts charged in addition to the lot rental amount for nonessential optional services provided by or through the owner to the resident under a separate written agreement between the resident and the person furnishing the service.
HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 135, Section 1.

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