1997 Minnesota Statutes

     327.16 Application. 

    Subdivision 1.    Made to state department of health.  
 The application for license to operate and maintain a 
 manufactured home park or recreational camping area shall be 
 made to the state department of health, at such office and in 
 such manner as may be prescribed by that department. 

    Subd. 2.    Contents.  The applicant for a primary 
 license or annual license shall make application in writing upon 
 a form provided by the state department of health setting forth: 

    (1) The full name and address of the applicant or 
 applicants, or names and addresses of the partners if the 
 applicant is a partnership, or the names and addresses of the 
 officers if the applicant is a corporation. 

    (2) A legal description of the site, lot, field, or tract 
 of land upon which the applicant proposes to operate and 
 maintain a manufactured home park or recreational camping area. 

    (3) The proposed and existing facilities on and about the 
 site, lot, field, or tract of land for the proposed construction 
 or alteration and maintaining of a sanitary community building 
 for toilets, urinals, sinks, wash basins, slop-sinks, showers, 
 drains, laundry facilities, source of water supply, sewage, 
 garbage and waste disposal; except that no toilet facilities 
 shall be required in any manufactured home park which permits 
 only manufactured homes equipped with toilet facilities 
 discharging to water carried sewage disposal systems; and method 
 of fire and storm protection. 

    (4) The proposed method of lighting the structures and 
 site, lot, field, or tract of land upon which the manufactured 
 home park or recreational camping area is to be located. 

    (5) The calendar months of the year which the applicant 
 will operate the manufactured home park or recreational camping 
 area. 

    (6) Plans and drawings for new construction or alteration, 
 including buildings, wells, plumbing and sewage disposal systems.

    Subd. 3.    Fees; approval.  The application for the 
 primary license shall be submitted with all plans and 
 specifications enumerated in subdivision 2, and payment of a fee 
 in an amount prescribed by the state commissioner of health 
 pursuant to section 144.122 and shall be accompanied by an 
 approved zoning permit from the municipality or county wherein 
 the park is to be located, or a statement from the municipality 
 or county that it does not require an approved zoning permit.  
 The fee for the annual license shall be in an amount prescribed 
 by the state commissioner of health pursuant to section 
 144.122.  All license fees paid to the commissioner of health 
 shall be turned over to the state treasury.  The fee submitted 
 for the primary license shall be retained by the state even 
 though the proposed project is not approved and a license is 
 denied. 

    When construction has been completed in accordance with 
 approved plans and specifications the state commissioner of 
 health shall promptly cause the manufactured home park or 
 recreational camping area and appurtenances thereto to be 
 inspected.  When the inspection and report has been made and the 
 state commissioner of health finds that all requirements of 
 sections 327.10, 327.11, 327.14 to 327.28, and such conditions 
 of health and safety as the state commissioner of health may 
 require, have been met by the applicant, the state commissioner 
 of health shall forthwith issue the primary license in the name 
 of the state. 

    Subd. 4.    Sanitary facilities.  During the pendency 
 of the application for such primary license any change in the 
 sanitary or safety facilities of the intended manufactured home 
 park or recreational camping area shall be immediately reported 
 in writing to the state department of health through the office 
 through which the application was made.  If no objection is made 
 by the state department of health to such change in such 
 sanitary or safety facilities within 60 days of the date such 
 change is reported, it shall be deemed to have the approval of 
 the state department of health. 

    Subd. 5.    Permit.  When the plans and specifications 
 have been approved, the state department of health shall issue 
 an approval report permitting the applicant to construct or make 
 alterations upon a manufactured home park or recreational 
 camping area and the appurtenances thereto according to the 
 plans and specifications presented. 

    Such approval does not relieve the applicant from securing 
 building permits in municipalities that require permits or from 
 complying with any other municipal ordinance or ordinances, 
 applicable thereto, not in conflict with this statute. 

    Subd. 6.    Denial of construction.  If the application 
 to construct or make alterations upon a manufactured home park 
 or recreational camping area and the appurtenances thereto or a 
 primary license to operate and maintain the same is denied by 
 the state commissioner of health, the commissioner shall so 
 state in writing giving the reason or reasons for denying the 
 application.  If the objections can be corrected the applicant 
 may amend the application and resubmit it for approval, and if 
 denied the applicant may appeal from the decision of the state 
 commissioner of health as provided in section 144.99, 
 subdivision 10. 

    HIST: 1951 c 428 s 3; 1961 c 375 s 1; 1965 c 668 s 5-9; 1969 c 
 427 s 10; 1974 c 471 s 19,20; 1975 c 310 s 34; 1977 c 305 s 45; 
 1981 c 365 s 9; 1982 c 526 art 3 s 4; 1986 c 444; 1993 c 206 s 
 21; 1993 c 286 s 29