2006 Minnesota Statutes

327.16 LICENSE 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.
History: 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