L2888.02T

To repeal section 700.455, RSMo 1994, relating to manufactured homes, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 700.455, RSMo 1994, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 700.455, to read as follows:

700.455. 1. Every dealer shall, on or before January fifteenth of each year, instead of registering each manufactured home dealt in, make a verified application, upon a blank for such purpose to be furnished by the commission, for a distinctive number for all the manufactured homes dealt in or controlled by such dealer. The application shall contain, but need not be limited to:

(1) When the applicant is a partnership, the name and address of each partner, or, when the applicant is a corporation, the names of the principal officers of the corporation and the state in which it is incorporated. The application shall be verified by the oath or affirmation of the applicant, if an individual, or in the event an applicant is a partnership or corporation, then by a partner or officer;

(2) [Certification by a uniformed member of the Missouri state highway patrol stationed in the troop area in which the applicant claims to have place of business located that the applicant in fact has a bona fide established place of business; except that, in counties of the first class, such certification may be by an officer of a metropolitan police department when the applicant s bona fide established place of business of selling manufactured homes is in the metropolitan area where the certifying metropolitan police officer is employed.] A bona fide established place of business shall be required for every dealer. A bona fide established place of business for any dealer shall include a permanent enclosed building or structure, either owned in fee or leased and actually occupied as a place of business by the applicant for the selling, bartering, trading or exchanging of manufactured homes, [wherein] where the public may contact the owner or operator at any reasonable time and [wherein shall be kept and maintained] where the books, records, files and other matters required and necessary to conduct the business shall be kept and maintained.

2. The application shall contain the business address, not a post-office box, and telephone number of the place where the books, records, files and other matters required and necessary to conduct the business are located and where the same may be inspected during normal daytime business hours.

3. Each application shall contain such additional information as may be required by the commission to enable it to determine whether the applicant is a bona fide dealer in fact and is of good moral character.

4. On the payment of a registration fee of fifty dollars there shall be assigned to each dealer a certificate of registration in such form as the commission shall prescribe.