WHEREAS, the Office of the Governor has received numerous concerns about the complexity of the laws and rules governing manufactured home ownership; and

WHEREAS, oftentimes, Idahoans who reside in manufactured homes are elderly, on a fixed income, or are of limited means making it difficult to relocate when the property their manufactured home is located on is sold; and

WHEREAS, it is important to seek out and understand the State’s role, in creating a solution to this problem;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JAMES E. RISCH, Governor of the State of Idaho, by the authority vested in me under the Constitution and laws of the State of Idaho do hereby order the following:

1)      The creation of the Governor’s Manufactured Home Park Advisory Committee (Committee).

2)      The members of the Committee shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Governor.

 a.      The Committee shall be composed of as many members as the Governor deems necessary and sufficient.

b.      The Governor shall choose the Chair of the Committee from the membership of the Committee.

3)      The Department of Health and Welfare and Department of Commerce and Labor will staff the Committee.

4)      The Committee is tasked with working with appropriate State agencies in Idaho and surrounding States in addition to other interested parties to make recommendations to the Governor about the State’s role in a collaborative effort aimed at helping individuals who live in manufactured homes and are forced to relocate but lack the means to do so.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 6th day of December in the year of our Lord two thousand and six and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE