New York Consolidated Laws, Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law - RPA § 790. Definitions

1. The term “manufactured home resident” means one who rents space in a manufactured home park from a manufactured home park owner or operator for the purpose of locating his or her manufactured home or one who rents a manufactured home in a manufactured home park from a manufactured home park owner or operator.

2. The term “manufactured home owner” means one who holds title to a manufactured home.

3. The term “manufactured home park” means a contiguous parcel of privately owned land which is used for the accommodation of three or more manufactured homes occupied for year-round living.

4. The term “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 therein;  except that such term shall include a “mobile home” as defined in subdivision five of this section, and shall include a structure which meets all the requirements of this subdivision except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the secretary of housing and urban development.

5. The term “mobile home” means a moveable or portable unit, manufactured prior to January first, nineteen hundred seventy-six, designed and constructed to be towed on its own chassis, comprised of frame and wheels, connected to utilities, and designed and constructed without a permanent foundation for year-round living.  A unit may contain parts that may be folded, collapsed or telescoped when being towed and expanded later to provide additional cubic capacity as well as two or more separately towable components designed to be joined into one integral unit capable of being again separated into the components for repeated towing.  “Mobile home” shall mean units designed to be used exclusively for residential purposes, excluding travel trailers.