Louisiana Manufactured / mobile home parks

Manufactured / mobile home parks in Louisiana

La. R.S. 9:3259.1 is a statewide notice-and-privilege rule that applies when a lessor, defined as the owner of unsubdivided immovable property on which three or more lots are available for rent for locating a factory-built home, is owed rent for that immovable property. As used in that section, a factory-built home has the meaning given in La. R.S. 9:1149.2: a manufactured home, mobile home, or modular home as defined in that Part. A manufactured home is a factory-built residential dwelling unit constructed to HUD standards under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. 5401 et seq., as amended, that bears the permanently affixed HUD seal. A mobile home is a factory-built residential dwelling unit constructed to voluntary standards or constructed before passage of that 1974 Act. A modular home is a factory-built residential dwelling unit constructed to the International Residential Code standards adopted by the Louisiana Uniform Construction Code Commission. When the rental payments for immovable property on which a factory-built home is located are 60 days past the due date, the lessor shall notify the secured parties and the mortgagor, if the mortgagor is not the lessee or occupant of the factory-built home, in writing by mail that the rental payments are 60 days past due. The notice shall include the following information if known or readily available to the lessor or if available from the office of motor vehicles of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections: the lessor's name; the lessee's name; the mortgagor's name; the location of the factory-built home; the number of days that the rental payments are overdue, the monthly rental payment, and the total amount past due; the vehicle identification number of the factory-built home; and a description of the factory-built home including the make, model, year, dimensions, and any identification numbers or marks. Notwithstanding any provision of the law to the contrary, failure of the lessor to provide that notification within 30 days after the rental payments are 60 days past due shall limit the lessor's privilege or right of pledge for rent to the amount of rental payments past due for 90 days. The lessor is entitled to collect a fee of 25 dollars from the lessee or mortgagor, in addition to the rental payments due and any additional fees or charges due the lessor, when such notification is made and the lessee or mortgagor subsequently pays the rental payments due, and a fee of 25 dollars from the secured parties, in addition to all rental or storage payments due at the time the factory-built home is repossessed, when notification is made and the secured party subsequently obtains possession of the factory-built home. The office of motor vehicles shall maintain a record of each factory-built home for which a vehicle certificate of title has been issued under Chapter 4 of Title 32 and which is subject to a security device, for a period of 10 years or for the period stated for the termination of the security device, including, if available, the name and address of the mortgagor or vendee, the names and addresses of the primary and any secondary secured party, the vehicle identification number, and a description of the home. Section 9:3259.1 is a notice-and-privilege rule for unpaid lot rent. It is not a general park-tenant bill of rights and does not itself set notice periods for ending a lot tenancy, rent increase limits, or just-cause eviction standards. La. R.S. 9:3259 is a separate attorney-fee rule for unpaid rent under an oral lease of an apartment, house, or similar dwelling, and is not a park-lot rule. The Factory-Built Home Property Act, La. R.S. 9:1149.1 and following, governs classification, title, security interests, and immobilization of factory-built homes, not park tenancy terms. This summary does not treat local parish or municipal park rules, including any East Baton Rouge Parish provision in Title 33.

Verified Source: La. R.S. 9:3259.1, 9:1149.2; see also 9:3259, 9:1149.1 · last checked 2026-11-12