Senate Bill No. 183
(By Senator Snyder)
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[Introduced February 20, 2001; referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary.]
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A BILL to amend article six, chapter thirty-seven of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
thirty-one, relating to providing a procedure for evictions of
mobile home owners from mobile home lots; time limits within
which actions may be brought; and right of landlord to
possession of mobile home after judgment.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article six, chapter thirty-seven of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
thirty-one, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. LANDLORD AND TENANT.
§37-6-31. Mobile home evictions from mobile home lots.
In addition to the remedies provided by the provisions of this
article, and after following the procedures set out in this article, the landlord, or other person entitled to the rent for a
mobile home lot, has the same right of recovery of rent by distress
or action, for a lot rented for the purpose of placing a mobile
home on the lot and maintaining the mobile home on the lot. If,
after the passage of thirty days from the date of any judgment in
favor of the landlord, or other person entitled to the rent for a
mobile home lot,
the judgment is not satisfied, then the landlord,
or other person entitled to the rent for a mobile home lot,
may
take possession of the mobile home without any liability to the
owner of the mobile home.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to
provide a procedure for
evictions of mobile home owners from mobile home lots and to set
time limits within which actions may be brought. It establishes
the right of landlord to possession of mobile home after judgment,
without any liability to the owner of the mobile home.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.