Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974

Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974
Citations

Other short titles	Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
Long title	An Act to provide for the establishment of construction and safety standards for mobile homes, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)	MHCSSA, NMHCSSA
Nicknames	National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act
Enacted by	the 93rd United States Congress
Effective	August 22, 1974
Public law	93-383
Statutes at Large	88 Stat. 633-2 aka 88 Stat. 700
Codification
Titles amended	42 U.S.C.: Public Health and Social Welfare
U.S.C. sections created	42 U.S.C. ch. 70 § 5401 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 2538 by William Proxmire (D–WI) on October 4, 1973 Committee consideration by Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, House Banking and Currency Passed the Senate on March 11, 1974 (76-11, in lieu of S. 3066) Passed the House on June 20, 1974 (351-25, in lieu of H.R. 15361) Reported by the joint conference committee on August 12, 1974; agreed to by the Senate on August 13, 1974 (84-0, in lieu of S. 3066) and by the House on August 15, 1974 (377-21, in lieu of S. 3066) Signed into law by President Gerald R. Ford on August 22, 1974

Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 or National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act is a United States federal law establishing design and development safety standards for manufactured housing or prefabricated homes. The codified law authorized stipulations whereas any proposed safety standard shall be equitable for a particular type of mobile home with consideration of additional cost liabilities for the future homeownership. The Act of Congress endorsed violative civil penalties and judicial review of Federal mobile home construction and safety standards developed by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Act mandated the establishment of the National Mobile Home Advisory Council and National Mobile Home Administration.

The S. 2538 legislation was appended to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 on February 27, 1974. The authorization bill was passed by the United States 93rd Congressional session and enacted into law by the 38th President of the United States Gerald Ford on August 22, 1974.

External links

Personick, Martin E.; Daley, Judy R. (July 1989). "Profiles in Safety and Health: Work Hazards of Mobile Homes" (PDF). Monthly Labor Review. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Olsen, John G. (May 1997). "Productivity Trends in the Mobile Homes Industry" (PDF). Monthly Labor Review. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"Historical Manufactured Housing Data". Manufactured Homes Survey. U.S. Census Bureau.

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