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Vt. Dept. of Housing & Cmty. Dev., Housing Division Rules, Part I (Mobile Home Parks)

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Vt. Dept. of Housing & Cmty. Dev., Housing Division Rules, Part I (Mobile Home Parks)
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4.5.1 Permission to Sublet. A lease may require a leaseholder to notify the
park owner in writing of the name and mailing address of any prospective
sublessee. No such lease provision shall be enforceable, however, unless the
lease also requires the park owner to notify the prospective sublessee and the
leaseholder in writing within thirty days of request as to whether consent to the
sublease is granted. Notice to the prospective sublessee shall include the reasons
for denial, if applicable.

4.6 Rent charges; limits and exceptions. With the exception of proprietary leases in
mobile home parks owned by limited equity housing cooperatives established under 11
V.S.A. chapter 14, this subsection 4.6 shall govern all mobile home park leases with
respect to rental charges.

4.6.1 Lease terms governing rent charges shall be effective for a minimum of
one year. However, provided there is notice at the inception of a new
leaseholder’s lease, a new leaseholder in a mobile home park in which a uniform
rent schedule impacts all lots in the mobile home park simultaneously may be
required to pay an increased rent charge at the uniform increase date.

4.6.2 The lease shall provide for a minimum of 60 days’ prior written notice of
any rent increase.

4.6.3 Notwithstanding any provision of the lease, a park owner may increase
rental charges during a year to the extent necessary to cover an increase in
operating expenses, but only in the event of an unanticipated increase of 20
percent or more in the mobile home park’s operating expenses which is the result
of legislative action taken during that year.

4.7 Required lease terms. All mobile home park lot leases shall contain the
following: