It is the intent of the legislature that the large and growing manufactured housing industry be supervised and regulated by a division of the commerce and industry department [regulation and licensing department]. The purpose of the Manufactured Housing Act [Chapter 60, Article 14 NMSA 1978] is to insure the purchasers and users of manufactured homes the essential conditions of health and safety which are their right and to provide that the business practices of the industry are fair and orderly among the members of the industry with due regard to the ultimate consumers in this important area of human shelter.

History: 1953 Comp., § 67-41-3, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 331, § 3; 1977, ch. 245, § 218; 1983, ch. 295, § 9.

Bracketed material. — Laws 1983, ch. 297, § 20, creates the regulation and licensing department, consisting of several divisions, including the mobile housing division, and Laws 1983, ch. 297, § 31, provides that all references in law to the mobile housing division of the commerce and industry department shall be construed to be references to the same division within the regulation and licensing department. See 9-16-4 NMSA 1978 and notes thereto. The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler; it was not enacted by the legislature and is not a part of the law.

Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Validity of zoning ordinances prohibiting or regulating outside storage of house trailers, motor homes, campers, vans and the like, in residential neighborhoods, 95 A.L.R.3d 378.