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North Dakota Mobile Home Park Laws

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North Dakota has no single manufactured-home-park tenancy act; the rules for a resident who owns the home and rents the lot sit in one section of the property-transfer title, N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28, alongside the park licensing chapter.

Cited to N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 and 8 more sources · Verified August 23, 2026

Lot rent in a month-to-month tenancy needs ninety days' notice before it rises, a buyer of a park may not raise rent for six months where the seller raised it in the sixty days before the sale, park rules need thirty days' notice to change, and closing a park or changing its use takes one hundred eighty days' written notice to every tenant. A park owner may not force a resident to sell the home to the park, must tell tenants of a change of ownership within five business days, and may not charge more than the actual cost of a utility plus a $3 administrative fee or charge for a utility at all without an individual meter. There is no rent ceiling, no just-cause requirement to end a tenancy, no right for residents to buy the park and no relocation money on closure. Enforcement is unusually pointed for a state without an act: a violation carries a civil penalty of at least $2,500 up to the greater of $10,000 or actual damages plus attorney's fees, is a defense that blocks an eviction, and can lead the district court to suspend the park's license.

Governing actMobile home park ownership, transfer of ownership and tenant rights — N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28, with N.D.C.C. ch. 23-10 and ch. 23-10.1
General law that also appliesLeasing of Real Property, N.D.C.C. ch. 47-16, with the eviction chapter, N.D.C.C. ch. 47-32
Federal lender protections already required by state law1 of 8 (see the table)

Each row below is a state rule (with its citation) or an honest "no state rule" with what governs instead — lease terms and the general landlord-tenant law still apply where the park act is silent. This page covers a resident who owns the home and rents the lot; a home rented from the park is an ordinary North Dakota tenancy.

On this page: Scope · Lot rent, fees and utilities · Lease, rules and disclosure · Termination and eviction · Closure and change of use · Sale of the park · The resident's home · Federal lender protections · Common questions · Citations

A. Scope — who and what the act covers

Rule North Dakota law Source
State agency with a role in park tenancies North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services, which licenses and inspects mobile home parks, with the district court hearing tenant claims and license suspensions The department has general supervision over the health, safety, sanitary condition and legal compliance of every mobile home park in the state, licenses each park annually and may deny an application or suspend or revoke a license after giving the operator written reasons and thirty days to correct. Operating without a license draws a civil penalty of $100 a day up to $10,000. Where a license is revoked the department may ask the district court to place the park under a receiver, in which case the court appoints the commissioner, who may designate a qualified individual or a nonprofit to run it. Tenant rights under the mobile home park section are enforced in court rather than by an agency: the district court where the park sits may suspend the license for a violation. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-02; N.D.C.C. § 23-10-12 subsections 1 to 3; N.D.C.C. § 23-10.1-02; N.D.C.C. § 23-10.1-03; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 13
Resident may sue under the act Yes A tenant may sue a park owner for breaking the mobile home park tenant rights section and may choose small claims court or district court. The court may award a civil penalty of at least $2,500, rising to the greater of $10,000 or actual damages, plus actual attorney's fees and costs. A tenant who brings such an action must keep paying rent and following the park rules in effect when the action started. Separately, a tenant facing eviction may raise a violation of that section as a defense, and if the court finds a violation it may not order an eviction. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 12 and 14; N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01.1
Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) 3 lots A mobile home park is any parcel of land containing three or more lots intended for occupancy by mobile homes. The tenant rights section carries no size definition of its own; it applies to a park licensed under the licensing chapter, so that chapter's three-lot definition sets the reach. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-01 subsection 5; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 1(a)
Other size thresholds that switch rules on
  • 26 lots — The owner must designate an official local office, operational on the fifth business day after a change of ownership; parks with fewer than twenty-six lots are excused.
  • 25 lots — The park must provide playground space equivalent to one lot for every twenty-five lots.
Two lot counts switch duties on. Every other rule applies to any park of three or more lots. The staffed weekday telephone line, the round-the-clock emergency number and the named decision-maker are required whatever the park's size. 		N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 1(b), (c); N.D.C.C. § 23-10-07 subsection 11
Park-owned rental homes Partly covered by this act Most of the mobile home park tenant rights section runs to any tenant of the park, whoever owns the home. The change-of-ownership notice, the thirty-day rules-change notice, the ninety-day rent-increase notice, the utility billing limits, the late-fee caps and the boldface eviction warning are all written that way. Two rules are limited to a resident who owns the home: the bar on forcing a sale of the home to the park owner, and the three-month period to bring a home into line with modified park rules. Renting the home itself is otherwise ordinary leasing law. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 2 and 3; N.D.C.C. § 47-16-01
RVs and park-model homes Excluded A recreational vehicle is not a mobile home under North Dakota law, so recreational-vehicle occupancy sits outside the mobile home park tenant rights. The licensing chapter defines a mobile home as a relocatable manufactured, modular or prefabricated structure designed as residential living quarters and says the term does not include a recreational vehicle. Recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds are defined and licensed separately in the same chapter, so they carry the sanitation and licensing duties but not the park tenancy rules. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-01 subsections 4, 7 and 8
Local rent regulation of park lots Preempted — local governments may not regulate lot rents Cities and counties may not regulate lot rents. State law says a political subdivision may not enact, maintain or enforce an ordinance or resolution that would have the effect of controlling the amount of rent charged for leasing private residential or commercial property, and a rented mobile home lot is private residential property leased for reward. The one carve-out preserves a political subdivision's power to manage and control residential property in which it holds fee title. N.D.C.C. § 47-16-02.1; N.D.C.C. § 47-16-01

B. Lot rent, fees and utilities

Rule North Dakota law Source
Notice before a lot-rent increase 90 days A month-to-month lot tenancy carries a minimum of ninety days' notice to the tenant before a rent increase takes effect. That is three times the thirty days the general leasing chapter requires for any other change to a month-to-month tenancy, and the general chapter is what requires the change notice to be in writing. Rent under a fixed-term lease is set by the lease for its term. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 7; N.D.C.C. § 47-16-07
How often rent may be raised No general limit on how often, but rent may not be raised during four periods: the six months after a purchase where rent rose in the sixty days before the sale, the ninety days before notice of a change in use, a license suspension, and a pending court action under the tenant rights section. North Dakota sets no annual ceiling on the number of increases. It instead freezes rent at four moments. A person who purchases an existing park may not increase the monthly rental obligation for six months if the rent was raised within the sixty-day period before the purchaser acquired the park. An owner or manager may not increase rent within ninety days before giving notice of a change in use, for the portion of the park the change will affect. While the park's license is suspended by the district court, and while a landlord-tenant action under the tenant rights section is pending, the license holder may not increase any tenant's rent, modify the park rules, modify the rental arrangement or end a lease without cause. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 7, 13 and 14; N.D.C.C. § 23-10-13
Statewide limit on lot-rent increases No state rule No statute limits how much lot rent may rise. The mobile home park tenant rights section reaches only the timing of an increase and the six-month freeze that follows a purchase; it sets no percentage, no formula and no reasonableness test. Local governments cannot fill the gap either, because state law bars a political subdivision from controlling the amount of rent charged for private residential property. What governs the amount is the lease and the market. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 7; N.D.C.C. § 47-16-02.1
How a resident can challenge an increase A tenant sues, in small claims court or district court, for an increase that breaks the ninety-day notice rule or one of the statutory rent freezes; there is no review of the amount itself. The remedy is a civil penalty of at least $2,500, rising to the greater of $10,000 or actual damages, plus actual attorney's fees and costs. A tenant who brings the action must keep paying rent and following the park rules that were in effect when it started, and the owner may not change the rules, change the rental arrangement, raise the rent or end a lease without cause while it is pending. The district court may also suspend the park's license for a violation. A tenant facing eviction may raise the violation as a defense, and the court may not order an eviction if it finds one. No agency reviews whether an increase is reasonable. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 12, 13 and 14; N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01.1
Entrance fee prohibited No state rule No statute names an entrance, initiation or move-in fee. The mobile home park tenant rights section regulates rent, utility charges and late fees without mentioning one. The licensing chapter's only fee rule is that service fees must reasonably reflect the cost of the service provided in the park and may not be charged unless a service is actually provided, which is a limit on service charges rather than a bar on an entrance fee. What governs is the lease. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-07.1; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 8 and 11
Exit or removal fee prohibited No state rule No statute names an exit, removal or transfer fee. The same two sections that would carry it, the mobile home park tenant rights section and the licensing chapter's service-fee rule, say nothing about a charge for leaving or for moving a home out. What governs is the lease, alongside the landlord's lien for accrued rent, storage and removal where a home is left behind. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-07.1; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 8 and 11; N.D.C.C. § 35-20-17 subsection 1
Undisclosed fees uncollectible No state rule A charge the park never disclosed is not made uncollectible by statute. North Dakota takes the disclosure route instead: on a tenant's written request the owner must hand over a copy of the existing lease terms with any modifications within ten business days, and the owner must give every tenant a summary of the lease and of the rights and obligations of both sides under state law. Neither provision says what happens to a fee that was left out. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 1(f) and 9
Utility billing rules A park may not charge more than the actual per-unit cost it pays the utility, plus an administrative fee of no more than $3. The owner may buy utility services, including water and sewer, on a tenant's behalf and either fold the cost into the monthly rent or bill it separately based on actual usage. Where the service is part of rent, the owner may not charge or back charge for it unless the cost of providing it rises, and then only a reasonable amount to cover the increase. The owner must give the tenant access to the records of meter readings taken at that tenant's lot. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 8
Submetering required or regulated Yes A park may not charge a fee for a utility unless there is an individual meter for each mobile home. Where the park does meter, the owner must give the tenant access to the records of meter readings taken at that tenant's lot, and the charge may not exceed the actual per-unit cost the park pays plus an administrative fee of no more than $3. The metering requirement was added in 2025. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 8; S.B. 2385 (2025) section 7
Lot security deposit rules The deposit may not exceed one month's rent, and its amount may not be changed after the initial lease between the park owner and the tenant has been signed by both. The bar on changing the deposit amount is specific to mobile home parks. The ceiling and the handling rules come from the general leasing chapter: a deposit may run to two months' rent only where the applicant has a felony conviction or a judgment for breaching an earlier rental agreement, and a pet deposit may not exceed the greater of $2,500 or two months' rent. The landlord must hold the money in a federally insured interest-bearing account for the tenant's benefit, may apply it at the end of the tenancy to damage, unpaid rent and cleaning or repairs beyond ordinary wear, and must mail an itemization with any balance within thirty days after the lease ends and possession is delivered. No interest is owed where occupancy ran under nine months, and a landlord who withholds money without reasonable justification owes treble damages. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-14; N.D.C.C. § 47-16-07.1 subsections 1 to 4

C. Lease, rules and disclosure

Rule North Dakota law Source
Written lease Not required No statute requires a lot lease to be in writing. Two duties come close without going that far: on a tenant's written request the owner must provide a copy of the existing lease terms with any modifications or amendments within ten business days, and the owner must give every tenant a summary of the lease and of the rights and obligations of both sides under state law. The general leasing chapter separately requires a signed statement of the condition of the premises to accompany a rental agreement. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 1(f) and 9; N.D.C.C. § 47-16-07.2
Minimum lease term that must be offered No state rule A park owner need not offer a term of any length. Neither the mobile home park tenant rights section nor the licensing chapter requires a one-year or any other minimum term to be made available. The general leasing chapter supplies only a gap-filler: a lease of real property other than lodgings is presumed to run for one year unless the lease says otherwise, and where a residential tenant stays on after a lease expires and the landlord takes rent, the tenancy is presumed renewed month to month. N.D.C.C. § 47-16-05; N.D.C.C. § 47-16-06; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28
Notice to end a tenancy without cause No state rule No mobile home park statute sets a notice period for ending a lot tenancy without cause. The general leasing chapter governs: in a tenancy from month to month either party may end it on at least one calendar month's written notice given at any time, unless the parties agreed in writing to a longer period, and the same applies once a fixed-term lease has converted to month to month. A tenant who stays on after the tenancy ends may then be evicted as a holdover on three days' written notice. N.D.C.C. § 47-16-15 subsections 2 and 5; N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01 subsection 4; N.D.C.C. § 47-32-02
Notice before park rules change 30 days Park rules may not change without at least thirty days' advance written notice, and the old rules stay in force until the new ones take effect. The same thirty days apply to rules addressing sanitation and safety, and to a rule about removing a tongue hitch or making any other change to the home to meet state or federal housing or financing requirements. Where a home does not comply with a newly modified rule, other than a sanitation, safety or hitch rule, the owner must give the tenant written notice and three months to put it right or move before starting an eviction. During those three months the tenant follows the earlier rules and keeps paying rent. If a professional mover certifies in a signed document that the home cannot be relocated within the three months, the period runs to the date it can be moved or two months past the end of the three months, whichever comes first. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 3, 4, 5 and 6
Disclosure document Written rules and terms must be given A park owner must give each tenant a summary outlining the tenant's lease and the rights and obligations of the tenant and the owner under state law. The licensing chapter adds that the owner or manager must conspicuously post, or give each tenant a digital or hard copy of, the relevant rules and regulations, and that the state supplies that material free of charge. The owner must also post or give tenants in writing the park's procedure for responding to emergencies and complaints. On a change of ownership the written notice to tenants must carry the new owner's local office and contact details, the name, address and telephone number of the entity that owns the park, and the telephone number of any property manager or site agent. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 9 and 1(c), (d), (g), (h); N.D.C.C. § 23-10-10; N.D.C.C. § 23-10-10.1
Residents' right to meet and organize No state rule No statute protects residents' meetings or organizing in a park. The mobile home park tenant rights section sets out the tenant protections North Dakota has enacted and says nothing about meeting, forming an association or handing out information, and the licensing chapter does not either. What governs is the park's own rules, which may not change without thirty days' written notice. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 3; N.D.C.C. § 23-10-10
Owner entry onto the lot or into the home No state rule No mobile home park statute addresses entry onto the rented lot. The general leasing chapter governs entry into a dwelling unit: at any time in an emergency, or where the landlord reasonably believes the tenant has abandoned the premises or is substantially breaking the lease; otherwise only during reasonable hours and in a reasonable manner, to inspect, to make necessary or agreed repairs, alterations or improvements, to supply agreed services, or to show the unit to buyers, insurers, lenders, agents, tenants or workers. Unless it is impractical, the landlord must first notify the tenant and get consent, which may not be unreasonably withheld and must name a set time, and the landlord may not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant. N.D.C.C. § 47-16-07.3
Retaliation prohibited No state rule North Dakota has no general statute barring retaliation against a tenant who complains or takes legal action. Two narrower rules exist. A tenant of a mobile home park facing eviction may raise as a defense that the landlord broke the mobile home park tenant rights section, and if the court finds a violation it may not order an eviction. And a landlord may not refuse to rent to, or otherwise retaliate against, a person because a tenant or household member used the right to end a lease after domestic violence. N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01.1; N.D.C.C. § 47-16-17.1 subsection 10

D. Termination and eviction

Rule North Dakota law Source
Just cause required to end a tenancy No A lot tenancy may be ended without giving a reason. In a month-to-month tenancy either side may end it on at least one calendar month's written notice, and a tenant who stays on after the tenancy ends may be evicted as a holdover. Two situations do require cause: while the district court has suspended the park's license, and while a landlord-tenant action under the mobile home park tenant rights section is pending, the license holder may not end any tenant's lease without cause, and every tenant must be allowed to keep living in the park through a license suspension. N.D.C.C. § 47-16-15 subsection 2; N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01 subsection 4; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 13 and 14
Grounds for termination
  • Holding over after the lease ends or the term expires.
  • Failing to pay rent for three days after it is due.
  • Violating a material term of a written lease agreement.
  • Acting, or letting a guest act, in a way that unreasonably disturbs other tenants' peaceful enjoyment of the premises.
  • Entering on another's prior possession by force, intimidation, fraud or stealth and holding it.
  • Turning out the person in possession by force, threats or menacing conduct.
  • Holding possession by force, menaces or threats of violence.
  • Staying on after a mortgage, execution or judicial sale, after the redemption period, or after a contract for deed is canceled.
  • Staying on wrongfully after a partition judgment or a court-ordered sale.
This is the list of grounds on which an eviction action may be brought, and it is not a just-cause regime: the holdover ground means a tenancy that has been ended on notice can be enforced in court without any reason being given. Three days' written notice of intention to evict is required for holdover, nonpayment, a post-sale holdover and a material lease violation, but not for the disturbance ground. The licensing chapter separately lets a park owner or manager eject a person for nonpayment of charges or fees, a violation of law, disorderly conduct, a violation of a state regulation, or a violation of any reasonable park rule that is publicly posted in the park. 		N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01 subsections 1 to 8; N.D.C.C. § 47-32-02; N.D.C.C. § 23-10-11
Notice for nonpayment of lot rent 3 days Rent unpaid three days after it is due is a ground for eviction, and three days' written notice of intention to evict must be given before proceedings start. In a mobile home park that notice must carry, in clear boldfaced language, the statement that the tenant does not have to vacate immediately and has the right to remain until a court issues an eviction order. Late fees are capped at ten percent of the monthly rent, plus a daily late fee of no more than $5, but no statute creates a period after the due date in which a late fee cannot be charged. N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01 subsection 4; N.D.C.C. § 47-32-02; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 10 and 11
Notice for a rule or lease violation 3 days Three days' written notice of intention to evict is required where the tenant has violated a material term of a written lease agreement. No advance notice is set for the separate ground of conduct that unreasonably disturbs other tenants' peaceful enjoyment. A much longer period applies where the problem is a newly modified park rule: the owner must give written notice of the failure to comply and three months to put it right or move before starting an eviction, extendable where a professional mover certifies the home cannot be relocated in time. N.D.C.C. § 47-32-02; N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01 subsections 7 and 8; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 3
Repeat-violation rule No state rule No statute counts a tenant's repeat violations toward termination. The only repeat-proceeding rule runs the other way and limits the tenant: in a second or later eviction proceeding a tenant may raise only violations of the mobile home park tenant rights section that arose after a prior order between the parties was entered, or that were unknown to the court when that order was made. What governs repeat breaches is the eviction grounds themselves and the lease. N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01.1; N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01
Time to sell or remove the home after termination No state rule No statute gives a resident a set period to sell or move the home once the tenancy has ended. Three shorter or narrower provisions do the work instead. A court may stay the execution for a reasonable period of up to five days where immediate restitution of the premises would work a substantial hardship on the tenant or the family, except where the judgment rests on a disturbance of the peace. Where the tenancy is ending because of a modified park rule, the tenant has three months to comply or move. And a home left on the lot after an eviction or the end of the term falls under the landlord's lien, which may be enforced by sale thirty days after notice. N.D.C.C. § 47-32-04; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 3; N.D.C.C. § 35-20-17 subsection 3
Abandoned-home procedure Yes A landlord of a mobile home lot has a lien for accrued rent, storage and removal on any home left on the lot after the tenant has vacated following an eviction or the end of the lease term, and may keep the home until the amount due is paid. The lien does not outrank a security interest perfected earlier. For the lien, or a title later obtained through it, to hold against a good-faith purchaser, the landlord must post a signed and dated notice of lien on the home's primary entrance, naming the home owner and last-known address, the claimant and post-office address, the amount, a description of the home and its location, and the penalty provision; removing that notice without authorization is a class B misdemeanor. The lienholder may sell the home thirty days after mailing notice of the lien to the owner and to secured parties of record, and must forward any surplus to the former owner, or treat it as abandoned property if the owner cannot be located. Belongings other than the home follow the general rule for property worth $2,500 or less, which the landlord may keep and dispose of twenty-eight days after learning the tenant has moved out. N.D.C.C. § 35-20-17 subsections 1 to 3; N.D.C.C. § 47-16-30.1
Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement No state rule There is no mediation requirement and no state dispute-resolution program for park tenancies. Disputes go to the district court, or to small claims court where the tenant chooses it for damages. Two in-park duties come closest: the owner must set up a procedure for responding to emergencies and complaints that reaches a person with authority to act, and must post it in the park or give tenants a written copy; and the owner must acknowledge a tenant's inquiry or complaint about the park within two business days. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-10.1; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 1(e) and 14

E. Closure and change of use

Rule North Dakota law Source
Notice before closure or change of use 6 months The statute states the period as one hundred eighty days, which is six months. The owner must notify all tenants in writing at least that far ahead of a change in use, meaning a change that alters any portion of the park now leased to mobile home owners so that the portion will no longer be leased to them. The requirement sits in the park licensing chapter rather than in the tenant rights section. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-13
Variants (by trigger or park size)
  • Change in use of the park or of a portion of it: 180 days' written notice to all tenants (A change in use is one that alters any portion of the park used to lease to mobile home owners so that the portion will no longer be leased to them).
  • Application to rezone the park: Notice posted in the park at least 5 days before the public hearing (The owner posts the notice of the proposed rezoning; it is separate from and additional to the change-of-use notice).
  • The 90 days before a change-of-use notice is given: Rent may not be increased (The freeze applies to the portion of the park the change will affect).
All three sit in one section of the park licensing chapter. Park size does not vary any of them, and there is no shorter route for condemnation, emergency or a sale. 		N.D.C.C. § 23-10-13
Relocation payment required No state rule No one has to pay a resident to move when a park closes or changes use. The section that carries the one hundred eighty day closure notice sets a notice period, a rezoning-hearing posting and a rent freeze, and stops there. North Dakota has no relocation fund and no statutory moving payment. What governs is the notice period and whatever the lease provides. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-13; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28
Relocation amounts No state rule No amounts are set, because no relocation payment is required. The closure section states a notice period and a rent freeze and names no figure, and there is no state fund from which a payment could come. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-13
Who pays relocation None required No party bears a relocation cost by statute. Neither the park owner nor the state pays a resident to move when a park closes or changes use; the resident's protection is the one hundred eighty day notice and the ninety-day rent freeze that precedes it. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-13
Notice to a government body on closure No state rule No statute requires a park owner to tell a state or local body that the park is closing. The one hundred eighty day change-of-use notice runs to the tenants, and the five-day rezoning notice is posted inside the park rather than filed with a body. The nearest government-facing duty is licensing: a person may not establish, maintain, change use, mix use or enlarge a mobile home park without first obtaining a license from the state health and human services department, which brings a change of use before the licensing agency as a licensing matter. N.D.C.C. § 23-10-13; N.D.C.C. § 23-10-03 subsection 1

F. Sale of the park

Rule North Dakota law Source
Residents must be told the park is for sale Yes Residents must be told when the park changes hands, but only after the sale has closed. A person who owns or purchases an existing park must give each tenant written notice of the change of ownership within five business days after it becomes effective. There is no notice before a listing, before an offer or before closing, and no waiting period between telling residents and completing a sale. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 1(d)
What triggers the notice The completed sale: written notice to each tenant within five business days after the change of ownership becomes effective. The notice must carry the contact information the statute requires of a new owner, which is a staffed weekday telephone number, an emergency number answered at all times, and the name and contact details of at least one individual with authority to act for the owner. The new owner must also give each tenant the name, address and telephone number of the legal entity that owns the park and the telephone number of any property manager or site agent. A park of twenty-six lots or more must have an official local office operational by the fifth business day after the change of ownership, and the new owner must obtain a license within thirty days of the sale. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 1(b), (c), (d), (g), (h); N.D.C.C. § 23-10-03 subsection 3
Residents' purchase right None required Residents have no right to buy the park. The mobile home park tenant rights section deals with a sale only after it has closed, by requiring a change-of-ownership notice within five business days, and the licensing chapter deals with a sale only by requiring the new owner to obtain or transfer the license. Neither gives residents advance notice, a chance to make an offer or a right to match one. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 1(d); N.D.C.C. § 23-10-06.2
Time for residents to respond No state rule No response window exists, because residents have no purchase right to exercise. The only sale-related clock in the statute runs against the buyer: the change-of-ownership notice to tenants is due within five business days after the sale takes effect. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 1(d)
Resident-association threshold No state rule No share of residents unlocks any right. North Dakota's park statutes set no threshold for a residents' association, because there is no purchase right, no group challenge to a rent increase and no collective consent mechanism for a rules change. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28; N.D.C.C. § 23-10-13
Transfers exempt from the sale rules No state rule No transfers are carved out, because there is no pre-sale regime to carve them out of. The one sale duty, the change-of-ownership notice to tenants within five business days, is written without exemptions and applies to any person who purchases an existing park. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 1(d)
Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality No state rule Residents cannot pass a purchase right to a nonprofit or a city, because North Dakota gives them no purchase right to pass on. The statute's only nonprofit role in a park is on the enforcement side: where a court places a park into receivership, the state commissioner acts as receiver and may designate a qualified individual or a nonprofit organization to run it. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 1(d); N.D.C.C. § 23-10.1-03
Penalty for violating the sale rules A civil penalty of at least $2,500, rising to the greater of $10,000 or actual damages, plus actual attorney's fees and costs. The penalty covers any violation of the mobile home park tenant rights section, including the change-of-ownership notice. On top of it the district court of the county where the park sits may suspend the park's license, and the license holder must then pay a daily penalty equal to half the total rent on the park's rent roll divided by the number of days in that month. The holder must show every violation has been remedied and every penalty paid before the license may be reinstated, on terms the court sets, and the court may revoke the license if the holder does not comply with its order. Every tenant must be allowed to keep living in the park throughout a suspension, and during it the license holder may not change the park rules, change any tenant's rental arrangement, raise any tenant's rent or end any tenant's lease without cause. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 12 and 13

G. The resident's home

Rule North Dakota law Source
Right to sell the home in place No state rule No statute gives a resident the right to sell the home where it stands to a buyer who keeps it on the lot. The nearest rule points the other way: a person who owns or purchases an existing park may not require a tenant who owns a mobile home on the property to sell or transfer the home to the park owner, except as otherwise provided by law. That bars a forced transfer to the park; it says nothing about a sale to anyone else, and nothing bars a park from requiring the home to be moved out when it is sold. What governs is the lease and the park's rules. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 2
Park may not take a commission on the sale No state rule No statute stops a park from taking a commission or fee on the sale of a resident's home. The mobile home park tenant rights section regulates rent, utilities and late fees without mentioning a sale charge, and the licensing chapter's only fee rule is that service fees must reflect the cost of a service actually provided. What governs is the lease and the park's rules. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 2 and 11; N.D.C.C. § 23-10-07.1
Park may screen the buyer No state rule No statute addresses whether a park may screen the buyer of a home that stays on the lot. Neither the mobile home park tenant rights section nor the licensing chapter deals with approving an incoming resident. What governs is the park's rules and the terms on which it will grant a new lot tenancy, and those rules may not change without thirty days' written notice. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 2 and 3
Buyer-approval standard and deadline No state rule No standard and no deadline apply to approving a buyer. Because the statutes are silent on screening altogether, there is nothing requiring a park to act reasonably, to give reasons or to answer within a set time. What governs is the park's own rules, subject to the thirty days' written notice required before any rules change takes effect. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 2 and 3
Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone No state rule Nothing stops a park from refusing a home because of its age, size or style. The one related rule concerns advance warning rather than the ground itself: a park must give a tenant at least thirty days' written notice before putting in place a rule about removing a tongue hitch, or any other change to the home needed to meet state or federal housing or financing requirements. What governs entry standards is the park's rules. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsections 3 and 5
Park may require repairs before sale No state rule No statute says whether a park may require repairs or upgrades before a home is sold. The park's rules govern, and any change to them needs thirty days' written notice; where a home falls short of a newly modified rule the owner must give written notice and three months to put it right or move before starting an eviction. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 3
Right to post a For Sale sign No state rule No statute protects a for-sale sign on a home or a lot. Neither the mobile home park tenant rights section nor the licensing chapter mentions signs. What governs is the park's rules, which may not change without thirty days' written notice. N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28 subsection 3; N.D.C.C. § 23-10-10

H. The eight federal lender protections — which ones North Dakota law already requires

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac require eight tenant site lease protections in every manufactured housing community loan they buy. Where state law already requires a protection of every park, a resident has it whether or not the park has agency financing. North Dakota law requires 1 of 8. All 50 states are compared in our research study, including the 2018 federal survey baseline.

ProtectionNorth Dakota lawBasis
One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal Not required Neither limb is met: no statute requires a park to offer a lease term of any length, and a lot tenancy may be ended without cause on one calendar month's written notice, with holding over then a ground for eviction. (N.D.C.C. § 47-16-15; N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28)
30-day written notice of rent increases Required A month-to-month lot tenancy carries at least ninety days' notice before a rent increase takes effect, statewide, and the general leasing chapter requires a change to the terms of a month-to-month tenancy to be given in writing. (N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28; N.D.C.C. § 47-16-07)
5-day grace period for rent payments and the right to cure defaults on rent payments Not required Both limbs are missing: eviction becomes available once rent is three days past due, short of a five-day grace period, and no statute gives a right to cure by paying within the three-day notice. The caps on late fees, ten percent of monthly rent plus $5 a day, do not create a period in which no fee may be charged. (N.D.C.C. § 47-32-01; N.D.C.C. § 47-32-02; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28)
Right to sell the manufactured home without having to first relocate it out of the community Not required No statute bars a park from requiring a home to be moved out when it is sold. The one related rule bars only a forced transfer of the home to the park owner itself. (N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28)
Right to sell the manufactured home in place within 30 days after eviction by the community owner Not required No statute gives a period to sell the home in place after an eviction; the only post-judgment breathing room is a court's discretionary stay of execution for hardship, capped at five days. (N.D.C.C. § 47-32-04; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28)
Right to sublease or assign the pad site lease for the unexpired term to the new buyer of the home without unreasonable restraint Not required No statute lets a buyer take over or be assigned the lot tenancy, and none sets a standard for the park's consent; the lease and the park's rules decide. (N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28)
Right to post "For Sale" signs that comply with the community's rules Not required No statute or state regulation protects a for-sale sign in a mobile home park; the park's own rules govern signs. (N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28; N.D.C.C. § 23-10-10)
Right to receive at least 60 days' notice of a planned sale or closure of the community Partly The closure limb is met, with one hundred eighty days' written notice to every tenant before a change in use. The sale limb is missing: the only sale notice comes within five business days after the change of ownership takes effect, so there is no minimum period between telling residents and completing a sale. (N.D.C.C. § 23-10-13; N.D.C.C. § 47-10-28)

Notes and caveats

Common questions: North Dakota mobile home park law

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How much notice must a North Dakota park give before raising lot rent?
90 days. A month-to-month lot tenancy carries a minimum of ninety days' notice to the tenant before a rent increase takes effect.
Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in North Dakota?
North Dakota sets no state rule on this. No statute limits how much lot rent may rise.
Can a North Dakota park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
Yes — North Dakota law does not require a cause. A lot tenancy may be ended without giving a reason.
How much notice must a North Dakota park give before closing or changing use?
6 months. The statute states the period as one hundred eighty days, which is six months.
Does a North Dakota park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
North Dakota sets no state rule on this. No one has to pay a resident to move when a park closes or changes use.
Do North Dakota residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
No — North Dakota law gives residents no right to buy the park. Residents have no right to buy the park.
Can a North Dakota resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
North Dakota sets no state rule on this. No statute gives a resident the right to sell the home where it stands to a buyer who keeps it on the lot.

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