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Utah Mobile Home Park Laws

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Utah's Mobile Home Park Residency Act (Utah Code Title 57, Chapter 16) governs lot tenancies in any community with two or more mobile home spaces: a park may end a tenancy only for the causes the act lists, an increase in lot rent or fees cannot be enforced until 60 days after notice is mailed, and a park must give nine months' notice by first-class mail before a change in land use forces residents out.

Cited to Utah Code Title 57, Chapter 16 (Mobile Home Park Residency Act) and 12 more sources · Verified August 19, 2026

Leases must be in writing and signed, and must spell out the rent, the fees, the park rules whose breach can lead to eviction, and how each resident's public utility bill is calculated; once a year the park must publish how it worked those utility charges out. Before ending a tenancy over a park rule, the park must send a written notice of noncompliance, and a resident who disputes it can require an in-person settlement meeting. Utah has no state agency for park tenancies, no cap on lot rent, no relocation payment on closure, and no notice or purchase right for residents when a park is sold; local governments may not control lot rents or adopt closure ordinances. Residents enforce the act themselves in court, where attorney fees go to the prevailing party in a contested proceeding.

Governing actMobile Home Park Residency Act — Utah Code Title 57, Chapter 16 (§§ 57-16-1 to 57-16-19)
Federal lender protections already required by state law4 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 Utah 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 Utah law Source
State agency with a role in park tenancies No state rule No Utah state agency enforces the act or oversees park tenancies. Enforcement runs through the courts: a resident may sue a park for damages or an injunction over a violation of the chapter, and the court may award attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party. The act separately preserves the power of a city, county or municipality to mediate and enforce the state statutes that govern parks. There is no state registry, license or complaint program for mobile home parks. Utah Code § 57-16-19 (1); Utah Code § 57-16-17
Resident may sue under the act Yes A resident may bring a court action against a park for damages or injunctive relief arising from a violation of the act. The court may award reasonable attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party, and in a contested eviction proceeding that award is mandatory. The act also states that its rights and remedies are cumulative, not exclusive. Utah Code § 57-16-19 (1)-(2); Utah Code § 57-16-11; Utah Code § 57-16-15 (1)(d)
Minimum park size for the act to apply (lots) 2 lots The act reaches any tract of land with two or more mobile home spaces leased or offered for lease. That is one of the lowest thresholds in the country, so very small communities are covered. The act also has no exemption for a space that is not the resident's principal home. Utah Code § 57-16-3 (5)
Other size thresholds that switch rules on No state rule No rule in the act switches on with park size. Once a tract has two or more spaces, the same rules apply to every covered park. The only sliding scale in the act is a cost scale that sets how long a new park rule must wait before it takes effect. Utah Code § 57-16-3 (5)
Park-owned rental homes Ordinary landlord-tenant law applies The act governs the lease of a mobile home space, not the rental of a home the park owns. A resident under the act is someone who leases or rents space in a park, so a park-owned home rented out is ordinary residential landlord-tenant law. Utah's Fit Premises Act covers a renter's principal residence and expressly leaves a mobile home lot out of its definition, which keeps the two regimes separate. Utah Code § 57-16-3 (9); Utah Code § 57-22-2 (5)
RVs and park-model homes No state rule The act says nothing about recreational vehicles or park-model units. It defines a mobile home as a transportable structure, in one or more sections, with its plumbing, heating and electrical systems inside the unit, usable as a family dwelling once placed on a site with or without a permanent foundation. Whether a particular unit is covered turns on that definition rather than on any express inclusion or exclusion. Utah Code § 57-16-3 (4)
Local rent regulation of park lots Preempted — local governments may not regulate lot rents Utah bars local rent regulation: a county, city or town may not adopt an ordinance or resolution controlling rents or fees on private residential property without the Legislature's express approval. Zoning, building and planning powers are untouched. A separate clause in the park act bars a town, city or county from adopting any ordinance governing the closure of a mobile home park, while local governments may still mediate and enforce the state statutes that govern parks. Utah Code § 57-20-1 (1)-(2); Utah Code § 57-16-18 (5); Utah Code § 57-16-17

B. Lot rent, fees and utilities

Rule Utah law Source
Notice before a lot-rent increase 60 days An increase in lot rent or fees for a periodic tenancy cannot be enforced until 60 days after notice of the increase is mailed to the resident. The park also cannot move the date rent, fees and service charges are due without 60 days' written notice. Service charges are treated differently: they may be raised during the lease after notice, and increases or decreases in electricity rates may be passed through. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (4)(a), (4)(b), (4)(e)
How often rent may be raised No state rule Utah does not limit how often lot rent may be raised. The only timing rules are the 60-day notice before an increase takes effect and a freeze on rent increases that runs from the day a change-of-land-use notice goes out until the day residents must leave. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (4); Utah Code § 57-16-18 (4)
Statewide limit on lot-rent increases No state rule Utah sets no ceiling on how much lot rent may go up. The act regulates the notice, not the amount, and local governments may not fill the gap because state law bars them from controlling rents on private residential property. There is one money limit in the act, but it applies to service charges rather than rent: the park's annual income from service charges may not exceed the actual annual cost of providing those services. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (4)(a), (4)(c); Utah Code § 57-20-1 (1)
How a resident can challenge an increase No state rule Utah gives residents no process for challenging the size of a lot-rent increase. What the act gives instead is a hard timing rule: an increase is unenforceable until 60 days after notice of it is mailed, so an increase noticed late cannot be collected. A resident may sue for damages or an injunction over a violation of the act, with attorney fees available to the prevailing party. The act's settlement meeting is triggered by a claimed rule violation, not by a rent increase. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (4)(a); Utah Code § 57-16-19 (1)-(2)
Entrance fee prohibited Yes A park may not charge an entrance fee. The same clause also bars exit fees and installation fees, while allowing reasonable landscaping and maintenance requirements in the park rules. The resident still bears the cost of connecting the home to existing park facilities and of installing and maintaining the home on the space. Utah Code § 57-16-7 (3)
Exit or removal fee prohibited Yes A park may not charge an exit fee. Entrance fees and installation fees are barred by the same clause. A park may still require a reasonable initial security deposit. Utah Code § 57-16-7 (3)-(4)
Undisclosed fees uncollectible No state rule The act does not say that a fee left out of the lease cannot be collected. It does require every lease to set out all rent, service charges and other fees then being charged on a periodic basis, along with the dates they fall due. A resident whose lease omits a charged fee may sue for damages or an injunction under the act's general remedy. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (3)(c)(i), (3)(d); Utah Code § 57-16-19 (1)
Utility billing rules The lease must disclose every cost the park charges for public utility services and the method used to calculate each resident's bill, and once a year the park must publish how it worked those charges out. Charges allocated from a master-metered bill, charges submetered for individual usage, and costs reflecting utility infrastructure the park owns must each be disclosed, and where a single-service meter is used the resident's utility charges must be fully set out on the bill. Service charges may be raised during the lease after notice and electricity rate changes may be passed through, but the park's annual income from service charges may not exceed the actual annual cost of providing the services. Utah has an unusually detailed utility-billing regime for park lots. The annual disclosure has been required since June 1, 2021; it goes to each resident or is posted prominently on the premises, covers the previous twelve-month billing period, and must show how residents' charges relate to the park's master-metered bill, to utility infrastructure the park owns, and to the utility's approved rates and terms of service. Separately, a local water, sewer or sanitation provider may not take a greater percentage net return from supplying a park than it takes from other residential customers. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (3)(c)(ii)-(iii), (4)(b)-(d), (5), (12); Utah Code § 57-16-10
Submetering required or regulated Yes Submetering is not required, but how a park bills under it is regulated. The lease must disclose costs submetered for individual usage alongside costs allocated from a master-metered bill and costs reflecting utility infrastructure the park owns, and where the park uses a single-service meter the resident's utility charges must be fully disclosed on the bill. The annual utility disclosure must tie residents' charges back to the park's master-metered bill and the utility's approved rates. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (3)(c)(iii), (5)(b), (12)
Lot security deposit rules A park may require a reasonable initial security deposit, and the deposit counts as a fee that the lease must disclose. The act sets no dollar limit on the deposit and no deadline for returning it, and it bars entrance, exit and installation fees outright. The act's treatment of deposits is short. It permits a reasonable initial security deposit, folds security deposits into its definition of fees, and therefore requires the deposit to appear in the lease's full disclosure of rent, service charges and other fees. Nothing in the act caps the amount, requires it to be held separately, or fixes a time for returning it after the tenancy ends. Utah Code § 57-16-7 (3)-(4); Utah Code § 57-16-3 (3); Utah Code § 57-16-4 (3)(c)(i)

C. Lease, rules and disclosure

Rule Utah law Source
Written lease Required A park and a resident who agree to lease a space must put the lease in writing and sign it. The park must keep a written copy and give the resident one within seven calendar days of a written request, charging no more than reasonable copying expenses. A resident's refusal to sign a lease the park offers is itself a ground for ending the tenancy. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (2); Utah Code § 57-16-5 (1)(f)
Minimum lease term that must be offered No state rule Utah does not require a park to offer a lease of any minimum length. The act requires the lease to be written and signed and to state whether the leasehold is for a term or periodic, but it prescribes no term. Tenure protection comes instead from the rule that a tenancy may be ended only for the causes the act lists. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (2)-(3)(b)
Notice to end a tenancy without cause No state rule There is no no-cause route, so no notice period exists for one: a park may not end a lot tenancy on any ground other than the causes the act specifies. The closest thing to a non-renewal is one of those causes, a resident's failure to enter into a written lease the park offers. A resident, by contrast, may end the lease at any time without cause on the notice the lease sets. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (1), (3)(e)(ii)(A); Utah Code § 57-16-5 (1)(f)
Notice before park rules change 60 days A new or amended park rule that makes a resident carry out exterior physical improvements cannot take effect, or support an eviction notice, for at least 60 days, and longer as the cost rises: 90 days where compliance costs more than $250 and up to $2,000, and 120 days where it costs more than $2,000. The park may rely on a good-faith estimate from a licensed contractor to work out which period applies, and each resident must be given a copy of the new rule promptly for it to take effect at all. Within 30 days of proposing rule amendments the park must schedule a meeting with residents and give at least 10 days' written notice of it. A park may not make a rule that is unconscionable. Utah Code § 57-16-7 (1)(a)-(c)
Disclosure document Written rules and terms must be given Utah prescribes what the lease must contain rather than a separate state form. Every lease must name the owner and anyone authorized to accept notice and service of process, state the type of leasehold, disclose all rent, service charges and fees and the dates they fall due, disclose how each resident's public utility bill is calculated, and list every park rule whose breach may be grounds for eviction. Leases entered into on or after May 6, 2002 must also carry conspicuous disclosures of the protection against unilateral termination, of the causes for which the park may end the lease, and of the resident's rights to end the lease without cause and to advertise and sell the home. A copy of the act itself must be posted at all times in a conspicuous place in a common area. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (3), (5), (13)
Residents' right to meet and organize Yes Residents may form a resident association and take part in regional, state or national resident groups, and the act sets out how those associations work. A park operator may not be a member, may not attend a meeting without a written invitation from an officer, and may not interfere with the association's operation, harass or threaten it, or interfere with a resident's right to complain to a health department or municipality about park conditions. The park must permit association meetings about manufactured-home living or social and educational purposes, including forums for or speeches by public officials and candidates, and outside reasonable time, place and manner limits it may not stop residents from peacefully organizing, assembling, canvassing, petitioning or leafleting within the park. An association may schedule use of common facilities free of charge, at least once a week. Utah Code § 57-16-16 (2), (6), (8)-(10)
Owner entry onto the lot or into the home No state rule The act sets no general rule about a park owner coming onto a resident's lot or into the home. Its only entry provision is remedial: where a park elects the 15-day notice route for yard and space maintenance, the notice must warn that if the resident does not put things right within 15 days the park may enter the space and cure the default, and the cost of doing so is then owed as additional rent. Utah's Fit Premises Act, which carries the general duties between owners and renters, expressly leaves mobile home lots out. Utah Code § 57-16-5 (2); Utah Code § 57-22-2 (5)
Retaliation prohibited Yes A park operator may not retaliate against a resident for complaining or going to law. The barred responses are broad: altering or refusing to renew the rental agreement, changing a park rule, enforcing a rule unreasonably or unevenly, bringing or threatening an eviction or other civil action, or any other retaliatory step. The protected acts are complaining or intending to complain to a government agency, complaining in good faith to the park operator, filing or intending to file a lawsuit or administrative action, and testifying in a proceeding or before a public body. Utah Code § 57-16-16 (11)(a)

D. Termination and eviction

Rule Utah law Source
Just cause required to end a tenancy Yes A park may not end a lot lease or rental agreement on any ground other than the causes the act specifies. Neither side may agree to waive any right, duty or privilege the act confers, so a lease cannot add grounds of its own. A tenancy may still end by mutual agreement. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (1); Utah Code § 57-16-5 (1); Utah Code § 57-16-12
Grounds for termination
  • Failure to comply with a park rule about repair, maintenance or construction of awnings, skirting, decks or sheds, for 60 days after a written notice of noncompliance.
  • Failure to comply with any other park rule, for seven days after the later of the settlement discussion ending or receipt of a written notice of noncompliance.
  • Repeated failure to abide by a park rule, where the original notice of noncompliance warned that another violation might end the tenancy with no further cure period.
  • Behavior by a resident, someone living with them, or an invited guest or visitor that threatens or substantially endangers the security, safety, well-being or health of others in the park or threatens or damages property, including use or distribution of illegal drugs, distribution of alcohol to minors, or a crime against a person or property in the park.
  • Nonpayment of rent, fees or service charges for five days after the due date.
  • A change in the land use of the park or part of it, or condemnation.
  • Failure to enter into a written lease that the park offers.
  • Materially false information about criminal history on the application for residency.
  • Mutual agreement between the park and the resident.
Utah lists seven causes plus mutual agreement, with a cure period attached to most of them. For yard and space maintenance the park may skip the seven-day cure and instead serve a 15-day notice, after which it may enter and cure the default at the resident's cost as additional rent. A park may also use ordinary eviction law against someone living in the park without a written agreement and in breach of the act or park rules. 		Utah Code § 57-16-5 (1)-(3)
Notice for nonpayment of lot rent 5 days Nonpayment becomes a ground for ending the tenancy only after rent, fees or service charges are five days past the due date, and the termination notice must give a five-day cure period. If the resident does not pay within it, eviction proceedings may begin at once. A resident must keep paying rent after any other kind of notice under the act, and during a contested eviction rent falls due into court. Utah Code § 57-16-5 (1)(d); Utah Code § 57-16-6 (2)(b)(iv); Utah Code § 57-16-8
Notice for a rule or lease violation 7 days Most park rule violations carry a seven-day cure period, counted from the later of the settlement discussion ending or the resident receiving a written notice of noncompliance. Rules about repairing, maintaining or building awnings, skirting, decks or sheds carry 60 days instead. For a resident's yard and space maintenance the park may skip the seven days and serve a 15-day notice that states the expected cost of curing, after which the park may enter, cure the default, and bill the cost as additional rent. Utah Code § 57-16-5 (1)(a), (2)
Repeat-violation rule A repeated failure to abide by a park rule ends the cure ladder: it is a ground for termination with no further period to put things right, provided the original written notice of noncompliance stated that another violation of the same or a different rule might result in forfeiture without any further cure period. The warning in the first notice is what unlocks the rule, so a park that leaves it out cannot rely on the repeat ground. Where the violation is repeated, a summons and complaint may be issued three days after the notice is served, and the ordinary requirement to state a cure period in the notice does not apply. Utah Code § 57-16-5 (1)(b); Utah Code § 57-16-6 (2)(b)(i)-(ii)
Time to sell or remove the home after termination No state rule Utah sets no fixed window after a termination for a resident to sell the home or move it out. What the act does set is an enforcement delay: a judgment and restitution may not be enforced sooner than 15 days after the judgment is entered, and a resident who tenders postjudgment rent in cash, cashier's check or certified funds may push restitution back by up to another 15 days. Separately, a lienholder or home owner who removes the home within 10 days of a notice of abandonment or of a writ of restitution owes no rent for that period. Utah Code § 57-16-15 (1)(e)-(f); Utah Code § 57-16-9 (1)
Abandoned-home procedure Yes The act presumes abandonment in two situations and then sets out what the park may do. Abandonment is presumed where the resident gave no notice of an absence and rent goes unpaid for 45 days after the due date with no reasonable evidence of continued occupancy, or where the resident's personal property has been taken out of the home, rent is unpaid when due, and there is no reasonable evidence of occupancy. The park may then retake the space and try to relet it at fair rental value, with the resident liable for rent until it is relet or for up to 90 days, whichever comes first, plus reletting costs. Personal property left behind may be stored and, after 30 days' storage and reasonable efforts to notify the resident, sold, donated or disposed of; a home with a lienholder runs through the act's lienholder procedure instead. Utah Code § 57-16-13; Utah Code § 57-16-14 (1)-(2); Utah Code § 57-16-9
Mediation or dispute-resolution requirement Before ending a lease or going to court over a park rule violation, the park must give the resident a written notice of noncompliance, and if the resident disputes it in writing the two sides must meet in person to try to settle. The resident has five days from receiving the notice to give a written notice of dispute and request the meeting, and the meeting must take place within two days of that request unless both sides agree on a later date. The notice of noncompliance must specify in detail each rule violation claimed and tell the resident about the right to a meeting; a resident who does not respond in time gives up that right. The meeting matters beyond settlement because the seven-day cure period for a rule violation runs from the later of the settlement discussion ending or receipt of the notice. The requirement does not apply where the ground is behavior that threatens or endangers people or property in the park, or nonpayment of rent, fees or service charges. Cities, counties and municipalities may also mediate under the state statutes that govern parks. Utah Code § 57-16-4.1 (1)-(4); Utah Code § 57-16-3 (11); Utah Code § 57-16-17

E. Closure and change of use

Rule Utah law Source
Notice before closure or change of use 9 months A park owner must send each resident notice by first-class mail of any planned change in land use or condemnation of the park or part of it at least nine months before the day the resident has to leave. That notice also serves as the notice ending the lease, and the change of use is itself one of the act's grounds for termination. Between the notice and the vacate day the owner may not raise rent. Utah Code § 57-16-18 (1)(a), (4); Utah Code § 57-16-6 (2)(b)(v)
Variants (by trigger or park size)
  • Planned change in land use, or condemnation of the park or part of it: Nine months (First-class mail to each resident at least nine months before the day the resident must vacate; no rent increase between the notice and that day).
  • A park condemned by a government entity: The nine-month notice does not apply (The act exempts a park condemned by a government entity from the nine-month requirement).
  • A change that needs approval from a governmental agency: Seven days before the initial hearing (In addition to the nine-month notice, first-class mail to each resident of the date set for the initial hearing before the agency).
  • Someone who moves in after the nine-month notice was sent: Before occupancy (Written notice of the change of use, by first-class mail or personal service, before the resident occupies the space).
Utah's closure rule is one section long and turns on who is being told and when. The nine-month clock is the default; condemnation by a government entity is carved out of it; a change needing an agency's approval adds a seven-day notice of the initial hearing; and anyone moving in after the notice went out must be told before taking occupancy. 		Utah Code § 57-16-18 (1)-(4)
Relocation payment required No state rule Utah requires no relocation payment when a park closes or changes use. The act's closure section requires notice and freezes rent between the notice and the vacate day, and nothing more. There is no state relocation fund for park residents. Utah Code § 57-16-18
Relocation amounts No state rule There are no relocation amounts, because no relocation payment is required. The act's closure section sets a notice period and a rent freeze and provides no money. Utah Code § 57-16-18
Who pays relocation None required Nobody pays relocation costs under Utah law. The act requires no relocation payment from the park owner and sets up no state fund, so a resident whose park closes bears the cost of moving or selling the home. What the act does give is time: nine months' notice and no rent increase in the meantime. Utah Code § 57-16-18 (1), (4)
Notice to a government body on closure No state rule A closing park owner need not notify any state or local body. Every notice the closure section requires runs to residents. The only governmental element points the other way: where the change of use needs an agency's approval, residents must be told the date of the initial hearing at least seven days beforehand. Utah Code § 57-16-18 (1)-(3)

F. Sale of the park

Rule Utah law Source
Residents must be told the park is for sale No state rule Utah does not require a park owner to tell residents the park is for sale or has been sold. No section of the act mentions a sale or transfer of the park. The act's only forward-looking notice is the nine-month notice before a change in land use or condemnation, which is a different event from a sale. Utah Code § 57-16-4; Utah Code § 57-16-18
What triggers the notice No state rule There is no trigger, because Utah requires no notice of a park sale. Listing the park, accepting an offer and closing a sale all pass without any duty to residents under the act. Utah Code § 57-16-4
Residents' purchase right None required Residents have no right to buy the park in Utah, and no right to match another buyer's offer. The act recognizes resident associations and lets one limit its membership to home owners where its purpose is to buy some or all of the park, but it attaches no notice, no purchase window and no first-refusal right to that association. Utah Code § 57-16-16 (2)(b)
Time for residents to respond No state rule No response window exists, because Utah gives residents no purchase right and no notice of a sale to respond to. The act's only deadline touching a resident association is a seven-day notice of its own meetings. Utah Code § 57-16-16 (4)(a)
Resident-association threshold No state rule The act sets no share of residents that must join together to buy a park, because there is no purchase right to exercise. A majority figures in the act only for an association's internal business: with a majority of members present, members may elect officers and adopt bylaws, and fees or dues need a majority's agreement. A park may have more than one association and need acknowledge only the largest. Utah Code § 57-16-16 (2)(c), (3), (7)(a)
Transfers exempt from the sale rules No state rule No transfers are exempt, because no sale rules exist to be exempt from. Utah imposes no notice or purchase obligation on any sale of a park, whether to a family member, a related company or an outside buyer. Utah Code § 57-16-16
Residents may assign the right to a nonprofit or municipality No state rule There is no purchase right for residents to assign to a nonprofit or a city. The act says nothing about assigning any interest in a park sale. A resident association whose purpose is to buy the park may limit its membership to home owners, but that is an organizational rule, not an assignable right. Utah Code § 57-16-16 (2)(b)
Penalty for violating the sale rules No state rule No penalty attaches to a park sale, because Utah sets no sale rules to break. The act's general remedy still applies to everything it does require: a resident may sue for damages or an injunction over a violation of the act, and the court may award reasonable attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party. In a contested eviction proceeding that award is mandatory, whether or not the lease provides for it. Utah Code § 57-16-19 (1)-(2); Utah Code § 57-16-15 (1)(d)

G. The resident's home

Rule Utah law Source
Right to sell the home in place Yes A resident may sell the home where it stands, and any park rule or lease condition that prevents or unreasonably limits the sale is void and unenforceable. The park may not restrict the right to advertise the home for sale or to sell it, and may not force a resident to sell through an agent the park designates. The one exception is narrow: the park may require the home to be taken out on sale only where it is upgrading the quality of the park and the home either fails minimum size specifications or is rundown or in disrepair. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (6)(a), (8)(a), (9), (10)
Park may not take a commission on the sale No state rule The act does not address whether a park may take a commission on the sale of a resident's home. What it does bar is compelling a resident who wishes to sell to do so, directly or indirectly, through an agent the park designates, and it voids any rule or lease condition that prevents or unreasonably limits a sale. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (6)(a), (9)
Park may screen the buyer Yes A park may reserve the right to approve a buyer who intends to become a resident. That right is bounded: approval may not be unreasonably withheld. A park may also require proof of ownership as a condition of approval. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (6)(b)(i)-(iii)
Buyer-approval standard and deadline A park that reserves the right to approve a buyer who intends to become a resident may not unreasonably withhold approval. It may require proof of ownership, and it may refuse without condition any buyer who does not register with the park before purchasing the home. The act sets no deadline for the park to decide. The same standard reaches a resale by a lienholder that has taken over paying rent: the buyer must be approved for residency by the park, and that approval cannot be unreasonably withheld. Because the act fixes no decision window, timing is left to the lease. Materially false information about criminal history on a residency application is separately a ground for ending the tenancy. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (6)(b)(ii)-(iv); Utah Code § 57-16-9 (2); Utah Code § 57-16-5 (1)(g)
Home may not be rejected for age, size or style alone Yes A home's age or style is not a ground for making it leave the park when it is sold. Removal on sale may be required only where both of two conditions are met: the park is upgrading its quality, and the home either does not meet the park's minimum size specifications or is in a rundown condition or in disrepair. Outside that case, any rule or lease condition preventing or unreasonably limiting a sale is void. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (6)(a), (10)
Park may require repairs before sale No state rule The act does not say whether a park may make a resident repair the home before selling it. It does let a park that is upgrading its quality require removal on sale where the home is rundown or in disrepair, and it gives a lienholder that has taken over the home 60 days to make repairs and comply with park rules after being told what is needed. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (10); Utah Code § 57-16-9 (4)
Right to post a For Sale sign Yes A park may not restrict a resident's right to advertise the home for sale or to sell it. The one thing a park may control is the sign's size: a for-sale sign affixed to the home may be limited to no more than 144 square inches. Every lease entered into on or after May 6, 2002 must also carry a conspicuous disclosure of the resident's right to advertise and sell the home. Utah Code § 57-16-4 (8), (3)(e)(ii)(B)

H. The eight federal lender protections — which ones Utah 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. Utah law requires 4 of 8. All 50 states are compared in our research study, including the 2018 federal survey baseline.

ProtectionUtah lawBasis
One-year renewable lease term unless there is good cause for non-renewal Partly One limb only. A lot tenancy may be ended solely for the causes the act lists, but Utah requires no minimum lease term: a lease must be written and signed and may be for a term or periodic, with no one-year offer or default. (Utah Code § 57-16-4; Utah Code § 57-16-5)
30-day written notice of rent increases Required An increase in lot rent or fees for a periodic tenancy is unenforceable until 60 days after notice of the increase is mailed to the resident, which exceeds the 30-day standard and applies statewide. (Utah Code § 57-16-4)
5-day grace period for rent payments and the right to cure defaults on rent payments Partly The cure limb is met: nonpayment is a ground for termination only after rent, fees or service charges are five days past due, and the notice must give a five-day cure period. The fee-grace limb is missing, because the act treats late fees as fees and does not bar charging one during those five days. (Utah Code § 57-16-5; Utah Code § 57-16-6; Utah Code § 57-16-3)
Right to sell the manufactured home without having to first relocate it out of the community Required Any park rule or lease condition that prevents or unreasonably limits the sale of a resident's home is void, so a home may normally be sold in place. Removal on sale may be required only where the park is upgrading its quality and the home fails minimum size specifications or is rundown or in disrepair. (Utah Code § 57-16-4)
Right to sell the manufactured home in place within 30 days after eviction by the community owner Not required Utah gives no right to sell the home in place after an eviction. The act's only post-judgment period is an enforcement delay: judgment and restitution may not be enforced sooner than 15 days after the judgment is entered, with up to 15 more days where postjudgment rent is tendered. (Utah Code § 57-16-15)
Right to sublease or assign the pad site lease for the unexpired term to the new buyer of the home without unreasonable restraint Required A park may reserve the right to approve a buyer who intends to become a resident but may not unreasonably withhold approval, and a lienholder's resale within the park carries the same standard. The park may refuse without condition only a buyer who does not register before purchasing. (Utah Code § 57-16-4; Utah Code § 57-16-9)
Right to post "For Sale" signs that comply with the community's rules Required A park may not restrict a resident's right to advertise the home for sale or to sell it, and may limit a for-sale sign affixed to the home only to no more than 144 square inches. (Utah Code § 57-16-4)
Right to receive at least 60 days' notice of a planned sale or closure of the community Partly The closure limb is met well beyond the standard, at nine months' first-class mail notice before residents must vacate. The sale limb is missing: Utah requires no notice to residents of a planned or completed sale of the park. (Utah Code § 57-16-18)

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Utah mobile home park law

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How much notice must an Utah park give before raising lot rent?
60 days. An increase in lot rent or fees for a periodic tenancy cannot be enforced until 60 days after notice of the increase is mailed to the resident.
Is there a limit on how much lot rent can go up in Utah?
Utah sets no state rule on this. Utah sets no ceiling on how much lot rent may go up.
Can an Utah park owner end a lot tenancy without cause?
No — an Utah park may end a lot tenancy only for a listed cause. A park may not end a lot lease or rental agreement on any ground other than the causes the act specifies.
How much notice must an Utah park give before closing or changing use?
9 months. A park owner must send each resident notice by first-class mail of any planned change in land use or condemnation of the park or part of it at least nine months before the day the resident has to leave.
Does an Utah park have to pay residents' relocation costs when it closes?
Utah sets no state rule on this. Utah requires no relocation payment when a park closes or changes use.
Do Utah residents get a chance to buy the park when it is sold?
No — Utah law gives residents no right to buy the park. Residents have no right to buy the park in Utah, and no right to match another buyer's offer.
Can an Utah resident sell the home in place without moving it out of the park?
Yes — an Utah resident may sell the home in place. A resident may sell the home where it stands, and any park rule or lease condition that prevents or unreasonably limits the sale is void and unenforceable.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Utah Mobile Home Park Laws (verified August 19, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/utah/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified).

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