Fannin County commissioners remove location-decal requirement for manufactured homes

The Fannin County Board of Commissioners voted to amend the county's manufactured-home ordinance by removing a provision that required owners to report location and obtain an annual location decal from the Fannin County tax commissioner.

The change removes section 46-23, titled "location disclosure and decal required," from the county's mobile and manufactured-home ordinance. Commissioners said state law has changed and no longer requires a decal to be placed on a manufactured home.

At the public hearing the chairman read the ordinance language being removed: "Every person holding title to or possession of mobile home manufactured home, which is placed or located within the limits of [Fannin County] shall report location and obtain a location decal for sale of a home manufactured home from the tax commissioner of Fannin County annually no later than April 1 of each year. Such location decals shall be designed in such a manner and affixed to the mobile home manufactured home in such a manner as to cause it to be easily visible for inspection." The chairman said that text is the only amendment and would be deleted.

Commissioners opened the item to public comment and, after discussion, a motion was made to amend the ordinance by removing section 46-23. The motion carried on a voice vote; commissioners responded "Aye." No roll-call vote was recorded in the transcript.

The removal of the decal requirement, as described in the hearing, is effective immediately once the amendment is adopted and does not require a staggered timeline, according to the discussion during the meeting.

Commissioners and staff did not raise additional implementation steps during the hearing; the transcript does not show further instructions to staff or changes to related code sections.

Future questions about enforcement or the tax commissioner's administrative process were not addressed in the recorded discussion.