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Senate committee approves bill excluding mobile offices and classrooms from manufactured-home hauling rules
Summary
The Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee approved a bill that narrows the definition of 'manufactured home' so that small mobile offices and classrooms used on construction sites or between school sites would not be treated as mobile homes for transport-permit purposes.
Senator Hill introduced Senate Bill 253 to the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee and the panel approved the measure after brief testimony from Arkansas Department of Transportation staff.
The bill changes the statutory definition of "manufactured home units" to exclude small mobile offices and mobile classrooms used for construction or educational sites, removing the requirement that such units be moved only by licensed mobile-home transporters who must have insurance and interstate authority on file.
The change, as explained by Jared Wiley, director of the Arkansas Department of Transportation, is aimed at streamlining transport of…
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