Installers

As a reminder, please keep track of your insurance renewal dates (both liability and worker’s compensation).  If we do not receive a new insurance certificate by the expiration date, your installer’s license will automatically be placed on “inactive status”. 

You will not be permitted to install manufactured homes if your license is not active and in good standing.  It is strongly recommended that installers work with written contracts, purchase orders or work orders that specifically spells out the scope of work that they are performing and for which they are liable. 

OMHC cannot require you to have written contracts, but in a dispute we will use our judgment in the interpretation of the Rules, which may not be to your favor without written proof of your obligations and liability. As a reminder, you are responsible for the complete installation of the home.  Your livelihood depends on your ability to install manufactured homes in accordance to OMHC Rules. 

Also, you must provide written notify to the county auditor’s office within 14 days of completion of setting a manufactured home.  Failure to do so could result in fines and subsequent loss of your installer’s license.

 Inspectors

As a reminder, before issuing a permit, please check the installer’s status on our website.  An installer could be active one day, and inactive the next day, due to a variety of factors (non-renewal, loss of insurance, etc).  To check an installer’s status, click “Verification of License” on the left-hand side of the website and insert their name, hit “search” (see status column).  Only “active” or “active in renewal” installers will be permitted to install manufactured homes.

Check our website prior to issuing a permit to make sure that your agency/department still has jurisdiction in that particular area.  There are, and will continue to be, changes in areas of jurisdiction due to building departments and third party agencies non-compliance.  To check jurisdiction, click “Call for Inspection” on the left-hand side of our website and click the specific county.

Please send OMHC a copy of any inspection reports where the installer failed the inspection.  You can email them to Dave Long at dave.long@omhc.state.oh.us or fax to 614-734-8531.  Any serious health hazard violations and/or repeat offenders of similar violations may be required to appear before the OMHC to explain the circumstances and face possible fines, license suspension or license revocation in accordance with 4781-8-03 (A) (13) and 4781-8-03 (B).

Continuing Education Credits (New) - You may now earn continuing education credits for specific BBS Approved Classes (see comprehensive list attached).  You can earn up to 50% of your required continuing education (a maximum of 6 hours per renewal) with any of these approved classes by sending a copy of the certificate of course completion and a $10 per credit hour fee ($5 per credit hour + $5 administrative fee) to OMHC.  For instance, if you are receiving 4 credit hours for one of these courses, you must remit $40 along with your certificate of completion.  Please contact our office if you have any questions.  List of approved BBS courses  BBS approved continuing education application

 

 Third Party Agencies/
Certified Building Departments

As some agencies and building departments are being added or deleted from specific areas in counties across Ohio, please check our website under “Call for Inspection” and the specific county to verify who has jurisdiction to inspect in that area.   Also, please email Mavis Giska at mavis.giska@omhc.state.oh.us if you have any changes to areas you are listed as covering.

OMHC does not want to loose any agencies and/or building departments.  If your agency or building department has a hardship to maintain compliance, please call Dave Long or David Zofko to discuss hardship to mutually agree on an appropriate course of action and hopefully maintain your certification.

 Homeowners/Consumers

During the February 18, 2009 meeting, the Commission discussed homeowner’s rights to install their own homes on private property.  A homeowner may not install a home in a manufactured home park; this work must be performed by a licensed installer.  If a homeowner wants to install his/her home on private property, the following conditions must be met:

  1. Own your own property and,
  2. Own the manufactured home and, 
  3. It must be your primary residence and, 
  4. You must be responsible for the total installation and,
  5. Your home will not be eligible for the dispute resolution process for a used home.  New homes will always be eligible for dispute resolution for manufacturer's defects. 

NOTE:  YOU MUST FIRST OBTAIN A PERMIT FOR THE THREE REQUIRED INSPECTIONS (FOUNDATION, ELECTRICAL & FINAL) PRIOR TO INSTALLATION COMMENCEMENT.