§ 540-2.804. Petition.

(a)

The rent review officer shall review a rent increase upon the filing of a petition in the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors. The petition shall be signed by more than fifty percent of the mobilehome owners affected by the rent increase. For purposes of determining the sufficiency of the petition, only one homeowner per occupied space shall be counted. The petition shall designate the name and address of the mobilehome owners' representative, the name and address of the mobilehome park, and the name and address of the park owner and the park owner's representative if known to the homeowners.

(b)

The petition shall include a brief summary of the amount of the disputed space rent increase. For a reduction in service without a concurrent decrease in space rent petition filed by mobilehome owners, the petition shall describe the service that has been reduced, the date the reduction in service was discovered, and the claimed amount that the space rent should be decreased on account of the service reduction.

(c)

Subject to Section 540-2.604, the petition shall be filed no later than thirty days after the effective date of the rent increase, except that for a reduction in a park service without a concurrent decrease in space rent for which notice and a meeting was not provided, a petition may be filed no later than one hundred eighty days after discovery of the alleged rent increase.

(d)

The petition shall be accompanied by any filing fee imposed by the board of supervisors to defray the cost to the county of processing the petition and conducting the major rent increase review.

(e)

Upon the filing of the petition, the clerk of the board of supervisors will forthwith forward the petition to the rent review officer.

(Ords. 99-24, § 8; 97-8, § 7; 95-31).