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'' An Act To Allow People To Live In Tiny Homes As A Primary Dwelling''
Maine LD1530- Super Advocate and proponent of this bill, Corinne Watson with Tiny Homes Of Maine announced today that Maine LD1530 passed the house and the senate and the next step is for the governor to sign the bill which will become law in 90 days!
Thank You Corinne Watson!
Every victory in every state or jurisdiction is a win for the industry and if anyone deserves that win it is Corinne Watson.
Just Two Years Ago Disaster Struck For Tiny Homes In Maine
It warms my heart to see advocacy and determination in action, which will inspire others and be a roadmap for others to follow. Just a few years ago, Corinne’s business stopped because the state of Maine stopped tilting tiny homes.
“It’s stopped my business,” said Corinne Watson, founder of Tiny Homes of Maine LLC. “I build tiny homes on wheels exclusively, and I am trying to figure out how to work around the new regulations.”
For a time, tiny homes on wheels in Maine were treated as if they were RVs — or recreational vehicles — similar to those towed behind passenger pickups or larger sport utility vehicles.
They could be registered with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles by municipalities and their owners could move them from place to place as often as they liked.
But that will no longer be the case, now that the Bureau of Motor Vehicles is no longer issuing titles or identification numbers.
“These units do not comply with the definition of a camp trailer or a trailer and may not be registered or titled as such,” Patty Morneault, Maine deputy secretary of state, wrote in her June 25 notification to Maine’s municipal officers.
In addition, Morneault wrote the homes on wheels are also not considered manufactured — or mobile trailer — homes. Instead, wheels or not, from the state’s perspective they are stick-built homes and subject to the Maine building codes.
Corinne Was Also An Advocate For Tiny Houses LD 1981 And Changed The Destiny Of Tiny Homes In Maine
An Act Regarding The Regulation Of Tiny Houses LD 1981
Signed By Governor Janet T. Mills Brown: March18th, 2020
Maine- An Act Regarding The Regulation Of Tiny Houses ”LD 1981, sponsored by Senator Michael Carpenter was signed by Governor Janet T. Mills Brown on March 18th, 2020. This bill proposes to define what a tiny house is and to allow for the titling of a tiny house as a camp trailer or a trailer. An Act Regarding the Regulation of Tiny Homes Emergency preamble.
Maine Regulation Of Tiny Homes
