Wyoming Mobile-Home Standards

No Defects

• Before completing the sale of a mobile home, the mobile-home dealer or manufacturer must provide a written warranty to buyers stating that the mobile home meets federal standards for mobile-home construction and safety. It should also meet the standards of the mobile home council. Another standard the mobile home should meet is that it does not have defects if the purchaser maintains the mobile home with reasonable care.
  
  

Defective Mobile Homes

• If the buyer finds the mobile home to contain a defect within one year of the delivery of the home, the mobile-home manufacturer has to take action to correct the defect. The manufacturer could have the defect corrected at the mobile home's location without charge to the owner. And if the buyer provides notice to the manufacturer about a defect that poses an immediate safety hazard under the relevant federal mobile-home construction and safety standards, the manufacturer has to take appropriate action to make the mobile home compliant with the applicable standards.
  
  

Corrective Action

• Wyoming mobile-home standards state that mobile-home manufacturers have to take corrective action if a defect creates an imminent safety hazard to the inmates of the home. For instance, the manufacturer will have to take corrective action if the defect creates "an unreasonable risk of injury or death" to the occupants of the mobile home or if the defect is based on a manufacturing error in the design or assembly of the product. If the manufacturer makes a repair or alteration or provides a replacement product to the buyer and this does not restore the mobile home to the condition in which the manufacturer warranted it to be, Wyoming considers this to be a violation of the warranty.
  
  

Penalties

• Wyoming also has penalties for anyone who knowingly violates the provisions of its laws regarding mobile-home warranties. For each such violation, the state could fine the violator up to $1,000. If the person commits this violation in a way that threatens the safety or health of the mobile-home purchaser, the state could fine him up to an additional $1,000, imprison him for up to a year or both.