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The Ashland-based manufactured home dealer, Amega Sales Inc., was ordered last week to suspend all sales activity for 20 days and pay a $10,000 fine.
The Missouri Public Service Commission approved the agreement between the PSC's staff, Amega Sales Inc. and Amega's president, Greg DeLine.The agreement requires the dealer to be closed for all sales business for 20 days, starting Tuesday.In addition, the dealer will pay a $10,000 penalty to the Public School Fund.The PSC staff, through its Director of Manufactured Housing and Modular Units Program, filed a complaint against Amega alleging the dealer sold a home that had a prohibitive sale notice, a violation of PSC rules.Specifically, the complaint alleged the dealer sold a home claiming it was a new home, even after the PSC's Manufactured Housing and Modular Units Program had placed a prohibitive sale notice on the home, informing Amega the home could not be sold as new.During the closure, there is to be no contact with potential customers and Amega must post a clear notice the Ashland lot will be closed.The dealer also is prohibited from steering customers to other sales lots owned by DeLine or Amega affiliates.In addition, the agreement prohibits Amega and its affiliates from selling any new manufactured home that does not have a HUD (Housing and Urban Development) label and data plate as required by law.It also requires Amega and its affiliates to notify the PSC Manufactured Housing and Modular Units Program whenever it receives any manufactured home that doesn't have the HUD label, which is required for the home to be sold to the consumer.
Mississippi lawmakers return to the Capitol Thursday for a special session to work on the critical issue of rebuilding housing destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. There have been far too many special sessions of the Legislature in recent years, but Gov. Haley Barbour was right to call lawmakers back to Jackson to consider a proposal to cut sales taxes on modular homes. Barbour wants to cut the sales tax rate from 7 percent to 3 percent on modular housing, which is needed to give distressed Gulf Coast homebuyers a break on this type of housing. Barbour says the cut could reduce the price of the homes from $4,000 to $7,000. Modular housing can be a significant help for the Coast, which is in dire need of housing quickly. It is estimated that up to 81,000 housing units were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
They shade the rocky side streets of this town of 1,200 people just outside the reach of a sprawling metropolitan Des Moines, the falling leaves adding to its small-town charm.
First, Dutch elm disease killed many of the trees on Main Street in the 1970s, a signal of struggle ahead facing small Iowa towns.
Then last year, a vicious and surprising November tornado ripped through the southern edge of Woodward, ripping apart 40 homes and laying waste to many of the tall, leafy sentinels that make any prairie town feel warm and protected from the winds.
On Saturday, trees will symbolize new growth. Nearly 200 trees will be planted by newly inspired volunteers along a mile-long stretch of Iowa Highway 210, Woodward's front entrance.
Among the volunteers will be a family whose home was destroyed by the tornado, a family whose father and grandfather died two months ago while helping clean up the community, a student who doesn't have much but is willing to give and an elderly man who for years traveled the same stretch of road on his bicycle picking up garbage.
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