Section 125.01. Definitions.

  As used in this chapter:

(1e)  "CPI" means the annual average consumer price index — all urban consumers, as calculated and published by the United States bureau of labor statistics.

(1m)  "Electronic communications service" has the meaning given in s. ATCP 123.01 (5) .

(1s)  "Manufactured home" means any of the following:

(a) A manufactured home as defined in s. 101.91 (2) (am) , Stats.

(b) A unit designed to be towed or transported and used as a residential dwelling, but does not include a unit used primarily for camping, touring, or recreational purposes.

(2)  "Manufactured home community" means any tract of land containing 2 or more sites.

(3)  "Operator" means any person engaged in the business of renting sites in a manufactured home community to tenants. "Operator" includes officers, representatives, agents, and employees.

(4)  "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, association, business organization or entity.

(5)  "Rental agreement" means an agreement between an operator and a tenant for the rental of a site.

(6)  "Security deposit" means the total of all payments and deposits given by a tenant to the operator as security for the performance of the tenant's obligations, and includes all rent payments in excess of one month's prepaid rent.

(7)  "Site" means any plot of land that is rented or offered for rental for the accommodation of a manufactured home used for residential purposes. It does not include a plot of land rented for the accommodation of a manufactured home that is:

(a) Occupied on a strictly seasonal basis; or

(b) Owned by the operator and occupied as a residence.

(9)  "Tenant" means any person residing in a manufactured home and renting a site from an operator.

(10)  "Utility service" means:

(a) Electricity and natural gas;

(b) Liquified petroleum gas other than liquified petroleum gas in portable containers;

(c) Fuel oil supplied through a permanent central system in the manufactured home community; and

(d) Electronic communications service.