{"data":{"id":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-600.5775","jurisdiction":"us-mi","citation":"Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.5775","heading":"“Just cause” required for termination of tenancy; “just cause” defined; change of rental payments or terms or conditions of tenancy.","body":"Sec. 5775.\n\nThe tenancy of a tenant in a mobile home park shall not be terminated unless there is just cause for the termination.\n\nFor the purpose of this chapter, \"just cause\" means 1 or more of the following:\n\nUse of a mobile home site by the tenant for an unlawful purpose.\n\nFailure by the tenant to comply with a lease or agreement by which the tenant holds the premises or with a rule or regulation of the mobile home park, adopted pursuant to the lease or agreement, which rule or regulation is reasonably related to any of the following:\n\nThe health, safety, or welfare of the mobile home park, its employees, or tenants.\n\nThe quiet enjoyment of the other tenants of the mobile home park.\n\nMaintaining the physical condition or appearance of the mobile home park or the mobile homes located in the mobile home park to protect the value of the mobile home park or to maintain its aesthetic quality or appearance.\n\nA violation by the tenant of rules promulgated by the Michigan department of public health under section 6 of the mobile home commission act, Act No. 96 of the Public Acts of 1987, being section 125.2306 of the Michigan Compiled Laws.\n\nIntentional physical injury by the tenant to the personnel or other tenants of the mobile home park, or intentional physical damage by the tenant to the property of the mobile home park or of its other tenants.\n\nFailure of the tenant to comply with a local ordinance, state law, or governmental rule or regulation relating to mobile homes.\n\nFailure of the tenant to make timely payment of rent or other charges under the lease or rental agreement by which the tenant holds the premises on 3 or more occasions during any 12-month period, for which failure the owner or operator has served a written demand for possession for nonpayment of rent pursuant to section 5714(1)(a) and the tenant has failed or refused to pay the rent or other charges within the time period stated in the written demand for possession. The written demand for possession shall provide a notice to the tenant in substantially the following form: \"Notice: Three or more late payments of rent during any 12-month period is just cause to evict you.\" Nothing in this subdivision shall prohibit a tenant from asserting, and the court from considering, any meritorious defenses to late payment of rent or other charges.\n\nConduct by the tenant upon the mobile home park premises which constitutes a substantial annoyance to other tenants or to the mobile home park, after notice and an opportunity to cure.\n\nFailure of the tenant to maintain the mobile home or mobile home site in a reasonable condition consistent with aesthetics appropriate to the park.\n\nCondemnation of the mobile home park.\n\nChanges in the use or substantive nature of the mobile home park.\n\nPublic health and safety violations by the tenant.\n\nThis section does not prohibit a change of the rental payments or the terms or conditions of tenancy in a mobile home park following the termination or expiration of a written lease agreement for the mobile home site.","path":["MI Code","Chapter 600","Act Act-236-of-1961"],"source_url":"https://www.legislature.mi.gov/Laws/MCL?objectName=mcl-600-5775","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:31Z","sha256":"724c5e9b16671e6b9d62a6af88a300919359174d79d7d7a55bf7ea1ea6a932e0","source_id":"us-mi","stale":false,"prev":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-600.5773","next":"us-mi/mich.-comp.-laws-600.5777"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}