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Robert [. Larson -2- The 1987 session of the Legislature amended the laws governing manufactured home parks. The section of the Statutes is 327.20 (7) and reads as follows: "A manufactured home park with ten or more manufactured homes, licensed prior to March 1, 1988, shall provide a safe place of shelter for park residents or a plan for the evacuation of park residents to a safe place of shelter within a reasonable distance of the park for use by park residents in times of severe weather, including tornadoes and high winds. The shelter or evacuation plan must be approved by the municipality by March 1, 1989. The municipality may require the park owner to construct a shelter if it determines that a safe place of shelter i's not available within a reasonable distance from the park. A copy of the municipal approval and the plan shall be submitted by the park owner to the department of health." You were notified of this amendment in a letter dated January 18, 1989. The letter also stated that as of that date, we had not received any documentation indicating that your shelter or evacuation plan had been approved by the municipality in which the park is located, namely, the City of Ramsey. The letter also stated that this information must be submitted to us by March 1, 1989. The required information was not submitted. In a letter dated March 2, 1989 you indicated that you had proposed an evacuation plan to the City of Ramsey and they did not consider the plan adequate. You also indicated that you were having an engineering company evaluate a building on.the property which might qualify as a shelter. In a recent telephone conversation with Glyn Huff, staff member of the City of Ramsey, he indicated that the City had rejected your evacuation plan and the use of an on-site building as a storm shelter. You were notified again in a letter dated January 23, 1990 of all of the facts and asked to contact us within five days of the receipt of the letter to inform us what your intentions were on this matter. We have not received any notification or word from you as a result of that January 23, 1990 letter. The issue to be determined at this conference is whether to initiate license revocation proceedings. Under the Minnesota Data Practices Act, Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13 (1988), information given to the Department will be public and will be used by the Department in evaluating the complaints made against you. The information requested at the conference covered by this notice is not legally required to be supplied. However, if you refuse to supply requested information, you could be subpoenaed to appear at another conference and required to respond or an enforcement proceeding could be initiated against you. Information received at the conference covered by this notice may in some circumstances be forwarded to certain other persons or entities for further legal action,