The owner of a Moscow, Idaho, manufactured home community must pay damages to residents who went more than 90 days without potable drinking water. The Lewiston Tribune tells MHProNews that roughly 140 residents filed a class-action lawsuit last year against Magar E. Magar, owner of the Syringa Mobile Home Park. Documents filed this week in Latah County 2nd District Court reveal the settlement.
This map shows the location of manufactured homes that have been “red-tagged” as uninhabitable by a Latah County building inspector at Syringa Mobile Home Park east of Moscow.
According to the agreement, Magar can’t close the park for at least the next year and must pay $2,000 per manufactured home unit to all current park residents. Of that amount, $1,000 will be paid in the form of rent credit to be disbursed at the rate of $250 per month starting March 1.
Former residents who lived at the park between Dec. 18, 2013, and March 20, 2014, will get $2,000 per manufactured home unit, the documents state.
Any residents who have had issues selling or renting their homes because of the issue will bring their claims before Latah County 2nd District Judge John R. Stegner. Abandoned homes will be signed over to Magar.
Magar E. Magar
Mediation took place Feb. 4 with Senior Judge Carl B. Kerrick. The court granted preliminary approval of the agreement Wednesday. Members of the class-action lawsuit who are not satisfied with the settlement will have 45 days to opt out.
Separately, a federal court recently ordered Magar to pay a civil penalty of $100,000 for violating the Clean Water Act. The fine is due to the U.S. Treasury by Sunday, March 1. ##
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