Mark Millican
markmillican@daltoncitizen.com
CHATSWORTH —
The Murray County Building Inspection Office is now able to charge $50 to a mobile home owner for travel outside the county to inspect the home to see if it passes code for “set up” inside the county. But for mobile homes inside the county whose owners want to move them from one site to another, there will be no charge.
Inspectors won’t be able to see every mobile home outside the county.
“If the mobile home is coming from some place like, say, north Florida, there is no way we’re going to send someone down there to inspect it,” said Sole Commissioner David Ridley, who approved the $50 fee at his public meeting Tuesday morning. “In cases like that we will allow a photo to be sent, and the person will also have to sign an affidavit saying the mobile home depicted is actually the one that will be moved here.”
He said the photo of what appears to be a materially sound mobile home would not mean it passes inspection, but that the owner could be given the go-ahead to move it.
“Once that mobile home gets here, it will go through an inspection process, and if those photos were fictitious, then they will have to make that mobile home come up to standards before we’ll allow power to be turned on to it,” he said.
In other business, county Fire Chief Dwayne Bain and Vicky Edge of the Georgia Forestry Commission explained a statewide “mitigation plan” that will be implemented in Murray County based on incidences of past fires and their proximity to homes. The U.S. Forest Service will also help with what’s called the “Community Wildfire Protection Plan.”
