About Motorhome Rights
Welcome to FMCA.com's
Motorhome Rights site. Its purpose: to promote the common interests
of FMCA
members on legislative, regulatory and other emerging
issues that protect the motorhome lifestyle.
FMCA works
with RV dealers, RV manufacturers, campground operators and other
industry groups to halt or reduce restrictions placed on the use of
RVs.
And FMCA encourages motorhome owners to exercise their
rights when
threatened by proposed legislation or government action
that restricts motorhomes or motorhome travel.
By writing
letters, making phone calls, attending public meetings and forming
grassroots coalitions, RV owners can help to achieve satisfying results.
The issues
FMCA informs its members of potential motorhome rights problems, and
advocates finding solutions between policy-making bodies and constituents
BEFORE detrimental laws are enacted.
Legislative issues
that FMCA
has addressed include:
-
residential parking rights — restrictions on where RVs
must be parked when not in use
-
overnight parking on business parking lots
-
taxes — license and personal property
- vehicle
size and weight limits
-
RV-friendly signage
- toll
roads/bridges fees and lane access; charges for towed
vehicles
- drivers
license requirements
- driving
laws
- parks/campgrounds
fees
- public
land issues
-
display and sale
of motorhomes
by out-of-sate RV dealers and manufacturers at RV
trade shows
- border
crossing issues such as sufficient avenues of entry
for motorhomes
-
supplemental braking laws (pertaining to towed vehicles)
Means of assistance
FMCA has a Governmental and Legislative Advisory
Committee that assists members with motorhome rights
issues.
One way FMCA
can provide support is by sending out mailings to
legislators and to other FMCA members to call attention to
meetings of government or neighborhood associations.
FMCA may assist with payment of fees of attorneys who
perform services at FMCA's direction. More
financial support may be available on a case-by-case basis.
FMCA does not employ lobbyists but will, on request,
provide members a handbook on how to lobby, as well as other
government-related resources.
FMCA has a
Parking Rights Manual & Guide that is available online to members.
It outlines suggested courses of action to follow when confronted
with proposed ordinances or restrictions regulating outside parking
and storage of your motorhome. It also contains case studies of
ordinances that have been resolved both successfully and
unsuccessfully.
Members may request a copy
of the Parking Rights Manual by contacting the Membership department.
Of
course, not all motorhome rights cases can be resolved to the satisfaction
of motorhome owners. But FMCA and its membership have
been successful in joining forces to stave off efforts that would have
an ill effect on the motorhome lifestyle.
FMCA's Parking Rights Manual
& Guide
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