CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 36-71.1)

As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning or construction is clearly
required by the context:”Administrator” means the Director of the
Department of Housing and Community Development or his
designee.”Board” means the Board of Housing and Community
Development.”Compliance assurance agency” means an architect or
professional engineer registered in Virginia, or an organization, determined by
the Department to be specially qualified by reason of facilities, personnel,
experience and demonstrated reliability, to investigate, test and evaluate
industrialized buildings; to list such buildings complying with standards at
least equal to those promulgated by the Board; to provide adequate follow-up
services at the point of manufacture to ensure that production units are in full
compliance; and to provide a label as evidence of compliance on each
manufactured section or module.”Department” means the Department of
Housing and Community Development.”Industrialized building” means a
combination of one or more sections or modules, subject to state regulations and
including the necessary electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating and other
service systems, manufactured off-site and transported to the point of use for
installation or erection, with or without other specified components, to
comprise a finished building. Manufactured homes defined in § 36-85.3 and
certified under the provisions of the National Manufactured Housing Construction
and Safety Standards Act shall not be considered industrialized buildings for
the purpose of this law.”Registered” means that an industrialized
building displays a registration seal issued by the Department of Housing and
Community Development.”The law” or “this law” means the
Virginia Industrialized Building Safety Law as provided in this chapter.

HISTORY: 1986, c. 37.