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This law was first created in 1986. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 37 of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. Unfortunately, the 1986 \u201cActs\u201d aren\u2019t available online.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":64678,"section_number":"36-85.3","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/36-85.3\/"}],"permalink":{"id":208955,"object_type":"law","relational_id":65794,"identifier":"36-71.1","token":"36\/4\/36-71.1","url":"\/36-71.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/36-71.1\/","token":"36\/4\/36-71.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 36-71.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning or construction is clearly required by the context:\n\t\t“Administrator<\/span>” means the Director of the Department<\/span> of Housing and Community Development or his designee.\n\t\t“Board<\/span>” means the Board<\/span> of Housing and Community Development.\n\t\t“Compliance assurance agency<\/span>” means an architect or professional engineer registered<\/span> in Virginia, or an organization, determined by the Department<\/span> to be specially qualified by reason of facilities, personnel, experience and demonstrated reliability, to investigate, test and evaluate industrialized buildings<\/span>; to list such buildings complying with standards at least equal to those promulgated by the Board<\/span>; 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<\/span> of compliance on each manufactured section or module.\n\t\t“Department<\/span>” means the Department<\/span> of Housing and Community Development.\n\t\t“Industrialized building<\/span>” 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 \u00a7 36-85.3<\/a> and certified under the provisions of the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act shall not be considered industrialized buildings<\/span> for the purpose of this law<\/span>.\n\t\t“Registered<\/span>” means that an industrialized building<\/span> displays a registration seal issued by the Department<\/span> of Housing and Community Development.\n\t\t“The law<\/span>” or “this law<\/span>” means the Virginia Industrialized Building<\/span> Safety Law as provided in this chapter.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS (\u00a7 36-71.1)\n\nAs used in this chapter, unless a different meaning or construction is clearly\nrequired by the context:\n\t\t“Administrator” means the Director of the Department of Housing\nand Community Development or his designee.\n\t\t“Board” means the Board of Housing and Community Development.\n\t\t“Compliance assurance agency” means an architect or professional\nengineer registered in Virginia, or an organization, determined by the\nDepartment to be specially qualified by reason of facilities, personnel,\nexperience and demonstrated reliability, to investigate, test and evaluate\nindustrialized buildings; to list such buildings complying with standards at\nleast equal to those promulgated by the Board; to provide adequate follow-up\nservices at the point of manufacture to ensure that production units are in full\ncompliance; and to provide a label as evidence of compliance on each\nmanufactured section or module.\n\t\t“Department” means the Department of Housing and Community\nDevelopment.\n\t\t“Industrialized building” means a combination of one or more\nsections or modules, subject to state regulations and including the necessary\nelectrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating and other service systems,\nmanufactured off-site and transported to the point of use for installation or\nerection, with or without other specified components, to comprise a finished\nbuilding. Manufactured homes defined in \u00a7 36-85.3 and certified under the\nprovisions of the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety\nStandards Act shall not be considered industrialized buildings for the purpose\nof this law.\n\t\t“Registered” means that an industrialized building displays a\nregistration seal issued by the Department of Housing and Community Development.\n\t\t“The law” or “this law” means the Virginia\nIndustrialized Building Safety Law as provided in this chapter.\n\nHISTORY: 1986, c. 37.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}