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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>85212</law_id><section_number>36-73</section_number><catch_line>Authority of Board to promulgate rules and regulations</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>36-119</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="36">Housing</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="4">Industrialized Building Safety Law</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>The <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall from time to time promulgate rules and regulations prescribing standards to be complied with in <span class="dictionary">industrialized buildings</span> for protection against the hazards thereof to safety of life, health and property and prescribing procedures for the administration, enforcement and maintenance of such rules and regulations. The standards shall be reasonable and appropriate to the objectives of <span class="dictionary">this law</span> and within the guiding principles prescribed by the General Assembly in <span class="dictionary">this law</span> and in any other law in pari materia. The standards shall not be applied to manufactured homes defined in &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Definitions" href="/36-85.3/">36-85.3</a>.
		In making rules and regulations, the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall have due regard for generally accepted safety standards as recommended by nationally recognized organizations, including but not limited to the International Code Council and the National Fire Protection Association.
		Where practical, the rules and regulations shall be stated in terms of required levels of performance, so as to facilitate the prompt acceptance of new building <span class="dictionary">materials</span> and methods. Where generally recognized standards of performance are not available, the rules and regulations of the <span class="dictionary">Board</span> shall provide for acceptance of <span class="dictionary">materials</span> and methods whose performance has been found by the <span class="dictionary">Department</span>, on the basis of reliable test and evaluation data presented by the proponent, to be substantially equal in safety to those specified.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 12-71; 1970, c. 305; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 103; 1977, c. 613; 1986, c. 37; 2010, c. 77.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
