                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 36-71.1)

As used in this chapter, unless a different meaning or construction is clearly
required by the context:
		&#8220;Administrator&#8221; means the Director of the Department of Housing
and Community Development or his designee.
		&#8220;Board&#8221; means the Board of Housing and Community Development.
		&#8220;Compliance assurance agency&#8221; 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.
		&#8220;Department&#8221; means the Department of Housing and Community
Development.
		&#8220;Industrialized building&#8221; 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.
		&#8220;Registered&#8221; means that an industrialized building displays a
registration seal issued by the Department of Housing and Community Development.
		&#8220;The law&#8221; or &#8220;this law&#8221; means the Virginia
Industrialized Building Safety Law as provided in this chapter.

HISTORY: 1986, c. 37.