California Code of Regulations › Title 25 - Housing and Community Development › Division 1 - Housing and Community Development › Chapter 3 - Factory-Built Housing, Mobilehomes, and Manufactured Homes › Subchapter 2 - Manufactured Homes, Mobilehomes, Multifamily Manufactured Homes, Commercial Modulars, and Special Purpose Commercial Modulars › Article 5 - Third-Party Approval and Enforcement › Section 4854 - Conditions of Approval for a Quality Assurance Agency

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to meeting the definition of a third-party
						entity provided in Health and Safety Code Section 18013.2, a Quality Assurance
						Agency shall satisfy all of the following criteria as a condition of
						approval.
(a) A Quality Assurance
					 Agency shall employ staff which satisfy the provisions of Part B of Standard E
					 541, of the 1986 Annual Book of ASTM Standards published by the American
					 Society for Testing and Materials, hereby incorporated by reference. Only such
					 staff shall perform inspections and monitoring activities.
(b) A Quality Assurance Agency shall employ
					 Quality Assurance Inspectors approved by the department to perform inspections
					 and monitoring activities.
(c) A
					 Quality Assurance Agency shall have the ability to inspect mobile homes,
					 commercial coaches, special purpose commercial coaches and recreational
					 vehicles and to monitor quality control programs for compliance with California
					 law and regulations, approved plans and quality control manuals, and to secure
					 compliance.
(d) A Quality Assurance
					 Agency shall have the ability to submit reports complying with Section
					 4880.
(e) A Quality Assurance
					 Agency shall be free of actual or potential conflict of interest and shall not
					 be affiliated with, influenced by, or controlled by any manufacturer of mobile
					 homes, commercial coaches, special purpose commercial coaches, or recreational
					 vehicles, or supplier.
(f) An
					 individual applicant for Quality Assurance Agency approval shall be qualified
					 to receive public benefits pursuant to chapter 5.5 of this division, beginning
					 with section 5802.
1. New
						section filed 10-6-88 as an emergency; operative 10-6-88 (Register 88, No. 42).
						A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL within 120 days or
						emergency language will be repealed on 2-3-89.
2. The Certificate of
						Compliance transmitted to OAL 1-31-89 was disapproved. Order of Repeal of
						10-6-88 emergency order filed 3-2-89 by OAL pursuant to Government Code Section
						11349.6 (Register 8, No. 11).
3. New section filed 3-3-89 as an
						emergency; operative 3-3-89 (Register 89, No. 11). A Certificate of Compliance
						must be transmitted to OAL within 120 days, by 7-3-89, or emergency language
						will be repealed.
4. Certificate of Compliance transmitted to OAL
						6-29-89 and filed 7-24-89 (Register 89, No. 32).
5. New subsection
						(f) and amendment of NOTE filed 3-20-98 as an emergency; operative 4-6-98
						(Register 98, No. 12). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL
						by 8-4-98 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the
						following day.
6. New subsection (f) and amendment of NOTE refiled
						8-4-98 as an emergency; operative 8-4-98 (Register 98, No. 32). A Certificate
						of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 12-2-98 or emergency language will
						be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
7. Certificate
						of Compliance as to 8-4-98 order transmitted to OAL 12-1-98 and filed 1-14-99
						(Register 99, No. 3).
Note: Authority cited: Section 18020, Health and Safety
						  Code. Reference: 8 U.S.C. Sections 1621, 1641 and 1642; and Section 18020,
						  Health and Safety Code.