Florida Administrative Code › 61 - DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION › 61 - Departmental › Chapter 61-41 - MANUFACTURED BUILDINGS › Section 61-41.002 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
For the purpose of this chapter, the following words, unless
				  the context does not permit, shall have the meanings indicated:
(1) Department - The Florida Department of
				Business and Professional Regulation.
(2) Third Party Agency (Agency) - An
				individual or entity, which may be a private sector entity, a state department
				with building construction responsibilities or a local government determined by
				the Department to be qualified pursuant to this chapter to review plans for or
				inspect the construction of manufactured building units, systems, or the
				component parts thereof together with the plans, specifications, and quality
				control procedures to ensure that such units, systems, or component parts are
				in full compliance with the codes and standards herein adopted and to assign
				and attach the insignia of the Department to such units complying with those
				standards.
(3) Building System -
				The plans, specifications and documentation for a system of manufactured
				buildings or for a type or a system of building components, which may include
				structural, electrical, mechanical, plumbing and fire protection systems and
				other building systems affecting life safety.
(4) Building Code Information System (BCIS)
				at
www.floridabuilding.org
- the official website of the Florida Building Commission and the Florida
				Building Codes and Standards Office.
(5) Closed Construction - A building,
				component, assembly, subassembly, or system manufactured in such a manner that
				all portions cannot be readily inspected at the installation site without
				disassembly or destruction thereof.
(6) Component - Any three dimensional
				assembly, subassembly, or combination of elements for use as a part of a
				building, which may include structural, electrical, mechanical, plumbing and
				fire protection systems, and other building systems affecting life
				safety.
(7) Dealer - Any person,
				corporation or business engaged in leasing, selling, or both leasing and
				selling manufactured buildings.
(8)
				Equipment - All equipment, material, appliances, devices, fixtures, fittings or
				accessories installed in or used in the manufacture and assembly of a
				manufactured building.
(9) Insignia
				- An approved device or seal issued by the Department to indicate compliance
				with the provisions of this chapter. The term "insignia" includes
				recertification insignias.
(10)
				Installation - The assembly of a manufactured building component or system on
				site and the process of affixing a manufactured building component or system to
				land, a foundation, or an existing building, or service connections which are
				part thereof.
(11) Labeled - Shall
				be as defined in the Florida Building Code.
(12) Building Official - The officer or other
				designated authority or their duly authorized representative charged with the
				administration of the applicable technical codes in the subject jurisdiction.
				This term is synonymous with "building official" as that term is defined in
				Section 468.603(2),
				F.S.
(13) Manufacture - The process
				of making, modifying, fabricating, constructing, forming or assembling or
				reassembling a product from raw, unfinished, semifinished, or finished
				materials.
(14) Manufactured
				Building, Modular Building, or Factory-Built Building - A closed structure,
				building assembly, or system of subassemblies, which may include structural,
				electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating, or other service systems
				manufactured in manufacturing facilities for installation or erection as a
				finished building or as part of a finished building, which shall include but
				not be limited to residential, commercial, institutional, storage, and
				industrial structures. The term includes buildings not intended for human
				habitation such as lawn storage buildings and storage sheds manufactured and
				assembled offsite by a certified manufacturer.
(15) Manufacturer - Any person who, or entity
				which, has been certified to produce, modify, or produce and modify
				manufactured buildings for placement in the State of Florida.
(16) Model - A specific design of
				manufactured buildings, which is based on size, room arrangement, method of
				construction, location, arrangement or size of plumbing, mechanical or
				electrical equipment and systems therein in accordance with plans submitted to
				the Department.
(17) Modification -
				Any change to a manufactured building which affects the structural, electrical,
				thermal, mechanical, plumbing systems, life safety, means of egress, material
				flammability/flame spread or accessibility of the building to persons with
				disabilities in accordance with the Florida Accessibility Code for Building
				Construction.
(18) Occupancy
				Classification - The characterization of the intended purpose for which the
				building will be used as determined in accordance with the Florida Building
				Code.
(19) Open Construction - Any
				manufactured building, building component, assembly or system manufactured in
				such a manner that all parts or processes of manufacture can be readily
				inspected at the installation site without disassembly, damage to or
				destruction thereof.
(20) Quality
				Control Manual - A manual which contains all aspects of quality control
				procedures to be utilized by an entity or individual performing a function
				regulated hereby.
(21) Recertified
				Building - A manufactured building which has been previously approved by the
				Department and which has been subjected to the supplemental procedures provided
				in this chapter for subsequent approval.
(22) Residential Building - Shall be as
				defined in the Florida Building Code.
(23) Standard Design - Any building system,
				model, series or component intended for duplication or repetitive
				manufacture.
(24) Storage Shed - A
				closed construction building that is not designed for human habitation, without
				regard to whether the storage unit is used for residential or commercial
				purposes. This term does not include a building used to house communications
				equipment.
(25) System - The
				structural, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, thermal efficiency and life
				safety elements, materials or components of a building.
(26) Traveler - A form utilized in a
				manufacturing facility in conjunction with the manufacturer's quality control
				program to indicate that all quality control inspections are conducted during
				the manufacturing process and that all inspections indicate compliance with the
				approved plans.
Rulemaking Authority
					 553.37(2)(c),
					 553.415 FS. Law Implemented
					 553.37,
					 553.415
					 FS.
New 1-17-72, Amended 2-23-75, 12-8-75, 3-1-80, 9-29-82,
					 Formerly 61-41.02, Amended 1-1-87, 3-1-92, 3-1-95, 9-13-01, 7-16-03, 5-13-07,
					 9-13-09, Formerly 9B-1.002.