Code of Maine Rules › 02 - DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL AND FINANCIAL REGULATION › 385 - MANUFACTURED HOUSING BOARD › Chapter 900 - USED MANUFACTURED HOME INSTALLATION STANDARD › Subchapter A - General › Section 385-900-A-II - Definitions

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
A.
Anchor assembly
: "Anchor
				  assembly" means any device or other means designed to transfer home anchoring
				  loads to the ground.
B.
Anchoring equipment
: "Anchoring equipment" means ties, straps,
				  cables, turnbuckles,chains, and other approved components, including tensioning
				  devices, that are used to secure a manufactured home to anchor
				  assemblies.
C.
Anchoring
				  system
: "Anchoring system" means a combination of anchoring equipment
				  and anchor assemblies that will, when properly designed and installed,resist
				  the uplift, overturning, and lateral forces on the manufactured home and on its
				  support and foundation system.
D.
Data plate
: "Data plate" means an information sheet located in the
				  home that identifies the manufacturer, serial number, wind zone, roof load
				  zone, and climatic zone for which the home was constructed.
E.
Diagonal tie
: "Diagonal tie"
				  means a tie intended to resist horizontal or shear forces,but which may resist
				  vertical, uplift, and overturning forces.
F.
Footing
: "Footing" means that
				  portion of the support system that transmits loads directly to the
				  soil.
G.
Foundation
				  system
: "Foundation system" means a site-built or site assembled system
				  of stabilizing devices which are capable of transferring design dead loads and
				  live loads and other design loads unique to local home sites due to wind,
				  seismic, and water conditions, that are imposed by or upon the structure into
				  the underlying soil bedrock without failure.
H.
Ground anchor
: "Ground
				  anchor" means a specific anchoring assembly device designed to transfer
				  manufactured home anchoring loads to the ground.
I.
HUD
: "HUD" means United
				  States Department of Housing and Urban Development, a federal governmental
				  agency.
J.
Installation
: "Installation" means the placing of manufactured
				  housing on a foundation or supports at a building site and the assembly and
				  fastening of structural components of manufactured housing, including the
				  completed roof system, as specified in the manufacturer's installation
				  instructions.Installation also includes the connection to existing services,
				  including but not limited to electrical, oil, water, sewage and similar systems
				  that are necessary for the use of the manufactured housing for dwelling
				  purposes.
K.
Installation
				  instructions
: "Installation instructions" means DAPIA-approved
				  instructions provided by the home manufacturer and detail the home manufacturer
				  requirements for support and anchoring systems, and other work completed at the
				  installation site.
L.
Installer
: "Installer" means any licensed manufacturer or dealer
				  or an employee of a licensed manufacturer or dealer, or a person licensed as a
				  mechanic who engages in the process of affixing, assembling or setting up of
				  manufactured housing on foundations or supports at a building site.
M.
Manufactured home
:
				  "Manufactured home" means a structural unit or units designed to be used as a
				  dwelling or dwellings and constructed in a manufacturing facility and then
				  transported by the use of its own chassis to a building site.For purposes of
				  this standard two types of manufactured housing are included.They are:
1. HUD-code homes, which are those units
				  constructed after June 15, 1976 that the manufacturer certifies are constructed
				  in compliance with the HUD standard, meaning structures, transportable in one
				  or more sections that, in the traveling mode, are 8 body feet or more in width
				  and 40 body feet or more in length or, when erected on site, are 320 or more
				  square feet, and are built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as
				  dwellings, with or without permanent foundations, when connected to the
				  required utilities, including the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and
				  electrical systems contained therein; except that such term shall include any
				  structure that meets all the requirements of this paragraph except the size
				  requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a
				  certification required by the Secretary of the United States Department of
				  Housing and Urban Development and complies with the standards established under
				  the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of
				  1974, 42
United States Code
5401,
et
				  seq.
;
2. Pre-HUD-code
				  homes, which are those units constructed prior to June 15,1976, meaning
				  structures, transportable in one or more sections, that are 8 body feet or more
				  in width and are 32 body feet or more in length and are built on a permanent
				  chassis and designed to be used as dwellings, with or without permanent
				  foundations, when connected to the required utilities, including the plumbing,
				  heating, air-conditioning or electrical systems contained therein.