New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS › Chapter 23 - UNIFORM CONSTRUCTION CODE › Subchapter 4A - INDUSTRIALIZED/MODULAR BUILDINGS AND BUILDING COMPONENTS › Section 5:23-4A.4 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter,
				  shall have the meanings given, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by
				  the context:
"Act" means the State Uniform Construction Code Act, P.L. 1975,
				  c.217, as supplemented by P.L. 1991, c.457 and the ratification of the Interstate
				  Compact on Industrialized/Modular Buildings.
"Approved" means approved by the Industrialized Buildings
				  Commission, a participating state or a designated evaluation/inspection
				  agency.
"Building component" means any subsystem, sub-assembly or other
				  system of closed construction that is designed for use in, or as part of, a
				  structure. The component may include structural, electrical, mechanical, plumbing,
				  and fire protection systems and other systems affecting health and safety.
"Building system" means the method of constructing a type of
				  industrialized/modular building or building component that is described by plans,
				  specifications, and other documentation that together establish a set of limits
				  meeting the requirements of this subchapter for that type of industrialized/modular
				  building or building component. The system may include structural, electrical,
				  mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, and other systems affecting health and
				  safety.
"Certification" means the process whereby participating states and
				  local building inspection agencies are assured that elements of closed construction,
				  which are not practical to inspect at building sites, conform to applicable
				  codes.
"Certification label" means an approved insignia or seal
				  evidencing certification in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures of
				  the Industrialized Buildings Commission.
"Closed construction" means any building, building component,
				  assembly, or system that is made or assembled in manufacturing facilities off the
				  building site for installation, or assembly and installation, on the building site
				  such that concealed parts or processes of manufacture cannot be inspected at the
				  building site without disassembly, damage, or destruction. This definition shall not
				  include products, such as structural, electrical, and plumbing fixtures and
				  equipment, that are tested, listed, labeled, and certified by a nationally
				  recognized testing laboratory.
"Code" means the codes, standards, specifications and requirements
				  adopted pursuant to
				  5:23-4A.5.
"Commission" means the Industrialized Buildings Commission.
"Compliance assurance documents" means approved building system
				  documents, an approved compliance assurance manual and approved on-site installation
				  instructions.
"Compliance assurance program" means the policies and procedures
				  assuring that industrialized/modular buildings and building components, including
				  their manufacture, storage, delivery, assembly, handling, and installation, conform
				  with this subchapter and with the IBC's Uniform Administrative Procedures.
"Designated" means selected by the Commission to perform one or
				  more of the inspection and/or evaluation functions described under the Uniform
				  Administrative Procedures.
"Evaluation agency" means a designated person or organization,
				  private or public, determined by the Commission to be qualified by reason of
				  facilities, personnel, experience and demonstrated reliability and independence of
				  judgment, to investigate and evaluate industrialized/modular buildings, building
				  components, building systems or compliance assurance programs.
"Independence of judgment" means not being affiliated with or
				  influenced or controlled by building manufacturers by producers, suppliers, or
				  vendors of products or equipment used in industrialized/modular buildings and
				  building components, in any manner which is likely to affect capacity to render
				  reports and findings objectively and without bias.
"Industrialized/modular building" means any building of closed
				  construction, including, but not limited to, modular housing that is factory-built
				  single-family and multi-family housing (including closed-wall, panelized housing) as
				  well as other modular, nonresidential buildings. Industrialized/modular building
				  does not include any structure subject to the requirements of the National
				  Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974.
"Inspection agency" means a designated person or organization,
				  private or public, that is determined by the Commission to be qualified by reason of
				  facilities, personnel, experience and demonstrated reliability and independence of
				  judgment, to monitor compliance assurance programs.
"Installation" means the process of affixing, or assembling and
				  affixing, industrialized/modular buildings or building components on a building
				  site.
"Interim reciprocal agreement" means a formal reciprocity
				  agreement as defined in P.L. 1991, c.457, which is the New Jersey statute ratifying
				  the Interstate Compact on Industrialized/Modular Buildings.
"Module" means a closed wall structure or substantial part of a
				  closed wall structure incorporating one or more rooms used as habitable, occupiable
				  or mechanical/equipment space.
"Nonconformance" means the failure to adhere to the requirements
				  of an approved building system or, where the building system is not specific, to the
				  code.
"Participating state" means any compacting state or any
				  non-compacting state that is acting under an interim reciprocal agreement.