Pennsylvania Code › Title 12 - COMMERCE, TRADE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT › Part V - Community Affairs and Development › Subpart C - Community Development and Housing › Chapter 145 - INDUSTRIAL HOUSING AND COMPONENTS › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 145.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
ANSI
-The American National Standards
						Institute.
ASHRAE
-American Society of Heating,
						Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers.
Act
-The Industrialized Housing Act
						(35
						P.S. §§
												1651.1-1651.12).
Approved
-Approved by the Department, or
						agent of the Department, under this chapter.
Building system
-The method of
						constructing a type of industrialized home, building, or housing or building
						component described by plans, specifications and other documentation which
						together establish a set of limits meeting the building standards in
						§§
											145.41 and
						145.42 (relating to adoption of
						standards; and alternate standards), as well as the compliance control program
						requirements of §
											145.58 (relating to basic
						requirements for a compliance control program), including installation
						details.
Building system documentation
-The plans,
						specifications, procedures and other documentation, approved by an evaluation
						agency under §
											145.52 (relating to approval of
						building system documentation), which together describe industrialized home,
						building, or housing or building components, including any variation,
						installation detail and instruction consistent with this chapter.
Certification
or
certified
-Conforming to the requirements of this
						chapter.
Compliance assurance program
-The system
						of policies and procedures implemented by the manufacturer and the inspection
						agency to assure that industrialized housing, buildings, or housing or building
						components are manufactured, transported and installed at the site in
						accordance with the approved building system documentation.
Compliance control program
-The system of
						policies and procedures utilized by the manufacturer to assure that
						industrialized housing, buildings, or housing or building components, as the
						case may be, are manufactured, transported and installed at the site in
						accordance with the approved building system documentation.
Department
-The Department of Community
						and Economic Development of the Commonwealth.
Designated employee
-An officer or
						supervisory employee of a third-party agency who has been so designated by the
						third-party agency in its application to the Department for approval or in
						another written communication to the Department.
Dwelling unit
or
unit
-Rooms arranged for the use of an individual for residential occupancy.
Evaluation agency
-A private or public
						agency which is approved by the Department under §
											145.73 (relating to criteria for
						approval of evaluation and inspection agencies) to perform the functions
						assigned by this chapter to an evaluation agency. If the Department performs
						the functions of the evaluation agency in accordance with §
											145.70 (relating to Departmental
						evaluation and inspection), the Department will be the evaluation agency for
						the purpose of this title.
Housing component
-A manufactured
						subsystem or subassembly, designed for use as an integral component part of a
						structure designed primarily for residential occupancy, which contains
						concealed parts or processes of manufacture that cannot be inspected at the
						site without disassembly, damage or destruction and which is identified in
						§
											145.35 (relating to applicability
						of Fire and Panic Act) as being subject to this chapter.
Housing structure
-A structure designed
						primarily for residential occupancy.
ICC
-International Code Council.
Industrialized building
or
industrialized commercial building
-A structure designed for
						commercial occupancy classified within nonresidential use groups in accordance
						with the standards in §
											145.41. The structure is wholly or
						in substantial part made, constructed, fabricated, formed or assembled in
						manufacturing facilities for installation or assembly and installation on the
						building site so that concealed parts or processes of manufacture cannot be
						inspected at the site without disassembly, damage or destruction.
Industrialized building component
or
industrialized commercial building component
-A closed wall
						subsystem or subassembly designed for use as a structure or a part of a
						structure which is classified within the nonresidential use groups in
						accordance with the standards in §
											145.41. The closed wall subsystem
						or subassembly is fabricated in a manufacturing facility to be separately
						transported to the building site and cannot be inspected at the site without
						disassembly. Components may be installed with or without a permanent
						foundation.
Industrialized building module
-
(i) A closed wall structure or substantial
					 part of a closed wall structure incorporating or designed to be assembled to
					 form one or more rooms used as habitable, occupiable or mechanical/equipment
					 space which is classified within nonresidential use groups in accordance with
					 the standards in § 145.41. The structure is fabricated in a manufacturing
					 facility to be separately transported to the building site and cannot be
					 inspected at the site without disassembly.
(ii) The term includes industrialized
					 building components that are subsystems or assemblies, or other systems of
					 closed construction designed for use in or as a part of an industrialized
					 building.
Industrialized housing
-
(i) A structure designed primarily for
					 residential occupancy or classified within Residential Group R in accordance
					 with the standards adopted under §
											145.41 and which is wholly or in
					 substantial part made, constructed, fabricated, formed or assembled in
					 manufacturing facilities for installation or assembly and installation on the
					 building site so that concealed parts or processes of manufacture cannot be
					 inspected at the site without disassembly, damage or destruction.
(ii) The term does not include a structure or
					 building classified as an institutional building or manufactured home, as
					 defined by the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards
					 Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C.A.
					 §§
												5401-5426).
Industrialized housing module
-Each
						section of an industrialized housing structure which is fabricated in the
						manufacturing facility to be separately transported to the building
						site.
Insignia of certification
-The label
						conforming to the requirements of this chapter which, when attached to
						industrialized housing, housing components, industrialized building or building
						components under this chapter, evidences that the industrialized housing,
						buildings, or industrialized housing or building components have been
						certified.
Inspection agency
-An agency, private or
						public, which is approved by the Department under §
											145.73 to perform the functions
						assigned by this chapter to an inspection agency. If the Department performs
						the functions of the inspection agency under §
											145.70, the Department will be the
						inspection agency for the purposes of this title.
Installation
-The assembly of
						industrialized housing or buildings onsite and the process of affixing
						industrialized housing, housing components, industrialized buildings or
						components to land, a foundation, footings, utilities or an existing building,
						and may include the process of affixing housing or building components to or
						within the structure for which they are designed.
Insulation
-An approved material which
						has a relatively high resistance to heat flow and is used principally to retard
						the flow of heat.
Local enforcement agency
-The agency of
						local government with authority to make inspections and to enforce the laws,
						ordinances and regulations enacted by the Commonwealth and by local governments
						that establish standards and requirements applicable to the construction,
						installation, alteration or repair of buildings.
Local government
-A county, city,
						borough, incorporated town, township or similar general purpose unit of
						government which may be created by the General Assembly with authority to
						establish standards and requirements applicable to construction, installation,
						alteration and repair of buildings.
Manufacture
-The process of making,
						fabricating, constructing, forming or assembling a product from raw, unfinished
						or semifinished materials.
Manufactured home
-
(i) A structure, transportable in one or more
					 sections, which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width or 40
					 body feet or more in length, or when erected onsite, is 320 square feet or
					 more, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a
					 dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required
					 utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical
					 systems contained therein.
(ii) The
					 term includes any structure which meets 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 Housing and
					 Urban Development and complies with the standards established under the
					 National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of
					 1974.
(iii) The term does not
					 include any self-propelled recreational vehicle.
Manufacturing facility
-A place, other
						than the building site, at which machinery, equipment and other capital goods
						are assembled and operated for the purpose of making, fabricating,
						constructing, forming or assembling industrialized housing or housing
						components, industrialized buildings or building components.
Mobile home
-A structure, transportable
						in one or more sections, which is 8 body feet or more in width and is 32 body
						feet in length and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be
						used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the
						required utilities, and including the plumbing, heating, air conditioning and
						electrical system combined therein manufactured in accordance with the National
						Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974.
NCSBCS
-National Conference of States on
						Building Codes and Standards.
NFPA
-The National Fire Protection
						Association.
Notice of Approval
-A notice issued by
						the Department to each manufacturer of industrialized housing, housing
						components, industrialized buildings or building components that indicates the
						approval of the manufacturer's building systems documentation, compliance
						assurance program, and the authority to receive and attach insignias of
						certification to industrialized housing, housing components, industrialized
						building or building components as applicable.
Person
-An individual or organized group
						of any character, including partnerships; corporations; other forms of
						associations; and Federal, State and local instrumentalities, political
						subdivisions or officers, including the Department when indicated by the
						context.
Residential occupancy
-Occupancy of a
						structure or building, or part thereof, classified as a one-family or
						two-family dwelling, townhouse or within Residential Group R in accordance with
						the standards adopted under §
											145.41, by families, households or
						individuals for purposes of shelter and sleeping, without regard to the
						availability of cooking or dining facilities.
Residential permanent foundation
-The
						structure or assembly provided at the installation site to support and
						stabilize industrialized housing as described in §
											145.33(c)
						(relating to manufactured homes excluded).
Site
or
building site
-The entire tract, subdivision or parcel of land on which industrialized
						housing, housing components, industrialized building or industrialized building
						components are installed.
Site Installation Inspection Checklist
-A part of the manufacturers building system documentation or design package
						that identifies the various aspects of construction that shall be completed
						onsite, for inspection by the local code official, that when properly completed
						will result in a conforming home or building.
Thermal resistance ("R" Value)
-The
						accumulative resistance to heat flow through materials or arrangement of
						materials expressed in Fahrenheit degrees per BTU/ (hours) (square foot). For
						wood frame construction, the effect of normal framing members may be neglected
						in the determination of R values.
Third-party agency
-An evaluation agency
						or inspection agency approved by the Department.
Unheated space
-A space such as a garage
						or crawl space which is not provided with a heat source sufficient to maintain
						a minimum temperature of 50°F (10°C).
See 53 Pa.B. 830 (February 11, 2023) for a notice
						  regarding implementation of this section.
The provisions of this §
													145.1 amended under section 5 of
						  the Industrialized Housing Act (35 P.S. §
														1651.5).