Virginia Administrative Code › Title 13 - HOUSING › Agency 5 - DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT › Chapter 91 - VIRGINIA INDUSTRIALIZED BUILDING SAFETY REGULATIONS › Section 13VAC5-91-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms when used in this chapter shall
				  have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
"Administrator" means the Director of DHCD or his
				  designee.
"Approved" as applied to a material, device, method of
				  construction, registered building, or as otherwise used in this chapter means
				  approved by the administrator.
"Building official" means the officer or other designated
				  authority charged with the administration and enforcement of the USBC, or duly
				  authorized representative.
"Closed panel construction" means a method of construction
				  utilizing individual wall, roof, or floor components (panels) manufactured off
				  site for installation or assembly at the construction site, where a portion of
				  the component cannot be inspected at the building site without disassembly or
				  damage to the component.
"Compliance assurance agency" means an architect or
				  professional engineer registered in Virginia, or an organization, determined by
				  DHCD to be specially qualified by reason of facilities, personnel, experience,
				  and demonstrated reliability, to investigate, test and evaluate industrialized
				  buildings; to list such buildings complying with standards at least equal to
				  this chapter; to provide adequate follow-up services at the point of
				  manufacture to ensure that production units are in full compliance; and to
				  provide a label as evidence of compliance.
"DHCD" means the Virginia Department of Housing and Community
				  Development.
"ICC" means the International Code Council, Inc.
"Industrialized building" means a combination of one or more
				  closed panels, sections or modules, subject to state regulations and including
				  the necessary electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating, and other service
				  systems, manufactured off-site and transported to the point of use for
				  installation or erection, with or without other specified components, to
				  comprise a finished building. Manufactured homes defined in §
									36-85.3 of
				  the Code of Virginia and certified under the provisions of the National
				  Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act (
				  42 USC §
										5401 et seq.) shall not be considered
				  industrialized buildings for the purpose of this law.
"Label," "certification label," or "compliance assurance
				  agency certification label" means the label required by
				  13VAC5-91-210.
"Model" means a specific design of an industrialized building
				  designated by the producer of the building including production buildings with
				  variations and options that do not affect compliance with the standards
				  governing structural, plumbing, mechanical, or electrical systems or any other
				  items governed by this chapter.
"Registered" means an industrialized building which displays
				  a registration seal issued by DHCD in accordance with this chapter.
"Seal," "registration seal," or "Virginia registration seal"
				  means the seal required by
				  13VAC5-91-260.
"SBCO" means the State Building Codes Office within
				  DHCD.
"State Review Board" means the Virginia State Building Code
				  Technical Review Board as established by §
									36-108
				  of the Code of Virginia.
"This law" means the Virginia Industrialized Building Safety
				  Law as embraced in Chapter 4 (§
									36-70 et
				  seq.) of Title 36 of the Code of Virginia.
"USBC" means the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code
				  (13VAC5-63).
Statutory Authority: §
											36-73
					 of the Code of Virginia.