This chapter interprets and makes specific the provisions
of the act, as provided in section 5 of the act (35 P.S. §
1651.5). This chapter establishes
administrative procedures for the implementation of the act which will
facilitate the use of industrialized housing, buildings, and housing or
building components in this Commonwealth consistent with safeguarding the
health, safety and welfare of citizens of this Commonwealth and will carry out
the purposes set forth in the legislative findings in section 2 of the act
(35
P.S. §
1651.2). More specifically, this
chapter is intended primarily to achieve the following objectives:
(1) Establish uniform standards affecting
health, safety and welfare for the design, use of materials and methods of
construction for industrialized housing, buildings, and housing or building
components intended for sale, lease or installation for use in this
Commonwealth.
(2) Establish uniform
procedures to assure that industrialized housing, buildings, and housing or
building components intended for sale, lease or installation for use in this
Commonwealth will be manufactured, transported and installed in compliance with
the uniform standards adopted by this chapter. In particular, this chapter
establishes procedures under which the essential structural, electrical,
mechanical and plumbing elements of industrialized housing, buildings, and
housing or building components are subjected to compliance assurance
procedures, including inspections, in the manufacturing facilities during the
manufacturing process, thereby eliminating the need for subsequent inspections
at the building site of those elements which are enclosed within the walls
which might otherwise be subjected to disassembly, damage or destruction in the
course of onsite inspections.
(3)
Establish procedures which will facilitate the movement of industrialized
housing, buildings, and housing or building components between this
Commonwealth and the other states for the mutual benefit of the manufacturers
and citizens of this Commonwealth.
(4) Preserve for local governments within
this Commonwealth responsibilities and functions specifically reserved to local
governments by the act and otherwise not inconsistent with the achievement of
the purposes of the act.
