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.
Notes
Amended
by
Pennsylvania
Bulletin, Vol 45, No. 26. June 27, 2015, effective
6/27/2015
Amended
by
Pennsylvania
Bulletin, Vol 46, No. 45. November 5, 2016, effective
11/6/2017