(a) The
Department is authorized to require that evaluation agencies, inspection
agencies and manufacturers with approved building system documentation shall
prepare and submit to the Department regular periodic reports regarding their
activities relating to industrialized housing and housing components falling
within the scope of the act and this chapter. These reports shall be promptly
filed with the Department on forms and at times the Department may
specify.
(b) The Department is
authorized to require that evaluation agencies, inspection agencies and
manufacturers with approved building system documentation shall promptly
furnish to the Department the special reports and other information as the
Department may require which relate in any way to the administration and
enforcement of the act and this chapter.
(c) Evaluation agencies and inspection
agencies are required to notify the
Department of the following:
(1) A change of facts which would render
inaccurate in material respect their application for approval submitted to the
Department under §
145.75 (relating to procedures for
obtaining approvals of evaluation and inspection agencies), as updated by the
latest application for reapproval submitted to the
Department under §
145.76 (relating to reapprovals of
third-party agencies), as provided more particularly in §
145.75(e).
(2) A fact or
circumstance of which the third-party agency has actual knowledge which could
lead a reasonable person to believe that a manufacturer, third-party agency or
other person in violating the act or this chapter, the notification to be
promptly given to the Department.
(d) Manufacturers with approved building
system documentation are required promptly to notify the Department of any fact
or circumstance of which the manufacturer has actual knowledge which could lead
a reasonable person to believe that a third-party agency or other person is
violating a provision of the act or of this chapter.
(e) A person installing industrialized
housing, housing components, industrialized buildings or building components
for use on a site in a jurisdiction in this Commonwealth shall complete and
return to the manufacturer and provide a copy to the local building code
official a Site Installation Inspection Checklist on a form furnished by the
manufacturer. The manufacturer is responsible for furnishing to the person
performing the installation a copy of the Site Installation Inspection
Checklist Form and instructions as to its intended use.
Notes
The
provisions of this § 145.91 adopted July 12, 1974,
effective 7/13/1974, 4 Pa.B. 1403; amended November 5, 2004, effective
2/4/2005, 34 Pa.B. 6024; effective date corrected at 34 Pa.B. 6133;
amended May 7, 2010, effective 7/7/2010, 40 Pa.B. 2421; amended November 4,
2016, effective 11/6/2017, 46 Pa.B.
6976.
See 53 Pa.B. 830 (February 11, 2023) for a notice
regarding implementation of this section.
The provisions of this § 145.91 amended under section 5 of
the Industrialized Housing Act (35 P.S. §
1651.5).
This section cited in 12 Pa. Code §
145.41 (relating to adoption of
standards); 12 Pa. Code §
145.58 (relating to basic
requirements for a compliance control program); 12 Pa. Code §
145.60 (relating to insignia of
certification); 12 Pa. Code §
145.62 (relating to data plates);
12 Pa. Code §
145.64 (relating to modification
of industrialized housing or housing components after certification); 12 Pa.
Code §
145.81 (relating to
responsibilities of local enforcement agencies); and 12 Pa. Code §
145.83 (relating to issuance of
certificates of occupancy).
