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PART 6. FACTORY-BUILT HOUSING [19960. - 19997.]

Part 6 added by Stats. 1969, Ch. 1422.

§§ 19960–19997 · 37 sections

  1. CHAPTER 1. General Provisions and Definitions §§ 19960–19961 · 2 sections
    • § 19960 This part shall be known and may be cited as the “California Factory-Built Housing Law.”
    • § 19961 The Legislature hereby finds and declares that in an effort to meet the housing needs within the State of California, the private housing and construction…
  2. CHAPTER 2. Definitions §§ 19965–19977 · 17 sections
    • § 19965 The definitions contained in this chapter govern the construction of this part, unless the context otherwise requires.
    • § 19966 “Approved” means conforming to the requirements, and obtaining the approval, of the Department of Housing and Community Development of the State of California.
    • § 19967 “Building component” means any subsystem, subassembly, or other system designed for use in, or as part of, a structure, which may include structural,…
    • § 19967.1 “Building system” means plans, specifications, and documentation for a system of manufactured building, or for a type or a system of building components, which…
    • § 19967.2 “Building standard” means building standard as defined in Section 18909.
    • § 19969 “Department” means the Department of Housing and Community Development of the State of California.
    • § 19969.3 “Design approval agency” is a private organization meeting the requirements of department regulations to perform evaluation of factory-built housing plans and…
    • § 19970 “Dwelling unit” means one or more habitable rooms which are occupied or which are intended or designed to be occupied by one family with facilities for living,…
    • § 19971 “Factory-built housing” means a residential building, dwelling unit, or an individual dwelling room or combination of rooms thereof, or building component,…
    • § 19972 “First user” means the person, firm, or corporation who initially installs factory-built housing within this state. A person who subsequently purchases a…
    • § 19974 “Installation” means the assembly of factory-built housing on site and the process of affixing factory-built housing to land, a foundation, footings or an…
    • § 19975 “Local enforcement agency” means the city, county, or city and county in which factory-built housing is installed.
    • § 19975.1 “Local inspection agency” means the building department of a city, county, or city and county, which has been certified by the department, and which has…
    • § 19976 “Manufacture” is the process of making, fabricating, constructing, forming, or assembling a product from raw, unfinished, or semifinished materials.
    • § 19976.05 “Quality assurance agency” means a private organization meeting the requirements specified in regulations of the department to perform in-plant inspections of…
    • § 19976.1 “Residential building” means any structure designed for dwelling occupancy, containing one or more dwelling units and structures accessory thereto.
    • § 19977 “Site” is the entire tract, subdivision or parcel of land on which factory-built housing is installed.
  3. CHAPTER 3. Regulation §§ 19980–19985 · 6 sections
    • § 19980 All factory-built housing manufactured after the effective date of the building standards published in the State Building Standards Code and the other…
    • § 19981 (a) All factory-built housing bearing an insignia of approval pursuant to Section 19980 shall be deemed to comply with the requirements of all ordinances or…
    • § 19982 (a) The department by rule and regulation shall establish a schedule of fees to pay the costs incurred by the department for the work related to the…
    • § 19983 Nothing in this part shall be construed to prevent the department from delegating by written contract its enforcement authority to local government agencies or…
    • § 19984 All building standards shall be adopted and published in the State Building Standards Code pursuant to Part 2.5 (commencing with Section 18901) of this…
    • § 19985 If the department determines that standards for the construction of factory-built housing, which have been prescribed by the statutes or rules and regulations…
  4. CHAPTER 4. Application and Scope §§ 19990–19993 · 9 sections
    • § 19990 (a) Except as provided in Section 18930, the department shall adopt rules and regulations to interpret and make specific this part. The department shall adopt…
    • § 19990.6 The provisions of Section 17920.9, the building standards published in the State Building Standards Code relating to foam building systems, and the other rules…
    • § 19991 The department shall enforce every provision of this part, the building standards published in the State Building Standards Code relating to factory-built…
    • § 19991.1 The governing body of any city, county, or city and county may by ordinance elect to have its building department assume responsibility, for in-plant…
    • § 19991.2 Where there is no certified local inspection agency, the department shall make in-plant inspection of all factory-built housing in all places of manufacture…
    • § 19991.3 The department shall provide by regulation for qualification and disqualification of design approval agencies to perform approval of factory-built housing…
    • § 19991.4 The department may provide by regulation for the qualification and disqualification of quality assurance agencies to perform inspections of factory-built…
    • § 19992 Local enforcement agencies shall enforce and inspect the installation of factory-built housing. The installation of factory-built housing shall be conducted in…
    • § 19993 (a) Local use zone requirements, local snow load requirements, local wind pressure requirements, local fire zones, building setback, side and rear yard…
  5. CHAPTER 5. Appeals §§ 19995–19996 · 2 sections
    • § 19995 Except as provided in Section 18945, the department shall hear appeals brought by any person regarding the application to such person of any building standard…
    • § 19996 The department may promulgate informal hearing rules pertaining to the hearing of appeals under the provisions of this chapter.
  6. CHAPTER 6. Penalties § 19997 · 1 section
    • § 19997 (a) Any person who violates any of the provisions of this part, a building standard published in the State Building Standards Code relating to factory-built…