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<section article="gps" article_name="Public Safety" number="12-301" title_number="12" title_name="Building and Material Codes; Other Safety Provisions" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Industrialized Buildings and Manufactured Homes">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Department” means the Maryland Department of Labor.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“First user” means a person who initially installs an industrialized building or manufactured home in the State.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“First user” does not include a person who subsequently buys a building that consists wholly or partly of an industrialized building.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Industrialized building” means a building assembly or system of building subassemblies manufactured in its entirety, or in substantial part, off site and transported to a site for installation or erection, with or without other specified components, as a finished building or as part of a finished building that comprises two or more industrialized building units.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Industrialized building” includes the electrical, plumbing, heating, ventilating, insulation, and other service systems of the building assembly or system of building subassemblies if the service systems are installed at the off site manufacture or assembly point.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Industrialized building” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>open frame construction that can be completely inspected on site;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a manufactured home; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a building 8 body feet or less in width and 40 body feet or less in length that is:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>used for business purposes, mobile offices, or storage; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>not open to the general public.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Install” means to assemble an industrialized building or manufactured home on site and to affix the industrialized building or manufactured home to land, a foundation, footings, or an existing building.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Local enforcement agency” means an agency of the governing body of a county or municipal corporation that enforces laws that govern the construction of buildings.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Manufactured home” means a structure that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is transportable in one or more sections;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is 8 body feet or more in width and 30 body feet or more in length;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>is built on a permanent chassis; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>is designed to be used as a dwelling, with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Manufactured home” includes the plumbing, heating, air–conditioning, and electrical systems contained in the structure.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act” means the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. § 5401 et seq.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Site” means the entire tract, subdivision, or parcel of land on which an industrialized building or manufactured home is installed.</text>
  </level>
</section>
