New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Chapter XXXII - Division of Code Enforcement and Administration
Part 1209 - Regulations And Fees For Factory Manufactured Homes
Section 1209.1 - Definitions

(a) Approved means conforming to the requirements of the State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code.

(b) Building site means that portion of a site which is within property lines, upon which a factory manufactured home or component is to be installed.

(c) Component means any room, subsystem or subassembly designed for use as a part of a factory manufactured home.

(d) Commissioner means the Commissioner of the Division of Housing and Community Renewal.

(e) Division means the Division of Housing and Community Renewal of the State of New York.

(f) Dwelling unit means one or more rooms, with provision for living, sanitary and sleeping facilities, arranged for the use of one family used as part of a one- or two-family dwelling or a multiple dwelling.

(g) Factory manufactured home means a structure designed primarily for residential occupancy, constructed by a method or system of construction whereby the structure or its components are wholly or in substantial part manufactured in manufacturing facilities, intended or designed for permanent installation, or assembly and permanent installation, on a building site.

(h) In substantial part manufactured means a factory manufactured home assembled at an off-site location whereby all portions may not be reasonably inspected at the installation site without disassembly or destruction thereof.

(i) Insignia of approval means the certificate, tab or tag issued by the division on behalf of the State Fire Prevention and Building Code Council to indicate compliance with the standards, rules and regulations established for factory manufactured homes.

(j) Installation means the assembly of and the process of affixing a factory manufactured home or component to land, a foundation, footings, or to an existing building.

(k) Local enforcement agency means the agency of a local government under whose jurisdiction a factory manufactured home is installed, which has authority to make inspections and to enforce the regulations governing the construction of buildings.

(l) Local government means any county, city, village, town or other jurisdiction with authority to enforce the Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code.

(m) Manufacturer means any individual, corporation, firm or association which engages in the process of making, fabricating, constructing, forming or assembling a product from raw, unfinished or semifinished material into factory manufactured homes or components.

(n) Manufacturing facilities means the place or places at which machinery, equipment and other materials are assembled and operated for the purpose of making, fabricating, forming, or assembling factory manufactured homes or their components.

(o) Model, initial means a specific design of factory manufactured homes, in accordance with plans submitted to the division. A model may include options, which do not change the quality control manual and which, in the determination of the division, would not materially affect the structural, plumbing, mechanical or electrical systems.

(p) Model, additional means any change from the approved plans or installation instructions which, in the determination of the division, would materially affect the structural, mechanical, electrical or plumbing systems of factory manufactured homes or components bearing an insignia of approval; including changes in bearing partitions, exterior dimensions or space heat distribution systems.

(q) Modified means any change from approved plans.

(r) Quality assurance agency means an organization which is:

(s) Stamp of approval means an imprint placed by the division on each approved sheet of plans for a factory manufactured home or dwelling unit, which shall contain the division's approval number, date of approval and the signature of the commissioner or his duly designated agent empowered to sign such stamp of approval.