[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 24, Volume 5]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 24CFR3282.203]



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                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

 

 CHAPTER XX--OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HOUSING--FEDERAL HOUSING 

        COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

 

PART 3282_MANUFACTURED HOME PROCEDURAL AND ENFORCEMENT REGULATIONS

--Table of Contents

 

    Subpart E_Manufacturer Inspection and Certification Requirements

 

Sec.  3282.203  DAPIA services.



    (a) Each manufacturer shall have each manufactured home design and 

each quality assurance manual which it intends to follow approved by a 

DAPIA under Sec.  3282.361. The manufacturer is free to choose which 

DAPIA will evaluate and approve its designs and quality assurance 

materials manufacturer may obtain design and quality assurance manual 

approval from a single DAPIA regardless of the number of plants in which 

the design and quality assurance manual will be followed. A manufacturer 

may also obtain approval for the same design and quality assurance 

manual from more than one DAPIA. The choice of which DAPIA or DAPIAs to 

employ is left to the manufacturer.

    (b) The manufacturer shall submit to the DAPIA such information as 

the DAPIA may require in order to carry out design approvals. This 

information shall, except where the manufacturer demonstrates to the 

DAPIA that it is not necessary, include the following:

    (1) Construction drawings and/or specifications showing structural 

details and layouts of frames, floors, walls and roofs, and chassis; 

material specifications, framing details, door locations, etc., for each 

floor plan proposed to be manufactured,

    (2) Structural analysis and calculations, test data and/or other 

accepted engineering practices used by the manufacturer to validate the 

design,

    (3) Complete heat loss calculations for each significant variation 

of home design,

    (4) Floor plans showing room arrangement and sizes, window sizes, 

emergency exists and locations, locations of smoke alarms, fixed 

appliance range hoods, and other standards related aspects of the 

manufactured home that can be shown on the floor plans,

    (5) Diagrams of the fuel supply system, potable water system and 

drain, waste and vent systems. The diagrams shall specify the types of 

materials used, types of fittings and methods of installing required 

safety equipment,

    (6) Wiring diagrams, including circuit allocation of electrical load 

and branch circuit calculations, a table of the branch circuit 

protection provided, the type of wiring used, and wiring methods,

    (7) Details showing the design of air supply and return systems,

    (8) Details of chassis construction, components, connections and 

running gear including rating capacities of tires,

    (9) A list of fixed and portable appliances furnished with the 

manufactured home, including type of appliance, rating of appliance, and 

applicable minimum and maximum performance ratings and/or energy 

requirements,

    (10) Detailed manufacturer installation instructions including 

specifications and procedures for the erection and hook-up of the home 

at its permanent location, and

    (11) Reports of all tests that were run to validate the conformance 

of the design to the standards.

    (c) The manufacturer shall submit to the DAPIA such information as 

the DAPIA may require in order to carry out quality assurance manual 

approvals. At a minimum, this information shall include the quality 

assurance manual for which approval is sought. That manual shall include 

the manufacturer's quality assurance program, an organizational chart 

showing the



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accountability, by position, of the manufacturer's quality control 

personnel, a description of production tests and test equipment required 

for compliance with the standards, a station-by-station description of 

the manufacturing process, a list of quality control inspections 

required by the manufacturer at each station, and identification by 

title of each person who will be held accountable for each quality 

control inspection.

    (d) Manufacturers may be required to furnish supplementary 

information to the DAPIA if the design information or the quality 

assurance manual is not complete or if any information is not in 

accordance with accepted engineering practice.

    (e) When a manufacturer wishes to make a change in an approved 

design or quality assurance manual, the manufacturer shall obtain the 

approval of the DAPIA which approved the design or manual prior to 

production for sale. The procedures for obtaining such approval are set 

out in Sec.  3282.361.

    (f) The information to be submitted to a DAPIA under Sec.  3282.203 

(b) and (c) may be prepared by the manufacturer's staff or outside 

consultants, including other DAPIAs. However, a DAPIA may not perform 

design or quality assurance manual approvals for any manufacturer whose 

design or manual has been created or prepared in whole or in part by 

members of the DAPIA's organization or of any affiliated organization.

    (g) Each manufacturer shall maintain a copy of the drawings, 

specifications, and sketches from each approved design received from a 

DAPIA under Sec.  3282.361(b)(4) in each plant in which manufactured 

homes are being produced to the design. Each manufacturer shall also 

maintain in each manufacturing plant a copy of the approved quality 

assurance manual received from a DAPIA under Sec.  3282.361(c)(3) that 

is being followed in the plant. These materials shall be kept current 

and shall be readily accessible for use by the Secretary or other 

parties acting under these regulations.



[41 FR 19852, May 13, 1976, as amended at 67 FR 12818, Mar. 19, 2002]