Manufactured Home Law and Legal Definition
The Manufactured Housing program is a national program established to protect the health and safety of the owners of manufactured (mobile) homes. Under the program HUD issues, monitors, and enforces federal manufactured home construction and safety standards. HUD's authority is granted under The National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. 5401 et seq.; 24 CFR Part 3280 and Part 3282.
A manufactured home is defined by the regulations of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as housing that is essentially ready for occupancy upon leaving the factory and being transported to a building site. Other factory build homes, that require a significant amount of construction on site before they are ready for occupancy do not fall under the HUD definition. The following is a portion of a federal statute defining manufactured homes:
"Manufactured home'' means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which, in the traveling mode, is eight body feet or more in width or forty body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is three hundred twenty or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein; except that such term shall include any structure which meets all the requirements of this paragraph except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the Secretary and complies with the standards established under this chapter"
Legal Definition list
- Manufactured Fiber
- Manufacture of Controlled Substance
- Manufacture of a Cosmetic Product [Food and Drugs]
- Manual of Patent Examination Procedure [MPEP]
- Manual Gift
- Manufactured Home
- Manufactured Home Improvement Loan [HUD]
- Manufactured Home Loan [HUD]
- Manufactured Home Lot Loan [HUD]
- Manufactured Home Purchase Loan [HUD]
- Manufactured-home transaction
