N.J. Admin. Code § 5:23-4A.4
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the meanings given, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated by the context:
"Act" means the State Uniform Construction Code Act, P.L. 1975, c.217, as supplemented by P.L. 1991, c.457 and the ratification of the Interstate Compact on Industrialized/Modular Buildings.
"Approved" means approved by the Industrialized Buildings Commission, a participating state or a designated evaluation/inspection agency.
"Building component" means any subsystem, sub-assembly or other system of closed construction that is designed for use in, or as part of, a structure. The component may include structural, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, and fire protection systems and other systems affecting health and safety.
"Building system" means the method of constructing a type of industrialized/modular building or building component that is described by plans, specifications, and other documentation that together establish a set of limits meeting the requirements of this subchapter for that type of industrialized/modular building or building component. The system may include structural, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, and other systems affecting health and safety.
"Certification" means the process whereby participating states and local building inspection agencies are assured that elements of closed construction, which are not practical to inspect at building sites, conform to applicable codes.
"Certification label" means an approved insignia or seal evidencing certification in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures of the Industrialized Buildings Commission.
"Closed construction" means any building, building component, assembly, or system that is made or assembled in manufacturing facilities off the building site for installation, or assembly and installation, on the building site such that concealed parts or processes of manufacture cannot be inspected at the building site without disassembly, damage, or destruction. This definition shall not include products, such as structural, electrical, and plumbing fixtures and equipment, that are tested, listed, labeled, and certified by a nationally recognized testing laboratory.
"Code" means the codes, standards, specifications and requirements adopted pursuant to N.J.A.C. 5:23-4A.5.
"Commission" means the Industrialized Buildings Commission.
"Compliance assurance documents" means approved building system documents, an approved compliance assurance manual and approved on-site installation instructions.
"Compliance assurance program" means the policies and procedures assuring that industrialized/modular buildings and building components, including their manufacture, storage, delivery, assembly, handling, and installation, conform with this subchapter and with the IBC's Uniform Administrative Procedures.
"Designated" means selected by the Commission to perform one or more of the inspection and/or evaluation functions described under the Uniform Administrative Procedures.
"Evaluation agency" means a designated person or organization, private or public, determined by the Commission to be qualified by reason of facilities, personnel, experience and demonstrated reliability and independence of judgment, to investigate and evaluate industrialized/modular buildings, building components, building systems or compliance assurance programs.
"Independence of judgment" means not being affiliated with or influenced or controlled by building manufacturers by producers, suppliers, or vendors of products or equipment used in industrialized/modular buildings and building components, in any manner which is likely to affect capacity to render reports and findings objectively and without bias.
"Industrialized/modular building" means any building of closed construction, including, but not limited to, modular housing that is factory-built single-family and multi-family housing (including closed-wall, panelized housing) as well as other modular, nonresidential buildings. Industrialized/modular building does not include any structure subject to the requirements of the National Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974.
"Inspection agency" means a designated person or organization, private or public, that is determined by the Commission to be qualified by reason of facilities, personnel, experience and demonstrated reliability and independence of judgment, to monitor compliance assurance programs.
"Installation" means the process of affixing, or assembling and affixing, industrialized/modular buildings or building components on a building site.
"Interim reciprocal agreement" means a formal reciprocity agreement as defined in P.L. 1991, c.457, which is the New Jersey statute ratifying the Interstate Compact on Industrialized/Modular Buildings.
"Module" means a closed wall structure or substantial part of a closed wall structure incorporating one or more rooms used as habitable, occupiable or mechanical/equipment space.
"Nonconformance" means the failure to adhere to the requirements of an approved building system or, where the building system is not specific, to the code.
"Participating state" means any compacting state or any non-compacting state that is acting under an interim reciprocal agreement.
N.J. Admin. Code § 5:23-4A.4
See: 25 N.J.R. 5388(a), 26 N.J.R. 1073(a).
Amended by R.2013 d.064, effective 4/15/2013.
See: 45 N.J.R. 6(a), 45 N.J.R. 891(a).
Rewrote the introductory paragraph and definitions "Closed construction", "Compliance assurance program", "Independence of judgment", "Industrialized/modular building", "Installation", "Interim reciprocal agreement" and "Participating state"; in definition "Act", inserted "ratification of the" and deleted "ratified thereby" following "Buildings"; in definition "Building component", substituted "The component" for " 'Building component' " in the second sentence; in definition "Building system", substituted "the" for "a" following "means", inserted a comma following "specifications", and substituted "The system" for "This", a comma for "and" following "plumbing", and a comma for "systems" following "fire protection"; and in definition "Certification", substituted ", which are" for "that it is" and "building sites, conform to" for "the building site, conform to the".