South Carolina Manufactured
Housing Retail Salesperson Study
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Act
Ans: The Uniform Standards Code for Manufactured Housing Act.
Anchoring Equipment
Ans: The straps, cables, turnbuckles, chains, or other devices of any kind including
tensioning devices, which are used to secure a manufactured home to the ground or
foundation.
Anchoring System
Ans: A method of construction which when properly designed and installed will resist
overturning and lateral movement of the manufactured home.
Approved
Ans: Means acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction.
,Authority Having Jurisdiction
Ans: The organization, office, or individual responsible for "approving" equipment, an
installation, or a procedure.
Authorized Official
Ans: A person acting on behalf of a manufactured home retail dealer.
Board
Ans: The South Carolina Manufactured Housing Board.
Defect
Ans: Includes a defect in the performance, construction, components, or material of a
manufactured home that renders the home or any part of it not fit for the ordinary use for
which it was intended.
Diagonal Tie
Ans: A tie intended to primarily resist horizontal or shear forces and which may secondarily
resist vertical, uplift, and overturning forces.
Department
,Ans: The Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation and the staff responsible for
providing administrative support to the Manufactured Housing Board.
Dwelling Unit
Ans: One or more habitable rooms which are designed to be occupied by one family with
facilities for living, sleeping, cooking, eating, and sanitation.
Frame (Main)
Ans: The part of the structural system which is normally used to transit accumulative design
loads to the support system.
Foundation
Ans: A site built or site assembled system of stabilizing devices which is:
1) capable of transferring design dead loads and live loads required by Federal Regulations
and other design loads unique to the local home sites due to winds, seismic, and water
conditions, that are imposed by or upon the structure into the underlying soil bedrock without
failure
2) in frost susceptible areas, placed at an adequate depth, or otherwise adequately protected,
to prevent frost damage
3) constructed of materials acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction
, Gas Supply Connector
Ans: A listed connector designed for connecting the manufactured home to the gas supply
source.
Ground Anchor
Ans: A device at the manufactured home stand designed to transfer manufactured home
anchoring loads to the ground.
Habitable Room
Ans: A room or enclosed floor space arranged for living, eating, food preparation, or sleeping
purposes not including bathrooms, toilet compartments, laundries, pantries foyers, hallways,
and other accessory spaces.
Hurricane Resistive Manufactured Home
Ans: A manufactured home which meets the wind design load requirements for Zone II in
Subpart D, Section 3280-305(c) (2) of the Federal Standard or the applicable hurricane
resistive design requirements of the Standard of Manufactured Homes.
Imminent Safety Hazard
Housing Retail Salesperson Study
Prep Questions and Correct Answers
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Act
Ans: The Uniform Standards Code for Manufactured Housing Act.
Anchoring Equipment
Ans: The straps, cables, turnbuckles, chains, or other devices of any kind including
tensioning devices, which are used to secure a manufactured home to the ground or
foundation.
Anchoring System
Ans: A method of construction which when properly designed and installed will resist
overturning and lateral movement of the manufactured home.
Approved
Ans: Means acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction.
,Authority Having Jurisdiction
Ans: The organization, office, or individual responsible for "approving" equipment, an
installation, or a procedure.
Authorized Official
Ans: A person acting on behalf of a manufactured home retail dealer.
Board
Ans: The South Carolina Manufactured Housing Board.
Defect
Ans: Includes a defect in the performance, construction, components, or material of a
manufactured home that renders the home or any part of it not fit for the ordinary use for
which it was intended.
Diagonal Tie
Ans: A tie intended to primarily resist horizontal or shear forces and which may secondarily
resist vertical, uplift, and overturning forces.
Department
,Ans: The Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation and the staff responsible for
providing administrative support to the Manufactured Housing Board.
Dwelling Unit
Ans: One or more habitable rooms which are designed to be occupied by one family with
facilities for living, sleeping, cooking, eating, and sanitation.
Frame (Main)
Ans: The part of the structural system which is normally used to transit accumulative design
loads to the support system.
Foundation
Ans: A site built or site assembled system of stabilizing devices which is:
1) capable of transferring design dead loads and live loads required by Federal Regulations
and other design loads unique to the local home sites due to winds, seismic, and water
conditions, that are imposed by or upon the structure into the underlying soil bedrock without
failure
2) in frost susceptible areas, placed at an adequate depth, or otherwise adequately protected,
to prevent frost damage
3) constructed of materials acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction
, Gas Supply Connector
Ans: A listed connector designed for connecting the manufactured home to the gas supply
source.
Ground Anchor
Ans: A device at the manufactured home stand designed to transfer manufactured home
anchoring loads to the ground.
Habitable Room
Ans: A room or enclosed floor space arranged for living, eating, food preparation, or sleeping
purposes not including bathrooms, toilet compartments, laundries, pantries foyers, hallways,
and other accessory spaces.
Hurricane Resistive Manufactured Home
Ans: A manufactured home which meets the wind design load requirements for Zone II in
Subpart D, Section 3280-305(c) (2) of the Federal Standard or the applicable hurricane
resistive design requirements of the Standard of Manufactured Homes.
Imminent Safety Hazard
