(ANSWERED CORRECTLY )South Carolina
Manufactured Housing Retail Salesperson Study
Prep 2025/2026
Act - Correct Answer The Uniform Standards Code for Manufactured Housing Act.
Anchoring Equipment - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer A method of construction which when properly
designed and installed will resist overturning and lateral movement of the manufactured
home.
Approved - Correct Answer Means acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction.
Authority Having Jurisdiction - Correct Answer The organization, office, or individual
responsible for "approving" equipment, an installation, or a procedure.
Authorized Official - Correct Answer A person acting on behalf of a manufactured
home retail dealer.
Board - Correct Answer The South Carolina Manufactured Housing Board.
Defect - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer A tie intended to primarily resist horizontal or shear
forces and which may secondarily resist vertical, uplift, and overturning forces.
Department - Correct Answer The Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation and
the staff responsible for providing administrative support to the Manufactured Housing
Board.
Dwelling Unit - Correct Answer 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) - Correct Answer The part of the structural system which is normally
used to transit accumulative design loads to the support system.
Foundation - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer A listed connector designed for connecting
the manufactured home to the gas supply source.
Ground Anchor - Correct Answer A device at the manufactured home stand designed
to transfer manufactured home anchoring loads to the ground.
Habitable Room - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer A hazard that presents an imminent and
unreasonable risk of death or severe personal injury.
Inspector - Correct Answer A person employed by the Department as being qualified
to adequately inspect the construction, electrical installations and mechanical
installations of manufactured homes, as well as the installation, tie downs, blocking, and
sewer connections of new manufactured homes.
Install/Installed - Correct Answer The installation of operations performed at the
occupancy site which render a manufactured home fit for habitation, Such operations
include, but are not limited to, positioning, blocking, leveling, supporting, tying down,
connecting utility systems, and assembling multiple or expandable units.
Labled - Correct Answer The equipment or materials to which has been attached a
label, symbol, or other identifying mark of an organization acceptable to the authority
having jurisdiction and concerned with product evaluation, that maintains periodic
inspection of production of labeled equipment or materials, and by whose labeling the
manufacturer indicates compliance with appropriate standards or performance in a
specified manner.
Listed - Correct Answer The equipment or materials included in a list published by an
organization acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction and concerned with product
evaluation, that maintains periodic inspection of production of labeled equipment or
Manufactured Housing Retail Salesperson Study
Prep 2025/2026
Act - Correct Answer The Uniform Standards Code for Manufactured Housing Act.
Anchoring Equipment - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer A method of construction which when properly
designed and installed will resist overturning and lateral movement of the manufactured
home.
Approved - Correct Answer Means acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction.
Authority Having Jurisdiction - Correct Answer The organization, office, or individual
responsible for "approving" equipment, an installation, or a procedure.
Authorized Official - Correct Answer A person acting on behalf of a manufactured
home retail dealer.
Board - Correct Answer The South Carolina Manufactured Housing Board.
Defect - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer A tie intended to primarily resist horizontal or shear
forces and which may secondarily resist vertical, uplift, and overturning forces.
Department - Correct Answer The Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation and
the staff responsible for providing administrative support to the Manufactured Housing
Board.
Dwelling Unit - Correct Answer 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) - Correct Answer The part of the structural system which is normally
used to transit accumulative design loads to the support system.
Foundation - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer A listed connector designed for connecting
the manufactured home to the gas supply source.
Ground Anchor - Correct Answer A device at the manufactured home stand designed
to transfer manufactured home anchoring loads to the ground.
Habitable Room - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer 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 - Correct Answer A hazard that presents an imminent and
unreasonable risk of death or severe personal injury.
Inspector - Correct Answer A person employed by the Department as being qualified
to adequately inspect the construction, electrical installations and mechanical
installations of manufactured homes, as well as the installation, tie downs, blocking, and
sewer connections of new manufactured homes.
Install/Installed - Correct Answer The installation of operations performed at the
occupancy site which render a manufactured home fit for habitation, Such operations
include, but are not limited to, positioning, blocking, leveling, supporting, tying down,
connecting utility systems, and assembling multiple or expandable units.
Labled - Correct Answer The equipment or materials to which has been attached a
label, symbol, or other identifying mark of an organization acceptable to the authority
having jurisdiction and concerned with product evaluation, that maintains periodic
inspection of production of labeled equipment or materials, and by whose labeling the
manufacturer indicates compliance with appropriate standards or performance in a
specified manner.
Listed - Correct Answer The equipment or materials included in a list published by an
organization acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction and concerned with product
evaluation, that maintains periodic inspection of production of labeled equipment or
