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Carolina Manufactured Housing
Retail Salesperson Study Prep
Questions
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 materials
Carolina Manufactured Housing
Retail Salesperson Study Prep
Questions
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 materials
