Pennsylvania Statutes Title 35 P.S. Health and Safety § 1651.2. Findings and declarations of policy

(1) An adequate supply of safe and sanitary housing is fundamental to the health, safety and welfare of the people of Pennsylvania.

(2) There exists in the Commonwealth a shortage of safe and sanitary housing.

(3) The production of housing using new and improved technology, techniques, methods and materials could lead to an increase in the available supply of safe and sanitary housing.

(4) Building and related codes of the communities within the Commonwealth, as enacted and applied, are not uniform and impede the utilization of new and improved technology, techniques, methods and materials in the production of housing.

(5) To facilitate the use of industrialized housing in the Commonwealth and to safeguard the health, safety and welfare of citizens of the Commonwealth, there is a need for uniform State standards and procedures for the identification, inspection of manufacture and assembly, and certification of industrialized housing and those components forming integral parts of housing structures for use in any and all communities in the Commonwealth.

(6) As standards for performance of industrialized housing and housing components are developed and adopted by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, other states, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, reciprocity in the recognition of certification of such industrialized housing and housing components will benefit both producers of industrialized housing and housing consumers in the Commonwealth.

(7) While recognizing that mobile homes constitute a category of industrialized housing, it is further recognized that mobile homes differ in characteristics of sufficient significance that they should be certified separately by the Commonwealth from other categories of industrialized housing to be used in the Commonwealth.

(8) To facilitate the construction and installation of industrialized/commercial modular buildings and industrialized/commercial building modules for use in this Commonwealth, there is a need for uniform State standards and procedures for the identification, inspection and assembly and certification in a similar manner as industrialized housing.