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42 U.S.C. § 5420 — Failure to report violations; penalties
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Any person, other than an officer or employee of the United States, or a person exercising inspection functions under a State plan pursuant to [section 5422 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5422&num=0&edition=prelim), who knowingly and willfully fails to report a violation of any construction or safety standard established under [section 5403 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5403&num=0&edition=prelim) may be fined up to $1,000 or imprisoned for up to one year, or both.
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Any person, other than an officer or employee of the United States, or a person exercising inspection functions under a State plan pursuant to [section 5422 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5422&num=0&edition=prelim), who knowingly and willfully fails to report a violation of any construction or safety standard established under [section 5403 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5403&num=0&edition=prelim) may be fined up to $1,000 or imprisoned for up to one year, or both.
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**(a) Findings** Congress finds that—
(1) manufactured housing plays a vital role in meeting the housing needs of the Nation; and
(2) manufactured homes provide a significant resource for affordable homeownership and rental housing accessible to all Americans.
**(b) Purposes** The purposes of this chapter are—
(1) to protect the quality, durability, safety, and affordability of manufactured homes;
(2) to facilitate the availability of affordable manufactured homes and to increase homeownership for all Americans;
(3) to provide for the establishment of practical, uniform, and, to the extent possible, performance-based Federal construction standards for manufactured homes;
(4) to encourage innovative and cost-effective construction techniques for manufactured homes;
(5) to protect residents of manufactured homes with respect to personal injuries and the amount of insurance costs and property damages in manufactured housing, consistent with the other purposes of this section;
(6) to establish a balanced consensus process for the development, revision, and interpretation of Federal construction and safety standards for manufactured homes and related regulations for the enforcement of such standards;
(7) to ensure uniform and effective enforcement of Federal construction and safety standards for manufactured homes; and
(8) to ensure that the public interest in, and need for, affordable manufactured housing is duly considered in all determinations relating to the Federal standards and their enforcement.
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**(a) Establishment**
(1) **Authority** — The Secretary shall establish, by order, appropriate Federal manufactured home construction and safety standards, each of which—
(A) shall—
(i) be reasonable and practical;
(ii) meet high standards of protection consistent with the purposes of this chapter; and
(iii) be performance-based and objectively stated, unless clearly inappropriate; and
(B) except as provided in subsection (b), shall be established in accordance with the consensus standards development process.
(2) **Consensus standards and regulatory development process**
(A) *Initial agreement* — Not later than 180 days after December 27, 2000, the Secretary shall enter into a contract with an administering organization. The contractual agreement shall—
(i) terminate on the date on which a contract is entered into under subparagraph (B); and
(ii) require the administering organization to—
(I) recommend the initial members of the consensus committee under paragraph (3);
(II) administer the consensus standards development process until the termination of that agreement; and
(III) administer the consensus development and interpretation process for procedural and enforcement regulations and regulations specifying the permissible scope and conduct of monitoring until the termination of that agreement.
(B) *Competitively procured contract* — Upon the expiration of the 4-year period beginning on the date on which all members of the consensus committee are appointed under paragraph (3), the Secretary shall, using competitive procedures (as such term is defined in [section 132 of title 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section132&num=0&edition=prelim)), enter into a competitively
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**(a) Jurisdiction of State agency or court under State law** Nothing in this chapter shall prevent any State agency or court from asserting jurisdiction under State law over any manufactured home construction or safety issue with respect to which no Federal manufactured home construction and safety standard has been established pursuant to the provisions of [section 5403 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5403&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Assumption of responsibility for enforcement of Federal standards; submission of enforcement plan to Secretary** Any State which, at any time, desires to assume responsibility for enforcement of manufactured home safety and construction standards relating to any issue with respect to which a Federal standard has been established under [section 5403 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5403&num=0&edition=prelim), shall submit to the Secretary a State plan for enforcement of such standards.
**(c) Criteria for approval of State plan by Secretary** The Secretary shall approve the plan submitted by a State under subsection (b), or any modification thereof, if such plan in his judgment—
(1) designates a State agency or agencies as the agency or agencies responsible for administering the plan throughout the State;
(2) provides for the enforcement of manufactured home safety and construction standards promulgated under [section 5403 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section5403&num=0&edition=prelim);
(3) provides for a right of entry and inspection of all factories, warehouses, or establishments in such State in which manufactured homes are manufactured and for the review of plans
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TITLE 42—THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
§ 5420
(3) Payments to States
On and after the effective date of the Manu-
factured Housing Improvement Act of 2000, the
Secretary shall continue to fund the States
having approved State plans in the amounts
which are not less than the allocated amounts,
based on the fee distribution system in effect
on the day before such effective date.
(Pub. L. 93–383, title VI, § 620, Aug. 22, 1974, 88
Stat. 712; Pub. L. 96–153, title III, § 320, Dec. 21,
1979, 93 Stat. 1119; Pub. L. 96–399, title III,
§ 308(c)(4), Oct. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1641; Pub. L.
106–569, title VI, § 609, Dec. 27, 2000, 114 Stat.
3010.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
For the effective date of the Manufactured Housing
Improvement Act of 2000, referred to in subsec. (e)(3),
see section 612 of Pub. L. 106–569, set out as an Effective
Date of 2000 Amendment note under section 5401 of this
title.
AMENDMENTS
2000—Pub. L. 106–569 amended section catchline and
text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as fol-
lows: ‘‘In carrying out the inspections required under
this chapter, the Secretary may establish and impose
on manufactured home manufacturers, distributors,
and dealers such reasonable fees as may be necessary to
offset the expenses incurred by him in conducting such
inspections, and the Secretary may use any fees so col-
lected to pay expenses incurred in connection with such
inspections, except that this section shall not apply in
any State which has in effect a State plan under sec-
tion 5422 of this title.’’
1980—Pub.
L.
96–399
substituted
‘‘manufactured
home’’ for ‘‘mobile home’’.
1979—Pub. L. 96–153 substituted ‘‘conducting such in-
spections, and the Secretary may use any fees so col-
lected to pay expenses incurred
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