Wildomar Municipal Code Ch. 15.60 Prefabricated Buildings

Prefabricated buildings which are to be located in the City are subject to all of the provisions of this title regulating the construction of new buildings, unless such factory-built housing is manufactured in accordance with the requirements contained in the Health and Safety Code (Section 19960 et seq.) and Chapter 2 of Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations.

A. A prefabricated building is designed as a building which is assembled, or partly assembled, at a place other than the site on which it is to be permanently located.

B. A special permit shall be obtained for prefabricated buildings, in addition to regular building permits, if the building is prefabricated outside of the limits of the City. The permittee shall pay a fee of $0.62 per mile for each mile traveled to the prefabrication site for inspection purposes, from the nearest point on the boundary of the City measured by way of the shortest route usually traveled.

C. Factory-Built Housing.

1. Definition. "Factory-built housing" means a residential building, dwelling unit or an individual dwelling room or combination of rooms thereof, including units designed or used as a part of an institution for resident or patient care, which is either wholly manufactured or is in substantial part manufactured at an off-site location to be wholly or partially manufactured on-site in accordance with regulations adopted by the Commission of Housing and Community Development of the State of California pursuant to Section 19990 of the California Health and Safety Code.

2. Requirements. Factory-built housing installed in the City shall conform to all the requirements of other housing installed in the City except as such housing may be exempted from such requirements by the provisions of the California Factory-Built Housing Law (Sections 19960 to 19997 inclusive of the Health and Safety Code) and regulations adopted pursuant thereto (Sections 3003 to 3150, Title 25, California Code of Regulations).

3. Inspections and Fee for Permit. The City shall make inspections of factory-built housing required of other housing in the City except such as are made by the Department of Housing and Community Development pursuant to the California Factory-Built Housing Law and regulations adopted pursuant thereto. The permit fee covering the costs of the inspections required to be made to the installation of factory-built housing in the City shall be $75.00, and no other fee shall be charged by the City. Division of Housing approved components system will be treated as a conventional house with full charge for plan check and permit fee.

(Ord. 18 § 2, 2008, RCC § 15.44.010)