02-385-110 Me. Code R. § 3-14
The Board shall make such inspections of the entire process of manufacturing, certifying, handling, storing, and delivering State-certified modular homes produced pursuant to an approved building system as it deems necessary.The Board will ordinarily delegate this authority to an authorized inspection agency.
As part of the process of evaluating approved building systems and compliance assurance programs, the authorized inspection agency shall inspect the manufacturing facilities in which the homes are to be manufactured.
The authorized inspection agency shall make such inspections as may be required by an approved compliance assurance program, or as may be deemed necessary by the Board.
Prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy, the authorized inspection agency shall inspect State-certified modular homes which it determines to have been sufficiently damaged after certification to warrant such inspection and to take such action with regard to such homes as is authorized under Subchapter 3,Section14(5), or as is otherwise necessary to eliminate dangerous conditions.
The Board or a Board authorized inspection agency shall require State-certified modular homes which are so damaged as to no longer comply with the Act and this chapter to be brought into compliance promptly. If such homes are not brought into compliance with the Act and this chapter within a reasonable time, or if they are so damaged that they cannot be brought into compliance, the executive director of the Board or authorized inspection agency must order in writing that the labels be removed from such homes.The order must include the reasons for such action and must inform the manufacturer of the time and manner in which an appeal to the Board may be taken pursuant to Subchapter 6.
Irreparably damaged homes must be disposed of in accordance with applicable law.
No inspection entailing disassembly, damage to, or destruction of State-certified modular homes may be conducted except to implement Subchapter 3,Section15(8) and Subchapter 3,Section 16(5).
02-385 C.M.R. ch. 110, § 3-14