"Factory-built Housing" means a factory-build structure designed for long-term residential use, the components of which are essentially constructed or assembled prior to its delivery to and installation upon a site. Factory-built Housing has the following features or characteristics: It is mass produced in a factory; designed and constructed for transportation to a site with or without a chassis for installation and use when connected to required utilities; either an independent, individual factory erected building or a module with two or more sides erected at the factory, for combination with other elements to form a building on the site. For the purposes of this chapter, "factory-built housing" shall include the following:
(a) "Manufactured Home". Any nonself-propelled housing transportable in one or more sections which, in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet or more in width or 40 body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 or more square feet, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling unit when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein, and which bears a label certifying that it is built in compliance with Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards.
(b) "Modular Home". Factory-built housing certified as meeting the State Building Code as applicable to modular housing. Once certified by the state, modular homes shall be subject to the same standards as site-built homes. Such housing may be made of one or more modular units and referred to as a "sectional".
(c) "sectional Home" means a dwelling made of two or more modular units transported to the homesite, put on a foundation and joined to make a single dwelling.
(d) "Mobile Home”. A transportable, factory-built home, designed to be used as a year-round residential dwelling and built prior to enactment of the Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, which became effective June 15, 1976.
(e) "Mobile Home, Double-wide or Triple-wide" means a mobile home consisting respectively of two or three sections combined horizontally at the site to form a single dwelling, while still retaining their individual chassis for possible future movement.
(f) "Mobile Home, Expandable" means a mobile home with one or more room sections that fold, collapse, or telescope into the principal unit when being transported and which can be expanded at the site to provide additional living area.
This category does not include the sub-assembly methods or construction know as pre-fab or pre-cut, in which cases some portions or the preparation or sub-assembly may be done at the factory but not erected until at the foundation site.