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The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Manufactured home means a dwelling unit fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility for installation or assembly at the building site and bearing a seal certifying that it is built in compliance with the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Code (42 U.S.C. 5401 et seq.) and complying with the Uniform Building Code for One- and Two-Family Homes of the State of Indiana (Indiana Code 36-7-4-1100). Such manufactured homes shall contain an excess of nine hundred fifty (950) square feet of occupied space and exceed a width of twenty-three (23) feet.

Manufactured housing construction and safety standards code means Title IV of the 1974 Housing and Community Development Act (42 U.S.C. § 5401 et seq.) as amended (previously known as the Federal Mobile Home Construction and Safety Act), rules and regulations adopted thereunder, which include H.U.D. approved information supplied by the home manufacturer, and regulations and interpretations of such code by the Indiana Administrative Building Council.

Occupied space means the total area of earth horizontally covered by the structure, excluding accessory structures such as, but not limited to, garages, patios, porches, terraces, pullouts and expansion rooms.

Underfloor space means that space between the bottom of the floor joists and the earth.

(Code 1983, 36-7-4-100(k), § 1)