SECTION 70.64. Responsibilities of the Department--Proprietary Information Protected

(a) All designs, plans, specifications, compliance control programs, manuals, on-site construction instructions and documentation, information relating to alternate methods or materials, or any other documents submitted by a manufacturer, industrialized builder, or REF builder to the council, the department, or local building official are proprietary information and shall only be used for purposes of assuring compliance with the provisions of the Industrialized Housing and Buildings statute and this chapter.

(b) The items and information set forth in subsection (a) furnished by the manufacturer, industrialized builder or REF builder to the council, the department, or local building official, shall not be copied or distributed to any other person except with the manufacturer's, industrialized builder's or REF builder's written permission except as needed to assure compliance with the provisions of the Act, or under the direction of the Texas attorney general pursuant to the Texas Public Information Act, Texas Government Code, Chapter 552.

Source Note: The provisions of this §70.64 adopted to be effective November 16, 1993, 18 TexReg 7925; amended to be effective December 1, 2003, 28 TexReg 10458; amended to be effective January 1, 2010, 34 TexReg 9409