Section 410IAC6-6-11. Ground anchors

   (a) In all mobile home communities and additions to mobile home communities, ground anchors shall be installed on each occupied mobile home lot.

  (b) When ground anchors are installed, they shall be installed along each I-beam of the mobile home in a row beginning not more than six (6) feet from each end wall of the mobile home. The ground anchors placed along the I-beams of the mobile home shall not be separated by more than twenty-four (24) feet unless a greater separation distance is certified by a registered professional engineer or architect as providing the same or better protection as that provided by the specified configuration.

  (c) Provision for diagonal ties between ground anchors and the mobile home shall be made in conjunction with each vertical tie-down.

  (d) Ground anchors exposed to weathering shall be resistant to weathering deterioration at least equivalent to that provided by a coating of zinc on steel of not less than thirty-hundredths (0.30) ounces per square foot of surface coated. Each ground anchor shall be as follows:

(1) Designed to resist an allowable working load equal to or exceeding three thousand one hundred fifty (3,150) pounds.

(2) Capable of withstanding a fifty percent (50%) overload without failure.

  (e) After the effective date of this rule, each mobile home or manufactured home installed in a mobile home community shall be installed by a manufactured home installer licensed in accordance with IC 25-23.7-8.

  (f) After the effective date of this rule, all new mobile homes or manufactured homes installed in a mobile home community shall be installed in accordance with the manufacturer's installation instructions, as required by IC 25-23.7-8-2.

  (g) After the effective date of this rule, all used mobile homes or manufactured homes installed in a mobile home community shall be installed in accordance with the manufacturer's installation instructions, if such installation instructions are available, as required by IC 25-23.7-8-2. (Indiana State Department of Health; Reg HSE 21R, Sec 11; filed Jun 14, 1974, 2:29 p.m.: Rules and Regs. 1975, p. 334; filed Aug 7, 1981, 2:04 p.m.: 4 IR 1822; readopted filed Jul 11, 2001, 2:23 p.m.: 24 IR 4234; filed Mar 5, 2007, 2:38 p.m.: 20070404-IR-410050328FRA; readopted filed Sep 11, 2013, 3:19 p.m.: 20131009-IR-410130346RFA)