The HVAC industry was historically regulated by the manufacturers of HVAC equipment, but Regulating and Standards organizations such as HARDI, ASHRAE, SMACNA, ACCA, Uniform Mechanical Code, International Mechanical Code, and AMCA have been established to support the industry and encourage high standards and achievement.

Additionally, in the US, valuation differences between modular homes and site-built homes are often negligible in real estate appraisal practice ; modular homes can, in some market areas, ( depending on local appraisal practices per Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice ) be evaluated the same way as site-built dwellings of similar quality.

USA, Licensed or Certified Apppraisers may be required under state, federal, or local laws to develop appraisals subject to USPAP Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.

* The Appraisal Foundation, Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice.

The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, or USPAP, provides for mass appraisal standards to govern the use of hedonic regressions and other automated valuation models when used for real estate appraisal.

It is important to note that an actual real estate appraisal is usually performed in accordance with a set of standards, most commonly in the U. S. the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, or USPAP for short.

Uniform Standards for Minor Decoy Operations

The Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act amends this provision to allow a federal court to impose the discovery stay on related securities suits in state court.

Determination of the fair market value must be performed by a qualified appraiser, typically defined as someone certified to perform such work ( either by the American Society of Appraisers, the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute, or another similar organization ), someone who routinely performs this type of work as a normal course of business, and in compliance with federal and state laws, as well as generally accepted appraisal standards and the Uniform Standards of the Professional Appraisal Practice ( USPAP ).

For mortgage valuations of improved residential property in the US, the appraisal is most often reported on a standardized form, such as the Uniform Residential Appraisal Report.

The best known publications, Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits and Incoterms ®, have been translated into more than 30 languages.

* Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, an international standard for drawing up letters of credit

In such cases, the International Chamber of Commerce Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits applies ( UCP 600 being the latest version ).

* Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits

The U. S. Franchise Disclosure Document ( FDD ) is lengthy ( 300-700 pp +) and detailed ( see Uniform Franchise Offering Circular ( UFOC ) for elements of disclosure ), and generally requires audited financial statements from the franchisor in a particular format, except in some circumstances, such as where a franchisor is new.

* Gatings: Uniform Gating: A form of punishment that requires pupils to wear Canterbury Dress all day every day, while getting a form signed by someone in a position of authority ( usually a teacher or a purple ) at 15 minute intervals during their free time.

Domains which are registered with ICANN registrars, generally have to use the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy ( UDRP ), however, Germany's DENIC requires people to use the German civil courts, and Nominet UK deals with Intellectual Property and other disputes through its own dispute resolution service.

In the United States, Uniform Plumbing Code Section 409. 2. 2 requires an open front seat: " All water closet seats, except those within dwelling units or for private use, shall be of the open front type.

The Franchise Rule requires a franchisee be supplied a Uniform Franchise Offering Circular ( UFOC ) or Franchise Disclosure Document ( FDD ) prior to signing a franchise agreement, a minimum of ten days before signing a franchise agreement.

Congress also has the duty and authority to prescribe the laws and regulations under which the armed forces operate, such as the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and requires that all Generals and Admirals appointed by the president be confirmed by a majority vote of the Senate before they can assume their office.

In the Morven Campus, the # 1 Uniform requires a school blazer and necktie to be worn.

The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act ( UCCJEA ) requires states to apply the law of the " home state ;" that is, the forum which originally determined custody and maintenance.

Users take advantage of this when they recite meaningful Uniform Resource Locators ( URLs ) and e-mail addresses without having to know how the computer actually locates the services.

Under a Uniform Act in force in most jurisdictions of the United States, being an organ donor is a simple process that can often be accomplished when a driver's license is renewed.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Uniform Guidelines are also influential in guiding personnel selection although they have been criticized as outdated when compared to the current state of knowledge in I – O psychology.

Officers of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps are classified as non-combatants, but can be subjected to the Uniform Code of Military Justice ( UCMJ ) and the Geneva Conventions when designated by the Commander-in-Chief as a military force or if they are detailed or assigned to work with the armed forces.

With the proclamation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and change to communism, the promotion of a Cyrillic-derived alphabet also began, but when the tensions between the Soviet Union and China grew bigger during the late 1950s, the Chinese devised a new alphabet based upon Pinyin and Cyrillic ( the character structure looks like the Uniform Turkic Alphabet – a Cyrillic-influenced Latin alphabet, full of Latin letters like Ə, Ƣ, Ⱨ, Ɵ, etc.

In regard to the law of intestate succession ( when a person dies without a will ), under the Uniform Probate Code of the United States section 2-103, after a surviving spouse receives his or her share, the descendants ( depending on the circumstances this may include children, grandchildren, or great grandchildren, either biological or adopted ) receive the remainder of the intestate estate.

On 5 December 1839 the Uniform Fourpenny Post was introduced by the General Post Office but lasted only 36 days until 9 January 1840 when the Uniform Penny Post was introduced.

The military justice system continued to operate under the Articles of War and Articles for the Government of the Navy until 31 May 1951, when the Uniform Code of Military Justice went into effect.

Also, " Missing Movement " is another term which is used to describe when a particular serviceman fails to arrive at the appointed time to deploy ( or " move out ") with his assigned unit, ship, or aircraft ; in the United States military, it is a violation of the Article 87 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Also, when any given jurisdiction adopts a model building code, it adopts a specific edition of the model code ( for example, the 1997 Uniform Building Code or the 2006 International Building Code ), which then becomes the law of that jurisdiction.

This uniform was worn until 2004 when the force switched to a slightly modernised version of the Winter Uniform, to be worn all year round.

The US Air Force uses a foliage green suede combat boot with its Airman Battle Uniform, although a tan version is authorized until 2011, when the green boot will become mandatory.

Under the Uniform Commercial Code, a person is considered to be insolvent when the party has ceased to pay its debts in the ordinary course of business, or cannot pay its debts as they become due, or is insolvent within the meaning of the Bankruptcy Code.

The US Army and US Air Force have also removed the black jungle boot from frontline service for suede leather desert-style boots when the US Army adopted the Army Combat Uniform and the US Air Force adopted the Airman Battle Uniform.

Designed by Oscar de la Renta, it continued to be the uniform until August 2008, when the " Centennial Scout Uniform " was unveiled.

The UCCJEA replaced a previous Uniform Act, the " Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act ", primarily because the old act was inconsistent with the federal Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act when determining proper jurisdiction for initial custody determinations and because of contradictory interpretations of the PKPA.

: The epaulets of the Army Green Uniform and the Army Service Uniform ( when not worn in dress configuration )

Uniform Crime Reports ( UCR ) began in the late 1920s when the Committee on Uniform Crime Records, established by the International Association of Chiefs of Police ( IACP ) in 1927, published the first version of the Uniform Crime Reporting Handbook.

The value of the srsName attribute is a Uniform Resource Identifier ( URI ).

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, robbery is " the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and / or by putting the victim in fear.