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 Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice requires that when market value is the applicable definition, the appraisal must also contain an analysis of the highest and best use as well as an estimation of exposure time.

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

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

Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Article 31 provides for the right against self-incrimination.

The U. S. Federal Highway Administration's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices provides guidelines for the appearance of speed limit signs.

The MEDLINE / PubMed database uses this citation style and the National Library of Medicine provides " ICMJE Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical Journals -- Sample References ".

Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice ( UCMJ ) also known as the General Article of the UCMJ is an article of military law in the United States that provides for penalties by court-martial various offences that prejudice good order and discipline or bring discredit upon the armed forces, such as for " disloyal " statements made " with the intent to promote disloyalty or disaffection toward the United States by any member of the armed forces or to interfere with or impair the loyalty to the United States or good order and discipline of any member of the armed forces.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice provides for several tiers of appeal.

The Uniform Commercial Code provides contractually-based relief to duped buyers based on warranties of authenticity.

Article 142 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice provides that not more than three judges may be appointed to the court from the same political party, which is a common provision for Article I courts and administrative agencies, but is unlike Article III federal courts.

The course provides instruction in machinegunnery, mortar gunnery, anti-armor operations, Marine Corps leadership, Marine Corps planning process, law of land warfare, anti-terrorism and force protection, written communications, verbal communications, Uniform Code of Military Justice, and personnel administration, section and platoon leadership, platoon / company defensive and offensive tactics, platoon patrolling, and fire support to leaders in the MOSs of 0369, 0302, and 0306.

The data URI scheme is a URI scheme ( Uniform Resource Identifier scheme ) that provides a way to include data in-line in web pages as if they were external resources.

Similarly, the Revised Uniform Partnership Act ( RUPA ) confers entity status on partnerships, but also provides that partners are individually liable for all partnership obligations.

In the United States, section 201 of the Revised Uniform Partnership Act ( RUPA ) of 1994 provides that " A partnership is an entity distinct from its partners.

The U. S. Uniform Commercial Code provides that in an auction without reserve the goods may not be withdrawn once they have been put up.

The Uniform Transfers To Minors Act ( UTMA ) is a uniform act drafted and recommended by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 1986, and subsequently enacted by most U. S. States, which provides a mechanism under which gifts can be made to a minor without requiring the presence of an appointed guardian for the minor, and which satisfies the Internal Revenue Service requirements for qualifying a gift of up to $ 13, 000 for exclusion from the gift tax.

In order to alleviate problems of proving simultaneous death, many states in the United States have enacted the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act, which provides that each spouse will be treated as though they predeceased the other if they die within 120 hours of one another.

The Uniform Code of Military Justice, passed by Congress in 1950 and signed by President Harry S Truman, established the policies and procedures for discharging service members.

Under the roof of the CJIS are the programs for the National Crime Information Center ( NCIC ), Uniform Crime Reporting ( UCR ), Fingerprint Identification, Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System ( IAFIS ), NCIC 2000, and the National Incident-Based Reporting System ( NIBRS ).

Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for 2006 was released on June 4, 2006.

This is not necessary for courts-martial involving military members subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice as those military members are bound by the UCMJ regardless of their location.

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.

The conferences issued a model Uniform Vehicle Code for adoption by the states, and a Model Municipal Traffic Ordinance for adoption by cities.

German films depicted homosexuality and were distributed throughout Europe, but 1931's Mädchen in Uniform was not distributed in the U. S. because of the depiction of an adolescent's love for a female teacher in boarding school.

Under the Uniform Commercial Code, the parties to a contract for sale of goods may reduce the limitations period to not less than one year, but may not extend it.

For U. S. military cases, the Uniform Code of Military Justice ( UCMJ ) states that all charges except for those facing general court martial ( where a death sentence could be involved ) have a five-year statute of limitation.

The Uniform Commercial Code abrogated this requirement for modification of contracts, as discussed below.

In the United States, contracts for the sale of goods where the price equals $ 500 or more ( with the exception of professional merchants performing their normal business transactions, or any custom-made items designed for one specific buyer ) fall under the statute of frauds under the Uniform Commercial Code ( article 2, section 201 ).

The application of the statute of frauds to dealings between merchants has been modified by provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, which is a statute that has been enacted at least in part by every state ( Louisiana has enacted all of the UCC except for Article 2, as it prefers to maintain its civil law tradition governing the sale of goods ).

Uniform Commercial Code § 1-206 sets out a " catch-all " statute of frauds for personal property not covered by any other specific law, stating that a contract for the sale of such property where the purchase price exceeds $ 500 is not enforceable unless memorialized by a signed writing.

Instead, trade secrets are protected under state laws, and most states have ratified the Uniform Trade Secrets Act ( UTSA ), except for Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, and Texas.

A relatively recent development in the United States is the adoption of the UTSA, the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, which has been adopted by approximately 46 states as the basis for trade secret law.

Hostnames appear as a component in Uniform Resource Locators ( URLs ) for Internet resources such as web sites ( e. g., en. wikipedia. org ).

The domain name is a component of a Uniform Resource Locator ( URL ) used to access web sites, for example:

Furthermore, the Secretary has several statutory responsibilities under the Uniform Code of Military Justice ( UCMJ ) with respect to the administration of the military justice system for the Navy & the Marine Corps, including the authority to convene general courts-martial and to commute sentences.

In RFC 3615 urn: swift: was defined as Uniform Resource Names ( URNs ) for SWIFT FIN.

* RFC 3617 – Uniform Resource Identifier ( URI ) Scheme and Applicability Statement for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol ( TFTP ), E. Lear, October 2003.

Uniform is compulsory for all students, not only at primary and secondary school but also at the pre-university ( Junior College ) level.