15 CFR § 270.321 - Entry and inspection of property where building components, materials, artifacts, and records with respect to a building failure are located.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t15/s270.321"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "15 CFR § 270.321 - Entry and inspection of property where building components, materials, artifacts, and records with respect to a building failure are located."
title_number: 15
title_name: "Commerce and Foreign Trade"
section_number: "270.321"
section_name: "Entry and inspection of property where building components, materials, artifacts, and records with respect to a building failure are located."
chapter_name: "NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE"
subchapter_number: "G"
subchapter_name: "NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION SAFETY TEAMS"
part_number: "270"
part_name: "NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION SAFETY TEAMS"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Pub. L. 107-231, 116 Stat. 1471 (15 U.S.C. 7301 )."
regulatory_source: "68 FR 4694, Jan. 30, 2003, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "270"
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# 270.321 Entry and inspection of property where building components, materials, artifacts, and records with respect to a building failure are located.
(a) In the course of an investigation, entry and inspection of property where building components, materials, artifacts and records with respect to a building failure are located normally will be conducted following the procedures described in §§ 270.322 through 270.325 of this subpart.
(b) Upon a written showing by the Lead Investigator of urgent and compelling reasons to believe that building components, materials, artifacts or records located on a particular property may be destroyed were the procedures described in §§ 270.322 through 270.324 of this subpart followed, the Director, with the concurrence of the General Counsel may immediately issue a notice of inspection authority for such property, pursuant to § 270.325 of this subpart.