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29 entriesSection 910Requires a claimant, before suing any party alleged to have contributed to a residential-construction standards violation, to send the builder a specified…Section 911Defines “builder” for residential-construction claims as an entity or individual that, when the property was sold, was in the business of selling…Section 912Requires builders to provide specified plans and maintenance, warranty, and product documents within 30 days of qualifying written requests, generally at the…Section 913Requires a builder to acknowledge a construction claim notice in writing within 14 days after receipt and to include a claimant’s attorney…Section 914Requires a builder, when the sales agreement is executed, to tell the homeowner whether it will use the chapter’s nonadversarial procedure or…Section 915Allows a homeowner to leave the chapter’s prelitigation process and file suit if the builder misses the acknowledgment or inspection deadline, declines…Section 916Requires a builder choosing inspection to complete initial inspection and testing within 14 days after acknowledging the claim, pay all inspection costs,…Section 917Allows a builder, within 30 days after the initial or requested second inspection or testing, to offer a written repair and required…Section 918Requires a homeowner to authorize a proposed repair within 30 days after receiving the offer, unless requesting up to three qualifying alternative…Section 919Requires a repair offer to include an offer of mediation if the homeowner chooses, generally limited to four hours and occurring within…Section 920Allows a claimant to file an action if the builder fails to offer repair or otherwise strictly comply with the chapter on…Section 921Requires a builder resolving a claim through repair to arrange and provide the repair without charge and compensate resulting damages. Work must…Section 922Requires a builder, upon the claimant’s request, to allow repair work to be observed and electronically recorded, video recorded, or photographed by…Section 923Requires a builder, when requested by the homeowner or the homeowner’s legal representative, to provide copies of all correspondence, photographs, and other…Section 924Requires a builder that offers to repair some, but not all, claimed unmet standards to provide, at the same time as the…Section 925Allows a claimant to proceed with filing an action when the builder fails to complete the repair within the time specified in…Section 926Prohibits a builder from obtaining any release or waiver in exchange for repair work required by the chapter. After the repair concludes,…Section 927Extends an expired filing period to 100 days after repair completion from the claimant’s original claim; if the builder fails to acknowledge,…Section 928Requires a homeowner, after a builder invokes the chapter and completes a repair and if no prior mediation occurred, to request mediation…Section 929Allows a builder to offer cash without offering a repair; the homeowner may accept or reject the offer and file an action,…Section 930Sets the chapter’s time periods and requirements to govern strictly unless the parties mutually extend them through a postclaim written homeowner confirmation…Section 931Requires unmet residential-construction standards within mixed claims to proceed under this part even when the action also includes personal injury, class, statutory,…Section 932Requires later-discovered unmet-standard claims to proceed separately unless the parties agree otherwise. A claimant need not restart the process for a detached…Section 933Allows evidence of a builder’s repair effort when construction standards are enforced, while allowing the claimant to rely on the property’s pre-repair…Section 934Allows evidence of both parties’ conduct during the construction-claim process in a later enforcement action, except conduct occurring in mediation. Builder repair…Section 935Exempts parties from repeating substantially similar requirements under the referenced common-interest-development procedure when substantially similar provisions of this construction-claim chapter have already…Section 936Sets the title’s requirements to apply to contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, manufacturers, and design professionals to the extent their negligence or contract breach…Section 937Establishes that the residential-construction title does not eliminate or override compliance with the referenced Code of Civil Procedure requirement. It also preserves…Section 938Limits the residential-construction title to new residential units for which the seller signed the buyer’s purchase agreement on or after January 1,…