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Accessory Structure
A structure not greater than 3,000 sq. ft. (279 m^2) in floor area, and not over two stories in height, the use of which is customarily accessory to and incidental to that of the dwelling that is located on the same lot.
Addition
an extension or increase in floor area or height of a building structure.
Air-conditioning system
A system that consists of heat exchangers, blowers, filters, supply, exhaust and return air systems, and shall include any apparatus installed in connection therewith.
Aiir Gap, drainage system
the unobstructed vertical distance through free atmosphere between the outlet of a waste pipe and the flood level rim of the fixture or receptor in which it is discharging.
Air Gap, water distribution system
The unobstructed vertical distance through free atmosphere between the lowest opening from water supply discharge to the flood level rim of a plumbing fixture.
Air-Impermeable Insulation
An insulation having an air permeance equal to or less than 0.02 L/s-m^2 and 75 Pa pressure differential tested according to ASTM E 2178 or E 283.
Alteration
Any construction or renovation to an existing structure that requires a permit. Also, a change in a mechanical system that involves an extension, addition or change to the arrangement, type or purpose of the original installation that requires a permit.
Antisiphon
A term applied to valves or mechanical devices that eliminate siphons.
Appliance
Device or apparatus that is manufactured and designed to utilize energy and for which this code provides specific requirements.
attic
the unfinished space between the ceiling and the top story of the roof assembly.
Backflow, Drainage
A reversal of flow in the drainage system.
Backflow preventer
A device or means to prevent backflow.
Bathroom Group
A group of fixtures, including or excluding a bidet, consisting of a water closet, lavatory, and bathtub or shower. such fixtures are located together on the same floor level.
Bond Beam
A horizontal grouted element within masonry in which reinforcement is embedded.
Branch
Any part of the piping system other than a rise, main or stack.
Building
Any one and two-family dwelling or portion thereof, including townhouses, which is used of designed or intended to be used for human inhabitation, for living sleeping, cooking or eating purposes, or any combination thereof, and shall include accessory structures thereto.
Building Drain
The lowest piping that collects the discharge from all other drainage piping inside the house and extends 30 inches (762 mm) in developed length of pipe beyond the exterior walls and conveys drainage to the building sewer.
Building sewer
That part of the drainage system that extends for the end of the building drain and conveys it's discharge to a public sewer, individual sewage disposal system or other point of disposal.
Building Thermal envelope
The basement walls, exterior walls, floor, roof, and any other building element that enclose conditioned spaces.
Built-Up Roof Covering
Two or more layers of felt cemented together and surfaced with a cap sheet, mineral aggregate, smooth coating or similar surfaced material.
Combustion air
the air provided to fuel-burning equipment including air for fuel combustion, draft hood dilution and ventilation of the equipment enclosure
Developed lengths
the length of a pipeline measured along the center lineof the pipe and fittings.
Draft stop
A material, device or construction installed to restrict the movement of air between within open spaces of concealed areas of building components such as crawl spaces, floor ceiling assemblies, foor-ceiling assemblies and attics.
Duct System
A continuous passageway for te transmission of air which, in addition to ducts, which includes duct fittings, dampers, plenums, fans anf accessory air-handling equipment and appliances.
Equivalent Length
For determining friction losses in a piping system, the effect of a particular fitting equal to the friction loss through straight piping length if the same nominal diameter.
Evaporative Cooler
A device used for reducing air temperature by the process of evaporating water into an airstream.
FIber Cement Sliding
A manufactured, fiber-reinforcing product made with an inorganic hydraulic or calcium silicate binder formed by chemical reaction and reinforced with discrete organic or inorganic nonasbestos fibers, or both. Additive which enhance the manufacturing or product performance are permitted.
Fireblocking
Bulding materials or materials approved for use as fireblocking, installed to resist the free passage of flame to other areas of the building through concealed spaces.
Fire Separation Distance
The distance measure from the building face to one of the following:
1. The closest interior lot line
2. To the centerline of a street, an alley or public way.
3. To an imaginary line between two buildings on the lot.
Fixture Unit, Drainage
A measure of probable discharge into the drainage system by various types of plumbing fixtures.
Labeled
Labeled equipment affixed with a seal of approval from a nationally recognized testing facility.
Listed
materials, products included in a list issued by nationally recognized testing facilities
Owner
Any person, agent, firm or corporation that has a vested equity in a property.
Plumbing Fixture
A receptor or device that requires both and input and drainage.
Riser
A water pipe that extends vertically one full story or more to convey water
Rough-in
the installation of all parts of the plumbing system without the fixtures.
seismic design category
prerated design for earthquakes
Shear Wall
a general term for walls built to standing up to racking force.
soil stack or pipe
a pipe that conveys sewage containing fecal matter.
Stack venting
a method of venting a fixture through the soil or waste stack without individual fixture vents.
Structural Insulated Panel
A structural sandwich panel that consists of a styrofoam laminated between two pieces of plywood
Vapor Retarder Class
A measure of the ability of a material to limit the amount of vapor passage
Approved
Acceptable to the building official.
Basement
A story that is not a story above grade plane
BTU/H
The listed max. capacity of an appliance, absorption unit or burner expressed in British thermal units input per hour
Chimney
A primary vertical structure containing one or more flues, for the purpose of carrying gaseous products of combustion and air from a fuel burning appliance to the outside atmosphere.
Combustible Material
Any material not defined as non combustible
Conditioned area
That are within a building provided with heating and/or cooling equipment or systems capable of maintaining, through design or heat loss gain 68 F during the heating season and 80 F during the cooling season, or has a fixed opening directly to a conditioned area.
Conditioned Space
For energy, Space between a building that is provided with heating and/or cooling equipment or systems capable of maintaining, through design or heat/loss gain,50F during the heating season and 85F during the cooling season, or communicates directly with a conditioned space. for mechanical purposes, an area room or space being heated or cooled by an equipment or appliance.
Construction documents
Written, graphic and pictorial documents prepared or assembled for describing the design, location and physical characteristics of the elements of a project necessary for obtaining a building permit. Construction drawings shall be drawn to an appropriate scale.
Dead Loads
The weight of all materials of construction incorporated into the building including but not limited to walls, floors, roof, ceilings, stairways, built-in-partitions, finishing, cladding and other similar incorporated architectural and structural items and fixed service equipment.
Drain
Any pipe that carries soil and water borne waste in a building drainage system
Dwelling
Any building that contains one or two dwelling units used, intended, or designed to be built, used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or that are occupied for living purposes.
Dwelling Unit
A single unit providing complete independent living facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation.
Emergency Escape and Rescue Opening
An operable exterior window, door or similar device that provides for a means of escape and access for rescue in the event of an emergency.
Fixture Unit, Water Supply
A measure of the probable hydraulic demand on the water supply by various types of plumbing fixtures used to size water-piping systems. The water-supply fixture-unit value for a particular fixture depends on its volume rate of supply, on the time duration of a single supply operation and on the average time between successive operations.
Flame Spread Index
A comparative measure, expressed as a dimensionless number, derived from visual measurements of the spread of flame versus time for a material tested in accordance with ASTM E 84 or UL 723.
Flood-Level Rim
The edge of the receptor or fixture from which water overflows.
Flow Pressure
The static pressure reading in the water-supply pipe near the faucet or water outlet while the faucet or water outlet is open and flowing at capacity.
Flush Valve
A device located at the bottom of a flush tank that is operated to flush water closets.
Flushometer Tank
A device integrated within an air accumulator vessel that is designed to discharge a predetermined quantity of water to fixtures for flushing purposes.
Flushometer Valve
A flushometer valve is a device that discharges a predetermined quantity of water to fixtures for flushing purposes and is actuated by direct water pressure.
Furnace
A vented heating appliance designed or arranged to discharge heated air into a conditioned space or through a duct or ducts.
Grade
The finished ground level adjoining the building at all exterior walls.
Habitable Space
A space in a building for living, sleeping, eating or cooking. Bathrooms, toilet rooms, closets, halls, storage or utility spaces and similar areas are not considered habitable spaces.
Heat Pump
An appliance having heating or heating/cooling capability and that uses refrigerants to extract heat from air, liquid or other sources.
Height, Story
The vertical distance from top to top of two successive tiers of beams or finished floor surfaces; and, for the topmost story, from the top of the floor finish to the top of the ceiling joists or, where there is not a ceiling, to the top of the roof rafters.
Hurricane-Prone Regions
Areas vulnerable to hurricanes, defined as the U.S. Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico coasts where the basic wind speed is greater than 90 miles per hour (40 m/s), and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, Virgin Islands, and America Samoa.
Individual Sewage Disposal System
A system for disposal of sewage by means of a septic tank or mechanical treatment, designed for use apart from a public sewer to serve a single establishment or building.
Insulating Concrete Form
A concrete forming system using stay-in-place forms of rigid foam plastic insulation, a hybrid of cement and foam insulation, a hybrid of cement and wood chips, or other insulating material for constructing cast-in-place concrete walls.
Jurisdiction
The governmental unit that has adopted this code under due legislative authority.
Kitchen
Kitchen shall mean an area used, or designated to be used, for the preparation of food.
Labeled
Equipment, materials or products to which have been affixed a label, seal, symbol or other identifying mark of a nationally recognized testing laboratory, inspection agency or other organization concerned with product evaluation that maintains periodic inspection of the production of the above-labeled items and whose labeling indicates either that the equipment, material or product meets identified standards or has been tested and found suitable for a specified purpose.
Light-Framed Construction
A type of construction whose vertical and horizontal structural elements are primarily formed by a system of repetitive wood or cold-formed steel framing members.
listed
Equipment, materials, products or services included in a list published by an organization acceptable to the code official and concerned with evaluation of products or services that maintains periodic inspection of production of listed equipment or materials or periodic evaluation of services and whose listing states either that the equipment, material, product or service meets identified standards or has been tested and found suitable for a specified purpose.
Live loads
Those loads produced by the use and occupancy of the building or other structure and do not include construction or environmental loads such as wind load, snow load, rain load, earthquake load, flood load or dead load.
Living spaces
Space within a dwelling unit utilized for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, bathing, washing and sanitation purposes.
Masonry Chimney
A field-constructed chimney composed of solid masonry units, bricks, stones or concrete.
Manufactured Home
Manufactured home means a structure, transportable in one or more sections, which in the traveling mode is 8 body feet (2438 body mm) or more in width or 40 body feet (12 192 body mm) or more in length, or, when erected on site, is 320 square feet (30 m2) or more, and which is built on a permanent chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air-conditioning and electrical systems contained therein; except that such term shall include any structure that meets all the requirements of this paragraph except the size requirements and with respect to which the manufacturer voluntarily files a certification required by the secretary (HUD) and complies with the standards established under this title. For mobile homes built prior to June 15, 1976, a label certifying compliance to the Standard for Mobile Homes, NFPA 501, in effect at the time of manufacture is required. For the purpose of these provisions, a mobile home shall be considered a manufactured home.
Multiple Station Smoke Alarm
Two or more single station alarm devices that are capable of interconnection such that actuation of one causes all integral or separate audible alarms to operate.
Noncombustible Material
Materials that pass the test procedure for defining noncombustibility of elementary materials set forth in ASTM E 136.
Nonconditioned Space
A space that is not a conditioned space by insulated walls, floors or ceilings.
Permit
An official document or certificate issued by the authority having jurisdiction that authorizes performance of a specified activity.
Person
An individual, heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, and also includes a firm, partnership or corporation, its or their successors or assigns, or the agent of any of the aforesaid.
Platform Construction
A method of construction by which floor framing bears on load bearing walls that are not continuous through the story levels or floor framing.
Plumbing System
Includes the water supply and distribution pipes, plumbing fixtures, supports and appurtenances; soil, waste and vent pipes; sanitary drains and building sewers to an approved point of disposal.
Potable Water
Water free from impurities present in amounts sufficient to cause disease or harmful physiological effects and conforming in bacteriological and chemical quality to the requirements of the public health authority having jurisdiction.
Precast Concrete
A structural concrete element cast elsewhere than its final position in the structure.
Pressure-Relief Valve
A pressure-actuated valve held closed by a spring or other means and designed to automatically relieve pressure at the pressure at which it is set.
Public Sewer
A common sewer directly controlled by public authority.
Public Water Main
A water-supply pipe for public use controlled by public authority.
Public Way
Any street, alley or other parcel of land open to the outside air leading to a public street, which has been deeded, dedicated or otherwise permanently appropriated to the public for public use and that has a clear width and height of not less than 10 feet (3048 mm).
R-Value, Thermal Resistance
The inverse of the time rate of heat flow through a building thermal envelope element from one of its bounding surfaces to the other for a unit temperature difference between the two surfaces, under steady state conditions, per unit area (h • ft2 • °F/Btu).
Refrigerant
A substance used to produce refrigeration by its expansion or evaporation.
Registered Design Professional
An individual who is registered or licensed to practice their respective design profession as defined by the statutory requirements of the professional registration laws of the state or jurisdiction in which the project is to be constructed.
Repair
The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance. For definition applicable in Chapter 11, see Section N1101.9
Return Air
Air removed from an approved conditioned space or location and recirculated or exhausted.
Roof Assembly
A system designed to provide weather protection and resistance to design loads. The system consists of a roof covering and roof deck or a single component serving as both the roof covering and the roof deck. A roof assembly includes the roof deck, vapor retarder, substrate or thermal barrier, insulation, vapor retarder, and roof covering.
Septic Tank
A water-tight receptor that receives the discharge of a building sanitary drainage system and is constructed so as to separate solids from the liquid, digest organic matter through a period of detention, and allow the liquids to discharge into the soil outside of the tank through a system of open joint or perforated piping or a seepage pit.
Single Station Smoke Alarm
An assembly incorporating the detector, control equipment and alarm sounding device in one unit that is operated from a power supply either in the unit or obtained at the point of installation.
Slope
The fall (pitch) of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal plane. In drainage, the slope is expressed as the fall in units vertical per units horizontal (percent) for a length of pipe.
Smoke-Developed Index
A comparative measure, expressed as a dimensionless number, derived from measurements of smoke obscuration versus time for a material tested in accordance with ASTM E 84 or UL 723.
Storm Sewer, Drain
A pipe used for conveying rainwater, surface water, subsurface water and similar liquid waste.
Story
That portion of a building included between the upper surface of a floor and the upper surface of the floor or roof next above.
Story Above Grade Plane
Any story having its finished floor surface entirely above grade plane, or in which the finished surface of the floor next above is:

1. More than 6 feet (1829 mm) above grade plane; or

2. More than 12 feet (3658 mm) above the finished ground level at any point.
Structure
That which is built or constructed.
Supply Air
Air delivered to a conditioned space through ducts or plenums from the heat exchanger of a heating, cooling or ventilating system.
Temperature- and Pressure-Relief (T&P) Valve
A combination relief valve designed to function as both a temperature-relief and pressure-relief valve.
Thermal Isolation
Physical and space conditioning separation from conditioned space(s) consisting of existing or new walls, doors and/or windows. The conditioned space(s) shall be controlled as separate zones for heating and cooling or conditioned by separate equipment. For definition applicable in Chapter 11, see Section N1101.9.
Thermal Resistance, R-value
The inverse of the time rate of heat flow through a body from one of its bounding surfaces to the other for a unit temperature difference between the two surfaces, under steady state conditions, per unit area (h • ft2 • °F/Btu) (m2 • K)/W.
Thermal Transmittance, U-Factor
The coefficient of heat transmission (air to air) through a building envelope component or assembly, equal to the time rate of heat flow per unit area and unit temperature difference between the warm side and cold side air films (Btu/h • ft2 • °F) W/(m2 • K).
Trap
A fitting, either separate or built into a fixture, that provides a liquid seal to prevent the emission of sewer gases without materially affecting the flow of sewage or waste water through it.
Trap Seal
The trap seal is the maximum vertical depth of liquid that a trap will retain, measured between the crown weir and the top of the dip of the trap.
Vapor Permeable
The property of having a moisture vapor permeance rating of 5 perms (2.9 x 10-10 kg/Pa • s • m2) or greater, when tested in accordance with the desiccant method using Procedure A of ASTM E 96. A vapor permeable material permits the passage of moisture vapor.
Vent
A passageway for conveying flue gases from fuel-fired appliances, or their vent connectors, to the outside atmosphere.
Vent System
Piping installed to equalize pneumatic pressure in a drainage system to prevent trap seal loss or blow-back due to siphonage or back pressure.
Ventilation
VENTILATION. The natural or mechanical process of supplying conditioned or unconditioned air to, or removing such air from, any space. For definition applicable in Chapter 11, see Section N1101.9.
Waste
Liquid-borne waste that is free of fecal matter.
Waste Pipe or Stack
Piping that conveys only liquid sewage not containing fecal material.
Water Heater
Any heating appliance or equipment that heats potable water and supplies such water to the potable hot water distribution system.
Water Main
A water supply pipe for public use.
Wood Structural Panel
A panel manufactured from veneers; or wood strands or wafers; bonded together with waterproof synthetic resins or other suitable bonding systems. Examples of wood structural panels are plywood, OSB or composite panels.
Yard
An open space, other than a court, unobstructed from the ground to the sky, except where specifically provided by this code, on the lot on which a building is situated.