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A receptor designed to collect surface or storm ABS. Accepted Engineering Practice. That which conforms Aspirator. A fitting or device supplied with water or other to technical or scientific-based principles, tests, or standards fluid under positive pressure that passes through an integral that are accepted by the engineering profession.

Where applied to a fixture, connection, appli- Authority Having Jurisdiction. The organization, office, ance, or equipment, accessible means having access or individual responsible for enforcing the requirements of a thereto, but which first may require the removal of an access code or standard, or for approving equipment, materials, panel, door, or similar obstruction. Having a direct access without the tion shall be a federal, state, local, or other regional depart- necessity of removing a panel, door, or similar obstruction.

A physical separation which may be a low inlet official, labor department official, health department official, into the indirect waste receptor from the fixture, appliance, building official, or others having statutory authority. In the or device indirectly connected. This definition Air Gap, Drainage. The unobstructed vertical distance shall include the Authority Having Jurisdictions duly author- through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening from ized representative.

Air Gap, Water Distribution. The unobstructed vertical The flow of water or other liquids, mixtures, or opening from a pipe or faucet conveying potable water to the substances into the distributing pipes of a potable supply of flood-level rim of a tank, vat, or fixture. See Back- Alternate Water Source. Nonpotable source of water that pressure Backflow and Backsiphonage. An arrangement whereby backflow potable water, rainwater, and reclaimed recycled water.

See Supports. Backflow Preventer. A backflow prevention device, an Anesthetizing Location. An area of a facility that has been assembly, or other method to prevent backflow into the designated to be used for the administration of general anes- potable water system.

Backflow due to an increased Appliance. A device that utilizes an energy source to pro- pressure above the supply pressure, which may be due to duce light, heat, power, refrigeration, or air conditioning. This pumps, boilers, gravity, or other sources of pressure. The flowing back of used, contaminated, Appliance, Low-Heat. A fuel-burning appliance that or polluted water from a plumbing fixture or vessel into a produces a continuous flue gas temperature, at the point water supply pipe due to a pressure less than atmospheric in of entrance to the flue, of not more than F C.

See Backflow. Appliance, Medium-Heat. A fuel-burning appliance Backwater Valve. A device installed in a drainage system that produces a continuous flue gas temperature, at the to prevent reverse flow. A room equipped with a shower, bathtub, or Building Subdrain.

Bathroom, Half. A room equipped with only a water closet Building Supply. The pipe carrying potable water from the and lavatory. Any combination of fixtures, not to other point of use or distribution on the lot.

Category 1. Facility systems in which failure of such equip- Battery of Fixtures. A group of two or more similar, adja- ment or system is likely to cause major injury or death of cent fixtures that discharge into a common horizontal waste patients or caregivers. Category 2. Facility systems in which failure of such equip- Bedpan Steamer. A fixture that is used to sterilize bedpans ment is likely to cause minor injury to patients or caregivers. An outlet on a boiler to permit emptying or Category 3.

Facility systems in which failure of such equip- discharge of sediment. A reliable conductor to ensure the can cause patient discomfort. A medical vac- to be electrically connected. A plumbing fixture connected to the designed to remove liquids, air-gas, or solids from the treated potable water distribution system and sanitary drainage sys- area; or a dry system designed to trap liquids and solids before tem that is designed and intended for filling personal use the service inlet and to accommodate air-gas only through the drinking water bottles or containers not less than 10 inches service inlet.

Such fixtures can be separate from or Certified Backflow Assembly Tester. A person who has integral to a drinking fountain and can incorporate a water fil- shown competence to test and maintain backflow assemblies ter and a cooling system for chilling the drinking water. A part of the piping system other than a main, riser, Cesspool. A lined excavation in the ground that receives or stack. See Fixture Branch.

See Horizontal Branch. Branch Vent. A vent connecting one or more individual vents with a vent stack or stack vent. Chemical Waste.

See Special Wastes. A structure built, erected, and framed of compo- Chimney. One or more passageways, vertical or nearly so, nent structural parts designed for the housing, shelter, enclo- for conveying flue or vent gases to the outdoors. That part of the lowest piping of a drainage Chimney, Factory-Built. A chimney composed of system that receives the discharge from soil, waste, and other listed factory-built components assembled in accordance drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it with the manufacturers installation instructions to form to the building sewer beginning 2 feet mm outside the the completed chimney.

Chimney, Masonry. A field-constructed chimney of Building Drain Sanitary. A building drain that conveys solid masonry units, bricks, stones, listed masonry chim- sewage only. A building drain that conveys with suitable chimney flue liners. Chimney, Metal. A chimney constructed of metal with Building Sewer. That part of the horizontal piping of a a minimum thickness not less than 0. A factory- disposal system, or other point of disposal. A building sewer that con- the products of combustion from fuel-burning high-heat veys both sewage and storm water or other drainage.

A building sewer that conveys F C , measured at the appliance flue outlet. Chimney, Low-Heat Appliance-Type. A factory- Building Sewer Storm. A building sewer that conveys built, masonry, or metal chimney suitable for removing storm water or other drainage, but no sewage. That part of a plumbing system that is so F C under normal operating conditions, but designed and installed as to serve more than one appliance, capable of producing combustion gases of F fixture, building, or system.

The liquid phase produced by condensation to one hour. Temperatures are measured at the appliance of a particular gas or vapor. A fac- water from the roof to a storm drain, combined building tory-built, masonry, or metal chimney suitable for remov- sewer, or other approved point of disposal. A room or space having a volume less in excess of F C , measured at the appliance than 50 cubic feet per British thermal units per hour flue outlet.

Chimney, Residential Appliance-Type. A factory- built or masonry chimney suitable for removing products Construction Documents. Plans, specifications, written, of combustion from residential-type appliances producing graphic, and pictorial documents prepared or assembled for describing the design, location, and physical characteristics combustion gases not in excess of F C , meas- of the elements of a project necessary for obtaining a permit.

Factory-built Type HT chimneys have high-temperature thermal shock resistance. An impairment of the quality of the potable water that creates an actual hazard to the public health through Clarifier.

See Interceptor Clarifier. Cooling water and condensate trial fluids, or waste. Also defined as High Hazard. A vertical vent that is a continuation of cooled condensate from steam heating systems; and cooled the drain to which it connects. Continuous Waste. A drain connecting the compartments Clinical Sink. A fixture that has the same flushing and cleans- of a set of fixtures to a trap or connecting other permitted fix- ing characteristics of a water closet that is used to receive the tures to a common trap.

Also known as a bedpan washer. Copper Alloy. A homogenous mixture of two or more met- Coastal High Hazard Areas. An area within the flood als in which copper is the primary component, such as brass hazard area that is subject to high velocity wave action, and and bronze.

Chlorinated Polyvinyl Chloride. A standard that is an extensive compilation of provi- Critical Care Area. See Patient Care Room. Critical Level. A relief valve that actuates when a set temperature, forming to approved standards and established by the testing pressure, or both is reached. A mixing valve that senses outlet temperature and may be installed.

Where a backflow prevention device does incoming hot and cold water pressure and compensates for not bear a critical level marking, the bottom of the vacuum fluctuations in incoming hot and cold water temperatures, breaker, combination valve, or the bottom of such approved pressures, or both to stabilize outlet temperatures. Combination Waste and Vent System. A specially Cross-Connection.

A connection or arrangement, physi- designed system of waste piping embodying the horizontal cal or otherwise, between a potable water supply system and wet venting of one or more sinks or floor drains by means of a plumbing fixture or a tank, receptor, equipment, or device, a common waste and vent pipe, adequately sized to provide through which it may be possible for nonpotable, used, free movement of air above the flow line of the drain.

See Building Sewer Com- stances to enter into a part of such potable water system under bined. Combustible Material. As pertaining to materials adjacent to or in contact with heat-producing appliances, vent con- A device installed on the rainwater catch- compressed paper, plant fibers, or other materials that are ment conveyance system to prevent the accumulation of capable of being ignited and burned.

Such material shall be leaves, needles, or other debris in the system. The Authority Having retardant treated, or plastered. The elevation of the design operation of the overcurrent protective device or ground-fault flood, including wave height, relative to the datum specified detectors on high-impedance grounded systems.

In The minimum cross-sectional area at the elevation of the highest existing grade of the buildings the point of water supply discharge measured or expressed in perimeter plus the depth number in feet specified on the terms of: 1 diameter of a circle or 2 where the opening is flood hazard map.

In areas designated as Zone AO where a not circular, the diameter of a circle of equivalent cross-sec- depth number is not specified on the map, the depth number tional area. This is applicable to an air gap is taken as being equal to 2 feet mm. Essentially Nontoxic Transfer Fluid. Essentially non- Developed Length.

The length along the center line of a toxic at practically nontoxic, Toxicity Rating Class 1 refer- pipe and fittings. Exam Room Sink. A sink used in the patient exam room of Direct-Vent Appliances. Appliances that are constructed a medical or dental office with a primary purpose for the and installed so that air for combustion is derived directly washing of hands. A valve designed to activate doors.

The liquid and water-borne wastes flow rate. A plumbing system or any part thereof that trial wastes, and of such character as to permit satisfactory has been installed prior to the effective date of this code. A fitting or arrangement of pipe and fit- by means of a private sewage disposal system. The rain leader from the roof to the building system.

See Conductor and Leader. A pipe that carries waste or waterborne wastes in a F Rating. The time period that the penetration firestop sys- building drainage system. A water supply pipe between the fixture liquid wastes to a legal point of disposal, but does not include supply pipe and the water distribution pipe.

The drain from the trap of a fixture to the ment or disposal plant. Drinking Fountain. A plumbing fixture connected to the Fixture Fitting. A device that controls and guides the flow potable water distribution system and sanitary drainage sys- of water. A water supply pipe connecting the fixture the user can consume water directly from the fixture without with the fixture branch. Drinking fountains should also incor- porate a bottle filling station, and can incorporate a water fil- Fixture Unit.

A quantity in terms of which the load-produc- ter and a cooling system for chilling the drinking water. A vent that does not receive the discharge of any scale. Flammable Vapor or Fumes. The concentration of flam- Durham System. A soil or waste system in which all pip- mable constituents in air that exceeds 25 percent of its lower ing is threaded pipe, tubing, or other such rigid construction, using recessed drainage fittings to correspond to the types of flammability limit LFL.

Flood Hazard Area. The greater of the following two areas: 1 The area within a floodplain subject to a 1 percent or Effective Ground-Fault Current Path. An intentionally 2 The area designated as a flood hazard area on a commu- constructed, low-impedance electrically conductive path nitys flood hazard map, or otherwise legally designated.

See Flooded. Flood-Level Rim. The top edge of a receptor from which Grade. The slope or fall of a line of pipe in reference to a water overflows.

In drainage, it is usually expressed as the Flooded. A fixture is flooded where the liquid therein rises fall in a fraction of an inch mm or percentage slope per foot to the flood-level rim.

Flue Collar. That portion of an appliance designed for the Gravity Grease Interceptor. A plumbing appurtenance or attachment of a draft hood, vent connector, or venting sys- appliance that is installed in a sanitary drainage system to tem. A tank located above or integral with water retention time, baffle s , not less than two compartments, a closets, urinals, or similar fixtures for the purpose of flushing total volume of not less than gallons L , and grav- the usable portion of the fixture.

A valve located at the bottom of a tank for the ments of Chapter 10 or are designed by a registered design purpose of flushing water closets and similar fixtures.

A tank integrated within an air accu- installed outside. Untreated wastewater that has not come into quantity of water to fixtures for flushing purposes. A valve that discharges a predeter- waste or similarly contaminated sources. Gray water includes mined quantity of water to fixtures for flushing purposes and wastewater from bathtubs, showers, lavatories, clothes wash- is actuated by direct water pressure.

A grease interceptor that reduces and greywater. A valve that directs gray aration, mass, and volume reduction. Natural, manufactured, liquefied petroleum, or a gation system. Grease Interceptor. A plumbing appurtenance or appliance that is installed in a sanitary drainage system to intercept non- Fuel Gas Quick-Disconnect.

A hand-operated device that petroleum fats, oil, and greases FOG from a wastewater dis- provides a means for connecting and disconnecting an appli- charge. A hydromechanical where the device is disconnected. A listed factory-made vent pipe and vent tor, the control of which are either automatic or manually ini- fittings for conveying flue gases to the outdoors.

Fuel Gas Venting System. A continuous open passage- Grounding Electrode. A conducting object through which way from the flue collar or draft hood of an appliance to the a direct connection to earth is established. Gang or Group Shower. Two or more showers in a com- Heat-Fusion Weld Joints. A joint used in some thermo- mon area. This method of joining Gas Piping.

An installation of pipe, valves, or fittings that pipe to fittings includes socket-fusion, electro-fusion, and is used to convey fuel gas, installed on a premises or in a saddle-fusion. This method of welding involves the applica- building, but shall not include: tion of heat and pressure to the components, allowing them to 1 A portion of the service piping. See Contamination. A drain pipe extending laterally from ance in the same room with the outlet.

An arrangement of gas piping or reg- cal sections or branches, which receives the discharge from ulators after the point of delivery and each arrangement of one or more fixture drains and conducts it to the soil or waste gas piping serving a building, structure, or premises, whether stack or to the building drain. Horizontal Pipe. A pipe or fitting that is installed in a hor- General Care Areas. Governing Body. The person or persons who have the Hot Water.

Water at a temperature exceeding or equal to overall legal responsibility for the operation of a health care F 49C. See Building Drain. House Sewer. See Building Sewer.

A plumbing insanitary shall apply, shall not preclude the application appurtenance or appliance that is installed in a sanitary of that term to conditions that are, in fact, insanitary. A device designed and installed so grease FOG from a wastewater discharge and is identified as to separate and retain deleterious, hazardous, or undesirable by flow rate, and separation and retention efficiency.

The matter from normal wastes and permit normal sewage or liquid design incorporates air entrainment, hydromechanical sepa- wastes to discharge into the disposal terminal by gravity.

The lowest portion of the inside of a horizontal pipe. A joint obtained by joining of metal parts with connected. Joint, Compression. A multipiece joint with cup-shaped 4 Without external flow control, indirectly connected. Hydromechanical grease interceptors are gen- they connect. Joint, Flanged. One made by bolting together a pair of flanged ends. A metal-to-metal compression joint in which Indirect-Fired Water Heater.

A water heater consisting of a conical spread is made on the end of a tube that is com- a storage tank equipped with an internal or external heat pressed by a flare nut against a mating flare. General form for gastight or liquid-tight heat potable water. The storage tank either contains heated joints obtained by the joining of parts through a positive hold- potable water or water supplied from an external source, such ing mechanical construction.

Joint, Soldered. A joint obtained by the joining of metal Indirect Waste Pipe. A pipe that does not connect directly parts with metallic mixtures or alloys that melt at a tempera- with the drainage system but conveys liquid wastes by dis- ture up to and including F C. A gastight joint obtained by the joining of that is directly connected to the drainage system. Individual Vent. A pipe installed to vent a fixture trap and that connects with the vent system above the fixture served or terminates in the open air.

Liquid or water-borne waste from indus- No definitions. A condition that is contrary to sanitary princi- Equipment or materials bearing a label of a listing Conditions to which insanitary shall apply include the agency accredited conformity assessment body.

See Listed following: third-party certified. Lavatories in Sets. Two or three lavatories that are served 2 An opening in a drainage system, except where lawful, by one trap. An exterior vertical drainage pipe for conveying 3 A plumbing fixture or other waste discharging receptor storm water from roof or gutter drains.

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