Florida Administrative Code › 69 - DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES › 69A - Division of State Fire Marshal › Chapter 69A-58 - FIRESAFETY IN EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES › Section 69A-58.003 - Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
As used in this rule chapter, the following definitions
				  apply:
(1) "Ancillary plant" is
				comprised of the building, site, and site improvements necessary to provide
				such facilities as vehicle maintenance, warehouses, maintenance, or
				administrative buildings necessary to provide support services to an
				educational program.
(2) "Auxiliary
				facility" means the spaces located at educational plants which are not designed
				for student occupant stations.
(3)
				"Board" means the district school board or public college board of trustees
				with jurisdiction to make inspections of buildings and to enforce the
				firesafety codes, as required by these rules, which establish standards for
				design, construction, erection, alteration, repair, modification, or demolition
				of school district and public college buildings, structures or
				facilities.
(4) "Board fire
				official" means the firesafety inspector certified pursuant to section
				 633.216(2),
				F.S., who is appointed by the board under section
				 1013.371(2),
				F.S.
(5) "Building" or "board
				building" means any building or structure located on, upon, or in any
				educational facility, educational plant, ancillary plant, or auxiliary facility
				owned, rented, leased, or under lease-purchase agreement or lease-purchase
				option with a board. These terms include any permanent, fixed, relocatable, and
				manufactured building or structure.
(6) "Division," including the lower case
				"division," means the Division of State Fire Marshal of the Department of
				Financial Services.
(7)
				"Educational facilities" means the buildings and equipment, structures, and
				special educational use areas that are built, installed, or established to
				serve primarily the educational purposes and secondarily the social and
				recreational purposes of the community and which may lawfully be used as
				authorized by the Florida Statutes and approved by the boards. As used in these
				rules and unless otherwise clearly indicated by the context, "educational
				facilities" includes each educational facility, educational plant, ancillary
				plant, and auxiliary facility and all buildings and structures contained
				therein and thereon.
(8)
				"Educational plant" comprises the educational facilities, site and site
				improvements necessary to accommodate students, faculty, administrators, staff,
				and the activities of the education program of each plant.
(9) "Existing" facility means a facility or
				building that has been issued a certificate of occupancy prior to the effective
				date of this edition of this rule chapter.
(10) "Florida Building Code" means the
				Florida Building Code as adopted in Rule
				 61G20-1.001, F.A.C., adopted
				pursuant to section  552.73, F.S.
(11) "FISH" means Florida Inventory of School
				Houses.
(12) "Florida Fire
				Prevention Code" means the Florida Fire Prevention Code as adopted in rule
				 69A-3.012, F.A.C.
(13) "Independent special fire control
				district" means an independent special district as defined in section
				 191.003(5),
				F.S., that was created for the purposes of fire prevention, fire suppression,
				or fire protection.
(14) "Local
				fire official" means the county, municipality or independent special fire
				control district having firesafety responsibility employing or contracting with
				a firesafety inspector certified pursuant to section
				 633.216(2),
				F.S., with jurisdiction to make inspections of buildings and to enforce the
				firesafety codes which establish standards for design, construction, erection,
				alteration, repair, modification, or demolition of public or private buildings,
				structures, or facilities or, where the context requires, the State Fire
				Marshal, as referred to in section
				 1013.12(3)(b),
				F.S.
(15) "New facility" means a
				facility that has not been occupied nor issued a building permit prior to the
				effective date of this edition of this rule chapter.
(16) "NFPA 1" means the National Fire
				Protection Association Code 1, entitled the "Fire Code," the Florida edition as
				adopted in rule  69A-3.012, F.A.C.
(17) "NFPA 101" means the National Fire
				Protection Association Code 101, entitled the "Life Safety Code," the Florida
				edition as adopted in rule
				 69A-3.012, F.A.C.
(18) "Student-occupied space" means any area
				planned primarily for use by six (6) or more students.
(19) The definitions in Section
				 1013.01, F.S., of words and
				terms found in section
				 1013.12, F.S., or of words or
				terms found in this rule chapter apply to this rule chapter; however, in the
				event of a conflict between the definitions in section
				 1013.01 or
				 1013.12, F.S., and these rules,
				the definitions in sections
				 1013.01 and
				 1013.12, F.S. shall
				control.
Rulemaking Authority
					 633.104(1),
					 (7),
					 1013.12(1) FS.
					 Law Implemented 633.104(7),
					 633.206,
					 633.208,
					 1013.12,
					 1013.371,
					 1013.38
					 FS.
New 2-18-03, Formerly 4A-58.003, Amended 11-26-06,
					 11-4-12.