California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 3 - Air Resources › Chapter 1 - Air Resources Board › Subchapter 8.7 - Indoor Air Cleaning Devices › Article 1 - Indoor Air Cleaning Devices › Section 94801 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) For the purpose
					 of this article, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Air exchange rate" means the rate at
					 which outdoor air replaces the volume of indoor air within a given
					 space.
(2) "ANSI" means American
					 National Standards Institute.
(3a)
					 "ANSI/UL Standard 507" means the version of ANSI/UL Standard 507 for Safety for
					 Electric Fans, Tenth Edition, published on November 09, 2017, and revised on
					 November 15, 2018.
(3b) "ANSI/UL
					 Standard 867" means the version of ANSI/UL Standard 867 for Electrostatic Air
					 Cleaners, Fifth Edition, published on August 04, 2011, and revised on August
					 07, 2018.
(3c) "ANSI/UL Standard
					 484" means the version of the ANSI/UL Standard for Safety for Room Air
					 Conditioners, Ninth Edition, dated February 7, 2014, and revised on September
					 06, 2018.
(3d) "ANSI/UL Standard
					 1278" means the version of ANSI/UL Standard for Safety for Movable and Wall- or
					 Ceiling-Hung Electric Room Heaters, Fourth Edition, dated March 21, 2014, and
					 revised on August 20, 2018.
(3e)
					 "ANSI/UL Standard 1017" means the version of the ANSI/UL Standard for Safety
					 for Vacuum Cleaners, Blower Cleaners, and Household Floor Finishing Machines,
					 Tenth Edition, dated September 15, 2017, and revised on July 19,
					 2018.
(3f) "ANSI/UL Standard 1993"
					 means the version of the ANSI/UL Standard for Safety for Self-Ballasted Lamps
					 and Lamp Adapters, Fifth Edition, dated January 27, 2017, and revised on August
					 06, 2018.
(3g) "ANSI/UL Standard
					 73" means the version of the ANSI/UL Standard for Motor-Operated Appliances,
					 Tenth Edition, dated March 02, 2011, and revised on August 08, 2018.
(3h) "ANSI/UL Standard 153" means the version
					 of the ANSI/UL Standard for Portable Electric Luminaires, Thirteenth Edition,
					 dated March 03, 2014, and revised on July 27, 2018.
(3i) "ANSI/UL Standard 998" means the version
					 of the ANSI/UL Standard for Humidifiers, Fifth Edition, dated April 25, 2011,
					 and revised on April 04, 2016.
(3j)
					 "ANSI/UL Standard 1995" means the version of the ANSI/UL Standard for Heating
					 and Cooling Equipment, Fifth Edition, dated July 31, 2015, and revised on
					 August 17, 2018.
(3k) "ANSI/UL
					 Standard 1598" means the version of the ANSI/UL Standard for Luminaires, Fourth
					 Edition, dated August 28, 2018.
(3l)
					 "ANSI/UL Standard 49" means the version of the ANSI/UL Standard for Electric
					 Heating Appliances, Fourteenth Edition, dated November 07, 2014, and revised on
					 February 23, 2017.
(4) "CARB" means
					 the California Air Resources Board.
(5) "Certification mark" means the symbol
					 used by a recognized testing organization to indicate that a representative
					 sample of the product bearing the symbol meets certain quality or safety
					 criteria. For this regulation the organizations of interest are the Nationally
					 Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTL) that verify compliance with the
					 applicable ANSI/UL or CSA Standards for indoor air cleaning devices.
(6) "CCR" means the California Code of
					 Regulations.
(7) "CFR" means the U.
					 S. Code of Federal Regulations.
(8)
					 "CSA" means the Canadian Standards Association.
(9) "CSA C22.2 no. 187-20" means the version
					 of the CSA Standard for Electrostatic Air Cleaners posted on January 21,
					 2020.
(10) "Concentration" means
					 the amount of a specified substance in a unit amount of another
					 substance.
(11) "de minimis" refers
					 to a quantity so little, small, miniscule or tiny that the law does not refer
					 to it and will not consider it.
(12) "Distributor" means any person to whom
					 an indoor air cleaning device is sold or supplied for the purposes of resale or
					 distribution in commerce.
(13)
					 "Dual-function" means any electronic device that includes an air cleaning
					 component in addition to its primary function.
(14) "Emission" means the release or
					 discharge of a substance into the environment.
(15) "Executive Officer" means the Executive
					 Officer of the Air Resources Board or the Executive Officer's
					 designee.
(16) "Half-life" means
					 the time required for the concentration of a substance to be reduced to half of
					 its initial value.
(17) "Indoor air
					 cleaning device" means an energy-using product whose stated function is to
					 reduce the concentration of airborne pollutants, including but not limited to,
					 allergens, microbes (e.g., bacteria, fungi, viruses, and other microorganisms),
					 dusts, particles, smoke, fumes, gases or vapors, and odorous chemicals, from
					 the air entering or inside an enclosed space, (including but not limited to,
					 rooms, houses, apartments, stores, offices, vehicles), and the air surrounding
					 a person. Such devices include, but are not necessarily limited to, devices of
					 any size intended for cleaning the air nearest a person, in a room of any size,
					 in a whole house or building, or in a vehicle; and devices designed to be
					 attached to or inserted into a window, wall, ceiling, post, duct, or other
					 indoor surface; and personal air cleaning devices.
(18) "In-duct air cleaner" means an
					 energy-using air cleaning device within a heating, air-conditioning, and/or
					 ventilation system for an enclosed space.
(19) "Industrial use" or "industrial
					 application" means the use of an ozone-producing air cleaning device in the
					 following manner:
(A) destruction of microbes
					 on produce in an agricultural processing plant, refrigerated transport truck,
					 or related facility, provided no people are physically present.
(B) chemical oxidation and disinfection in
					 the electronics, pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries,
					 provided no people are physically present.
(C) odor and smoke control in the hotel
					 industry, for intermittent and temporary use, carried out by trained personnel,
					 and provided no people are physically present.
(D) mold, odor, fire and smoke damage
					 remediation services, carried out by trained personnel, and provided no people
					 are physically present.
(E) odor
					 control in the motor vehicle reconditioning and detailing industry, carried out
					 by trained personnel, and provided no people are physically present.
(F) odor control in mausoleums, carried out
					 by trained personnel, and provided no people are physically
					 present.
(20) "Label"
					 means an area containing the required statement in an easily readable format,
					 separate from unrelated text. This is printing on the product packaging, or,
					 for air cleaners sold prior to October 1, 2012, may be an adhesive
					 sticker.
(21) "Listing mark" means
					 the symbol used by Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. to indicate that a
					 representative sample of the product bearing the symbol meets certain UL
					 quality or safety criteria. For this regulation, the organizations of interest
					 are the Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTL) that verify
					 compliance with the applicable ANSI/UL or CSA Standards for indoor air cleaning
					 devices.
(22) "Manufacturer" means
					 any person who imports, manufactures, assembles, produces, or packages an
					 indoor air cleaning device.
(23)
					 "Medical device" means "device" as defined in subsection (h) of Section
					 321 of Title 21 of the United
					 States Code.
(24) "Mechanical
					 filtration only" means removal of contaminants from air only via filtration
					 with physical barrier, non-electronic techniques, i.e. air is forced through a
					 filter medium. Materials used in the construction of the filter media may
					 include substances such as activated charcoal, paper, foam, synthetics,
					 ceramics, or natural fibers.
(25)
					 "Model group" means indoor air cleaning devices sharing the same design,
					 operational features, device output, and performance characteristics, and
					 manufactured by the same manufacturer. Units in the same model group may be
					 marketed under different brand names. Units that differ only in decorative
					 treatments such as color, remote control, or other cosmetic features not
					 potentially related to ozone output would belong to the same model
					 group.
(26) "NIST" means the U. S.
					 National Institute of Standards and Technology.
(27) "Non-medical device" means any indoor
					 air cleaning device that does not meet the definition of "medical device"
					 above.
(28) "NRTL" means Nationally
					 Recognized Testing Laboratory, as recognized by U. S. OSHA per section
					 1910.7 of Title 29 of the Code of
					 Federal Regulations.
(29) "OSHA"
					 means U. S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
(30) "Packaging" means the materials around
					 the consumer or institutional product which serve only to contain, enclose,
					 incorporate, deliver, dispense, wrap or store the product. "Packaging" includes
					 any article onto or into which the principal display panel and other
					 accompanying literature or graphics are incorporated, etched, printed or
					 attached. "Packaging" does not refer to a secondary container used for shipping
					 purposes, unless it is the only packaging used for the product.
(31) "Permanent filter" means a filter which
					 cannot be removed by a consumer or testing laboratory and is physically capable
					 of functioning effectively for the stated or intended lifetime of the
					 device.
(32) "Personal air cleaning
					 device" means a device intended to clean the air surrounding a person. It may
					 be worn on, or carried by, a person in any way, including but not necessarily
					 limited to, around the neck, or in a pocket, purse, or similar item.
(33) "ppm" is a unit of concentration measure
					 meaning parts per million by volume. For the purposes of this regulation the
					 volume considered is air and the substance of interest is ozone.
(34) "Retailer" means any person who sells,
					 supplies, or offers for sale, indoor air cleaning devices, directly to
					 consumers.
(35) "Supply" means to
					 make available for purchase or use.
(36) "UL" means Underwriters Laboratories,
					 Inc.
(37) "U. S." means United
					 States of America.
(38) "UVGI", for
					 the purposes of this regulation, means ultraviolet germicidal irradiation and
					 is ultraviolet (UV) light from a lamp that only emits wavelengths greater than
					 240 nanometers (nm), and produces no measureable ozone.