Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 22 - STATE FIRE MARSHAL › Article 10 - INSTALLATION AND CERTIFICATION STANDARDS FOR EXTINGUISHING DEVICES › Section 22-10-1 - Certification standards, definitions

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a)
			 "Business" means any person or firm who inspects, services or installs portable
			 fire extinguishers or automatic fire extinguishers for commercial cooking
			 equipment. "Business" does not include any person or authorized agent of the
			 person who installs a portable fire extinguisher for protection of the person's
			 own property or business or any individual acting as a representative or
			 employee of a certified firm.
(b)
			 "Certificate" means a written document issued by the state fire marshal that
			 authorizes a business to perform the act or acts permitted by these
			 regulations.
(c) "Certified firm"
			 means a business having a valid registration certificate issued by the state
			 fire marshal.
(d) "Charge" means
			 to fill and make a portable fire extinguisher or fixed extinguishing system
			 cylinder or container ready for use.
(e) "Class" or "classes" mean the specific
			 function or functions that a business is authorized to perform under these
			 regulations.
(f) "Department of
			 transportation (DOT) cylinder" means a cylinder manufactured and tested in
			 compliance with specifications of the United States department of
			 transportation.
(g) "Engineered
			 system" means a fixed extinguishing system that requires individual calculation
			 and design to determine the flow rates, nozzle pressure, quantities of
			 extinguishing agent, and the number and types of nozzles and their placement in
			 a specific system.
(h) "Firm"
			 means any person, partnership, corporation, association or business which
			 installs, services, charges, recharges or inspects any portable fire
			 extinguisher or fixed extinguishing system, unless otherwise exempted.
(i) "Fixed extinguishing system"
			 means an automatic fire extinguisher for commercial cooking equipment.
(j) "Hydrostatic testing" means
			 the pressure-testing of cylinders and containers by approved hydrostatic
			 methods.
(k) "Portable fire
			 extinguisher" means a device that contains chemical fluids, powders, or gases
			 for extinguishing fires and has a label of approval attached by a nationally
			 recognized testing laboratory.
(l)
			 "Pre-engineered system" means a fixed extinguishing system with predetermined
			 flow rates, nozzle pressures, and quantities of extinguisher agents.
(m) "Recognized testing laboratory" means a
			 nationally recognized testing agency, approved by the state fire marshal, which
			 is staffed by qualified personnel, properly equipped to conduct the particular
			 tests in question, and is regularly engaged in conducting tests and furnishing
			 reports on the inspections, examinations and tests of the most recent
			 production of the listed product.
(n) "Self-contained cooking equipment" means
			 a unit of cooking equipment manufactured with a grease collection and vapor
			 removal apparatus as an integral part of the unit and provided with or designed
			 for the installation of a fixed extinguishing system.
(o) "Service" means to conduct a thorough
			 check of a portable fire extinguisher or fixed extinguishing system including
			 charging, maintaining, recharging, repairing, testing or tagging necessary to
			 give maximum assurance that the portable fire extinguisher or fixed
			 extinguishing system will operate effectively and safely.
(p) "Test" means to subject any portable fire
			 extinguisher or fixed extinguishing system to the procedure necessary to assure
			 its proper operation or installation.