Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Agriculture and Rural Development › Environmental Stewardship Division › Agricultural Labor Camps › Section R. 325.3601 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 1.
(1) As used
				in these rules or sections 12401 through 12434 of the act, or both:
(a) "Act" means the public health code, 1978
				PA 368, MCL 333.1101 to 333.25211.
(b) "Agreement" means an offer and acceptance
				arrangement between an applicant for a grant and the department.
(c) "Camp" means an agricultural labor camp
				that is licensable under authority of the act.
(d) "Department" means the state department
				of agriculture and rural development.
(e) "Director" means the state director of
				agriculture and rural development or his or her designated
				representative.
(f) "Double-wall
				construction" means frame or pole-type construction walls that are covered with
				a smooth, cleanable, rigid material on the interior surface of the supporting
				studs or poles and by siding on the exterior surface of the walls' structural
				members. Cement block and poured concrete walls are considered double-wall
				construction.
(g) "Garbage" means
				putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from handling, preparing,
				cooking, and consuming food.
(h)
				"Grant" or "state grant" means money from the migratory labor housing fund that
				is made available to an employer of migratory laborers for not more than 50% of
				the cost of an extensive remodeling project that does not cost more than
				$10,000.00. Projects that cost more than $10,000.00 are acceptable; however,
				the grant must be based upon a $10,000.00 portion of the construction cost of
				the project.
(i) "Grantee" means an
				individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any combination thereof
				that operates or proposes to operate an agricultural labor camp under the act,
				that applies for a grant pursuant to the act, and that has signed an acceptance
				agreement with the department.
(j)
				"Habitable space" means a room or enclosed floor space that is used or intended
				to be used at a camp for living, sleeping, cooking, or eating purposes, but
				does not mean any of the following:
(i) A
				bathroom.
(ii) A toilet
				compartment.
(iii) A
				laundry.
(iv) A pantry.
(v) A foyer.
(vi) A connecting corridor.
(vii) A closet.
(viii) Storage space.
(k) "Hot water" means water that has been
				heated to not less than 110 degrees Fahrenheit and not more than 120 degrees
				Fahrenheit.
(l) "Housing" means a
				building or portion of a building that is offered as shelter for migratory
				laborers and facilities such as water supply, sewage disposal, showers, and
				camp area.
(m) "Refuse" means
				putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste, including garbage, rubbish, and
				ashes. "Refuse" does not mean body waste.
(n) "Sewage" means liquid waste and includes
				human excreta, waste from a sink, lavatory, bathtub, shower, or laundry, and
				any other liquid waste of organic or chemical nature, either separately or in
				any combination.
(o) "Shelter"
				means a building or part of a building, a tent, or a trailer that is used for
				sleeping or living quarters at an agricultural labor camp.
(p) "Tempered water" means hot water that has
				been cooled by adding cold water with a mixing device so that the water
				temperature is between 95 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
(q) "Toilet facilities" means water closets,
				urinals, lavatories, and the rooms provided for installation of these units and
				privies.
(r) "Unisex facility"
				means a facility that is located in a completely enclosed room with a door that
				can be locked from the inside and that has an entrance that is accessible to
				both sexes at all times.