New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › Chapter I - Industrial Board Of Appeals › Subchapter A - The Industrial Code › Part 14 - Construction, Installation, Inspection And Maintenance Of High Pressure Boilers; Construction Of Unfired Pressure Vessels › Subpart 14-1 - Definitions › Section 14-1.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) Alteration
					 means a change in a boiler that substantially alters the original design and
					 that requires consideration of the effect of the change on the original design.
					 Alteration does not include the addition to a boiler of nozzles smaller than an
					 unreinforced opening size.
(b)
					 Approved means, in respect to a device or material: in compliance with a
					 subsisting resolution of approval adopted by the Commissioner; in respect to
					 action by the commissioner: made the subject of a resolution of
					 approval.
(c) ASME Code means the
					 boiler and pressure vessel code published by the American Society of Mechanical
					 Engineers.
(d) Boiler means a
					 closed vessel in which water is heated, steam is generated, steam is
					 superheated, or any combination thereof, under pressure or vacuum for use
					 externally to itself by the application of heat from combustible fuels,
					 electricity, or any other source, but shall not include a device or apparatus
					 used solely to heat water for a hot water supply system. The term boiler shall
					 include the apparatus used by which heat is generated, and all controls and
					 devices related to such apparatus or to the closed vessel. The term boiler also
					 shall include fired units for heating or vaporizing liquids other than water
					 where these units are separate from processing systems and are complete within
					 themselves.
(e) Boiler external
					 piping means piping within the scope of ASME Code section I and which requires
					 ASME Code stamping as specified in section I and this Code.
(f) Certificate of competence means a
					 certificate issued to a boiler inspector by the department.
(g) Commissioner means the Commissioner of
					 Labor of the State of New York.
(h)
					 Component means a constituent part of a boiler assembly.
(i) Condemned, with reference to a boiler,
					 means declared to be unsafe and having an applied stamping designating its
					 condemnation.
(j) Defect means a
					 condition which may directly or indirectly cause a boiler to be or become a
					 source of danger to any person by reason of fire, explosion, leakage,
					 electricity or ionizing radiation.
(k) Defective boiler means one which as an
					 assembly includes a defect, or a boiler which is not provided with all required
					 controls and devices in good operating condition.
(l) Department means the Department of
					 Labor.
(m) External inspection
					 means an inspection made while the boiler is in operation.
(n) Fusion welding means the melting together
					 of filler metal and base metal, or of base metal only, which results in
					 coalescence.
(o) High temperature
					 water boiler means a boiler completely filled with water intended for operation
					 at pressures in excess of 160 psi or temperatures in excess of 250°
					 Fahrenheit.
(p) Hot water heating
					 boiler means a boiler in which no steam is generated, from which hot water is
					 circulated for heating purposes and then returned to the boiler, and which
					 operates at a pressure not exceeding 160 psi or a temperature of 250°
					 Fahrenheit at or near the boiler outlet.
(q) Hot water supply boiler means a boiler
					 completely filled with water that furnishes hot water to be used externally to
					 itself at pressures not exceeding 160 psi at temperatures not exceeding 250°
					 Fahrenheit at or near the boiler outlet.
(r) Incompetence means conduct which
					 evidences a lack of ability to discharge a duty required to protect the health,
					 safety and welfare of the public, lack of knowledge of the fundamental
					 principles of inspection services or an inability to apply those principles, or
					 failure to maintain competency in the current practices and methods applicable
					 to inspection services and the rules of New York State.
(s) Inspector means a boiler inspector who
					 holds a valid certificate of competency issued by the department.
(t) Installed means, in respect to a heating
					 system boiler as a vessel, placed in a fixed operating location and connected
					 to the heat distributing system; in respect to an unfired pressure vessel,
					 placed in a fixed operating location. The term does not include a reassembly
					 not involving a change of location.
(u) Insurance company means a company which
					 has been licensed in this State to write boiler insurance and which is actively
					 engaged in writing such insurance for the general public.
(v) Internal inspection means an inspection
					 made when the boiler is shut down and handholes and manholes or other
					 inspection openings are opened or removed for inspection of the interior as
					 required by the inspector.
(w) Low
					 pressure boiler means a steam boiler on which the safety valves are set at
					 pressures not exceeding 15 psi.
(x)
					 Maximum allowable working pressure means the maximum gage pressure permissible
					 at the top of a completed vessel in its operating position for a designated
					 temperature.
(y) Maximum allowable
					 working temperature means the maximum temperature at or near the outlet of a
					 hot water boiler, measured in degrees Fahrenheit, at which the boiler may be
					 safely operated.
(z) Miniature
					 boiler means a power boiler or high temperature water boiler which does not
					 exceed any of the following limits:
(1) 16
					 inches inside diameter of shell;
(2) 20 square feet of heating surface, except
					 for electric boilers;
(3) 5 cubic
					 feet gross volume exclusive of casing and insulation; and
(4) 100 psi maximum allowable working
					 pressure.