New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › Chapter I - Industrial Board Of Appeals › Subchapter A - The Industrial Code › Part 36 - State Standard Building Code For Places Of Public Assembly › Subpart 36-1 - General Provisions › Section 36-1.4 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) As used herein
					 the following terms mean:
(1) Approved. In
					 compliance with a subsisting resolution of approval adopted by the
					 board.
(2) Assembly. The people
					 occupying a place of public assembly.
(3) Assembly hall. Any building or part of a
					 building used or designed as as a place of public assembly other than a
					 theatre.
(4) Auditorium. That
					 portion of a building occupied by an audience or gathering of
					 persons.
(5) Balcony. The first
					 seating tier above the main floor. (Also means the open air portion of a
					 horizontal exit--see definition, horizontal exit, paragraph [27] of this
					 subdivision.)
(6) Board. The Board
					 of Standards and Appeals of the State of New York.
(7) Capacity. In respect to a place of public
					 assembly, means the maximum number of persons who may lawfully assemble
					 therein.
(8) Commissioner. The
					 Industrial Commissioner of the State of New York.
(9) Court. An unoccupied, unobstructed space,
					 open for its entire area to the sky and maintained at all times available as an
					 escape route from the place of public assembly.
(10) Enforcing authority. The official
					 charged in a specific case with the enforcement of this Part pursuant to
					 section 472  of the
					 Labor Law.
(11) Existing.
					 Constructed as, or converted to, a place of public assembly prior to July 1,
					 1957.
(12) Exit. Any means of
					 egress from a room, tier, building or other occupied area.
(13) Exit door. A door installed in an
					 exitway.
(14) Exitway. A complete
					 way of passage from an exit to a public street, road or other acceptable open
					 area. It includes all doorways, stairways, hallways, passageways and courts
					 which occur in its course.
(15)
					 Fire door. An approved fire-resistive door together with its frame and
					 hardware.
(16) Fireproof and
					 fire-resisting construction. (As applied to buildings.) Construction prescribed
					 as fireproof or fire-resisting by Industrial Code Part 7 relating to
					 fire-resistive construction.
(17)
					 Fire-resistance. A term referring to the degree of resistance to the passage of
					 fire or heat, or to their effects, provided by various materials and methods of
					 construction as determined and set forth in Industrial Code Part 7 and
					 expressed in units of time.
(18)
					 Fire wall. A wall which complies with the requirements for a fire wall of
					 Industrial Code Part 7.
(19) Fire
					 window. A stationary or self-closing window which has a fire-resistance rating
					 of at least three quarters of an hour approved in accordance with the
					 requirements of Industrial Code Part 7. Where moving sash is used, such window
					 shall close automatically by the action of a heat-actuated device or other
					 approved means of effecting closure.
(20) Flammable. As applied to solids,
					 materials which will ignite and continue to burn when brought in contact for a
					 short time with an open flame such as a match flame or when in contact with
					 glowing materials. As applied to liquids, any liquid having a flash point less
					 than 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
(21)
					 Foyer. The area open to the public between the lobby and the
					 auditorium.
(22) Gallery. Any
					 seating tier above the balcony.
(23) Grade. The ground surface, however
					 finished, adjacent to an exterior doorway.
(24) Headroom. Clear space measured
					 vertically from walking surfaces.
(25) Hallway. An enclosed corridor leading to
					 a required exit.
(26) Hereafter. On
					 or after July 1, 1957.
(27)
					 Horizontal exit. A way of egress from one separate floor area to another on
					 substantially the same level, through or around separating fire walls, exterior
					 walls or party walls by means of protected doorways or exterior balconies or
					 bridges.
(28) Incombustible
					 material. Any material which will not ignite nor actively support combustion
					 during an exposure of not less than five minutes to a temperature of 1200
					 degrees Fahrenheit.
(29) Kitchen or
					 service pantry. An area or space in which cooking equipment, other than hot
					 plates, coffee urns, toasters and similar equipment is used.
(30) Lobby. An enclosed area or space
					 directly accessible from the main entrance or main entrance
					 vestibule.
(31) Main floor. That
					 which is directly entered upon through the main or principal entrance to the
					 place of assembly.
(32) Motion
					 picture house. A theatre used primarily for the showing of motion
					 pictures.
(33) New. Constructed or
					 converted to public assembly use on or after July 1, 1957.
(34) Passageway. An enclosed corridor
					 connecting a required exit with a street or with an open area affording
					 unobstructed passage to a street, but shall not include a lobby.
(35) Proscenium wall. The wall separating the
					 auditorium from the stage and including the stage opening.
(36) Public assembly building. A building
					 containing a place of public assembly.
(37) Public way. A street, a road or an open
					 space not less than 15 feet wide, leading to a street or road.
(38) Shaft. Includes all stairway, elevator
					 and dumbwaiter shafts, vent and light shafts, pipe and duct shafts, hoistways
					 and all other vertical openings leading from one floor to another.
(39) Stadium-type. A seating arrangement
					 where the rows of seats are on steps extending upward from the floor of the
					 auditorium with no other tier beneath them.
(40) Stage. A permanent raised platform
					 designed and used for presenting theatrical or operatic performances involving
					 changes of scenery in the course of a performance.
(41) Street. A street, road or public
					 highway.
(42) Temporary. (As
					 applied to structures.) A structure which is not intended for over 21
					 consecutive days use in any one location.
(43) Theatre. A building or part of a
					 building used for public presentation of theatrical, operatic, motion picture
					 or similar performances or exhibitions.
(44) Tier. The main floor, mezzanine, loge,
					 balcony, gallery or other similar level in the auditorium on which seats are
					 provided for the audience.
(45)
					 Wood frame building. A building in which the structural parts and materials are
					 principally of wood, or other combustible materials, or are dependent upon a
					 wood frame for support, including construction having an incombustible veneer
					 or an incombustible covering.