Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4101:1 - Board of Building Standards: Ohio Building Code › Chapter 4101:1-2 - Definitions › Section 4101:1-2-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
Chapter 2 of the International Building
				Code, 2021 edition, as incorporated by reference and modified in Section
				101.1.1 of this code, is further modified as follows:
Modify section 202 to replace or
				add the following definitions:
24 HOUR BASIS.
Deleted.
ABOVE-GROUND STORAGE
				TANK.
A vessel, intended for fixed
				installation above grade, at grade, or below grade without backfill, used for
				the purpose of bulk storage, dispensing, handling or processing of hazardous,
				flammable or combustible liquids or gases and not connected to and utilized for
				the operation of building service equipment.
ACCREDITATION BODY.
Refer to Section
				114.2
ACTIVE SHOOTER
				DRILL.
An exercise performed by staff and
				occupants to evaluate their efficiency and effectiveness in executing an
				adopted school safety plan to respond to an active shooter event by sheltering
				and securing occupants in place within a building when normal evacuation would
				put occupants at risk. See section 1010.2.16.
ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY OF A
				SCHOOL BUILDING.
The superintendent,
				principal, chief administrative officer, or other person having supervisory
				authority of a school building. See section 1010.2.16.
AGRICULTURAL
				BUILDING.
A structure designed and
				constructed to house farm implements, hay, grain, poultry, livestock or other
				horticultural products. This structure is not to be a place of human habitation
				or a place of employment where agricultural products are processed, treated or
				packaged, nor is it to be a place used by the public. (See definition of
				"AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES", section
				101.2, and section 312 of this
				code).
AGRICULTURAL LABOR
				CAMPS.
Camps as defined in section
				3733.41 of the Revised
				Code.
AGRICULTURAL
				PURPOSES:
Includes agriculture, farming,
				dairying, pasturage, apiculture, algaculture meaning the farming of algae,
				horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, ornamental horticulture, olericulture,
				pomiculture, animal and poultry husbandry, etc.
AIRCRAFT HANGER,
				RESIDENTIAL.
An accessory building less
				than 2,000 square feet (186 m2) and 20 feet (6096 mm) in building height
				constructed on a one-, two-, or three-family property where aircraft are
				stored. Such use will be considered as a residential accessory use incidental
				to the dwelling.
AMBULATORY CARE
				FACILITY.
Buildings or portions thereof
				used to provide medical, surgical, psychiatric, nursing or similar care for
				fewer than twenty-four hours per day to persons who are rendered incapable of
				self-preservation by the services provided or staff has accepted responsibility
				for care recipients already incapable.
AMUSEMENT RIDE.
Any mechanical, aquatic, or inflatable device, or
				combination of those devices that carries or conveys passengers on, along,
				around, over, or through a fixed or restricted course or within a defined area
				for the purpose of providing amusement, pleasure, or excitement and includes
				carnival rides, bungee jumping facilities, and fair rides but does not include
				passenger tramways as defined in section
				4169.01 of the Revised Code,
				manufactured rock climbing walls in climbing facilities regulated under Chapter
				4175. of the Revised Code, or amusement rides operated solely at trade shows
				for a limited period of time. For regulation and definitions, see Chapter 993
				of the Revised Code. Amusement rides are not regulated by this code but are
				regulated by the Ohio department of agriculture. Also see section 411, Special
				Amusement Areas.
APPROVED.
Determined to be in compliance by the authority having
				jurisdiction in accordance with the rules of the board.
APPROVED AGENCY.
An established and accredited testing laboratory,
				listing agency, inspection body, or field evaluation body recognized by the
				board of building standards providing services consistent with their
				accreditation and the code section requiring the approved agency
				service.
APPROVED FABRICATOR.
An established and qualified person, firm or
				corporation approved in accordance with the rules of the board of building
				standards.
APPROVED NATIONAL ACCREDITATION
				SERVICE.
An established and nationally
				recognized service regularly engaged in evaluating the competency of agencies
				to conduct tests and inspections required by the rules of the
				board.
APPROVED SOURCE.
Deleted.
BUILDING.
Any structure utilized or intended for supporting or
				sheltering any occupancy, function, or activity. This includes, but is not
				limited to, structures built or used for the shelter, occupancy, enclosure or
				support of persons, animals, or chattels. For the purposes of this code, the
				term "building" is to be construed as followed by the words "or portion
				thereof."
BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
An agency, department or division of the state or of
				the government of a municipal corporation, township, or county, which has been
				created and authorized in conformity with law for the purpose of enforcing
				construction code provisions of the board's rules applicable to structures
				specified in section 3781.06 of the Revised
				Code.
BUILDING OFFICIAL.
The superintendent of the division of industrial
				compliance of the Ohio department of commerce or the person appointed by the
				superintendent to enforce this code in that division or the designated
				authority charged with the administration and enforcement of this code,
				approved by the board in accordance with section 103 of this code, in a
				municipal corporation, township or county having a building department,
				certified by the board pursuant to section
				3781.10 of the Revised Code, or
				the health commissioner or the authorized representative in health districts,
				whichever one has jurisdiction.
BUILDING SERVICE
				EQUIPMENT.
Equipment, appliances,
				materials, devices, and systems integrated into a building that provide space
				heating, air conditioning, ventilation, fire protection, lighting, electricity,
				sanitation, water, water heating, cooking, medical gas, medical vacuum, and
				clothes drying. Building service equipment begins from the connected stored
				source of liquid or gas fuel or electrical power supplying the equipment or the
				utility service point/point of delivery and extends through the point of use
				but does not include process equipment that may also be connected to the same
				source.
BUILDING SERVICES
				PIPING.
All piping systems and their
				component parts that are part of a building system and that promote the safe,
				sanitary, and energy efficient occupancy of a building. Building services
				piping includes, but is not limited to, cold and hot potable water distribution
				for plumbing fixtures; sanitary lines from plumbing fixtures; nonflammable
				medical gas systems; medical oxygen systems; medical vacuum systems; fire
				protection piping systems and compressed air in dry systems; refrigeration,
				chilled water, condenser and cooling tower water, brine, and water/antifreeze
				systems; steam, steam condensate, and hot water piping systems; and fuel oil
				piping and fuel gas piping for heating, cooling, and cooking applications. See
				division (A) of section
				4104.41 of the Revised
				Code.
CARE FACILITY.
A building or portion of a building that is held out to
				the public for and intended to provide all the following:
(1)
								housing or
			 accommodation;
(2)
								personal, custodial, or medical care;
			 and
(3)
								a supervised environment. Care provided in a dwelling
			 or dwelling unit that is the permanent residence of the care provider is not a
			 care facility.
CHANGE OF OCCUPANCY.
A change in the purpose or level of activity within a
				building that involves a change in application of the requirements of the code.
				Such a change could be to an entire building or a portion of a building. A
				change of occupancy includes any change of occupancy classification, any change
				from one group to another group within an occupancy classification, any change
				in use within a group for a specific occupancy classification or any change
				that causes an increase in risk.
CLINIC, OUTPATIENT.
Buildings or portions thereof used to provide medical
				care for fewer than twenty-four hours per day to persons who are not rendered
				incapable of self-preservation by the services provided.
CLOSED CONSTRUCTION.
An assembly of materials or products manufactured in
				such a manner that its structural, plumbing, electrical, environmental control,
				or fire protection elements or components are concealed and are not readily
				accessible for inspection at the site of its erection, without disassembly,
				damage, or destruction. Closed construction includes assemblies where only one
				of the components is not accessible for inspection. (For example, an equipment
				enclosure where all the electrical conductors and components are exposed for
				inspection and its roof and wall panels have exposed structural members but the
				floor panel structural members are not exposed, would be required to comply
				with division 4101:7 of the Administrative Code.)
CODE.
Those rules contained in Chapters 4101:1-1 to 4101:1-35
				of the Administrative Code.
COMBUSTIBLE
				MATERIAL.
Any material not defined as
				noncombustible.
COMMERCIAL COOKING RECIRCULATING
				SYSTEM.
Self-contained system consisting
				of the exhaust hood, the cooking equipment, the filters, and the fire
				suppression system. The system is designed to capture cooking vapors and
				residues generated from commercial cooking equipment. The system removes
				contaminants from the exhaust air and recirculates the air to the space from
				which it was withdrawn.
COMMERCIAL FOOD SERVICE
				ESTABLISHMENT.
A building or portion
				thereof that is frequently used for the preparation and/or serving of food
				using listed commercial cooking appliances, or, depending upon the duration,
				frequency, and purposes of the cooking operations, establishments that utilize
				listed household or domestic cooking appliances for the preparation and/or
				serving of large quantities of food may also be considered commercial food
				service establishments. Such establishments include, but are not limited to,
				food processing facilities and food service operations typically found in
				restaurants, hotels, clubs, banquet halls, school cafeterias, hospital
				cafeterias, and catering businesses. (Establishments that utilize listed
				household or domestic cooking appliances in a manner similar to a typical
				residential setting such as fire stations, office break rooms, day care
				facilities, church halls, and dwelling units are not commercial food service
				establishments.)
CONSTRUCTION
				DOCUMENTS.
The written, graphic and
				pictorial documents prepared or assembled for describing the design, location
				and physical characteristics of the elements of a project necessary for
				obtaining plan approval in accordance with section 106 of rule
				4101:1-1-01 of the
				Administrative Code.
CREDENTIALS.
The badge of office, certificate, or letter issued by a
				governmental department to an employee for the identification of said employee
				in the performance of his duties.
CUSTODIAL CARE.
Assistance with day-to-day living tasks; such as
				assistance with cooking, taking medication, bathing, using toilet facilities
				and other tasks of daily living. Custodial care includes persons receiving care
				who have the ability to respond to emergency situations and evacuate at a
				slower rate and/or who have mental and psychiatric complications. Persons who
				receive custodial care could need assistance with evacuation depending on the
				occupancy and/or the "condition" in the occupancy.
DEFERRED SUBMITTAL.
Deleted.
DESIGN PROFESSIONAL IN
				RESPONSIBLE CHARGE, REGISTERED.
Deleted.
DWELLING.
Any building that exclusively contains one, two, or
				three dwelling units, each of which may be occupied by a family and no more
				than five lodgers or boarders, intended, or designed to be built, used, rented,
				leased, let or hired out to be occupied, or that is occupied for living
				purposes, physically separated from adjacent structures, and with an
				independent exit from each dwelling unit.
DWELLING, ONE-, TWO-, OR THREE-
				FAMILY.
See "DWELLING".
DWELLING UNIT.
A single unit providing complete, independent living
				facilities for one or more persons, including permanent provisions for living,
				sleeping, eating, cooking and sanitation. The dwelling unit may include any
				accessory space intended for the exclusive use of the occupants of an
				individual dwelling unit such as a private garage, greenhouse,
				etc.
EMERGENCY SITUATION.
An incident requiring a response to prevent loss of
				life or injury at a school building involving an active shooter or similar
				occurrence where normal evacuation could put occupants at risk, but does not
				include fire, tornado/earthquake, building collapse, boiler failure, or similar
				occurrence caused by natural activity or building failure. See section
				1010.2.16.
ENGINE-MOUNTED TANK.
A fuel tank furnished by the engine manufacturer or the
				emergency power system supplier and mounted on the engine, the engine-frame, or
				under as a subbase.
EXISTING BUILDING.
A building regulated by this code that has been erected
				and for which a certificate of occupancy has been issued or can be issued in
				accordance with Section
				111.4.
EXISTING STRUCTURE.
A structure regulated by this code that has been
				erected and for which a certificate of occupancy has been issued or can be
				issued in accordance with Section
				111.4.
FABRICATED ITEM.
Structural, load-bearing or lateral load-resisting
				members or assemblies consisting of materials assembled prior to installation
				in a building or structure, or subjected to operations such as heat treatment,
				thermal cutting, cold working or reforming after manufacture and prior to
				installation in a building or structure. Materials produced in accordance with
				standards referenced by this code, such as rolled structural steel shapes,
				steel reinforcing bars, masonry units and wood structural panels, or in
				accordance with a referenced standard that provides requirements for quality
				control done under the supervision of an approved agency, are not "fabricated
				items."
FAMILY DAY-CARE HOME, TYPE
				A
. A home where the administrator
				permanently resides and where care is provided for seven to twelve children
				under six years of age or four to twelve children when at least four are under
				two years of age. Licensure is required of these homes by the Ohio Department
				of Job and Family Services when at least one of the children cared for is not a
				sibling of the others and the home is not the permanent residence of the
				children. These homes are also referred to as Type A Homes and Type A Child
				Care and are exempt from the rules of the board. Also see Chapter 5104. of the
				Revised Code.
FAMILY DAY-CARE HOME, TYPE
				B.
A home where the administrator
				permanently resides and where care is provided for one to six children under
				six years of age with no more than three children under two years of age when
				at least one of the children cared for is not a sibling of the others and the
				home is not the permanent residence of the children. These homes are also
				referred to as Type B Homes and Type B Child Care and are exempt from the rules
				of the board. Also see Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code.
FIRE CODE.
"Ohio Fire Code".
FIRE LANE.
A road or other passageway developed to allow the
				passage of fire apparatus. A fire lane is not necessarily intended for
				vehicular traffic other than fire apparatus. A fire lane does not include a
				residential and/or public street.
FIRE PREVENTION.
The preventative measures which provide for the safe
				conduct and operation of hazardous processes, storage of combustible and
				flammable materials, conducting of fire drills and the maintenance of fire
				protection, detection and extinguishing service equipment and good housekeeping
				conditions.
FUEL TANK.
A tank containing fuel for an engine(s) or
				appliance.
FURNACE ROOM.
A room primarily utilized for the installation of
				fuel-burning space-heating and water-heating appliances other than
				boilers.
INCAPABLE OF
				SELF-PRESERVATION.
Persons who, because of
				age, physical limitations, mental limitations, chemical dependency or medical
				treatment, cannot aid or participate in the completion of their own evacuation
				in response to an emergency situation.
INDUSTRIALIZED
				UNITS.
Industrialized units are
				prefabricated components comprised of closed construction manufactured at a
				location remote from the site of intended use and transported to a building
				site for its subsequent use. Industrialized units are not restricted to housing
				for one-, two-, and three-family dwellings, but includes all prefabricated
				forms of building elements and assembled construction units, intended for both
				structural and service equipment purposes in all buildings of all groups.
				Prefabricated shop assemblies may be shipped in structurally complete units
				ready for installation in the building structure or in knock-down and packaged
				form for assembly at the site.
INSTITUTION OF HIGHER
				EDUCATION.
A state institution of higher
				education as defined in section
				3345.011 of the Revised Code, a
				private nonprofit college or university located in this state that possesses a
				certificate of authorization issued pursuant to Chapter 1713. of the Revised
				Code, or a school located in this state that possesses a certificate of
				registration and one or more program authorizations issued by the state board
				of career colleges and schools under Chapter 3332. of the Revised Code. See
				School Building.
JURISDICTION.
The authority to enforce this code by municipal
				corporations, townships or counties certified by the board in accordance with
				3781.10 of the Revised Code or the division of industrial compliance in the
				department of commerce.
LIMITED SPRAYING
				SPACE.
An area in which spraying
				operations for touch-up or spot painting of a surface area of nine square feet
				(0.84 m2) or less are conducted.
LISTED.
Equipment, appliances, materials, products or services
				included in a directory published by an approved agency whose listing states
				either that the equipment, appliance, material, product or service meets
				identified standards listed in this code or have been tested and found suitable
				for use in a specified manner.
MAINTENANCE.
Work necessary to assure that equipment, systems,
				devices and safeguards continue to operate in good working order and in
				accordance with the approval.
MARQUEE.
A permanent roofed structure projecting over an
				entrance attached to and supported by a building for the purpose of supporting
				a marquee sign.
MECHANICAL CODE.
The "Ohio Mechanical Code."
MINOR REPAIR.
See REPAIR, MINOR.
NATURAL GAS PROCESSING
				FACILITIES
- Installations, including
				associated buildings, pipes, valves, tanks, and other equipment, used to
				separate various fluids, hydrocarbons, natural gas liquids, and impurities from
				the raw natural gas, manufacturing residue gas suitable for transmission and
				distribution to end users.
NATURAL GAS LIQUIDS FRACTIONATION
				FACILITIES
- Installations, including
				associated buildings, pipes, valves, tanks, and other equipment, used for the
				separation of mixtures of light hydrocarbons or natural gas liquids into
				individual, purity natural gas liquid products, which include ethane, propane,
				normal butane, iso-butane, and natural gasolines.
NONCOMBUSTIBLE
				MATERIAL
. A material that, under the
				conditions anticipated, will not ignite or burn when subjected to fire or heat.
				Materials that pass ASTM E 136 are considered noncombustible
				materials.
OCCUPANCY.
The purpose for which a building, or portion thereof,
				is used.
OCCUPANCY, CHANGE
				OF
. See "CHANGE OF
				OCCUPANCY."
PERMIT.
Deleted.
PERSON.
An individual, heirs, executors, administrators or
				assigns, and also includes a firm, partnership or corporation, its or their
				successors or assigns, or the agent of any of the aforesaid. Whenever the word
				"person" is used in any section of this code prescribing a penalty or fine, as
				to partnerships or associations, the word includes the partners or members
				thereof, and as to corporations, includes the officer, agents or members
				thereof who are responsible for any violation of such section.
PLUMBING CODE.
The "Ohio Plumbing Code."
POWER PIPING.
Piping systems and their component parts that are not
				building services piping systems, and that may be installed within electric
				power generating stations, industrial and institutional plants, utility
				geothermal heating systems, and central and district heating and cooling
				systems. Power piping includes, but is not limited to, piping used in the
				distribution of plant and process steam at boiler pressures greater than
				fifteen pounds per square inch gauge, high temperature water piping from high
				pressure and high temperature boilers, power boiler steam condensate piping,
				high pressure and high temperature water condensate piping, and compressed air
				and hydraulic piping upstream of the first stop valve off a system distribution
				header. See division (B) of section
				4104.41 of the Revised
				Code.
PREMISES.
A lot, plot or parcel of land, including any structure
				thereon.
PRIMARILY TRANSIENT.
Use of a space for sleeping that has facilities for
				sanitation, with or without other spaces used for living purposes, offered or
				otherwise intended to be used for short periods of time but not intended to be
				used as a permanent residence or an institutional-use group facility where care
				or supervision is provided.
PRIMARY FUNCTION.
A primary function is a major activity for which the
				facility is intended. Areas that contain a primary function include, but are
				not limited to, the customer service lobby of a bank, the dining area of a
				cafeteria, the meeting rooms in a conference center, as well as offices and
				other work areas in which the activities of the public accommodation or other
				private entity using the facility are carried out. Mechanical rooms, boiler
				rooms, supply storage rooms, employee lounges or locker rooms, janitorial
				closets, entrances, corridors and restrooms are not areas containing a primary
				function.
PRIMITIVE TRANSIENT LODGING
				STRUCTURE.
See "TRANSIENT LODGING
				STRUCTURE".
PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL SWIMMING
				POOL.
Any indoor or outdoor structure,
				chamber, or tank containing a body of water for swimming, diving or bathing
				located at a dwelling containing not more than 3 dwelling units and used
				exclusively by the dwelling's residents, their nonpaying guests or paying
				guests of a resident for the purpose of participating in a certified swimming
				class where the resident is a certified swimming instructor and is conducting
				the certified swimming class on a one-on-one basis and not more than four
				individuals are in the pool at the same time during the class. Any swimming
				pool other than a private swimming pool is classified as a public swimming
				pool.
PRIVATE SCHOOL.
A chartered nonpublic school or a nonchartered
				nonpublic school. See School Building.
PROCESS PIPING.
Piping systems and their component parts that are not
				building services or power piping systems and that may be installed in
				petroleum refineries; chemical, pharmaceutical, textile, paper, semiconductor,
				and cryogenic plants; and related processing plants and terminals. See division
				(C) of section 4104.41 of the Revised
				Code.
PROCESSING
				EQUIPMENT.
Equipment, machinery and
				devices specifically intended and used exclusively for manufacturing and other
				similar purposes. Processing equipment does not include the building electrical
				service and distribution system, mechanical and plumbing systems related to
				space heating, air conditioning, ventilation, water distribution and sanitation
				or other systems regulated by board rules.
PUBLIC
				ENTITY.
(1)
								Any state or local government;
(2)
								Any department,
			 agency, special purpose district, or other instrumentality of Ohio or local
			 government; and
(3)
								The national railroad passenger corporation, and any
			 commuter authority (as defined in section 103(8) of the "Rail Passenger Service
			 Act of 1970").
PUBLIC SCHOOL.
Any school operated by a school district board of
				education, any community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised
				Code, any STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code, and
				any college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the
				Revised Code. See School Building.
PUBLIC SWIMMING
				POOL.
Any indoor or outdoor structure,
				chamber, or tank containing a body of water for swimming, diving, or bathing
				that is intended to be used collectively for swimming, diving, or bathing and
				is operated by any person whether as the owner, lessee, operator, licensee, or
				concessionaire, regardless of whether or not a fee is charged for use, but does
				not mean any public bathing area or private residential swimming
				pool.
REGISTERED DESIGN
				PROFESSIONAL.
Any architect holding a
				certificate issued under section
				4703.10 of the Revised Code, any
				landscape architect holding a certificate issued under section
				4703.36 of the Revised Code, or
				any engineer holding a certificate issued under section
				4733.14 of the Revised
				Code.
REGISTERED DESIGN PROFESSIONAL IN
				RESPONSIBLE CHARGE.
Deleted.
REPAIR, MINOR.
The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an
				existing building for the purpose of its maintenance when the work has limited
				impact on access, safety or health. Minor repairs do not include the cutting
				away of any wall, partition or portions of walls, the removal or cutting of any
				structural beam or load bearing support, or the removal or change of any
				required element of accessibility, means of egress, or rearrangement of parts
				of a structure affecting the egress requirements. Minor repairs do not include
				addition to, alteration of, replacement or relocation of any standpipe, water
				supply, sewer, drainage, drain leader, gas, soil, waste, vent or similar
				piping, electric wiring or mechanical or other work affecting public health or
				general safety.
REVISED CODE.
All statutes of a permanent and general nature of this
				state as revised and consolidated into general provisions, titles, chapters,
				and sections.
SAFE.
As applied to a building, means free from danger or
				hazard to the life, safety, health or welfare of persons occupying or
				frequenting it, or of the public, and from danger of settlement, movement,
				disintegration, or collapse, whether such danger arises from the method of
				materials of its construction or from equipment installed therein, for the
				purpose lighting, heating, the transmission or utilization of electric current,
				or from its location or otherwise.
SANITARY.
As applied to a building, means free from danger or
				hazard to the health of persons occupying or frequenting it, or to that of the
				public, if such danger arises from the method of materials of its construction
				or from any equipment installed therein, for the purpose lighting, heating,
				ventilating or plumbing.
SCHOOL BUILDING.
A structure used for the instruction of students by a
				public or private school or institution of higher education.
SEMI-PRIMITIVE TRANSIENT LODGING
				STRUCTURE. See
"TRANSIENT LODGING
				STRUCTURE".
SERIOUS HAZARD.
A hazard of considerable consequence to safety or
				health through the design, location, construction, or equipment of a building,
				or the condition thereof, which hazard has been established through experience
				to be of certain or probable consequence, or which can be determined to be, or
				which is obviously such a hazard.
SPECIAL INSPECTION
				AGENCY.
An established, independent,
				nationally recognized and accredited, third-party conformity assessment body
				regularly engaged in performing special inspections as required by Chapter
				17.
SPECIAL INSPECTOR.
A qualified person who demonstrates competence for the
				inspection of the particular type of construction or operation requiring
				special inspection. A special inspector is to be an employee of an accredited
				special inspection agency recognized by the board in accordance with section
				114 and rule
				4101:7-6-01 of the
				Administrative Code, the registered design professional of record involved in
				the design of the project, or an agent contracted by the owner or registered
				design professional to perform special inspections whose qualifications comply
				with section 1704.1.
SPRAY BOOTH
. A mechanically ventilated appliance of varying dimensions
				and construction provided to enclose or accommodate a spraying operation and to
				confine and limit the escape of spray vapor and residue and to exhaust it
				safely.
SPRAY ROOM.
A room designed to accommodate spraying operations,
				constructed in accordance with this code.
SPRAYING SPACE.
An area in which dangerous quantities of flammable
				vapors or combustible residues, dusts or deposits are present due to the
				operation of spraying processes. The building official is authorized to define
				the limits of the spraying space in any specific case.
SRO (Single room occupancy)
				FACILITY
. A facility with more than five
				sleeping rooms that is kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the
				public as a place where sleeping rooms offered on a single room occupancy (SRO)
				basis and intended for use as a primary residence for a period of more than
				thirty days. SRO facilities are required to be licensed by the Ohio Fire
				Marshal and do not include agricultural labor camps, apartment houses, lodging
				houses, rooming houses or college dormitories.
SWIMMING POOL.
See "PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL"
.
TECHNICALLY
				INFEASIBLE.
An alteration of a building or
				a facility that has little likelihood of being accomplished because the
				existing structural conditions necessitate the removal or alteration of a
				load-bearing member that is an essential part of the structural frame, or
				because other existing physical or site constraints do not allow for
				modification or addition of elements, spaces or features which are in full and
				strict compliance with the minimum requirements for new construction and which
				are necessary to provide accessibility.
TEMPORARY DOOR LOCKING
				DEVICE.
An assembly of parts intended to
				be engaged by a trained school staff member in a school building for the
				purpose of preventing both ingress and egress through a door in a school
				building for a finite period of time in an emergency situation and during
				active shooter drills. See Section 1010.2.16.
TRANSIENT LODGING
				STRUCTURE.
A single dwelling unit
				structure held out the public for lodging of no more than twenty transient
				occupants. Examples may include, but are not limited to, cabins, cottages,
				bungalows, yurts, and chalets.
PRIMITIVE TRANSIENT LODGING
				STRUCTURE.
A transient lodging structure
				with only provisions for sleeping and no building services equipment or
				piping.
SEMI-PRIMITIVE TRANSIENT LODGING
				STRUCTURE
. A transient lodging structure
				that provides permanent provisions for only sleeping or for sleeping with
				either sanitation or kitchen facilities, but not both.
TYPE A FAMILY DAY-CARE
				HOME.
See "Home, Type A Family
				Day-Care."
TYPE B FAMILY DAY-CARE
				HOME.
See "Home, Type B Family
				Day-Care."
VAPOR AREA.
An area containing flammable vapors in the vicinity of
				dip tanks, drain boards or associated drying, conveying or other equipment
				during operation or shutdown periods. The code official is authorized to
				determine the extent of the vapor area, taking into consideration the
				characteristics of the liquid, the degree of sustained ventilation and the
				nature of the operations.
Replaces: 4101:1-2-01