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

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
Chapter 2 of the International
				Mechanical 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:
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.
APPLIANCE, EXISTING.
Any appliance regulated by this code that has been
				installed and for which a certificate of occupancy has been issued or can be
				issued in accordance with section
				111.4 of the building
				code.
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.
BOILER:
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 direct application of heat from the
				combustion of fuels, or from electricity or nuclear energy. The term boiler
				includes fired units for heating or vaporizing liquids other than water where
				these units are separate from processing systems and are complete within
				themselves. Low-pressure boilers operate at pressures less than or equal to 15
				pounds per square inch (psi) (103 kPa) for steam and 160 psi (1103 kPa) or
				temperatures not exceeding 250 °F for water. High-pressure boilers operate
				at pressures exceeding those pressures and temperatures.
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 CODE.
The "Ohio Building 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.
CODE.
Those rules contained in Chapters 4101:2-1 to 4101:2-15
				of the Administrative Code.
CODE OFFICIAL.
See "BUILDING OFFICIAL".
COMMERCIAL COOKING
				APPLIANCES.
Appliances listed as
				commercial cooking appliances and used in a commercial food service
				establishment for heating or cooking food and which produce grease vapors,
				steam, fumes, smoke or odors that are required to be removed through a local
				exhaust ventilation system. Such appliances include deep fat fryers; upright
				broilers; griddles; broilers; steam-jacketed kettles; hot-top ranges;
				under-fired broilers (char-broilers); ovens; barbecues; rotisseries; and
				similar appliances.
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.)
CONDITIONED SPACE.
An area, room or space that is enclosed by, but not
				within, the building thermal envelope assembly and that is directly heated or
				cooled or that is indirectly heated or cooled. Spaces are indirectly heated or
				cooled where they communicate through openings with conditioned spaces, where
				they are separated from conditioned spaces by uninsulated walls, floors, or
				ceilings, or where they contain uninsulated ducts, piping or other sources of
				heating or cooling.
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 the building
				code.
COOKING APPLIANCE.
See "COMMERCIAL COOKING APPLIANCES", "DOMESTIC COOKING
				APPLIANCES", and "HOUSEHOLD COOKING APPLIANCES".
DOMESTIC COOKING
				APPLIANCES.
Appliances listed as domestic
				or household cooking appliances and designed to heat or cook food for human
				consumption in a manner similar to a typical residential or household
				application. Domestic cooking appliances have built-in safety features such as
				child safe knobs and insulated oven doors which make them appropriate for use
				in a residential occupancy.
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 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.
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.
EQUIPMENT, EXISTING.
Any equipment regulated by this code that has been
				installed and for which a certificate of occupancy has been issued or can be
				issued in accordance with section
				111.4 of the building
				code.
EXHAUSTED ENCLOSURE.
An appliance or piece of equipment which consists of a
				top, a back and two sides providing a means of local exhaust for capturing
				gases, fumes, vapors and mists. Such enclosures include laboratory hoods,
				exhaust fume hoods and similar appliances and equipment used to retain and
				exhaust locally the gases, fumes, vapors and mists that could be released.
				Rooms or areas provided with general ventilation, in themselves, are not
				exhausted enclosures.
FIRE CODE.
"Ohio Fire Code".
FLAMMABLE SOLID.
A solid, other than a blasting agent or explosive, that
				is capable of causing fire through friction, absorption of moisture,
				spontaneous chemical change, or retained heat from manufacturing or processing,
				or which has an ignition temperature below 212°F (100° C) or which
				burns so vigorously and persistently when ignited as to create a serious
				hazard. A chemical is to be considered a flammable solid as determined in
				accordance with the test method of CPSC 16CFR; Part 1500.44, if it ignites and
				burns with a self-sustained flame at a rate greater than 0.1 inch (2.5 mm) per
				second along its major axis.
FLASH POINT.
The minimum temperature in degrees Fahrenheit at which
				a liquid will give off sufficient vapors to form an ignitable mixture with air
				near the surface or in the container, but will not sustain combustion. The
				flash point of a liquid is to be determined by the appropriate test procedures
				and apparatus as specified in ASTM D56, ASTM D93 or ASTM D3278.
FLOOR AREA, NET.
The actual occupied area, not including unoccupied
				accessory areas such as corridors, stairways, toilet rooms, mechanical rooms,
				closets, or thicknesses of walls.
FUEL TANK.
A tank containing fuel for an engine(s) or
				appliance.
GAS CABINET
. A fully enclosed, noncombustible enclosure used to
				provide an isolated environment for compressed gas cylinders in storage or use.
				Doors and access ports for exchanging cylinders and accessing
				pressure-regulating controls are allowed to be included.
GAS ROOM.
A separately ventilated, fully enclosed room in which
				only compressed gases and associated equipment and supplies are stored or
				used.
HAZARDOUS PRODUCTION MATERIAL
				(HPM).
A solid, liquid, or gas associated
				with semiconductor manufacturing that has a degree-of-hazard rating in health,
				flammability or reactivity of Class 3 or 4 as ranked by NFPA 704 and which is
				used directly in research, laboratory or production processes which have as
				their end product materials that are not hazardous.
HOUSEHOLD COOKING
				APPLIANCES.
See "DOMESTIC COOKING
				APPLIANCES."
INCOMPATIBLE
				MATERIALS.
Materials that, when mixed,
				have the potential to react in a manner which generates heat, fumes, gases or
				byproducts which are hazardous to life or property.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
				EQUIPMENT.
Any electronic digital or
				analog computer, along with all peripheral, support, memory, programming, or
				other directly associated equipment, records, storage, and
				activities.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT
				AREA.
An area of a building where the
				information technology equipment room is located, including support rooms
				served by the same special air-conditioning/air-handling equipment as the
				information technology equipment room.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT
				ROOM.
An enclosed area, with one or more
				means of entry, that contains computer based business and industrial
				information technology equipment.
JOINT,
				MECHANCAL.
1.
								A connection between pipes, fittings, or pipes and
			 fittings, that is not welded, brazed, caulked, soldered, solvent cemented, or
			 heat fused.
2.
								A general form of gas or liquid-tight connections
			 obtained by the joining of parts through a positive holding mechanical
			 construction such as, but not limited to, flanged, screwed, clamped, push-fit,
			 press-connect, or flared connections.
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.
LABEL.
An identification applied on a product by the
				manufacturer that contains the name of the manufacturer, the function and
				performance characteristics of the product or material, and the name and
				identification of an approved agency and that indicates that the representative
				sample of the product or material has been tested and evaluated by an approved
				agency (see building code section
				1703.5 and building code
				definitions of "Manufacturer's Designation" and "Mark").
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.
LIQUID STORAGE ROOM.
A room classified as a Group H-3 occupancy used for the
				storage of flammable or combustible liquids in a closed position.
LIQUID STORAGE
				WAREHOUSE.
A room classified as a Group
				H-3 occupancy used for the storage of flammable or combustible liquids in an
				unopened condition. The quantities of flammable or combustible liquids stored
				are not limited.
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.
LOWER EXPLOSIVE LIMIT
				(LEL).
See "LOWER FLAMMABLE LIMIT
				(LFL)"
MACHINERY ROOM.
As used in Chapter 11 of this code means "REFRIGERATION
				MACHINERY ROOM".
MECHANICAL JOINT.
See "Joint, Mechanical."
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.
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.
REFRIGERATION MACHINERY
				ROOM.
See Machinery room. A room meeting
				prescribed safety requirements and in which refrigeration systems or components
				thereof are located. Referred to as "Machinery Room" in Chapter 11 of this
				code.
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.
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 the building code and separated from the
				remainder of the building by a minimum one-hour fire barrier.
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.
STORY.
That portion of a building included between the upper
				surface of a floor and the upper surface of the floor or roof next above (see
				"BASEMENT", "BUILDING HEIGHT", "GRADE PLANE", and "MEZZANINE" as defined in the
				building code). It is measured as the vertical distance from top to top of two
				successive tiers of beams or finished floor surfaces and, for the topmost
				story, from the top of the floor finish to the top of the ceiling joists or,
				where there is not a ceiling, to the top of the roof rafters.
TESTED.
The procedure by which a product, material or system is
				determined to conform to specified requirements.
THIRD-PARTY CERTIFICATION
				AGENCY.
Deleted.
THIRD-PARTY
				CERTIFIED.
Deleted.
THIRD-PARTY TESTED.
Deleted.
Replaces: 4101:2-2-01