New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR › Chapter I - Industrial Board Of Appeals › Subchapter A - The Industrial Code › Part 4 - Low Pressure Boilers › Subpart 4-1 - General Provisions › Section 4-1.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) 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.
(b) ASME Code means the boiler and pressure
					 vessel code published by the American Society of Mechanical
					 Engineers.
(c) 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, nuclear energy, 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.
(d) Commissioner means the Commissioner of
					 Labor of the State of New York.
(e)
					 Component means a constituent part of a boiler assembly.
(f) 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.
(g) 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.
(h) Department means the
					 Department of Labor.
(i) Installed
					 means, in respect to a heating system boiler as a vessel: placed in a fixed
					 operating location and connected to the heat distribution system. The term does
					 not include a reassembly not involving a change of location.
(j) 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.
(k) Low pressure boiler means a boiler
					 producing steam or vapor at a gage pressure of 15 pounds per square inch or
					 less, or producing hot water at a gage pressure not exceeding 160 pounds per
					 square inch, or at a temperature not exceeding 250 degrees
					 Fahrenheit.
(l) 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.
(m) 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.
(n) Owner means
					 the owner or lessee of a boiler.
(o) Safe means without defect.
(p) Safe boiler means a boiler which is not
					 defective.