New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 17 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter IV - Highways › Subchapter C - Highway Use And Maintenance › Part 165 - Uniform Code Of Bridge Inspection › Section 165.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
As used in this Part, unless the context otherwise
					 requires, the following words and terms shall have the following
					 meaning:
(a) AASHTO shall mean the
				  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
(b) ''AASHTO Manual'' shall mean the "Manual
				  for Bridge Evaluation" and all interim updates published by the American
				  Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
(c) Bridge shall mean a structure including
				  supports erected over a depression or an obstruction such as water, highway, or
				  railway, having a track or passageway for carrying public highway traffic and
				  having an opening measured along the center of the roadway of more than twenty
				  feet between undercopings of abutments or spring lines or arches, or extreme
				  ends of openings for multiple boxes and may include multiple pipes where the
				  clear distance between openings is less than half of the smaller contiguous
				  opening. The term bridge, as defined in this Part, shall also include the
				  approach spans.
(d) Bridge
				  Inspection Manual shall mean the Bridge Inspection Manual published by the
				  department.
(e) Bridge inventory
				  and inspection system shall mean the inventory and inspection system for
				  bridges maintained by the department.
(f) Code shall mean the Uniform Code of
				  Bridge Inspection, as set forth in this Part.
(g) Commissioner shall mean the Commissioner
				  of Transportation of the State of New York.
(h) Department shall mean the Department of
				  Transportation of the State of New York.
(i) Inspection Flagging Procedure for Bridges
				  shall mean the engineering instruction of the same name published by the
				  department.
(j) OSHA shall mean the
				  Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
(k) Public entity shall mean any department,
				  board, bureau, commission or agency of the state or its political subdivisions,
				  public benefit corporation or any public authority, including the Port
				  Authority of New York and New Jersey.
(l) Publicly owned, operated or maintained
				  shall mean a bridge that is owned, operated or maintained by any public
				  entity.
(m) Quality control
				  engineer shall mean the professional engineer responsible for reviewing and
				  signing inspection reports. In signing the inspection reports, the quality
				  control engineer is attesting to the accuracy and correctness of the report in
				  accordance with the established standards. The quality control engineer shall
				  not be the same individual responsible for performing the inspection or
				  initially preparing the report.
(n)
				  Redundancy refers to the bridge's ability to retain structural capacity,
				  stability and servicability if one or more primary load carrying components or
				  primary structural members were to structurally fail.
(o) Substantial structural alteration shall
				  mean any work that modifies the live load capacity, load distribution or load
				  paths or structural behavior of the bridge.