Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 158 - Construction Industries Board › Chapter 50 - Mechanical Industry Regulations › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 158:50-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words or terms, when used in this Chapter,
				  shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Act"
means Mechanical Licensing Act as found at
				  59 O.S. § 1850.1,
et seq
.
"Administrator"
means the Administrator of the
				  Board as described in the Construction Industries Board Act found at 59 O.S.
				  § 1000.1,
et seq
.
"Applicant"
means any person applying for an
				  examination, for a license or registration, for continuing education approval,
				  for review of plans and specifications or for a mechanical code variance from
				  the standard of installation described in OAC
				  158:50-1-4
				  by the Construction Industries Board under the Act.
"Associated with and responsible for"
means the
				  relationship between a mechanical contractor and mechanical firm based on the
				  mechanical contractor being a permanent employee, owner, partner, or officer in
				  a corporate firm, and whereby the mechanical contractor shall give full time to
				  the supervision and control of operations necessary to secure full compliance
				  with the provisions of the Mechanical Licensing Act and this Chapter.
"Biomass"
means organic material that comes from
				  plants and animals, and is a renewable source of energy intended for fueled
				  hearth products.
"Board"
means the Oklahoma Construction
				  Industries Board.
"Bonds and Insurance Unit"
means the
				  consolidated unit that processes bonds and insurance under the direction of the
				  Construction Industries Board.
"Cheating"
means any unapproved deviation from
				  any official instruction given before, during or after a license examination,
				  for the purpose of affecting or influencing the examination results or
				  otherwise providing an undue advantage to any examinee.
"Chemical plant"
means a chemical plant within
				  the context of 59 O.S. §1850.10(D) including a fertilizer plant engaged in
				  formulating chemicals ultimately used generally in the agricultural fertilizer
				  industry.
"Committee"
means the Committee of Mechanical
				  Examiners.
"Contracting"
means engaging or offering to
				  engage in, on behalf of oneself or on behalf of another, any mechanical work
				  which requires a valid and appropriate license from the Construction Industries
				  Board as required by the Mechanical Licensing Act, regardless if said work is
				  in exchange for monetary payment or otherwise.
"Credit Hour"
or
"Hour"
means at
				  least 50 minutes of classroom instruction with a 10 minute break.
"Direct supervision"
means the on-the-job
				  physical presence by the supervisor who must be in the work area where the
				  mechanical work is being performed and who also must be a licensed mechanical
				  contractor or mechanical journeyman in the appropriate category for any
				  mechanical work supervised.
"Endorsed apprentice"
means a registered
				  apprentice who met the qualifications, pursuant to OAC
				  158:50-9-5(i),
				  to sit for the journeyman examination in the HVAC limited category and received
				  a passing score on the examination, but who is working to complete the required
				  one (1) year of verifiable experience as a registered apprentice prior to being
				  issued the journeyman license.
"Fueled Hearth Product Work"
means the
				  installation, service or repair of biomass-fueled or natural gas-fired
				  fireplace, fireplace insert, stove or log set and associated venting and piping
				  that fuels or simulates a flame of a solid fuel fire, including accessories for
				  use with natural gas. This does not include (a) gas piping work, (b) the
				  servicing of gas piping, or (c) work associated with pressure regulating
				  devices, except for factory installed appliance gas valves.
"Gas piping"
means and includes all natural gas
				  piping within or adjacent to any building, structure, or conveyance, on the
				  premises up to the connection with a natural gas meter, regulator, or other
				  source of supply.
"Ground source piping"
means piping buried below
				  the earth's surface or submerged in a water well, lake or pond and used in
				  conjunction with a heat pump to provide heating, ventilation and/or air
				  conditioning to a structure.
"Health care facility"
includes but is not
				  limited to hospitals, nursing homes, limited care facilities, clinics, medical
				  or dental offices, and ambulatory care centers, whether permanent or moveable.
"
Hearing Board"
means the Mechanical Hearing
				  Board.
"Humidification"
when applied to air
				  conditioning, means and includes an increase or decrease in moisture content of
				  the air being conditioned and supplied to the space for human occupancy by
				  means of that integral part of the entire air conditioning system, equipment,
				  and control devices; when applied to refrigeration, means and includes an
				  increase or decrease in the moisture content of the air or product being
				  conditioned for a food preservation measure or manufacturing process by means
				  of the integral part of the entire refrigeration system, equipment, and control
				  devices.
"HVAC"
or
"heating, ventilation and air
				  conditioning"
means the process of treating air by controlling its
				  temperature, humidity, and cleanliness and of supplying such air to spaces for
				  human occupancy by means of an integrated system of air conditioning and
				  ventilation equipment, accessories and control devices.
"ICC"
means the International Code Council.
"Limited residential installer"
means a type and
				  category of mechanical license that is restricted to new installations in new
				  construction for detached one or two family dwellings and multiple single
				  family dwellings (townhouses) not more than three stories in height with a
				  separate means of egress as regulated by this Chapter.
"Limited residential journeyman"
means a type
				  and category of mechanical license that is restricted to new installations for
				  detached one or two family dwellings and multiple single family dwellings
				  (townhouses) not more than three stories in height with a separate means of
				  egress as regulated by this Chapter.
"Mechanical License Unit"
means the staff and
				  administrative support unit to the Committee of Mechanical Examiners and the
				  Mechanical Hearing Board.
"Mechanical work"
means the installation,
				  maintenance, repair, or renovation, in whole or in part, of any heating system,
				  exhaust system, cooling system, mechanical refrigeration system, ventilation
				  system, medical gas system, medical-surgical vacuum systems, or any equipment
				  or piping carrying chilled water, air for ventilation purposes, or natural gas,
				  or the installation, maintenance, repair, or renovation of process piping used
				  to carry any liquid, substance, or material, including steam and hot water used
				  for space heating purposes not under the jurisdiction of the Department of
				  Labor or Department of Health, provided that minor repairs and maintenance are
				  excluded.
"Medical gas piping work"
means the lay out,
				  assembly, installation, and maintenance of pipe systems used in health care
				  facilities for oxygen, nitrous oxide, medical air, carbon dioxide, helium,
				  nitrogen, instrument air, medical-surgical vacuum, waste anesthetic gas
				  disposal, mixtures thereof, or any other gaseous, partly gaseous substance,
				  material or any mixtures thereof used in a health care facility. Replacing
				  cylinders and filters, and performing routine and preventive maintenance that
				  does not breach the integrity of the medical gas piping system and does not
				  constitute the installation, repair, or replacement of medical gas piping shall
				  not require a medical gas piping licensee.
"Medical gas journeyman"
means a type and
				  category of mechanical license that is restricted to medical gas piping.
"Minor repairs and maintenance"
means minor
				  repairs or maintenance as each are prescribed in the manufacturer's operating
				  instructions to be performed by the equipment owner or his authorized agent,
				  and shall not include replacement and repairs of any nature on natural gas
				  piping, natural gas controls, the manufacturer installed controls and
				  components, the vent system of fuel burning appliances, a breach of the
				  integrity of a refrigeration system or any repair or maintenance which would
				  violate the safe operation of the equipment.
"National Fireplace Institute"
or
"NFI"
means the professional certification entity for planning and
				  installing residential hearth fueled gas, wood, or pellet appliances and
				  venting systems.
"Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission"
or
"OUBCC"
means the state agency created under 59 O.S. §
				  1000.20,
et seq.
, and authorized to adopt all building codes
				  and standards for residential and commercial construction to be used as minimum
				  standards by all entities within this State.
"Petroleum refinery"
means an industrial plant
				  which processes petroleum for purposes of creating products derived from
				  petroleum and includes industrial plants which produce and/or refine
				  alternative fuels or petroleum additives. "Petroleum refinery" shall not mean
				  gas processing plant or gas gathering pipeline operations.
"Petroleum refinery journeyman"
means a type and
				  category of mechanical license that is restricted to petroleum refinery process
				  piping.
"Petroleum refinery process piping work"
means
				  the lay out, assembly, installation, and maintenance of pipe systems used in
				  the petroleum refining process or product refining systems of a petroleum
				  refinery.
"Process"
means a series of operations performed
				  in the making or treatment of a product.
"Process piping"
means lay out, assembly,
				  installation, and maintenance of pipe systems, pipe supports, and related
				  hydraulic and pneumatic equipment for steam, hot water, heating, cooling,
				  lubricating and fire sprinklers, not subject to regulation pursuant to the
				  Alarm Industry Act, and industrial production and processing systems, and
				  piping used to carry any gaseous, or partly gaseous, substance or material as
				  part of a medical gas piping system.
"Reciprocity"
means an agreement whereby a
				  person holding a mechanical license or registration who is licensed in other
				  states with substantially similar or greater licensure requirements may be
				  licensed in this State after payment of a fee for licensing by reciprocity.
"Refrigeration system"
means installation,
				  repairing and servicing of a system employing fluid which normally is vaporized
				  and liquefied in an air conditioning system, food preservation measure or
				  manufacturing process.
"Variance"
means the use of an alternative
				  material or method of construction from that prescribed in the standard of
				  installation as described in OAC
				  158:50-1-4
				  and/or other approved documents by the OUBCC for use at a particular location
				  or project specified in the variance application; and
"Variance and Appeals Board"
means the Oklahoma
				  State Mechanical Installation Code Variance and Appeals Board.
"Verifiable experience"
means mechanical
				  experience obtained while employed by a licensed Mechanical contractor, or by
				  other means approved by the Committee of Mechanical Examiners including
				  equivalent experience earned while serving in the U.S. Military, for which one
				  (1) year of verifiable experience equals two thousand (2,000) hours.
Added at 19 Ok Reg 732, eff 1-22-02 (emergency) ; Added at
					 19 Ok Reg 1276, eff 5-28-02 ; Amended at 20 Ok Reg 2658, eff 7-26-03 ; Amended
					 at 23 Ok Reg 1216, eff 5-25-06 ; Amended at 26 Ok Reg 388, eff 11-14-08
					 (emergency) ; Amended at 26 Ok Reg 2458, eff 7-11-09 ; Amended at 27 Ok Reg
					 2087, eff 7-11-10 ; Amended at 30 Ok Reg 776, eff 10-30-12 (emergency) ;
					 Amended at 30 Ok Reg 1543, eff 7-11-13