New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Chapter I - State Sanitary Code › Part 17 - Mobile Home Parks › Section 17.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
As used in this Part, the following words and terms shall
				  have the indicated meaning:
(a)
				Adequate shall mean sufficient to accomplish the purpose intended, and to such
				a degree that no unreasonable risk is presented to health or safety. Within the
				meaning of this Part, an item installed, maintained, designed and assembled, an
				activity conducted, or act performed, in accordance with recognized generally
				accepted standards, principles or practices applicable to a particular trade,
				business, occupation or profession shall be considered adequate.
(b) Anchoring system shall mean a combination
				of ties, anchoring equipment and ground anchors that will, when properly
				designed and installed, resist overturning and lateral movements of the mobile
				home from wind forces.
(c) Drinking
				water shall mean water provided or used for human consumption, food
				preparation, or for lavatory, culinary, bathing or laundry purposes.
(d) Feeder assembly shall mean the overhead
				or under chassis electrical feeder conductors, including the grounding
				conductor, together with the necessary fittings and equipment, or a power
				supply cord listed for mobile home use, designed for the purpose of delivering
				the electrical supply from the source to the distribution panel within the
				home.
(e) Generally accepted
				standards shall mean those referenced in the New York State Building
				Construction Codes and Fire Prevention Code (9 NYCRR), or their successor(s),
				or any other standards filed with the Secretary of State.
(f) Home shall mean a mobile or manufactured
				home in a mobile home park.
(g)
				Manufactured home shall mean a structure, transportable in one or more sections
				with or without a permanent foundation, and includes the plumbing, heating, air
				conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein.
(h) Mobile home shall mean a structure, which
				is eight feet or more in width and 32 feet or more in length, transportable in
				one or more sections, built on a permanent chassis, and designed to be used as
				a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the
				required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and
				electrical systems contained therein.
(i) Mobile home accessory building or
				structure shall mean a building or structure which is an addition to or
				supplements the facilities provided a mobile home. It is not a self-contained,
				separate, and habitable building or structure.
(j) Mobile home park (hereafter also known as
				park) shall mean a property consisting of a tract of land maintained by an
				operator for mobile homes and/or manufactured homes, and buildings or other
				structures that may be pertinent to their use, any part of which may be
				occupied by persons for residential purposes other than recreation, traveling,
				or vacationing, and who are provided services or facilities necessary for their
				use of the property.
(k) Mobile
				home site (hereafter also known as site) shall mean a designated parcel of land
				in a mobile home park provided by the operator and designed for accommodating,
				one mobile or manufactured home, its accessory buildings or structures, and
				accessory equipment for the exclusive use of the occupants.
(l) Mobile home stand shall mean that area of
				a site which has been reserved the placement of the home.
(m) Operator shall mean the owner, lessee or
				any other person designated as responsible for the maintenance and operation of
				the park and such services and facilities as are provided and/or necessary for
				the use of such property.
(n)
				Permit-issuing official shall mean the health commissioner or health officer of
				a city of 50,000 population or over, the health commissioner or health officer
				of a county or part-county health district, the State regional health director
				or area director having jurisdiction, a grade I or grade II public health
				administrator qualified and appointed pursuant to Part 11 of this Title, or any
				county health director having all the powers and duties prescribed in section 352  of the Public Health Law. The health
				commissioner or health officer of a city of 50,000 population or over, or the
				health commissioner or health officer of a county or part-county health
				district, or such grade I or grade II public health administrator or county
				health director may designate the director of environmental health of the
				health district; and, the State regional health director or area director may
				designate the district sanitary engineer or district administrator as
				additional persons authorized to issue the permits required by this
				Part.
(o) Person shall mean an
				individual, group of individuals, partnership, firm, corporation, association,
				political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, estate or any
				legal entity whatever.
(p) Refuse
				shall mean all putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste including, but not
				limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator residue, street cleanup, dead
				animals, offal and solid commercial wastes.
(q) Service equipment shall mean the
				electrical equipment containing the disconnecting means, overcurrent protection
				devices, and receptacles or other means for connecting a mobile home feeder
				assembly.
(r) Sewage shall mean
				excreta and the waste from a flush toilet, bath, sink, lavatory, dishwashing,
				or laundry machine or the water-carried waste from any other fixture or
				equipment or machine.