Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 918 - DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AND BUSINESS SERVICES, BUILDING CODES DIVISION › Division 251 - ELECTRICAL AND ELEVATOR ADMINISTRATION AND DEFINITIONS › Section 918-251-0090 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
For purposes of OAR chapter 918, divisions 251 through 311,
				unless otherwise specified, the following apply:
(1) "Appliance" as applied to the limited
			 maintenance specialty contractor license established by ORS
			 479.630, means any built-in or
			 permanently-connected electrical utilization equipment, not including lighting
			 fixtures, other than industrial, that is installed or connected as a unit to
			 perform one or more functions such as clothes washing, air conditioning, food
			 mixing, deep frying, etc.
(2)
			 "Approved" when referring to electrical product certification means approved in
			 Oregon or for Oregon by the Electrical and Elevator Board.
(3) "Balance of system" as it relates to
			 renewable electrical energy systems are those products, equipment, and systems
			 for the conversion, control and storage of electrical energy.
(4) "Board" means Electrical and Elevator
			 Board.
(5) "Building" means a
			 structure that stands alone or that is isolated from adjoining structures by
			 area separation walls as identified in Chapter 7 of the Oregon Structural
			 Specialty Code adopted in OAR chapter 918, division 460, with all openings
			 therein protected by approved fire doors as required.
(6) "Certification Mark" is identification on
			 an electrical product indicating that the product has been certified under ORS
			 479.760.
(7) "Certified Electrical Product" is an
			 electrical product certified under ORS
			 479.760 to which a label or
			 other identifying mark.
(8)
			 "Continuously Employ" means a person, including a person leased from a worker
			 leasing company licensed under ORS
			 656.850, during time periods
			 when electrical work for which they are responsible is performed, devotes their
			 entire time of employment to tasks of supervising, designing, laying out,
			 planning, controlling, and making electrical installations for the electrical
			 contractor for which the supervisor is registered as signing supervisor.
(9) "Custom Made" means electrical
			 products that are designed for a specific purpose and location.
(10) "Document" means prepare records
			 itemizing what was checked, why it was checked, when it was done, how it was
			 checked, what was determined, and who did the work.
(11) "Electrical Specialty Code" means the
			 National Electrical Code with Oregon amendments.
(12) "Electrical Specialty Code Inspector,"
			 formerly referred to as "A-Level Electrical Inspector," is a person certified
			 to inspect under the Oregon Electrical Specialty Code.
(13) "Energy generation," as it relates to
			 renewable electrical energy generation equipment, are those products,
			 equipment, and systems in renewable electrical energy systems that produce or
			 convert electrical energy.
(14)
			 "Engineer" is an individual who has completed a minimum four-year degree
			 program in electrical engineering or electrical technology with power
			 specialty, from an accredited college or university and has received a Bachelor
			 of Science degree.
(15) "Field
			 Evaluation" means the evaluation of electrical products by an approved field
			 evaluation firm.
(16)
			 "Indorsement" is a designation within the restricted energy electrical area
			 showing qualifications and training regarding a product area. It determines the
			 scope of restricted energy electrical activity authorized under a restricted
			 energy electrical license.
(17)
			 "Industrial Electronic Equipment" means a device, appliance, motor, or machine
			 regulated, operated, or controlled through fiber optics or by a combination of
			 electron tubes, capacitors, resistors, impedance transformer, and relays; the
			 control circuit, and/or the power circuits having electrons flowing through a
			 vacuum, metallic vapor, gas tubes, or transistors as used in an industrial
			 plant.
(18) "Industrial Plant",
			 for purposes of licensing and electrical master permit inspection program,
			 means an establishment engaged in industrial production, or service, or a
			 school, hospital, sewer plant, water plant, commercial office building,
			 building occupied by the state or a local government entity, or an institution.
			 For purposes of the elevator program, "industrial plant" does not include a
			 school, hospital, commercial office building, building occupied by the state or
			 a local government entity, or an institution where the elevators are accessible
			 to and used by persons other than the employees of that building.
(19) "Installation" includes external and
			 field wiring, service contracts or warranties by the seller or manufacturer
			 concerning the longevity of the equipment or parts after the original
			 installation. It does not include "start-up" activities where new equipment is
			 placed in service, and that type of work related to delivering and setting in
			 place a piece of machinery.
(20)
			 "Inverter", as it relates to renewable electrical energy generation equipment,
			 is a product, equipment or system that converts direct current into alternating
			 current.
(21) "Jurisdictional
			 Inspector" is a state or municipal inspector having inspection responsibility
			 within their jurisdiction over electrical products or their installation, or
			 both.
(22) "Labeled" means a
			 label, symbol or other identifying mark of a Nationally Recognized Testing
			 Laboratory (NRTL), field evaluation firm or the division that is attached to an
			 electrical product indicating the product is manufactured according to approved
			 standards and tested or evaluated for specific end uses or both.
(23) "Lighting Fixture" is a complete
			 lighting unit consisting of a lamp or lamps together with the parts designed to
			 distribute the light, to position and protect the lamps, and to connect the
			 lamp to the power supply.
(24)
			 "Limited Energy System" means those systems that include Class 1, Class 2 or
			 Class 3 systems as defined by Section 725.2 of NFPA 70 (National Electrical
			 Code) and audio systems, communication systems and power-limited fire alarm
			 systems, covered in the Oregon Electrical Specialty Code.
(25) "Listed Product" means a product was
			 examined and accepted by a Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory (NRTL) to
			 meet a particular product standard and]is maintained on a list of the listing
			 laboratory.
(26) "Maintain" means
			 to preserve electrical equipment in a good sound condition.
(27) "Maintenance" Compare with repair,
			 replacement, and maintain for definition.
(28) "Minimum Electrical Installation Safety
			 Code" means the adopted Oregon Electrical Specialty Code.
(29) "Nationally Recognized Testing
			 Laboratory (NRTL)" means a laboratory recognized by the Federal Occupational
			 Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under
			 29
			 CFR 1910.7.
(30) "NEMA" means the National Electrical
			 Manufacturers Association.
(31)
			 "Off grid system" is a stand-alone system, connected to a structure, whose
			 electrical systems are not connected to a utility-supplied electrical
			 production and distribution network.
(32) "On grid system" is an electrical power
			 system connected to a structure whose electrical systems are also connected to
			 a utility-supplied electrical production and distribution network.
(33) "Plug-in Replacement" is a part,
			 component or assembly designed to be inserted directly into a mating receptacle
			 or socket such as printed circuit boards, control relays, control harnesses or
			 other equipment connected by a cord or cable and plug assembly. A plug-in
			 replacement does not have any field wiring that is connected to the plug-in
			 part or assembly.
(34) "Power
			 Circuitry" means that portion of the system, other than control, that provides
			 electrical power to utilization equipment.
(35) "Registered Professional Electrical
			 Engineer" is an individual licensed by the State of Oregon Board of Engineering
			 Examiners as a professional electrical engineer under OAR chapter 820, division
			 10.
(36) "Renewable Electrical
			 Energy System" as it relates to electrical energy generation, is the total
			 components and subsystems that, in combination, convert wind energy, solar
			 energy, micro-hydroelectricity, photovoltaic energy or fuel cell energy into
			 electrical energy suitable for connection to a utilization load.
(37) "Repair" means to restore worn or
			 damaged parts to a good, sound condition by means other than replacement.
(38) "Replacement" means
			 substitution of complete units of damaged or worn equipment with similar new or
			 used equipment of a size and rating that does not exceed the design capacity of
			 the existing product.
(39)
			 "Signing Supervising Electrician" or "Signing Supervisor" is a licensed
			 supervising electrician who has been authorized by the electrical contractor to
			 sign permits.
(40) "Similar
			 Equipment," as applied to the limited maintenance specialty contractor license
			 established by ORS 479.630(12),
			 means components of light fixtures other than ballasts.
(41) "Special Deputy" means a person
			 certified by the board or Chief Electrical Inspector to perform special deputy
			 inspections allowed under ORS
			 479.760.
(42) "Stand-alone system" is a renewable
			 electrical energy system that supplies power independently of an electrical
			 production and distribution network.
(43) "Up to the load side of the inverter",
			 as it relates to electrical energy generation equipment, is the renewable
			 electrical energy system equipment up to the alternating current connection
			 terminals of the inverter.
Publications: Publications referenced are available from the
				  agency.
Stat. Auth.: ORS
				  479.630
Stats. Implemented: ORS
				  479.730