Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 69 - GENERAL ORDERS, POLICY STATEMENTS AND GUIDELINES ON FIXED UTILITIES › BUILDING ENERGY CONSERVATION STANDARDS FOR RECEIPT OF UTILITY SERVICE › Section 69.101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in §
											§
											69.101-69.107, have the following
						meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Act
-The Building Energy Conservation Act
						(35
						P. S. §
												§
												7201.101-7201.602).
Addition
-An addition to an existing
						building. See § 69.102 (relating to scope).
Building energy conservation
						standards
-The standards promulgated by the Department at 12 Pa. Code
						Chapter 147 (relating to building energy conservation standards).
Compliance certification copy
-The part
						of the notice of intent to construct returned by the Department or municipality
						after receipt and processing of the notice of intent to construct, which bears
						the ID number assigned to the notice of intent to construct by the Department
						or municipality.
Department
-The Department of Community
						Affairs of the Commonwealth.
Municipality
-A city, borough,
						incorporated town, township or home rule municipality which has elected to
						administer the act under section 501 of the act (35 P. S. §
												7201.501).
Notice of intent to construct
-The notice
						required to be filed with the Department, or a municipality, under section 306
						of the act (35 P. S. §
												7201.306).
Person
-Individuals, partnerships,
						associations, sole proprietorships, companies, corporations and their lessees,
						assignees, trustees, receivers, executors, administrators or other successors
						in interest.
Public utility
-Persons or corporations
						in this Commonwealth owning or operating equipment or facilities for producing,
						generating, transmitting, distributing or furnishing electricity to or for the
						public for compensation for any purpose. The term does not include the
						following:
(i) A generator or producer
					 of electricity not engaged in distributing the electricity directly to the
					 public for compensation.
(ii) A
					 person not otherwise a public utility who furnishes service only to
					 himself.
(iii) A bona fide
					 cooperative association which furnishes services only to its stockholders or
					 members on a nonprofit basis.
Renovation
-The rehabilitation of an
						existing building which requires more than 25% of the gross floor area or
						volume of the entire building to be rebuilt. Cosmetic work, such as painting,
						wall covering, wall paneling, floor covering and suspended ceiling work is not
						required to be included. Sections
						69.101-69.107 apply to the portion of the
						building being renovated and not to the entire building.
Residential building
-A building as
						defined in section 103 of act (35 P. S. §
												7201.103), and renovations thereto, the
						actual construction of which commenced after March 19, 1986, and which is
						arranged for the use of one or two family dwelling units, and rowhouses,
						townhouses and garden apartment construction not exceeding three stories in
						height used for residential purposes, whenever each unit has its own individual
						and self-supporting heating, ventilating or air conditioning
						system.
The provisions of this §
													69.101 issued under the Public
						  Utility Code,
						  66 Pa.C.S. §
														§
														308,
						  501,
						  1501 and
						  1704; amended under the
						  Public Utility Code,
						  66 Pa.C.S. §
														§
														308,
						  331,
						  501,
						  1501 and
						  1704.
This section cited in 52 Pa. Code § 69.102
						  (relating to scope).