Washington Administrative Code › Title 212 - State Patrol (Fire Protection) (See also Titles 204, 446 and 448) › Chapter 212-17 - Fireworks › Part I - GENERAL › Section 212-17-028 - Definitions - General

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1)
"Citation"
means a document issued by the office of the state fire
				marshal pursuant to
				chapter
				70.77 RCW to issue a civil
				penalty for a violation of
				RCW
				   70.77.480 through
				70.77.520. A citation may include,
				but is not limited to, a description of the violation(s) and a notice of civil
				penalty assessment.
(2)
"Building"
means any structure used or intended for supporting or
				sheltering any use or occupancy.
(3)
"Consumer fireworks retail sales
				(CFRS) facility"
means a permanent or temporary structure, CFRS stand,
				tent, canopy, or membrane structure that is used primarily for the retail display
				and sale of consumer fireworks to the public.
(4)
"Facility"
means a consumer
				fireworks retail sales facility, distribution facility, or manufacturing
				facility.
(5)
"Formal
				hearing"
is a hearing before a hearings officer where the laws, rules, and
				evidence are presented, considered, and a proposed opinion issued.
(6)
"Hazard"
means a condition
				which could result in fire loss, injury, or damage to a person or
				property.
(7)
"Hearings
				request"
means the written request for a formal hearing to contest a civil
				penalty.
(8)
"Inhabited
				building"
means a building regularly occupied in whole or in part as a
				habitation for people, or any place of religious worship, schoolhouse, railroad
				station, store or other structure where people are accustomed to assemble, except
				any building or structure occupied in connection with the manufacture,
				transportation, storage or use of explosive materials.
(9)
"International Building Code"
means the edition currently adopted by chapter 51-50 WAC.
(10)
"International Fire Code"
means the edition currently adopted by chapter 51-54A WAC.
(11)
"Magazine"
means a structure,
				other than an explosives manufacturing building approved for the storage of
				explosive materials.
(12)
"Permanent structure"
means an enclosure or shelter erected for a
				period of thirty days or more used for the sales, at retail or wholesale, of
				legal fireworks of any kind.
(13)
"Person"
means one or more
				individuals, legal representatives, partnerships, joint ventures, associations,
				corporations (whether or not organized for profit), business trusts, or any
				organized group of persons and includes the state, state agencies, counties,
				municipal corporations, school districts, and other public
				corporations.
(14)
"Private
				way"
means any privately owned driveway, lane, access way, or similar
				parcel of land essentially unobstructed from the ground to the sky which serves
				as access from private property to a public road.
(15)
"Public road"
means any street
				or alley essentially unobstructed from the ground to the sky which is deeded,
				dedicated, or otherwise permanently appropriated to the public for public
				use.
(16)
"Recognized testing
				laboratory"
means a nationally recognized testing laboratory approved by
				the state fire marshal.
(17)
"State fire marshal"
means the
				director of the fire protection bureau of the Washington state patrol as
				appointed by the chief or his or her designee.
(18)
"Temperature overheat
				protection"
means a device which immediately interrupts the power to the
				heating element of a portable heating unit when the portable heating unit exceeds
				its designed operating temperature.
(19)
"Temporary power drop"
means
				an electrical service connection to a temporary retail fireworks stand.
(20)
"Temporary storage"
means a
				structure used for storage of consumer fireworks directly related to a CFRS
				facility and authorized under WAC 212-17-117.
(21)
"Temporary structure"
means
				an enclosure or shelter erected for a period of less than thirty days and not
				otherwise defined in the International Fire Code as a canopy.
(22)
"Tip-over protection"
means a
				device which immediately interrupts the power to the heating element of a
				portable heating unit when the portable heating unit is tipped or tilted more
				than forty-five degrees from its designed operating position.