Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Safety and Professional Services › SPS 301-399 - Safety, Buildings, and Environment › SPS 301-319 - General, Part I › Chapter SPS 316 - Electrical › Subchapter I - Purpose, Scope, and Application › Section SPS 316.006 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1) "Department" means the department of
					 safety and professional services.
(2) "Electrical wiring" has the meaning given
					 in s.
					 101.80(1m),
					 Stats.
Note:
Under s.
						101.80(1m),
						Stats., "electrical wiring" means all equipment, wiring, material, fittings,
						devices, appliances, fixtures, and apparatus used for the production,
						modification, regulation, control, distribution, utilization, or safeguarding
						of electrical energy for mechanical, chemical, cosmetic, heating, lighting, or
						similar purposes, as specified under the state electrical wiring code.
						"Electrical wiring" does not include the equipment, wiring, material, fittings,
						devices, appliances, fixtures, and apparatus used by a public utility, an
						electric cooperative, or a wholesale merchant operator for the purpose of
						generating, transmitting, distributing, or controlling heat, light, power, or
						natural gas to its customers or members.
(3) "Farm" means a place where farming is
					 conducted.
(4) "Farming" has the
					 meaning given in s.
					 102.04(3),
					 Stats.
Note:
Under s.
						102.04(3),
						Stats., "farming" means the operation of farm premises owned or rented by the
						operator. "Farm premises" means areas used for operations herein set forth, but
						does not include other areas, greenhouses or other similar structures unless
						used principally for the production of food and farm plants.
Note:
Section
						102.04(3),
						Stats., states that the operation of farm premises shall be deemed to be the
						planting and cultivating of the soil thereof; the raising and harvesting of
						agricultural, horticultural or arboricultural crops thereon; the raising,
						breeding, tending, training and management of livestock, bees, poultry,
						fur-bearing animals, wildlife or aquatic life, or their products, thereon; the
						processing, drying, packing, packaging, freezing, grading, storing, delivering
						to storage, to market or to a carrier for transportation to market,
						distributing directly to consumers or marketing any of the above-named
						commodities, substantially all of which have been planted or produced thereon;
						the clearing of such premises and the salvaging of timber and management and
						use of wood lots thereon, but not including logging, lumbering or wood cutting
						operations unless conducted as an accessory to other farming operations; the
						managing, conserving, improving and maintaining of such premises or the tools,
						equipment and improvements thereon and the exchange of labor, services or the
						exchange of use of equipment with other farmers in pursuing such
						activities.
(5) "Multifamily
					 dwelling" has the meaning given in s.
					 101.01(8m),
					 Stats.
Note:
Under s.
						101.01(8m),
						Stats., "multifamily dwelling" means "an apartment building, rowhouse, town
						house, condominium or modular home, as defined in s.
						101.71(6),
						that does not exceed 60 feet in height or 6 stories and that consists of 3 or
						more attached dwelling units, as defined in s.
						101.61(1),
						the initial construction of which is begun on or after January 1, 1993.
						`Multifamily dwelling' does not include a facility licensed under ch.
						50."
(6) "Municipality"
					 means a city, village, town, or county in this state.
(7) "One- and 2- family dwellings" means any
					 buildings that contain one or 2 dwelling units the construction of which
					 commenced on or after December 1, 1978.
(8) "Place of employment" has the meaning
					 given in s.
					 101.01(11),
					 Stats.
Note:
Under s.
						101.01(11),
						Stats., "place of employment" includes every place, whether indoors or out or
						underground and the premises appurtenant thereto where either temporarily or
						permanently any industry, trade or business is carried on, or where any process
						or operation, directly or indirectly related to any industry, trade or
						business, is carried on, and where any person is, directly or indirectly,
						employed by another for direct or indirect gain or profit, but does not include
						any place where persons are employed in private domestic service which does not
						involve the use of mechanical power or in farming. "Farming" includes those
						activities specified in s.
						102.04(3),
						Stats., and also includes the transportation of farm products, supplies or
						equipment directly to the farm by the operator of said farm or employees for
						use thereon, if such activities are directly or indirectly for the purpose of
						producing commodities for market, or as an accessory to such production. When
						used with relation to building codes, "place of employment" does not include an
						adult family home, as defined in s.
						50.01(1),
						Stats., or, except for the purposes of s.
						101.11,
						Stats., a previously constructed building used as a community-based residential
						facility, as defined in s.
						50.01(1g),
						Stats., which serves 20 or fewer residents who are not related to the operator
						or administrator.
(9)
					 "Public building" has the meaning given in s.
					 101.01(12),
					 Stats.
Under s 101.01 (12), Stats., "public building" means
						  any structure, including exterior parts of such building, such as a porch,
						  exterior platform or steps providing means of ingress or egress, used in whole
						  or in part as a place of resort, assemblage, lodging, trade, traffic, occupancy
						  or use by the public or by 3 or more tenants. When used in relation to building
						  codes, "public building" does not include a previously constructed building
						  used as a community-based residential facility as defined in s.
						  50.01(1g),
						  Stats., which serves 20 or fewer residents who are not related to the operator
						  or administrator or an adult family home, as defined in s.
						  50.01(1),
						  Stats.