Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-46B - Electrical safety standards, administration, and installation › Part B - ELECTRICAL PLAN REVIEW › Section 296-46B-900 - Electrical plan review

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
Definition of occupancies.
(1) Occupancies are defined as follows:
(a) Educational facility refers to a building
				or portion of a building used primarily for educational purposes by six or more
				persons at one time for twelve hours per week or four hours in any one day.
				Educational occupancy includes: Schools (preschool through grade twelve),
				colleges, academies, universities, and trade schools.
(b) Institutional facility refers to a
				building or portion of a building used primarily for detention or correctional
				occupancies where some degree of restraint or security is required for a time
				period of twenty-four or more hours. Such occupancies include, but are not
				restricted to: Penal institutions, reformatories, jails, detention centers,
				correctional centers, and residential-restrained care.
(c) Health or personal care facility. Health
				or personal care facility refers to buildings or parts of buildings that
				contain, but are not limited to, facilities that are required to be licensed by
				the department of social and health services or the department of health (e.g.,
				hospitals, nursing homes, private alcoholism hospitals, private psychiatric
				hospitals, boarding homes, alcoholism treatment facilities, maternity homes,
				birth centers or childbirth centers, residential treatment facilities for
				psychiatrically impaired children and youths, and renal hemodialysis clinics)
				and medical, dental, or chiropractic offices or clinics, outpatient or
				ambulatory surgical clinics, and such other health care occupancies where
				patients who may be unable to provide for their own needs and safety without
				the assistance of another person are treated.
(i) "Hospital" means any institution, place,
				building, or agency providing accommodations, facilities, and services over a
				continuous period of twenty-four hours or more, for observation, diagnosis, or
				care of two or more individuals not related to the operator who are suffering
				from illness, injury, deformity, abnormality, or from any other condition for
				which obstetrical, medical, or surgical services would be appropriate for care
				or diagnosis.
(ii) "Nursing home,"
				"nursing home unit" or "long-term care unit" means a group of beds for the
				accommodation of patients who, because of chronic illness or physical
				infirmities, require skilled nursing care and related medical services but are
				not acutely ill and not in need of the highly technical or specialized services
				ordinarily a part of hospital care.
(iii) "Boarding home" means any home or other
				institution, however named, which is advertised, announced, or maintained for
				the express or implied purpose of providing board and domiciliary care to seven
				or more aged persons not related by blood or marriage to the operator. It must
				not include any home, institution, or section thereof which is otherwise
				licensed and regulated under the provisions of state law providing specifically
				for the licensing and regulation of such home, institution, or section
				thereof.
(iv) "Enhanced service
				facility (ESF)" means a facility, or a portion of a facility, that provides
				treatment and services to persons for whom acute inpatient treatment is not
				medically necessary and who have been determined by the depart-ment to be
				inappropriate for placement in other licensed facilities due to the complex
				needs that result in behavioral and security issues. For the purposes of this
				chapter, an enhanced services facility is not an evaluation and treatment
				facility certified under chapter 71.05 RCW.
(v) "Private alcoholism hospital" means an
				institution, facility, building, or equivalent designed, organized, maintained,
				or operated to provide diagnosis, treatment, and care of individuals
				demonstrating signs or symptoms of alcoholism, including the complications of
				associated substance use and other medical diseases that can be appropriately
				treated and cared for in the facility and providing accommodations, medical
				services, or other necessary services over a continuous period of twenty-four
				hours or more for two or more individuals unrelated to the operator, provided
				that this chapter will not apply to any facility, agency, or other entity which
				is owned and operated by a public or governmental body.
(vi) "Private psychiatric hospital" means a
				privately owned and operated establishment or institution which: Provides
				accommodations and services over a continuous period of twenty-four hours or
				more, and is expressly and exclusively for observing, diagnosing, or caring for
				two or more individuals with signs or symptoms of mental illness who are not
				related to the licensee.
(vii)
				"Maternity home" means any home, place, hospital, or institution in which
				facilities are maintained for the care of four or more women, not related by
				blood or marriage to the operator, during pregnancy or during or within ten
				days after delivery: Provided, however, that this definition will not apply to
				any hospital approved by the American College of Surgeons, American Osteopathic
				Association, or its successor.
(viii) "Birth center" or "childbirth center"
				means a type of maternity home which is a house, building, or equivalent
				organized to provide facilities and staff to support a birth service provided
				that the birth service is limited to low-risk maternal clients during the
				intrapartum period.
(ix)
				"Ambulatory surgical facility" means a facility, not a part of a hospital,
				providing surgical treatment to patients not requiring inpatient care in a
				hospital.
(x) "Hospice care center"
				means any building, facility, place, or equivalent, organized, maintained, or
				operated specifically to provide beds, accommodations, facilities, or services
				over a continuous period of twenty-four hours or more for palliative care of
				two or more individuals, not related to the operator, who are diagnosed as
				being in the latter stages of an advanced disease which is expected to lead to
				death.
(xi) "Renal hemodialysis
				clinic" means a facility in a building or part of a building which is approved
				to furnish the full spectrum of diagnostic, therapeutic, or rehabilitative
				services required for the care of renal dialysis patients (including inpatient
				dialysis furnished directly or under arrangement). (NEC: Ambulatory Health Care
				Occupancy.)
(xii) "Medical, dental,
				and chiropractic clinic" means any clinic or physicians' office where patients
				are not regularly kept as bed patients for twenty-four hours or more.
				Electrical plan review is not required.
(xiii) "Residential treatment facility" means
				a facility licensed and operated twenty-four hours per day to provide health
				care to persons receiving services for a mental disorder or substance
				abuse.
(xiv) "Group care facility"
				means a facility other than a foster-family home maintained or operated for the
				care of a group of children on a twenty-four-hour basis.
Plan review for educational, institutional, or health
				  care facilities/buildings.