Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Safety and Professional Services › SPS 301-399 - Safety, Buildings, and Environment › SPS 301-319 - General, Part I › Chapter SPS 305 - Licenses, Certifications And Registrations › Section SPS 305.003 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
In this chapter:
(1) "Approved" means accepted by the
				  department.
(2) "ASME" means
				  American society of mechanical engineers.
(2m) "ASSE" means American society of
				  sanitary engineering.
(3)
				  "Automatic fire sprinkler contractor" has the meaning specified under s.
				  145.01 (1),
				  Stats.
Note:
Under section
					 145.01 (1),
					 Stats., "automatic fire sprinkler contractor" means any individual, firm or
					 corporation who has paid the annual license fee and obtained a license to
					 conduct a business in the design, installation, maintenance or repair of
					 automatic fire sprinkler systems.
(4) "Automatic fire sprinkler system" has the
				  meaning specified under s.
				  145.01 (2),
				  Stats.
Note:
Under s.
					 145.01 (2),
					 Stats., "automatic fire sprinkler system", for fire protection purposes, means
					 an integrated system of underground and overhead piping designed in accordance
					 with fire protection engineering standards. The system includes a suitable
					 water supply, such as a gravity tank, fire pump, reservoir or pressure tank or
					 connection beginning at the supply side of an approved gate valve located at or
					 near the property line where the pipe or piping system provides water used
					 exclusively for fire protection and related appurtenances and to standpipes
					 connected to automatic sprinkler systems. The portion of the sprinkler system
					 above ground is a network of specially sized or hydraulically designed piping
					 installed in a building, structure or area, generally overhead, and to which
					 sprinklers are connected in a systematic pattern. The system includes a
					 controlling valve and a device for actuating an alarm when the system is in
					 operation. The system is usually activated by heat from a fire and discharges
					 water over the fire area.
(5) "Automatic fire sprinkler system
				  apprentice" has the meaning specified under s.
				  145.01 (3),
				  Stats.
Note:
Under s.
					 145.01 (3),
					 Stats., "automatic fire sprinkler system apprentice" means any person other
					 than an automatic fire sprinkler system contractor or a journeyman automatic
					 fire sprinkler system fitter who is engaged in learning and assisting in the
					 installation of automatic fire sprinkler systems and who is indentured under
					 ch. 106, Stats.
(6)
				  "Blasting" means any method of loosening, moving or shattering masses of solid
				  matter by use of an explosive.
(7)
				  "Blasting operation" means any enterprise or activity involving
				  blasting.
(8) "Branch" means an
				  office, other than the main business office, involved in the sales of
				  manufactured homes that advertises as a sales location, displays new or used
				  homes, takes sales calls, is staffed by licensed salespersons, has signage of a
				  licensed dealer, and accepts offers or contracts on manufactured
				  homes.
(9) "Broker" means a
				  manufactured home dealer who has no sales lot, no inventory and no ownership
				  interest in the manufactured homes being sold.
(10) "Building permit" means an official
				  document or certificate granting permission to perform construction or erosion
				  control work, except for electrical, plumbing or HVAC, on a one- or 2-family
				  dwelling.
(11) "Business
				  establishment" means any industrial or commercial organization or enterprise,
				  including but not limited to a proprietorship, partnership, firm, business
				  trust, joint venture, syndicate, corporation or association.
(12) "Cash price" means the manufactured home
				  dealer asking price including dealer installed options and accessories and
				  additional dealer mark-up, profit and transportation charges, minus the dollar
				  value of cash discounts.
(13)
				  "Cathodic protection tester" means a person who demonstrates an understanding
				  of the principles and measurements of all common types of cathodic protection
				  systems as applied to buried or submerged metal piping systems and metal
				  tanks.
(14) "Conflict of interest"
				  means a certified inspector inspecting work in which the inspector or the
				  inspector's employer, other than the state or a municipality, has participated
				  or has a monetary or personal interest.
(15) "Conveyance" has the meaning defined in
				  ch. SPS 318.
(16) "Corrosion
				  expert" means a person who is qualified to engage in the practice of corrosion
				  control on buried or submerged metal piping systems and metal tanks by reason
				  of thorough knowledge of the physical sciences and the principles of
				  engineering and mathematics acquired by a professional education and related
				  practical experience.
(17) "Damage"
				  means defects caused by reasons other than normal wear through home age and
				  usage.
(18) "Department" means the
				  department of safety and professional services.
(19) "Direct supervision" means to assume the
				  responsibility of an activity of others and its results by providing oversight
				  and guidance at the site where the activity is being conducted.
(20) "Dwelling contractor" means any person,
				  firm or corporation engaged in the business of performing construction or
				  erosion control work on a one- or 2- family dwelling.
Note:
Pursuant to s.
					 101.654 (1)
					 (b), Stats., "dwelling contractor" does not
					 include an owner of a dwelling who resides or will reside in the
					 dwelling.
(21) "Electrical
				  construction" means the installation of electrical wiring. "Electrical
				  construction" does not include the maintenance, repair or fabrication of
				  electrical equipment or the installation of electrical wiring and equipment
				  covered by ch. PSC 114.
(22)
				  "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
(23) "Financial statement" means a balance
				  sheet showing assets, liabilities and net worth.
(24) "Fireworks" has the meaning specified
				  under s. 167.10 (1),
				  Stats.
Note:
Under s.
					 167.10 (1),
					 Stats., "fireworks" means anything manufactured, processed or packaged for
					 exploding, emitting sparks or combustion which does not have another common
					 use, but does not include any of the following:
(a) Fuel or a lubricant.
(b) A firearm cartridge or shotgun
				  shell.
(c) A flare used or possessed
				  or sold for use as a signal in an emergency or in the operation of a railway,
				  aircraft, watercraft or motor vehicle.
(d) A match, cigarette lighter, stove,
				  furnace, candle, lantern or space heater.
(e) A cap containing not more than
				  one-quarter grain of explosive mixture, if the cap is used or possessed or sold
				  for use in a device which prevents direct bodily contact with a cap when it is
				  in place for explosion.
(f) A toy
				  snake which contains no mercury.
(g)
				  A model rocket engine.
(h) Tobacco
				  and a tobacco product.
(i) A
				  sparkler on a wire or wood stick not exceeding 36 inches in length that is
				  designed to produce audible or visible effects or to produce audible and
				  visible effects.
(j) A device
				  designed to spray out paper confetti or streamers and which contains less than
				  one-quarter grain of explosive mixture.
(k) A fuseless device that is designed to
				  produce audible or visible effects or audible and visible effects, and that
				  contains less than one-quarter grain of explosive mixture.
(l) A device that is designed primarily to
				  burn pyrotechnic smoke-producing mixtures, at a controlled rate, and that
				  produces audible or visible effects, or audible and visible effects.
(m) A cylindrical fountain that consists of
				  one or more tubes and that is classified by the federal department of
				  transportation as a Division 1.4 explosive, as defined in
				  49 CFR
				  173.50.
(n) A cone fountain that is classified by the federal department
				  of transportation as a Division 1.4 explosive, as defined in
				  49 CFR
				  173.50.