Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Safety and Professional Services › SPS 1-299 - Professional Services › SPS 131-139 - Home Inspection › Chapter SPS 131 - Home Inspectors › Subchapter I - General Provisions › Section SPS 131.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
As used in ch. SPS 131:
(1) "Automatic safety controls" means devices
					 designed and installed to protect systems and components from excessively high
					 or low pressure and temperatures, excessive electrical current, loss of water,
					 loss of ignition, fuel leaks, fire, freezing, or other similar unsafe
					 conditions.
(2) "Central air
					 conditioning" means a system which uses ducts to distribute cooling or
					 dehumidified air to more than one room or uses pipes to distribute chilled
					 water to heat exchangers in more than one room, and which is not plugged into
					 an electrical convenience outlet.
(3) "Client" means a person who contracts
					 with a home inspector for the purpose of a home inspection.
(4) "Component" means a readily accessible
					 and observable element of a system, such as a floor or wall.
(4e) "Continuing education" means the
					 planned, professional development activities designed to contribute to the
					 advancement, extension, and enhancement of the professional skills or knowledge
					 of a registered home inspector.
(4m) "Continuing education credit hour" means
					 a unit of credit for a continuing education training program, where one
					 continuing education credit hour equals 50 minutes of actual instruction in a
					 continuing education training program.
(4s) "Continuing education training program"
					 means any course, program or activity meeting the requirements of s. SPS 131.42
					 and having a clear purpose and objective of maintaining, improving, or
					 expanding the skills and knowledge relevant to the registrant's professional
					 practice.
(5) "Cosmetic" means not
					 required for the proper operation of the essential systems and components of a
					 home.
(6) "Cross connection" means
					 any physical connection or arrangement between potable water and any source of
					 contamination.
(6m) " Defect" has
					 the meaning given in s.
					 440.97(2m),
					 Stats.
(7) "Department" means the
					 department of safety and professional services.
(8) "Describe" means to identify in writing a
					 system or component by type or characteristics.
(9) "Dismantle" means to take apart or remove
					 any component, device, or piece of equipment that is bolted, screwed, or
					 otherwise fastened and which would not be taken apart or removed in the
					 ordinary course of household maintenance.
(10) "Dwelling unit" means a structure or
					 that part of a structure that is used or intended to be used as a home,
					 residence or sleeping place by one person or by 2 or more persons who are
					 maintaining a common household, to the exclusion of all others.
(11) "Functional drainage" means the emptying
					 of a drain in a reasonable amount of time with no sign of overflow when another
					 fixture is drained simultaneously.
(12) "Home inspection" means the process by
					 which a home inspector examines the observable systems and components of
					 improvements to residential real property that are readily
					 accessible.
(13) "Home inspection
					 report" means a written opinion of a home inspector concerning all of the
					 following:
(a) The condition of the
					 improvements to residential real property that contains not more than 4
					 dwelling units.
(b) The condition
					 of mechanical and structural components of the improvements specified in par.
					 (a).