N.Y. Executive Law § 372: Definitions

§ 372. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall

have the meaning ascribed to them, unless the context otherwise

requires:

1. "Administrator" means the state fire administrator established

pursuant to article six-C of this chapter.

2. "Areas of public assembly" means all buildings or portions of

buildings used for gathering together fifty or more persons for

amusement, athletic, civic, dining, educational, entertainment,

patriotic, political, recreational, religious, social, or similar

purposes, the entire fire area of which they are a part, and the means

of egress therefrom.

3. "Building" means a combination of any materials, whether portable

or fixed, having a roof, to form a structure affording shelter for

persons, animals or property. The word "building" shall be construed

when used herein as though followed by the words "or part or parts

thereof" unless the context clearly requires a different meaning. The

term "building" shall also mean "factory manufactured home" and "mobile

home". The term "building" shall not include a "temporary greenhouse".

4. "Construction" means the construction, reconstruction, alteration,

conversion, repair, installation of equipment or use of buildings, and

requirements or standards relating to or affecting materials used in

connection therewith, including provisions for safety and sanitary

conditions.

5. "Council" means the state fire prevention and building code council

created by this article.

6. "Department" means the department of state.

7. "Equipment" means plumbing, heating, electrical, ventilating, air

conditioning, refrigerating equipment, elevators, dumb waiters,

escalators and other mechanical additions or installations.

8. "Factory manufactured home" means a structure designed primarily

for residential occupancy constructed by a method or system of

construction whereby the structure or its components are wholly or in

substantial part manufactured in manufacturing facilities, intended or

designed for permanent installation, or assembly and permanent

installation, on a building site.

9. "Fire area" means the floor area of a story of a building within

exterior walls, party walls, fire walls, or any combination thereof.

10. "Fire protection equipment and systems" means apparatus,

assemblies, or systems, either portable or fixed, for use to detect,

prevent, control, or extinguish fire.

11. "Local government" means a village, town (outside the area of any

incorporated village) or city.

12. "Means of egress" means a continuous unobstructed way of exit from

any point in a building or structure to a public way. A means of egress

comprises the vertical and horizontal ways of travel and includes

intervening room spaces, doorways, hallways, corridors, passageways,

balconies, ramps, stairs, enclosures, lobbies, escalators, horizontal

exits, courts, and yards.

13. "Mobile home" means a moveable or portable unit designed and

constructed to be towed on its own chassis, comprised of frame and

wheels, connected to utilities, and designed and constructed without a

permanent foundation for year-round living. A unit may contain parts

that may be folded, collapsed or telescoped when being towed and

expanded later to provide additional cubic capacity as well as two or

more separately towable components designed to be joined into one

integral unit capable of being again separated into the components for

repeated towing. "Mobile home" shall mean units designed to be used

exclusively for residential purposes, excluding travel trailers.

14. "Office" means the office of fire prevention and control created

pursuant to article six-C of this chapter.

15. "Secretary" means the secretary of state.

16. "State agency" means any department, bureau, commission, board,

public authority or other agency of the state, including any public

benefit corporation any member of whose board is appointed by the

governor.

17. "Temporary greenhouse" means specialized agricultural equipment

having a framework covered with demountable polyurethane materials or

materials of polyurethane nature and lacking a permanent and continuous

foundation, which is specifically designed, constructed and used for the

culture and propagation of horticultural commodities. A "temporary

greenhouse" may include, but is not limited to, the use of heating

devices, water and electrical utilities, and supporting poles embedded

in non-continuous concrete. In no instance will a temporary greenhouse

be used for the retail sale of any farm or non-farm products.

18. "Uniform code" or "code" means the New York state uniform fire

prevention and building code promulgated pursuant to section three

hundred seventy-seven of this article.

19. "Truss type construction" means a fabricated structure of wood or

steel, made up of a series of members connected at their ends to form a

series of triangles to span a distance greater than would be possible

with any of the individual members on their own.