APPROVED. As applied to material, device or method of construction or installation, means approved by the City Council or by other authority designated by law to give approval in the matter in question.
A.S.A. The American Standards Association.
ATMOSPHERIC BURNER. A device (other than gas range or gas water heater) in which air at atmospheric pressure is injected into the burner by a jet of gas under pressure and whose input exceeds 50,000 B.T.U. per hour.
AUTOMATIC FIRE DOOR. Afire door normally held in an open position and automatically closed by a releasing device that is actuated by abnormal high temperature or by a predetermined rate of rise in temperature.
CONVERSION BURNER. A gas burning appliance designed to supply gaseous fuel to and properly burn same in the combustion chamber of a boiler, furnace or other device originally designed to burn another fuel.
FIRE DOOR. A door and its assembly so constructed and assembled in place as to give the specified protection against the passage of fire.
FIRE PARTITION. A partition which subdivides a building to resist the spread of fire or to provide areas of refuge, but is not necessarily continuous through all stories nor extended through the room and has a fire-resistant rating of at least two hours.
FIRE RESISTANT RATING. The time in hours that the material or construction will withstand fire exposure as determined by a fire test made in conformity with the “Standard Methods of Fire Tests of Building Construction and Materials,” A.S.T.M. E. 119-50.
GAS BURNER. A device for the final conveyance of gas or a mixture of gas and air to the combustion zone of a steam or hot water boiler, furnace or to any device or appliance used in connection with a space heating system, including conversion burners, gas designed heating appliances, power gas burners and atmospheric gas burners.
GAS BURNER EQUIPMENT. Includes gas burners as herein defined, together with all fans, blowers, control devices and accessories connected to the burners and piping involved in supplying the burner.
GAS DESIGNATED HEATING APPLIANCE. Any space heating appliance designed for the exclusive use of gaseous fuels, excepting certain auxiliary heaters.
GAS FITTING. The work or putting together any fittings, pipes or fixtures or other appliances which are to contain gas for heat, light or power purposes.
HABITABLE ROOM. A room occupied by one or more persons for living, eating or sleeping, but not including bathrooms, water closet compartments, laundries, serving and storage pantries, corridors, cellars and spaces that are not used frequently or during extended periods.
OCCUPIED. As applied to a building, OCCUPIED shall be construed as though followed by the words “or intended arranged or designed to be occupied.”
POWER GAS BURNER. A device in which either the gas or air or both are supplied at pressures exceeding, for gas, the house line pressure and for air, atmospheric pressure.
REPAIR. The replacement of existing work with the same kind of material used in the existing work, not including additional work that would affect the structural safety of the building or that would affect or change required exit, lighting or ventilating facilities, that would affect a vital element of an elevator, plumbing, gas piping, wiring or heating installation or that would be a violation of a provision of this chapter, excepting §§ 150.085 et seq., and Chapters 151 and 152.
(`89 Code, § 22.010)