Sec 44-1375. Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Automatic commercial icemaker" means a factory made assembly that is shipped in one or more packages, that consists of a condensing unit and icemaking section operating as an integrated unit, that makes and harvests ice cubes and that may store or dispense ice. Automatic commercial icemaker includes machines with capacities between fifty and two thousand five hundred pounds per twenty-four hours.

2. "Ballast" means a device used with an electric discharge lamp to obtain necessary circuit conditions such as voltage, current and waveform for starting and operating the lamp.

3. "Commercial clothes washer" means a soft mount horizontal or vertical axis clothes washer that both:

(a) Has a clothes container compartment no greater than three and one-half cubic feet in the case of a horizontal axis product or no greater than four cubic feet in the case of a vertical axis product.

(b) Is designed for use by more than one household, such as in multifamily housing, apartments or coin laundries.

4. "Commercial prerinse spray valve" means a handheld device designed to spray water on dishes, flatware and other food service items for the purpose of removing food residue prior to cleaning.

5. "Commercial refrigerator, freezer and refrigerator freezer" means self-contained refrigeration equipment that:

(a) Is not a consumer product as regulated pursuant to 42 United States Code chapter 77.

(b) Operates at a chilled, frozen, combination chilled-frozen or variable temperature for the purpose of storing or merchandising food, beverages or ice.

(c) May have transparent or solid or both transparent and solid hinged doors, sliding doors or a combination of hinged and sliding doors.

(d) Incorporates most components involved in the vapor-compression cycle and the refrigerated compartment in a single cabinet.

(e) Does not include:

(i) Units with eighty-five cubic feet or more of internal volume.

(ii) Walk-in refrigerators or freezers.

(iii) Units with no doors.

(iv) Freezers specifically designed for ice cream.

6. "High-intensity discharge lamp" means a lamp in which light is produced by the passage of an electric current through a vapor or gas and in which the light producing arc is stabilized by bulb wall temperature and the arc tube has a bulb wall loading in excess of three watts per square centimeter.

7. "Illuminated exit sign" means an internally illuminated sign that is designed to be permanently fixed in place to identify a building exit and that consists of an electrically powered integral light source that both illuminates the legend "exit" and any directional indicators and provides contrast between the legend, any directional indicators and the background.

8. "Large packaged air conditioning equipment" means electrically operated, air cooled air conditioning and air conditioning heat pump equipment that has cooling capacity greater than or equal to two hundred forty thousand BTU per hour but less than seven hundred sixty thousand BTU per hour and that is built as a package and shipped as a whole to end user sites.

9. "Low voltage dry type distribution transformer" means a transformer to which all of the following apply:

(a) Has an input voltage of six hundred volts or less.

(b) Is air cooled.

(c) Does not use oil as a coolant.

(d) Is rated for operation at a frequency of sixty hertz.

10. "Metal halide lamp" means a high intensity discharge lamp in which the major portion of the light is produced by radiation of metal halides and their products of dissociation, possibly in combination with metallic vapors.

11. "Metal halide lamp fixture" means a light fixture designed to be operated with a metal halide lamp and a ballast for a metal halide lamp.

12. "Portable electric spa" means a factory-built electric spa or hot tub that is supplied with equipment for heating and circulating water.

13. "Probe start metal halide ballast" means a ballast used to operate metal halide lamps that does not contain an ignitor and which instead starts lamps by using a third starting electrode probe in the arc tube.

14. "Pulldown refrigerator" means a commercial refrigerator specifically designed to rapidly reduce all integrated product temperatures from ninety degrees fahrenheit to thirty-eight degrees fahrenheit over a twelve hour period when fully loaded with beverage containers.

15. "Residential pool pump" means a pump that is used to circulate and filter residential swimming pool water in order to maintain clarity and sanitation and that consists, in part, of a motor and an impeller and housing.

16. "Residential pool pump motor" means a definite purpose motor designed for use in a residential pool pump.

17. "Single voltage external AC to DC power supply" means a device that:

(a) Is designed to convert line voltage AC input into lower voltage DC output.

(b) Is able to convert to only one DC output voltage at a time.

(c) Is sold with, or intended to be used with, a separate end use product that constitutes the primary power load.

(d) Is contained within a separate physical enclosure from the end use product.

(e) Is connected to the end use product via a removable or hard wired male/female electrical connection, cable, cord or other wiring.

(f) Does not have batteries or battery packs, including those that are removable and that physically attach directly to the power supply unit.

(g) Does not have a battery chemistry or type selector switch and indicator light or does not have a battery chemistry or type selector switch and a state of charge meter.

(h) Has a nameplate output power less than or equal to two hundred fifty watts.

18. "Torchiere" means a portable electric lighting fixture with a reflective bowl that directs light upward onto a ceiling so as to produce indirect illumination on the surfaces below. A torchiere may include downward directed lamps in addition to the upward, indirect illumination.

19. "Traffic signal module" means a standard eight inch or twelve inch traffic signal indication, consisting of a light source, a lens and all other parts necessary for operation.

20. "Transformer" means a device that consists of two or more coils of insulated wire and that is designed to transfer alternating current by electromagnetic induction from one coil to another to change the original voltage or current value. Transformer does not include:

(a) Transformers with multiple voltage taps, with the highest voltage tap equaling at least twenty per cent more than the lowest voltage tap.

(b) Transformers, such as those commonly known as drive transformers, rectifier transformers, auto transformers, uninterruptible power system transformers, impedance transformers, regulating transformers, sealed and nonventilating transformers, machine tool transformers, welding transformers, grounding transformers or testing transformers, that are designed to be used in a special purpose application and that are unlikely to be used in general purpose applications.

21. "Unit heater" means a self-contained, vented fan type commercial space heater that uses natural gas or propane and that is designed to be installed without ducts within a heated space, except that unit heater does not include any products covered by federal standards established pursuant to 42 United States Code chapter 77 or any product that is a direct vent, forced flue heater with a sealed combustion burner.