CBC 11B Definitions Flashcards
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Define: ACCESS AISLE
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An accessible pedestrian space adjacent to or between parking spaces that provides clearances in compliance with this code.
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Define: ACCESSIBILITY
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Accessibility is the combination of various elements in a building, facility, site, or area, or portion thereof which allows access, circulation and the full use of the building and facilities by persons with disabilities in compliance with this code.
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Define: ACCESSIBILITY FUNCTION BUTTON
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A button on an elevator hall call console in a destination-oriented elevator system that when pressed will activate a series of visual and verbal prompts and announcements providing instruction regarding hall call console operation and direction to an assigned elevator.
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Define: ACCESSIBLE
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A site, building, facility, or portion thereof that is approachable and usable by persons with disabilities in compliance with this code.ADA: A site, building, facility, or portion thereof that complies with this part.
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Define: ACCESSIBLE ELEMENT
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Accessible element is an element specified by the regulationsadopted by the Division of the State Architect-Access Compliance.
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Define: ACCESSIBLE MEANS OF EGRESS
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A continuous and unobstructed way of egress travel fromany accessible point in a building or facility to a public way.ADA: Accessible means of egress. A continuous and unobstructed way of egress travel from any point in a building or facility that provides an accessible route to an area of refuge, a horizontal exit, or a public way.
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Define: ACCESSIBLE ROUTE
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A continuous unobstructed path connecting accessible elements and spaces of an accessible site, building or facility that can be negotiated by a person with a disability using a wheelchair and that is also safe for and usable by persons with other disabilities. Interior accessible routes may include corridors, hallways, floors, ramps, elevators, and lifts. Exterior accessible routes may include parking access aisles, curb ramps, crosswalks at vehicular ways, walks, ramps and lifts.
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Define: ACCESSIBLE SPACE
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A space that complies with the accessibility provisions of this code.
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Define: ADAPTABLE
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Capable of being readily modified and made accessible.
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Define: ADDITION
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An expansion, extension, or increase in the gross floor area or height of a building or facility.
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Define: ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY
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A governmental agency that adopts or enforces regulations and guidelines for the design, construction, or alteration of buildings and facilities.
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Define: AISLE
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A circulation path between objects such as seats, tables, merchandise, equipment, displays, shelves, desks, etc., that provides clearances in in compliance with this code.
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Define: ALTERATION
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A change, addition or modification in construction, change in occupancy or use, or structural repair to an existing building or facility. Alterations include, but are not limited to, remodeling, renovation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, historic restoration, resurfacing of circulation paths or vehicular ways, changes or rearrangement of the structural parts or elements, and changes or rearrangement in the plan configuration of walls and full-height partitions. Normal maintenance, reroofing, painting or wallpapering, or changes to mechanical and electrical systems are not alterations unless they affect the usability of the building or facility.
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Define: AMUSEMENT ATTRACTION
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Any facility, or portion of a facility, located within an amusement park or theme park which provides amusement without the use of an amusement device. Amusement attractions include, but are not limited to, fun houses, barrels, and other attractions without seats
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Define: AMUSEMENT RIDE
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A system that moves persons through a fixed course within a defined area for the purpose of amusement.
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Define: AMUSEMENT RIDE SEAT
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A seat that is built-in or mechanically fastened to an amusement ride intended to be occupied by one or more passengers.
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Define: ANSI
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The American National Standards Institute.
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Define: APPROVED
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“Approved” means meeting the approval of the enforcing agency, except as otherwise provided by law, when used in connection with any system, material, type of construction, fixture or appliance as the result of investigations and tests conducted by the agency, or by reason of accepted principles or tests by national authorities or technical, health, or scientific organizations or agencies.
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Define: APPROVED TESTING AGENCY
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Any agency, which is determined by the enforcing agency, except as otherwise provided by law, to have adequate personnel and expertise to carry out the testing of systems, materials, type of construction, fixtures or appliances.
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Define: AREA OF REFUGE
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An area where persons unable to use stairways can remain temporarily to await instructions or assistance during emergency evacuation.
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Define: AREA OF SPORT ACTIVITY
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That portion of a room or space where the play or practice of a sport occurs.
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Define: ASSEMBLY AREA
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A building or facility, or portion thereof, used for the purpose of entertainment, educational or civic gatherings, or similar purposes. For the purposes of these requirements, assembly areas include, but are not limited to, classrooms, lecture halls, courtrooms, public meeting rooms, public hearing rooms, legislative chambers, motion picture houses, auditoria, theaters, playhouses, dinner theaters, concert halls, centers for the performing arts, amphitheaters, arenas, stadiums, grandstands, or convention centers.
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Define: ASSISTIVE LISTENING SYSTEM (ALS)
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An amplification system utilizing transmitters, receivers, and coupling devices to bypass the acoustical space between a sound source and a listener by means of induction loop, radio frequency, infrared, or direct-wired equipment.
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Define: AUTOMATIC DOOR
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A door equipped with a power operated mechanism and controls that open and close the door automatically upon receipt of a momentary actuating signal. The switch that begins the automatic cycle may be a photoelectric device, floor mat or manual switch.
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Define: AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINE (ATM)
Any electronic information processing device which accepts or dispenses cash in connection with a credit, deposit, or convenience account. The term does not include devices used solely to facilitate check guarantees or check authorizations, or which are used in connection with the acceptance or dispensing of cash on a person-to-person basis, such as by a store cashier.
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Define: BATHROOM
For the purposes of Chapter 11B, a room which includes a water closet (toilet), a lavatory, and a bathtub and/or a shower. It does not include single-fixture facilities or those with only a water closet and lavatory. It does include a compartmented bathroom. A compartmented bathroom is one in which the fixtures are distributed among interconnected rooms. A compartmented bathroom is considered a single unit and is subject to the requirements of Chapter 11B
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Define: BLENDED TRANSITION
A raised pedestrian street crossing, depressed corner, or similar connection between the pedestrian access route at the level of the sidewalk and the level of the pedestrian street crossing that has a grade of 5 percent or less.
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Define: BOARDING PIER
A portion of a pier where a boat is temporarily secured for the purpose of embarking or disembarking.
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Define: BOAT LAUNCH RAMP
A sloped surface designed for launching and retrieving trailered boats and other water craft to and from a body of water.
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Define: BOAT SLIP
That portion of a pier, main pier, finger pier, or float where a boat is moored for the purpose of berthing, embarking, or disembarking.
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Define: BUILDING
Any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.
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Define: BUILDING OFFICIAL
The officer or other designated authority charged with the administration and enforcement of this code, or a duly authorized representative.
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Define: CATCH POOL
A pool or designated section of a pool used as a terminus for water slide flumes.
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Define: CCR
The California Code of Regulations.
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Define: CHARACTERS
Letters, numbers, punctuation marks and typographic symbols.
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Define: CHILDREN’S USE
Describes spaces and elements specifically designed for use primarily by people 12 years old and younger.
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Define: CIRCULATION PATH
An exterior or interior way of passage provided for pedestrian travel, including but not limited to, walks, hallways, courtyards, elevators, platform lifts, ramps, stairways, and landings.
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Define: CLEAR
Unobstructed.
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Define: CLEAR FLOOR SPACE
The minimum unobstructed floor or ground space required to accommodate a single, stationary wheelchair and occupant.
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Define: CLOSED-CIRCUIT TELEPHONE
A telephone with a dedicated line such as a house phone, courtesy phone or phone that must be used to gain entry to a facility.
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Define: COMMERCIAL FACILITIES
Facilities whose operations will affect commerce and are intended for non-residential use by a private entity. Commercial facilities shall not include (1) facilities that are covered or expressly exempted from coverage under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, as amended (42 U.S.C. 3601 - 3631); (2) aircraft; or (3) railroad locomotives, railroad freight cars, railroad cabooses, commuter or intercity passenger rail cars (including coaches, dining cars, sleeping cars, lounge cars, and food service cars), any other railroad cars described in Section 242 of the Americans With Disabilities Act or covered under Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act, or railroad rights-of-way. For purposes of this definition, "rail" and "railroad" have the meaning given the term "railroad" in Section 202(e) of the Federal Railroad Safety Act of 1970 (45 U.S.C. 431(e)).
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Define: COMMON USE
Interior or exterior circulation paths, rooms, spaces or elements that are not for public use and are made available for the shared use of two or more people.
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Define: COMPLY WITH
Comply with means to meet one or more provisions of this code.
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Define: CROSS SLOPE
The slope that is perpendicular to the direction of travel.
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Define: CURB CUT
An interruption of a curb at a pedestrian way, which separates surfaces that are substantially at the same elevation.
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Define: CURB RAMP
A sloping pedestrian way, intended for pedestrian traffic, which provides access between a walk or sidewalk and a surface located above or below an adjacent curb face.ADA: A short ramp cutting through a curb or built up to it.
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Define: DESIGNATED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
[DSA-AC] Transportation provided by a public entity (other than public school transportation) by bus, rail, or other conveyance (other than transportation by aircraft or intercity or commuter rail transportation) that provides the general public with general or special service, including charter service, on a regular and continuing basis.
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Define: DESTINATION-ORIENTED ELEVATOR
Destination-oriented elevators are operated by the user selecting a destination floor at a hall call console located at or near an elevator landing. The destination-oriented elevator system then assigns an elevator car which transports the user to the selected destination floor. Destination-oriented elevators do not provide floor selection within elevator cars.
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Define: DETECTABLE WARNING
A standardized surface feature built in or applied to walking surfaces or other elements to warn of hazards on a circulation path.
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Define: DIRECTIONAL SIGN
A publicly displayed notice which indicates by use of words or symbols a recommended direction or route of travel.
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Define: DISABILITY
Disability is (1) a physical or mental impairment that limits one or more of the major life activities of an individual, (2) a record of such an impairment, or (3) being regarded as having such an impairment.
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Define: DORMITORY
A space in a building where group sleeping accommodations are provided in one room, or in a series of closely associated rooms, for persons not members of the same family group, under joint occupancy and single management, as in college dormitories or fraternity houses.
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Define: DWELLING UNIT
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Define: ELEMENT
An architectural or mechanical component of a building, facility, space or site.
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Define: ELEVATED PLAY COMPONENT
A play component that is approached above or below grade and that is part of a composite play structure consisting of two or more play components attached or functionally linked to create an integrated unit providing more than one play activity.
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Define: ELEVATOR, PASSENGER
An elevator used primarily to carry passengers.
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Define: EMPLOYEE WORK AREA
All or any portion of a space used only by employees and used only for work. Corridors, toilet rooms, kitchenettes and break rooms are not employee work areas.
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Define: ENFORCING AGENCY
The designated department or agency as specified by statute or regulation.
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Define: ENTRANCE
Any access point to a building or portion of a building or facility used for the purpose of entering. An entrance includes the approach walk, the vertical access leading to the entrance platform, the entrance platform itself, vestibule if provided, the entry door or gate, and the hardware of the entry door or gate.
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Define: EQUIVALENT FACILITATION
The use of designs, products, or technologies as alternatives to those prescribed, resulting in substantially equivalent or greater accessibility and usability.Note: In determining equivalent facilitation, consideration shall be given to means that provide for the maximum independence of persons with disabilities while presenting the least risk of harm, injury or other hazard to such persons or others.
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Define: EXISTING BUILDING OR FACILITY
A facility in existence on any given date, without regard to whether the facility may also be considered newly constructed or altered under this code.
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Define: EXIT
That portion of a means of egress system between the exit access and the exit discharge or public way. Exit components include exterior exit doors at the level of exit discharge, interior exit stairways, interior exit ramps, exit passageways, exterior exit stairways and exterior exit ramps and horizontal exits.
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Define: FACILITY
All or any portion of buildings, structures, site improvements, elements, and pedestrian routes or vehicular ways located on a site.
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Define: FUNCTIONAL AREA
A room, space or area intended or designated for a group of related activities or processes.
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Define: GANGWAY
A variable-sloped pedestrian walkway that links a fixed structure or land with a floating structure. Gangways that connect to vessels are not addressed by this code
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Define: GOLF CAR PASSAGE
A continuous passage on which a motorized golf car can operate.
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Define: GRAB BAR
A bar for the purpose of being grasped by the hand for support.
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Define: GRADE
(Adjacent Ground Elevation) The lowest point of elevation of the finished surface of the ground, paving or sidewalk within the area between the building and the property line or, when the property line is more than 5 feet from the building, between the building and a line 5 feet from the building. See Health and Safety Code Section 19955.3 (d).
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Define: GRADE BREAK
The line where two surface planes with different slopes meet.
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Define: GROUND FLOOR
The floor of a building with a building entrance on an accessible route. A building may have one or more ground floors.
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Define: GROUND LEVEL PLAY COMPONENT
A play component that is approached and exited at the ground level.
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Define: GUARD
A building component or a system of building components located at or near the open sides of elevated walking surfaces that minimizes the possibility of a fall from the walking surface to a lower level.
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Define: HALL CALL CONSOLE
An elevator call user interface exclusive to a destination-oriented elevator system that requires the user to select a destination floor prior to entering the elevator car.
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Define: HANDRAIL
A horizontal or sloping rail intended for grasping by the hand for guidance or support.
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Define: HOUSING AT A PLACE OF EDUCATION
Housing operated by or on behalf of an elementary, secondary, undergraduate, or postgraduate school, or other place of education, including dormitories, suites, apartments, or other places of residence.
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Define: IF, IF . . . THEN
The terms “if” and “if ... then” denotes a specification that applies only when the conditions described are present.
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Define: INTERNATIONAL SYMBOL OF ACCESSIBILITY
The symbol adopted by Rehabilitation International’s 11th World Congress for the purpose of indicating that buildings and facilities are accessible to persons with disabilities.
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Define: KEY STATION
Certain rapid and light rail stations, and commuter rail stations, as defined under criteria established by the Department of Transportation in 49 CFR 37.47 and 49 CFR 37.51, respectively.
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Define: KICK PLATE
An abrasion-resistant plate affixed to the bottom portion of a door to prevent a trap condition and protect its surface.
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Define: KITCHEN OR KITCHENETTE
A room, space or area with equipment for the preparation and cooking of food.
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Define: LAVATORY
A fixed bowl or basin with running water and drainpipe, as in a toilet or bathing facility, for washing or bathing purposes. (As differentiated from the definition of “Sink")
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Define: MAIL BOXES
Receptacles for the receipt of documents, packages, or other deliverable matter. Mail boxes include, but are not limited to, post office boxes and receptacles provided by commercial mail-receiving agencies, apartment facilities, or schools.
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Define: MARKED CROSSING
A crosswalk or other identified path intended for pedestrian use in crossing a vehicular way.
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Define: MAY
May denotes an option or alternative.
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Define: MAXIMUM EXTENT FEASIBLE
CFR 36 Maximum extent feasible applies to the occasional case where the nature of an existing facility makes it virtually impossible to comply fully with applicable accessibility standards through a planned alteration
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Define: MEANS OF EGRESS
A continuous and unobstructed path of vertical and horizontal egress travel from any occupied portion of a building or structure to a public way. A means of egress consists of three separate and distinct parts: the exit access, the exit and the exit discharge.
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Define: MEZZANINE
An intermediate level or levels between the floor and ceiling of any story with an aggregate floor area of not more than one-third of the area of the room or space in which the level or levels are located. Mezzanines have sufficient elevation that space for human occupancy can be provided on the floor below.
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Define: MULTI-BEDROOM HOUSING UNIT
[DSA-AC] A housing unit, intended for use by students at a place of education, with a kitchen and/or toilet and bathing rooms within the unit, such as an apartment, or dormitory. Multi-bedroom housing units are separate from one another and from common use spaces within a building.
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Define: NFPA
The National Fire Protection Association.
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Define: NOSING
The leading edge of treads of stairs and of landings at the top of stairway flights.
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Define: OCCUPANT LOAD
The number of persons for which the means of egress of a building or portion thereof is designed.
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Define: OCCUPIABLE SPACE
A room or enclosed space designed for human occupancy in which individuals congregate for amusement, educational or similar purposes or in which occupants are engaged at labor, and which is equipped with means of egress and light and ventilation facilities meeting the requirements of this code.
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Define: OPEN RISER
The space between two adjacent stair treads not closed by a riser.
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Define: OPERABLE PART
A component of an element used to insert or withdraw objects, or to activate, deactivate, or adjust the element.
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Define: PATH OF TRAVEL
An identifiable accessible route within an existing site, building or facility by means of which a particular area may be approached, entered and exited, and which connects a particular area with an exterior approach (including sidewalks, streets, and parking areas), an entrance to the facility, and other parts of the facility. When alterations, structural repairs or additions are made to existing buildings or facilities, the term “path of travel” also includes the toilet and bathing facilities, telephones, drinking fountains and signs serving the area of work.
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Define: PEDESTRIAN
An individual who moves in walking areas with or without the use of walking assistive devices such as crutches, leg braces, wheelchairs, white cane, service animal, etc.
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Define: PEDESTRIAN WAY
A route by which a pedestrian may pass.
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Define: PERMANENT
Facilities which, are intended to be used for periods longer than those designated in this code under the definition of “Temporary.”
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Define: PERMIT
An official document or certificate issued by the authority having jurisdiction which authorizes performance of a specified activity.
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Define: PICTOGRAM
A pictorial symbol that represents activities, facilities, or concepts.
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Define: PLACE OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION
A facility operated by a private entity whose operations affect commerce and fall within at least one of the following categories:(1) Place of lodging(2) A restaurant, bar,3) A motion picture house, theater, concert hall, stadium,(4) An auditorium, convention center, lecture hall,(5) A bakery, grocery store, clothing store, hardware store,(6) A Laundromat, dry-cleaner, bank, barber shop, beauty shop, travel service, shoe repair service, funeral parlor, gas station, office(7) A terminal, depot, or other station for public transportation8) A museum, library, gallery9) A park, zoo, amusement park(10) A nursery, elementary, secondary, undergraduate, or postgraduate private school, or other place of education(11) A day care center, senior citizen center, homeless shelter(12) A gymnasium, health spa, bowling alley, golf course(13) A religious facility14) An office building.(15) A public curb or sidewalk.
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Define: PLATFORM
A raised area within a building used for worship, the presentation of music, plays or other entertainment; the head table for special guests; the raised area for lecturers and speakers; boxing and wrestling rings; theater-in-the-round stages; and similar purposes wherein there are no overhead hanging curtains, drops, scenery or stage effects other than lighting and sound. A temporary platform is one installed for not more than 30 days.
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Define: PLATFORM (WHEELCHAIR) LIFT
A hoisting and lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform or support that serves two landings of a building or structure and is designed to carry a passenger or passengers and (or) luggage or other material a vertical distance as may be allowed.
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Define: PLAY AREA
A portion of a site containing play components designed and constructed for children.
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Define: PLAY COMPONENT
An element intended to generate specific opportunities for play, socialization, or learning. Play components are manufactured or natural; and are stand-alone or part of a composite play structure.
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Define: POINT-OF-SALE DEVICE
A device used for the purchase of a good or service where a personal identification number (PIN), zip code or signature is required.
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Define: POWDER ROOM
A room containing a water closet (toilet) and a lavatory, and which is not defined as a bathroom.
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Define: POWER-ASSISTED DOOR
A door used for human passage with a mechanism that helps to open the door, or relieves the opening resistance of a door, upon the activation of a switch or a continued force applied to the door itself.
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Define: PRIVATE BUILDING OR FACILITY
A place of public accommodation or a commercial building or facility subject to Chapter 1, Section 1.9.1.2.
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Define: PROFESSIONAL OFFICE OF A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER
location where a person or entity, regulated by the State to provide professional services related to the physical or mental health of an individual, makes such services available to the public. The facility housing the professional office of a health care provider only includes floor levels housing at least one health care provider, or any floor level designed or intended for use by at least one health care provider.
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Define: PUBLIC BUILDING OR FACILITY
A building or facility or portion of a building or facility designed, constructed, or altered by, on behalf of, or for the use of a public entity subject to Chapter 1, Section 1.9.1.1.
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Define: PUBLIC ENTITY
Any State or local government; any department, agency, special-purpose district, or other instrumentality of a State or local government.
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Define: PUBLIC ENTRANCE
An entrance that is not a service entrance or a restricted entrance.
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Define: PUBLIC HOUSING
Housing facilities owned, operated, or constructed by, for or on behalf of a public entity including but not limited to the following1. Publically owned and/or operated one- or two- family dwelling units or congregate residences;2. Publically owned and/or operated buildings or complexes with three or more residential dwellings units;3. Reserved4. Publically owned and/or operated homeless shelters, group homes and similar socialservice establishments;5. Publically owned and/or operated transient lodging, such as hotels, motels, hostels and other facilities providing accommodations of a short term nature of not more than 30 days duration;6. Housing at a place of education owned or operated by a public entity, such as housing on or serving a public school, public college or public university campus;7. Privately owned housing made available for public use as housing.
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Define: PUBLIC USE
Interior or exterior rooms, spaces, or elements that are made available to the public. Public use may be provided at a building or facility that is privately or publicly owned. Private interior or exterior rooms, spaces, or elements associated with a residential dwelling unit provided by a public housing program or in a public housing facility are not public use areas and shall not be required to be made available to the public. In the context of public housing, public use is the provision of housing programs by, for or on behalf of a public entity.
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Define: PUBLIC-USE AREAS
Interior or exterior rooms or spaces of a building that are made available to the general public and does not include common use areas. Public use areas may be provided at a building that is privately or publicly owned.
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Define: PUBLIC WAY
A street, alley or other parcel of land open to the outside air leading to a street, that has been deeded, dedicated or otherwise permanently appropriated to the public for public use and which has a clear width and height of not less than 10 feet.
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Define: QUALIFIED HISTORIC BUILDING OR FACILITY
A building or facility that is listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, or designated as historic under an appropriate State or local law. See C.C.R. Title 24, Part 8.
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Define: RAMP
A walking surface that has a running slope steeper than one unit vertical in 20 units horizontal (5-percent slope).
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Define: REASONABLE PORTION
That segment of a building, facility, area, space or condition, which would normally be necessary if the activity therein is to be accessible by persons with disabilities.
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Define: RECOMMEND
Does not require mandatory acceptance, but identifies a suggested action that shall be considered for the purpose of providing a greater degree of accessibility to persons with disabilities.
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Define: REMODELING
Same as “Alteration.”
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Define: REPAIR
The reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance.
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Define: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNIT
A unit intended to be used as a residence that is primarily long-term in nature. Residential dwelling units do not include transient lodging, inpatient medical care, licensed long-term care, and detention or correctional facilities.
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Define: RESTRICTED ENTRANCE
An entrance that is made available for common use on a controlled basis but not public use and that is not a service entrance.
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Define: RISER
The upright part between two adjacent stairs treads.
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Define: RUNNING SLOPE
The slope that is parallel to the direction of travel. (As differentiated from the definition of “Cross Slope”.)
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Define: SELF-SERVICE STORAGE
Building or facility designed and used for the purpose of renting or leasing individual storage spaces to customers for the purpose of storing and removing personal property on a self-service basis.
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Define: SERVICE ENTRANCE
An entrance intended primarily for delivery of goods or services.
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Define: SHALL
Denotes a mandatory specification or requirement.
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Define: SHOPPING CENTER (or SHOPPING MALL)
One or more sales or rental establishments or stores. A shopping center may include a series of buildings on a common site, connected by a common pedestrian access route on, above or below the ground floor, that is either under common ownership or common control or developed either as one project or as a series of related projects. For the purposes of this section, “shopping center” or “shopping mall” includes a covered mall building.
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Define: SHOULD
Denotes an advisory specification or recommendation.
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Define: SIDEWALK
A surfaced pedestrian way contiguous to a street used by the public. (As differentiated from the definition of “Walk”
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Define: SIGNAGE
Displayed verbal, symbolic, tactile, and/or pictorial information.
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Define: SINK
A fixed bowl or basin with running water and drainpipe, as in a kitchen or laundry, for washing dishes, clothing, etc. (As differentiated from the definition of “Lavatory”.)
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Define: SITE
A parcel of land bounded by a lot line or a designated portion of a public right-of-way.
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Define: SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS
Rooms intended and designed for sleeping.
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Define: SOFT CONTAINED PLAY STRUCTURE
A play structure made up of one or more play components where the user enters a fully enclosed play environment that utilizes pliable materials, such as plastic, netting, or fabric.
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Define: SPACE
A definable area, such as a room, toilet room, hall, assembly area, entrance, storage room, alcove, courtyard, or lobby.
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Define: SPECIFIED PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
Transportation by bus, rail, or any other conveyance (other than aircraft) provided by a private entity to the general public, with general or special service (including charter service) on a regular and continuing basis.
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Define: STAGE
A space within a building utilized for entertainment or presentations, which includes overhead hanging curtains, drops, scenery or stage effects other than lighting and sound.
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Define: STAIR
A change in elevation, consisting of one or more risers.
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Define: STAIRWAY
One or more flights of stairs, either exterior or interior, with the necessary landings and platforms connecting them, to form a continuous and uninterrupted passage from one level to another.
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Define: STORY
That portion of a building or facility designed for human occupancy included between the upper surface of a floor and upper surface of the floor or roof next above. A story containing one or more mezzanines has more than one floor level. If the finished floor level directly above a basement or unused under-floor space is more than six feet above grade for more than 50 percent of the total perimeter or is more than 12 feet above grade at any point, the basement or unused under-floor space shall be considered as a story.
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Define: STRUCTURAL FRAME
The columns and the girders, beams, and trusses having direct connections to the columns and all other members that are essential to the stability of the building or facility as a whole.
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Define: STRUCTURE
That which is built or constructed.
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Define: TACTILE
An object that can be perceived using the sense of touch.
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Define: TACTILE SIGN
A sign containing raised characters and/or symbols and accompanying Braille.
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Define: TECHNICALLY INFEASIBLE
An alteration of a building or a facility, that has little likelihood of being accomplished because the existing structural conditions require the removal or alteration of a load-bearing member that is an essential part of the structural frame, or because other existing physical or site constraints prohibit modification or addition of elements, spaces, or features that are in full and strict compliance with the minimum requirements for new construction and which are necessary to provide accessibility.
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Define: TEEING GROUND
In golf, the starting place for the hole to be played.
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Define: TEMPORARY
Buildings and facilities intended for use at one location for not more than one year and seats intended for use at one location for not more than 90 days.
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Define: TEXT TELEPHONE
Machinery or equipment that employs interactive text-based communications through the transmission of coded signals across the standard telephone network. Text telephones can include, for example, devices known as TTYs (teletypewriters) or computers.
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Define: TRANSFER DEVICE
Equipment designed to facilitate the transfer of a person from a wheelchair or other mobility aid to and from an amusement ride seat.
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Define: TRANSIENT LODGING
A building or facility containing one or more guest room(s) for sleeping that provides accommodations that are primarily short-term in nature (generally 30 days or less). Transient lodging does not include residential dwelling units intended to be used as a residence, inpatient medical care facilities, licensed long-term care facilities, detention or correctional facilities, or private buildings or facilities that contain no more than five rooms for rent or hire and that are actually occupied by the proprietor as the residence of such proprietor. See also the definition of Place of Public Accommodation.
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Define: TRANSIT BOARDING PLATFORM
A horizontal, generally level surface, whether raised above, recessed below or level with a transit rail, from which persons embark/disembark a fixed rail vehicle.
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Define: TRANSITION PLATE
A sloping pedestrian walking surface located at the end(s) of a gangway.
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Define: TREAD
The horizontal part of a step.
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Define: TTY
An abbreviation for teletypewriter. Machinery that employs interactive text-based communication through the transmission of coded signals across the telephone network. TTYs may include, for example, devices known as TDDs (telecommunication display devices or telecommunication devices for deaf persons) or computers with special modems. TTYs are also called text telephones.
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Define: UNREASONABLE HARDSHIP
6. The cost of providing access.7. The cost of all construction contemplated.8. The impact of proposed improvements on financial feasibility of the project.9. The nature of the accessibility which would be gained or lost.10. The nature of the use of the facility under construction and its availability to persons with disabilities.The details of any finding of unreasonable hardship shall be recorded and entered in the files of the enforcing agency.
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Define: USE ZONE
The ground level area beneath and immediately adjacent to a play structure or play equipment that is designated by ASTM F 1487 (incorporated by reference, see “Referenced Standards” in Chapter 1) for unrestricted circulation around the play equipment and where it is predicted that a user would land when falling from or exiting the play equipment.
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Define: VALUATION THRESHOLD
An annually adjusted, dollar-amount figure used in part to determine the extent of required path of travel upgrades. The baseline valuation threshold of $50,000 is based on the January 1981, “ENR US20 Cities” Average Construction Cost Index (CCI) of 3372.02 as published in Engineering News Record, McGraw Hill Publishing Company. The current valuation threshold is determined by multiplying the baseline valuation threshold by a ratio of the current year’s January CCI to the baseline January 1981 CCI.
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Define: VARIABLE MESSAGE SIGNS (VMS)
Electronic signs that have a message with the capacity to change by means of scrolling, streaming, or paging across a background.
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Define: VARIABLE MESSAGE SIGN (VMS) CHARACTERS
Characters of an electronic sign are composed of pixels in an array. High resolution VMS characters have vertical pixel counts of 16 rows or greater. Low resolution VMS characters have vertical pixel counts of 7 to 15 rows.
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Define: VEHICULAR WAY
A route provided for vehicular traffic, such as in a street, driveway, or parking facility.
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Define: WALK
An exterior prepared surface for pedestrian use, including pedestrian areas such as plazas and courts. (As differentiated from the definition of “Sidewalk”.)
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Define: WET BAR
An area or space with a counter equipped with a sink and running water but without cooking facilities.
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Define: WHEELCHAIR
A chair mounted on wheels to be propelled by its occupant manually or with the aid of electric power, of a size and configuration conforming to the recognized standard models of the trade.
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Define: WHEELCHAIR SPACE
Space for a single wheelchair and its occupant.
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Define: WINDER
A tread with nonparallel edges.
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Define: WORKSTATION
An area defined by equipment and/or work surfaces intended for use by employees only, and generally for one or a small number of employees at a time. Examples include ticket booths; the employee side of grocery store check stands; the bartender area behind a bar; the employee side of snack bars, sales counters and public counters; guardhouses; toll booths; kiosk vending stands; lifeguard stations; maintenance equipment closets; counter and equipment areas in restaurant kitchens; file rooms; storage areas; etc.
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Define: WORK AREA EQUIPMENT
Any machine, instrument, engine, motor, pump, conveyor, or other apparatus used to perform work. As used in this document, this term shall apply only to equipment that is permanently installed or built-in in employee work areas. Work area equipment does not include passenger elevators and other accessible means of vertical transportation.
