Indiana Administrative Code
Title 675 - FIRE PREVENTION AND BUILDING SAFETY COMMISSION
Article 24 - SUPPLEMENTARY FIRE SAFETY RULES
Rule 1 - Migrant Day Care Nursery Fire Safety Code
Section 1-3 - Definitions

Authority: IC 12-17.2-2-9

Affected: IC 16-19-3-4; IC 22-13-2-2

Sec. 3.

For the purpose of this code ( 675 IAC 24-1), the following terms shall have the meaning indicated.

"Building systems" means the group of interacting, interrelated or interdependent elements forming the collective building.

"Commission" means the Indiana fire prevention and building safety commission.

"Egress" means a way out or exit.

"Exempted center" means a day nursery that:

(1) is operated under the federally funded Head Start Program ( 42 U.S.C. 9831 et seq.) and the Texas Migrant Council;

(2) provides services for children from migrant worker families;

(3) is operated during a single period of less than one hundred twenty (120) consecutive days during a calendar year.

"Exit" means a continuous and unobstructed means of egress to a public way and shall incude intervening aisles, doors, doorways, corridors, exterior exit balconies, ramps, stairways, smokeproof enclosures, horizontal exits, exit passageways, exit courts and yards.

"Grade" (adjacent ground elevation) means the lowest point of elevation of the finished surface of the ground, paving or sidewalk between the building and a line five (5) feet from the building.