Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, December 1, 2023
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
318.130 requires the department to promulgate
an administrative regulation establishing the Kentucky State Plumbing Code to
regulate plumbing. This administrative regulation establishes definitions for
terms used in 815 KAR Chapter 20.
Section
1. Definitions.
(1) "ABS" means
acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene.
(2) "Administrative authority" means the
Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction or any person or agency
authorized by the department to administer and enforce the provisions of the
Kentucky State Plumbing Code.
(3)
"Air break" means a piping arrangement for a drainage system in which a drain
from a fixture, appliance, or device discharges indirectly into another
fixture, receptacle, or interceptor at a point below the flood level
rim.
(4) "Air gap" means, for a
drainage system, the unobstructed vertical distance through the free atmosphere
between the outlet of waste pipe and the flood level rim of the receptacle into
which it is discharging.
(5) "Air
gap" means, for a water distribution system, the unobstructed vertical distance
through the free atmosphere between the lowest opening from any pipe or faucet
supplying water to a tank, plumbing fixture, or other device and the flood
level rim of the receptacle.
(6)
"Anchors" means "supports" as defined by this administrative
regulation.
(7) "ANSI" means the
American National Standards Institute.
(8) "APML" means the Approved Parts or
Materials List as established in
815 KAR
20:020, Section 4.
(9) "Apprentice" is defined by
KRS
318.010(7).
(10) "Approved" means accepted or acceptable
under an applicable specification stated, established, or cited in this
code.
(11) "Area drain" means a
receptacle designed to collect surface or storm water from an open
area.
(12) "ASME" means the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
(13) "Aspirator" means a fitting or device
supplied with water or other fluid under positive pressure, which passes
through an integral orifice or constriction causing a vacuum. Aspirators are
often referred to as suction apparatus and are similar in operation to an
ejector.
(14) "ASSE" means the
American Society of Sanitary Engineers.
(15) "ASTM" means the American Society for
Testing and Materials.
(16)
"Autopsy table" means a fixture or table used for postmortem examination of a
body.
(17) "Backflow" means the
flow of water or other liquids, mixtures, or substances into the distributing
pipes of a potable supply of water from any source or sources other than its
intended source. Back siphonage is one (1) type of backflow.
(18) "Backflow connection" means any
arrangement whereby backflow could occur (see "cross connection" as defined by
this administrative regulation).
(19) "Backflow preventer" means a device or
means to prevent backflow.
(20)
"Backflow preventer, reduced pressure zone type" means an assembly of
differential valves and check valves, including an automatically opened
spillage port to the atmosphere.
(21) "Back siphonage" means the flowing back
of used, contaminated, or polluted water from a plumbing fixture or vessel or
other sources into a potable water supply pipe due to a negative pressure in a
pipe.
(22) "Basement" means the
lowest level of a dwelling unit, which is wholly or partly below the ground
level in which the entrance and exit is made by use of a stairway or other
mechanical means and with or without an entrance and exit at the basement floor
level.
(23) "Basement floor drain"
means a drain placed in the basement floor of a residence that does or does not
receive sanitary waste water.
(24)
"Battery of fixtures" means any group of two (2) or more similar adjacent
fixtures that discharge into a common horizontal waste or soil
branch.
(25) "Bedpan hopper" means
"clinical sink" as defined by this administrative regulation.
(26) "Bedpan steamer or boiler" means a
fixture used for scalding bedpans or urinals by direct application of steam of
boiling water.
(27) "Bedpan unit"
means a small workroom in the nursing area designed and equipped for emptying,
cleaning, and sometimes for steaming bedpans, and for no other
purpose.
(28) "Bedpan washer and
sterilizer" means a fixture designed to wash bedpans and to flush the contents
into the sanitary drainage system. It can also provide for disinfecting
utensils by scalding with steam or hot water.
(29) "Bedpan washer hose" means a device
supplied with hot and cold water and located adjacent to a water closet or
clinical sink to be used for cleaning bedpans.
(30) "Boiler blow-off" means an outlet on a
boiler to permit emptying or discharge of sediment.
(31) "Boiler blow-off tank" means a vessel
designed to receive the discharge from a boiler blow-off outlet and to cool the
discharge to a temperature that permits its safe discharge to the drainage
system.
(32) "Branch" means that
part of the piping system that extends horizontally, at a slight grade, with or
without lateral or vertical extensions or vertical arms, from the main to
receive fixture outlets not directly connected to the main.
(33) "Branch, fixture" means "fixture branch"
as defined by this administrative regulation.
(34) "Branch interval" means a distance along
a soil or waste stack corresponding in general to a story height, but in no
case less than eight (8) feet, within which the horizontal branches from one
(1) floor or story of a building are connected to the stack.
(35) "Branch vent" means a vent connecting
one (1) or more individual vents with a vent stack or stack vent.
(36) "Building" means a structure having
walls and a roof designed and used for the housing, shelter, enclosure, or
support of persons, animals, or property.
(37) "Building classification" means the
arrangement of buildings in classes according to occupancy.
(38) "Building drain" means that part of the
lowest piping of a drainage system that receives the discharge from soil,
waste, or other drainage pipes inside the walls of the building and conveys it
to the building sewer beginning two (2) feet outside the building
wall.
(39) "Building drain;
combined" means a building drain that conveys both sewage and storm water or
other drainage.
(40) "Building
drain; sanitary" means a building drain that conveys sewage only.
(41) "Building drain; storm" means a building
drain that conveys storm water or other drainage but not sewage.
(42) "Building gravity drainage system" means
a drainage system that drains by gravity into the building sewer.
(43) "Building sewer" means that part of the
drainage system that extends from the end of the building drain and conveys its
discharge to a public sewer, private sewer, individual sewage-disposal system,
or other point of disposal.
(44)
"Building sewer; combined" means a building sewer that conveys both sewage and
storm water or other drainage.
(45)
"Building sewer; sanitary" means a building sewer that conveys sewage
only.
(46) "Building sewer; storm"
means a building sewer that conveys storm water or other drainage but no
sewage.
(47) "Building subdrain"
means that portion of a drainage system that does not drain by gravity into the
building sewer.
(48) "Cesspool"
means a lined and covered excavation in the ground that receives a discharge of
domestic sewage or other organic wastes from a drainage system, so designed as
to retain the organic matter and solids, but permitting the liquids to seep
through the bottom and sides.
(49)
"Circuit vent" means a branch vent that serves two (2) or more traps and
extends from the downstream side of the highest fixture connection of a
horizontal branch to the vent stack.
(50) "CISPI" means the Cast Iron Soil Pipe
Institute.
(51) "Clinical sink" or
"bedpan hopper" means a fixture for the rinsing of bedpans and soiled
linens.
(52) "Code" is defined by
KRS
318.010(11).
(53) "Combination fixture" means a fixture
combining one (1) sink and laundry tray or a two (2) or three (3) compartment
sink or laundry tray in one (1) unit.
(54) "Combination waste and vent system"
means a specifically designed system of waste piping embodying the horizontal
wet venting of one (1) or more sinks or floor drains by means of a common waste
and vent pipe adequately sized to provide free movement of air above the free
water surface in the drain.
(55)
"Combined building drain" means "building drain; combined" as defined by this
administrative regulation.
(56)
"Combined building sewer" means "building sewer; combined" as defined by this
administrative regulation.
(57)
"Common vent" means a vent connecting at the junction of two (2) fixture drains
and serving as a vent for both fixture drains.
(58) "Conductor" means a pipe inside the
building that conveys storm water from the roof to a storm or combined building
drain.
(59) "Continuous vent" means
a vertical vent that is a continuation of the drain to which it
connects.
(60) "Continuous waste"
means a drain from two (2) or more fixtures connected to a single
trap.
(61) "Cross connection" means
any physical connection or arrangement between two (2) otherwise separate
piping systems, one (1) of which contains potable water and the other either
water of unknown or questionable safety or steam, gas, or chemical whereby
there could be a flow from one (1) system to the other, the direction of flow
depending on the pressure differential between the two (2) systems. (See
"backflow" and "back siphonage" as defined by this administrative
regulation.)
(62) "Critical level"
or "CL" means the level to which the vacuum breaker could be submerged before
backflow will occur, and if the CL marking is not shown on the vacuum breaker,
the bottom of the device is taken as the CL.
(63) "Dead end" means a branch leading from a
soil, waste or vent pipe, building drain, or building sewer, and terminating at
a developed length of two (2) feet or more by means of a plug, cap, or other
closed fitting.
(64) "Department"
means the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction.
(65) "Developed length" means the length of a
pipe line measured along the center line of the pipe and fittings.
(66) "Developed travel distance" means the
length of a pathway measured along the center line of the path.
(67) "Diameter" means the nominal diameter as
designated commercially.
(68)
"Division" means the Division of Plumbing.
(69) "Domestic sewage" means the waterborne
wastes derived from ordinary living processes.
(70) "Double offset" means two (2) changes of
direction installed in succession or series in a continuous pipe.
(71) "Downspout" means "leader" as defined by
this administrative regulation.
(72) "Drain" means any pipe that carries
waste water or waterborne wastes in a building drainage system.
(73) "Drainage pipe" means "drainage system"
as defined by this administrative regulation.
(74) "Drainage system":
(a) Means all the piping, within public or
private premises, which conveys sewage, rain water, or other liquid wastes to a
point of disposal; and
(b) Does not
mean:
1. The mains of a public sewer
system;
2. A private or public
sewage-treatment or disposal plant; or
3. Plumbing appliances.
(75) "Drainage system" means, for
building gravity, a drainage system that drains by gravity into the building
sewer.
(76) "Drainage system"
means, for a subbuilding, "building subdrain" as defined by this administrative
regulation.
(77) "Dry well" means
"leaching well or pit" as defined by this administrative regulation.
(78) "Dual vent" means "common vent" as
defined by this administrative regulation.
(79) "Durham system" means a soil or waste
system in which all piping is of threaded pipe, tube, or other rigid
construction, using recessed drainage fittings to correspond to the types of
piping.
(80) "Dwelling unit" means
one (1) or more rooms with provision for living, sanitary, and sleeping
facilities arranged for the use of one (1) family or individual.
(81) "DWV" means drain, waste, and vent
piping as used in common plumbing practice.
(82) "Effective opening" means the minimum
cross-sectional area at the point of water supply discharge, measured or
expressed in terms of diameter of a circle, or if the opening is not circular,
the diameter of a circle of equivalent cross-sectional area.
(83) "Ejector" means "aspirator" as defined
by this administrative regulation.
(84) "Existing work" means a plumbing system
or any part thereof installed prior to the effective date of the applicable
provision of this code.
(85) "Farm"
as associated with "farmstead", as defined by
KRS
318.010(8), means property
with a bona fide "agricultural land" or "horticultural land" use as defined by
KRS 132.010(9) and
(10) and qualified by and registered with the
PVA in that county.
(86) "Fire
line" means a system of pipes and equipment used exclusively to supply water
for extinguishing fires.
(87)
"Fixture" means "plumbing fixture" as defined by this administrative
regulation.
(88) "Fixture branch"
means the piping distance between a soil, waste, and vent stack and the fixture
trap.
(89) "Fixture drain" means
the drain from the trap of a fixture to the junction of that drain with any
other drain pipe.
(90) "Fixture
supply" means the water supply pipe connecting a fixture to a branch water
supply pipe or directly to a main water supply pipe.
(91) "Fixture unit, drainage" or "d.f.u."
means a measure of the probable discharge into the drainage system by various
types of plumbing fixtures. The drainage fixture-unit valve for a particular
fixture depends on its volume rate of drainage discharge, on the time duration
of a single drainage operation, and on the average time between successive
operations. (Note: In general, on small systems, one (1) drainage fixture unit
approximates one (1) cubic foot per minute.)
(92) "Fixture unit, supply" or "s.f.u." means
a measure of the probable hydraulic demand on the water supply by various types
of plumbing fixtures. The supply fixture-unit valve for a particular fixture
depends on its volume rate of supply, on the time duration of a single supply
operation, and on the average time between successive operations.
(93) "Flood level" means "flood level rim" as
defined by this administrative regulation.
(94) "Flood level rim" means the edge of the
receptacle from which water overflows.
(95) "Flooded" means the condition that
results at the point the liquid in a container or receptacle rises to the
flood-level rim.
(96) "Floor drain"
means a drain placed in the floor of a building for the purpose of receiving
sanitary waste water.
(97) "Floor
pantry" means a workroom in the nursing area designed and equipped to prepare
supplemental diets or beverages, and to assemble food trays at meal times if
used in conjunction with decentralized food service.
(98) "Flow pressure" means the pressure in
the water supply pipe near the faucet or water outlet while the faucet or water
outlet is wide-open and flowing.
(99) "Flush valve" means a device located at
the bottom of a tank for slushing water closets and similar fixtures.
(100) "Flushing type floor drain" means a
drain that is equipped with an integral water supply enabling flushing of the
drain receptor and trap.
(101)
"Flushometer valve" means a device that discharges a predetermined quantity of
water to fixtures for flushing purposes and is closed by direct water
pressure.
(102) "Frost-proof
closet" means a hopper with no water in the bowl and with the trap and water
supply control valve located below frost line.
(103) "Grade" means the fall (slope) of a
line of pipe in reference to a horizontal plane. In drainage it is usually
expressed as the fall in a fraction of an inch per foot length of
pipe.
(104) "Grade plane" means a
reference plane representing the average of finished ground level adjoining the
building at exterior walls. If the finished ground level slopes away from the
exterior walls, the reference plane is established by the lowest points within
the area between the building and the lot line or, where the lot line is more
than six (6) feet (1,829 mm) from the building, between the building and a
point six (6) feet (1,829 mm) from the building.
(105) "Grease interceptor" means
"interceptor" as defined by this administrative regulation.
(106) "Grease trap" means "interceptor" as
defined by this administrative regulation.
(107) "Grillage" means sand, pea gravel, or
limestone rock sizes #57 and smaller used for bedding for piping
systems.
(108) "Hangers" means
"supports" as defined by this administrative regulation.
(109) "Health care facility" means a
hospital, nursing home, limited care facility, clinic, ambulatory care center,
or office practice medical or dental office.
(110) "Horizontal branch drain" means a drain
branch pipe extending laterally from a soil or waste stack or building drain,
with or without vertical sections or branches, which receives the discharge
from one (1) or more fixture drains and conducts it to the soil or waste stack
or to the building drain.
(111)
"Horizontal pipe" means any pipe or fitting that makes an angle of less than
forty-five (45) degrees with the horizontal.
(112) "Hose bibb" means a sill cock, wall
hydrant, or similar faucet with a downward angled threaded nozzle.
(113) "Hot water" means water at a
temperature of not less than 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
(114) "House drain" means "building drain" as
defined by this administrative regulation.
(115) "House sewer" means "building sewer" as
defined by this administrative regulation.
(116) "Indirect waste pipe" means a waste
pipe not directly connected with the drainage system, but that discharges into
the drainage system through an air break or air gap into a trap, fixture,
receptor, or interceptor.
(117)
"Individual sewage disposal system" means a system for disposal of domestic
sewage by means of a septic tank, cesspool, or mechanical treatment, designed
for use apart from a public sewer to serve a single establishment or
building.
(118) "Individual vent"
means a pipe installed to vent a fixture drain. It connects with the vent
system above the fixture served or terminates outside the building into the
open air.
(119) "Individual water
supply" means a supply, other than an approved public water supply which serves
one (1) or more families.
(120)
"Industrial floor drain" means a drain placed in the floor of a building other
than in a toilet room or shower room to receive waste water.
(121) "Industrial wastes" means liquid wastes
resulting from the processes employed in industrial and commercial
establishments.
(122) "Insanitary"
means contrary to sanitary principles and potentially injurious to
health.
(123) "Interceptor" means a
device designed and installed so as to separate and retain deleterious,
hazardous, or undesirable matter from normal wastes while permitting normal
sewage or liquid wastes to discharge into the drainage system by
gravity.
(124) "Installed" means
altered, changed, or a new installation.
(125) "Invert" means the lowest portion of
the inside of any horizontal pipe.
(126) "Kitchen sink unit" means a sink,
double or single compartment, food waste disposer, and dishwasher placed in a
unit so arranged that the dishwasher abuts the sink.
(127) "Lavatory" means a hand basin, such as
in a bathroom.
(128) "Leaching well
or pit" means a pit or receptacle having porous walls that allow the contents
to seep into the ground.
(129)
"Lead" means solders and flux containing more than two tenths (0.2) percent
lead and the wetted surfaces of pipes, pipe fittings, plumbing fittings, and
fixtures containing more than a weighted average of one fourth (0.25) percent
lead as calculated according to the formula established in
42
U.S.C. 300g-6(d)(2).
(130) "Leader" means an exterior drainage
pipe for conveying storm water from roof or gutter drains.
(131) "Liquid waste" means the discharge from
any fixture, appliance, area or appurtenance, which does not contain fecal
matter.
(132) "Load factor" means
the percentage of the total connected fixture unit flow that is likely to occur
at any point in the drainage system.
(133) "Local vent stack" means a vertical
pipe to which connections are made from the fixture side of traps and through
which vapor and foul air can be removed from the fixture or device used on
bedpan washers.
(134) "Local
ventilating pipe" means a pipe through which foul air is removed from a room or
fixture.
(135) "Loop vent" means a
circuit vent that loops back to connect with a stack vent instead of a vent
stack.
(136) "Main" means the
horizontal, vertical, and continuous piping that receives the waste, soil,
main, or individual vents from fixture outlets, or traps, directly or through
branch pipes.
(137) "Main sewer"
means "public sewer" as defined by this administrative regulation.
(138) "Main vent" means the principal artery
of the venting system to which vent branches can be connected. (Manufacturer's
Floor Drain. See "industrial floor drain" as defined by this administrative
regulation.)
(139) "Medical gas
system" means an assembly of equipment and piping for the distribution of
nonflammable medical gases such as oxygen, nitrous oxide, compressed air,
carbon dioxide, and helium.
(140)
"Medical-surgical vacuum system" means an assembly of central vacuum-producing
equipment and a network of piping for patient suction in medical,
medical-surgical, and waste anesthetic gas disposal applications.
(141) "Mobile facility" means a vehicle
licensed and registered with the Kentucky Department of Transportation that
contains plumbing fixtures and is intended for temporary use with regard to the
structure it serves.
(142)
"Modular" means a structure or component that is wholly or substantially
fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility for installation at the
building site.
(143) "Multiple
dwelling" means a building containing more than two (2) dwelling
units.
(144) "NFPA" means the
National Fire Protection Association.
(145) "Nominal pipe size" means a standard
expression in inches and fractions thereof to designate the approximate inside
diameter of a pipe, conduit, or tube.
(146) "Nonpotable water" means water not safe
for drinking, personal, or culinary use.
(147) "NSF" means the National Sanitation
Foundation.
(148) "Nuisance" means
dangerous to human life or detrimental to health, including:
(a) A building, structure, or premise not
sufficiently ventilated, sewered, drained, cleaned, or lighted, in reference to
its intended or actual use; and
(b)
An agent that renders the air, human food or drink, or a water supply
unwholesome.
(149)
"Nurses' station" means an area in the nursing unit separated from the corridor
by counter or desk, designed to permit nurses to:
(a) Record and file each patient's history
and progress;
(b) Observe
observation, and control a corridor;
(c) Prepare medicines and
(d) Maintain contact with patients, the
hospital, and the outside by local and public means of communication.
(150) "Offset" means a combination
of elbows or bends that bring one (1) section of the pipe out of line but into
a line parallel with the other section.
(151) "Oil interceptor" means "interceptor"
as defined by this administrative regulation.
(152) "Parts or materials" means all types of
fittings and piping used in the soil, waste, and vent systems; house sewers;
potable water supply; plumbing fixtures; appurtenances, and mechanical sewage
systems in plumbing systems.
(153)
"PE" means polyethylene.
(154)
"Person" is defined by
KRS
318.010(9).
(155) "PEX" means cross-linked polyethylene
pipe.
(156) "PEX-AL-PEX" means
polyethylene/aluminum/cross-linked polyethylene composite pressure
pipe.
(157) "Pitch" means "grade"
as defined by this administrative regulation.
(158) "Plumbing" is defined by
KRS
318.010(4).
(159) "Plumbing appliance" means any one (1)
of a special class of plumbing fixture that is intended to perform a special
function. Its operation and control can be dependent upon one (1) or more
energized components, such as motors, controls, heating elements, or pressure
or temperature-sensing elements. Fixtures can operate automatically through one
(1) or more of the following actions:
(a) A
time cycle;
(b) A temperature
range;
(c) A pressure
range;
(d) A measured volume or
weight; or
(e) Manual adjustment or
control by the user or operator.
(160) "Plumbing appurtenance" means a
manufactured device, or a prefabricated assembly of component parts, and is an
adjunct to the basic piping system and plumbing fixtures. An appurtenance
demands no additional water supply, nor does it add any discharge load to a
fixture or the drainage system. It is presumed that it performs some useful
function in the operation, maintenance, servicing, economy, or safety of the
plumbing system.
(161) "Plumbing
fixture":
(a) Means a receptacle or device
that is either permanently or temporarily connected to the water distribution
system of the premises, and demands a supply of water therefrom, or it
discharges used water, liquid-borne waste materials, or sewage either directly
or indirectly to the drainage system of the premises, or that requires both a
water supply connection and a discharge to the drainage system of the premises;
and
(b) Does not mean piping that
carries water or sewage.
(162) "Plumbing inspector" means a duly
authorized employee or agent of the Department of Housing, Buildings and
Construction who is charged with the responsibility of inspecting plumbing
installations and with the enforcement of the Kentucky State Plumbing Code, KRS
Chapter 318, and 815 KAR Chapter 20.
(163) "Plumbing repair" means, as used in the
code, replacing a part or putting together a part or parts torn or
broken.
(164) "Plumbing system"
means appliances and water heaters; the water supply distributing pipes; the
fixtures and fixture traps; the soil, waste, and vent pipes; the house drain
and house sewer; and the storm water drainage within a building with their
devices, appurtenances, and connections all within and adjacent to the
building.
(165) "Pool" means
"swimming pool" as defined by this administrative regulation.
(166) "Potable water" means water free from
impurities present in amounts sufficient to cause disease or harmful
physiological effects and conforming in its bacteriological and chemical
quality to the requirements of the Division of Water in 401 KAR Chapter 8 and
the Kentucky State Plumbing Code established in 815 KAR Chapter 20.
(167) "Private" or "private use" means, in
the classification of plumbing fixtures, fixtures in residences, apartments,
and private bathrooms of hotels, as well as similar installations in other
buildings where the fixtures are intended for the use of a family or an
individual.
(168) "Private sewer"
means a sewer, serving two (2) or more buildings, privately owned, and not
directly controlled by public authority.
(169) "Public" or "public use" means, in the
classification of plumbing fixtures, fixtures in general toilet rooms of
schools, gymnasiums, hotels, railroad stations, public buildings, bars, public
comfort stations, and other installations (whether pay or free) where a number
of fixtures are installed so that the fixtures use is similarly
unrestricted.
(170) "Public sewer"
means a common sewer directly controlled by public authority.
(171) "Public water main" means a water
supply pipe for public use controlled by public authority.
(172) "PVC" means polyvinyl
chloride.
(173) "Receptor" means a
fixture or device that receives the discharge from indirect waste
pipes.
(174) "Relief vent" means an
auxiliary vent that permits additional circulation of air in or between
drainage and vent systems.
(175)
"Replace" means to put something new or rebuilt in the place of that which was
existing.
(176) "Return offset"
means a double offset installed so as to return the pipe to its original
alignment.
(177) "Revent pipe"
means "individual vent" as defined by this administrative regulation.
(178) "Rim" means an unobstructed open edge
of a fixture.
(179) "Riser" means a
water supply pipe that extends vertically one (1) full story or more to convey
water to branches or to a group of fixtures.
(180) "Roof drain" means a drain installed to
receive water collecting on the surface of a roof and to discharge it into a
leader or a conductor.
(181)
"Roughing-in" means the installation of all parts of the plumbing system that
can be completed prior to the installation of fixtures. This includes drainage,
water supply, vent piping, and the necessary fixture supports.
(182) "Safe waste" means "indirect waste
pipe" as defined by this administrative regulation.
(183) "Sand interceptor" means "interceptor"
as defined by this administrative regulation.
(184) "Sand trap" means "interceptor" as
defined by this administrative regulation.
(185) "Sanitary sewer" means a sewer that
carries sewage and excludes storm, surface, and ground water.
(186) "Scrub sink" means a device usually
located in the operating suite to enable operating personnel to scrub their
hands prior to operating procedures. The hot and cold water supply is activated
by a knee-action mixing valve or by wrist or pedal control.
(187) "SDR" means standard dimensional
ratio.
(188) "Seepage well or pit"
means a covered pit with open-jointed lining into which septic tank effluent is
received that will seep or leach into the surrounding porous soil.
(189) "Separator" means "interceptor" as
defined by this administrative regulation.
(190) "Septic tank" means a watertight
receptacle that receives the discharge of a building sanitary drainage system
or part thereof, and is designed and constructed so as to digest organic matter
through a period of detention and allow the liquids to discharge into the soil
outside of the tank through a system of open joint or perforated piping, or a
seepage pit.
(191) "Sewage" means
any liquid waste containing animal or vegetable matter in suspension or
solution, including liquids containing chemicals in solution.
(192) "Sewage ejector" means a device for
lifting sewage by entraining it in a high velocity jet of steam air or
water.
(193) "Side vent" means a
vent connecting to the drain pipe through a fitting at an angle not greater
than forty-five (45) degrees to the vertical.
(194) "Size of pipe and tubing" means
"diameter" as defined by this administrative regulation.
(195) "Slope" means "grade" as defined by
this administrative regulation.
(196) "Soil pipe" means any pipe that conveys
the discharge of water closets or similar fixtures, with or without the
discharges from other fixtures, to the house drain.
(197) "Soil vent" means "stack vent" as
defined by this administrative regulation.
(198) "Special wastes" means wastes that
require special treatment before entry into the normal plumbing
system.
(199) "Special waste pipe"
means pipes that convey special wastes.
(200) "Stack" means any vertical line of
soil, waste, or vent piping.
(201)
"Stack group" means a group of fixtures located adjacent to the stack so that
by means of proper fittings, vents can be reduced to a minimum.
(202) "Stack vent" means the extension of a
soil or waste stack above the highest horizontal drain connected to the
stack.
(203) "Stack venting" means
a method of venting a fixture or fixtures through the soil or waste
stack.
(204) "Sterilizer, boiling
type" means a fixture (nonpressure type), used for boiling instruments,
utensils, and other equipment (used for disinfection). Some devices are
portable, while others are connected to the plumbing system.
(205) "Sterilizer, instrument" means a device
for the sterilization of various instruments.
(206) "Sterilizer pressure (autoclave)" or
"autoclave" means a fixture (pressure vessel) designed to use steam under
pressure for sterilizing.
(207)
"Sterilizer, pressure instrument washer-sterilizer" means a fixture (pressure
vessel) designed to both wash and sterilize instruments during the operating
cycle of the fixture.
(208)
"Sterilizer, utensil" means a device for the sterilization of utensils as used
in hospital services.
(209)
"Sterilizer vent" means a separate pipe or stack, indirectly connected to the
building drainage system at the lower terminal, which receives the vapors from
nonpressure sterilizers, or the exhaust vapors from the pressure sterilizers,
and conducts the vapors directly to the outer air. Sometimes a sterilizer vent
is referred to as vapor, steam, atmospheric, or exhaust vent.
(210) "Sterilizer, water" means a device for
sterilizing water and storing sterile water.
(211) "Still" means a device used in
distilling liquids.
(212) "Storm
drain" means building storm drain.
(213) "Storm sewer" means a sewer used for
conveying rain water, surface water, condensate, cooling water, or similar
liquid wastes.
(214) "Subsoil
drain" means a drain that collects subsurface water and conveys it to a place
of disposal.
(215) "Sump" means a
tank or pit, which receives sewage or liquid waste, located below the normal
grade of the gravity system and that is emptied by mechanical means.
(216) "Sump pump" means a mechanical device,
other than an ejector or bucket, for removing sewage or liquid waste from a
sump.
(217) "Supports" means
devices for supporting and securing pipe, fixtures, or equipment.
(218) "Swimming pool" means any structure,
basin, chamber, or tank containing any artificial body of water for swimming,
diving, wading, or recreational bathing.
(219) "Temporary" means a period of time not
to exceed thirty (30) days of intermittent or continual use within twelve (12)
month period on the same premises.
(220) "Trap" means a fitting or device that
provides a liquid seal to prevent the emission of sewer gases without
materially affecting the flow of sewage or waste water through it.
(221) "Trap arm" means that portion of a
fixture drain between a trap and its vent.
(222) "Trap primer" means a device or system
of piping to maintain a water seal in a trap, typically installed where
infrequent use of the trap would result in evaporation of the trap seal, such
as floor drains.
(223) "Trap seal"
means the vertical distance between the crown weir and the top of the dip of
the trap.
(224) "Utility room"
means a workroom in the patient nursing area, designed and equipped to
facilitate preparation, cleaning, and incidental sterilizing of the various
supplies, instruments, and utensils involved in nursing treatment and care,
exclusive of medications handled in nurses' stations and bedpan cleaning and
sterilizing.
(225) "Vacuum" means
any pressure less than exerted by the atmosphere.
(226) "Vacuum breaker" means "backflow
preventer" as defined by this administrative regulation.
(227) "Vacuum breaker, nonpressure type
(atmospheric)" means a vacuum breaker that is not designed to be subjected to
static line pressure.
(228) "Vacuum
breaker, pressure type" means a vacuum breaker designed to operate under
conditions of static line pressure.
(229) "Vent pipe" means any pipe provided to
ventilate a house drainage system and to prevent tray siphonage and back
pressure.
(230) "Vent system" means
a pipe or pipes installed to provide a flow of air to or from a drainage system
or to provide a circulation of air within the system to protect trap seals from
siphonage and back pressure.
(231)
"Vertical pipe" means any pipe or fitting that makes an angle of forty-five
(45) degrees or less with the vertical.
(232) "Wall hung water closet" means a wall
mounted water closet installed in such a way that no part of the water closet
touches the floor.
(233) "Waste
pipe and special waste" means any pipe that receives the discharge of any
fixture (except water closets or similar fixtures) and discharges to the house
drain, soil, or waste stacks. If a pipe does not connect directly with a house
drain, waste, or soil stack, the pipe is considered to contain special
waste.
(234) "Water closet" means a
flush toilet.
(235) "Water
distributing pipe" means a pipe within the building or on the premises that
conveys water from the water-service pipe or meter to the point of
usage.
(236) "Water heater" means
"water heating device," as defined by
KRS
318.200(1).
(237) "Water lifts" means "sewage ejector" as
defined by this administrative regulation.
(238) "Water outlet" means a discharge
opening through which water is supplied to a fixture, into the atmosphere
(except into an open tank that is part of the water supply), to a boiler or
heating system, or to any devices or equipment requiring water to operate but
that are not part of the plumbing system.
(239) "Water riser pipe" means "riser" as
defined by this administrative regulation.
(240) "Water service pipe" means the pipe
from the water main or other source of potable water supply to the water
distributing system of the building served.
(241) "Water supply stub" means a vertical
pipe less than one (1) story in height supplying one (1) or more
fixtures.
(242) "Water supply
system" means the water service pipe, the water-distributing pipes, and the
necessary connecting pipes, fittings, control valves, and all appurtenances in
or adjacent to the building or premises.
(243) "Well, bored" means a well constructed
by boring a hole in the ground with an auger and installing a casing.
(244) "Well, drilled" means a well
constructed by making a hole in the ground with a drilling machine of any type
and installing casing and screen.
(245) "Well, driven" means a well constructed
by driving a pipe in the ground. The drive pipe is usually fitted with a well
point and screen.
(246) "Well, dug"
means a well constructed by excavating a large diameter shaft and installing a
casing.
(247) "Wet vent" means a
vent that receives the discharge of wastes other than from water
closets.
(248) "Yoke vent" means a
pipe connecting upward from a soil or waste stack to a vent stack for the
purpose of preventing pressure changes in the stack.
1 Ky.R. 476; eff.
3-12-1975; 2 Ky.R. 443; 3 Ky.R. 357; eff. 9-1-1976; Recodified from 401 KAR
1:010, 7-5-1978; Am. 9 Ky.R. 827; eff. 2-2-1983; 12 Ky.R. 1659; eff. 5-6-1986;
13 Ky.R. 779; eff. 11-11-1986; 950; eff. 12-2-1986; 14 Ky.R. 1116; eff.
1-4-1988; 16 Ky.R. 2758; 17 Ky.R. 1092; eff. 8-22-1990; 20 Ky.R. 3112; eff.
7-7-1994; TAm eff. 8-9-2007; 43 Ky.R. 615, 987; eff. 1-6-2017; 46 Ky.R. 1637,
2409; eff. 6-2-2020.