New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Chapter I - State Sanitary Code
Part 17 - Mobile Home Parks
Section 17.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 39, September 25, 2024

As used in this Part, the following words and terms shall have the indicated meaning:

(a) Adequate shall mean sufficient to accomplish the purpose intended, and to such a degree that no unreasonable risk is presented to health or safety. Within the meaning of this Part, an item installed, maintained, designed and assembled, an activity conducted, or act performed, in accordance with recognized generally accepted standards, principles or practices applicable to a particular trade, business, occupation or profession shall be considered adequate.

(b) Anchoring system shall mean a combination of ties, anchoring equipment and ground anchors that will, when properly designed and installed, resist overturning and lateral movements of the mobile home from wind forces.

(c) Drinking water shall mean water provided or used for human consumption, food preparation, or for lavatory, culinary, bathing or laundry purposes.

(d) Feeder assembly shall mean the overhead or under chassis electrical feeder conductors, including the grounding conductor, together with the necessary fittings and equipment, or a power supply cord listed for mobile home use, designed for the purpose of delivering the electrical supply from the source to the distribution panel within the home.

(e) Generally accepted standards shall mean those referenced in the New York State Building Construction Codes and Fire Prevention Code (9 NYCRR), or their successor(s), or any other standards filed with the Secretary of State.

(f) Home shall mean a mobile or manufactured home in a mobile home park.

(g) Manufactured home shall mean a structure, transportable in one or more sections with or without a permanent foundation, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein.

(h) Mobile home shall mean a structure, which is eight feet or more in width and 32 feet or more in length, transportable in one or more sections, built on a permanent chassis, and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without a permanent foundation, when connected to the required utilities, and includes the plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical systems contained therein.

(i) Mobile home accessory building or structure shall mean a building or structure which is an addition to or supplements the facilities provided a mobile home. It is not a self-contained, separate, and habitable building or structure.

(j) Mobile home park (hereafter also known as park) shall mean a property consisting of a tract of land maintained by an operator for mobile homes and/or manufactured homes, and buildings or other structures that may be pertinent to their use, any part of which may be occupied by persons for residential purposes other than recreation, traveling, or vacationing, and who are provided services or facilities necessary for their use of the property.

(k) Mobile home site (hereafter also known as site) shall mean a designated parcel of land in a mobile home park provided by the operator and designed for accommodating, one mobile or manufactured home, its accessory buildings or structures, and accessory equipment for the exclusive use of the occupants.

(l) Mobile home stand shall mean that area of a site which has been reserved the placement of the home.

(m) Operator shall mean the owner, lessee or any other person designated as responsible for the maintenance and operation of the park and such services and facilities as are provided and/or necessary for the use of such property.

(n) Permit-issuing official shall mean the health commissioner or health officer of a city of 50,000 population or over, the health commissioner or health officer of a county or part-county health district, the State regional health director or area director having jurisdiction, a grade I or grade II public health administrator qualified and appointed pursuant to Part 11 of this Title, or any county health director having all the powers and duties prescribed in section 352 of the Public Health Law. The health commissioner or health officer of a city of 50,000 population or over, or the health commissioner or health officer of a county or part-county health district, or such grade I or grade II public health administrator or county health director may designate the director of environmental health of the health district; and, the State regional health director or area director may designate the district sanitary engineer or district administrator as additional persons authorized to issue the permits required by this Part.

(o) Person shall mean an individual, group of individuals, partnership, firm, corporation, association, political subdivision, government agency, municipality, industry, estate or any legal entity whatever.

(p) Refuse shall mean all putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste including, but not limited to garbage, rubbish, ashes, incinerator residue, street cleanup, dead animals, offal and solid commercial wastes.

(q) Service equipment shall mean the electrical equipment containing the disconnecting means, overcurrent protection devices, and receptacles or other means for connecting a mobile home feeder assembly.

(r) Sewage shall mean excreta and the waste from a flush toilet, bath, sink, lavatory, dishwashing, or laundry machine or the water-carried waste from any other fixture or equipment or machine.

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