Rhode Island Code of Regulations
Title 510 - Building Code Commission
Chapter 00 - N/A
Subchapter 00 - N/A
Part 13 - RISBC-13 Standards for Existing Schools
Section 510-RICR-00-00-13.2 - Definitions

1. "Code" means the Rhode Island State Building Code or Specialized Codes and Standards as defined herein.

2. "Commissioner" means the Rhode Island State Building Commissioner who is authorized to enforce the provisions of the Codes and rules and regulations which have been promulgated, adopted and amended and which pertain to buildings and structures and parts thereof.

3. "Committee" means the Rhode Island State Building Code Standards Committee; the agency authorized to promulgate and adopt codes and rules and regulations relating to buildings and structures and parts thereof.

4. "Director of the state operated schools" means the person responsible to ensure that schools under their jurisdiction are not opened until notification is received from the inspecting agencies that the schools are in compliance with their respective codes.

5. "Inspecting agencies" means the local Fire Chief or assistant fire marshal, local building official, the Director of the State Department of Health, and the Director of the State Labor Department are those agencies responsible to notify the local superintendents of schools or private school officials by August 1 of each year as to whether the public and private nursery, elementary and secondary school buildings conform to the appropriate state law and regulation. The State Building Commissioner shall substitute for the local building official in the inspection of those schools on state property, and the Commissioner shall submit his report to the "state" department director responsible for the operation of said schools.

6. "Local building official" means the official in a municipality charged with the enforcement of the State Building Code and appropriate specialized codes and standards.

7. "Private school official" means the person responsible to ensure that schools under their jurisdiction are not opened until notification is received from the inspecting agencies that the schools are in compliance with their respective codes.

8. "Schools" means the schools affected by these standards are all existing public, private or state nursery, elementary and secondary school buildings or structures.

9. "Superintendent of schools" means the person responsible to ensure that public schools within their municipality are not opened until notification is received from the inspecting agencies that the schools are in compliance with their respective codes.