Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R392 - Population Health, Environmental Health
Rule R392-402 - Manufactured Home Community Sanitation
Section R392-402-3 - Definitions

Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 392-402-3

Current through Bulletin 2023-24, December 15, 2023

For the purposes of this rule, the following terms, phrases, and words shall have the meanings herein expressed:

(1) " Building Code" means International Building Code as incorporated and amended in Title 15A, State Construction and Fire Codes Act.

(2) "Clean" means the condition of being visibly free from dirt, soil, stain, leftover food particles, or other materials or substances not intended to be a part of the object in question.

(3) "Local Health Department" has the same meaning as provided in Section 26A-1-102(5).

(4) "Local health officer" means the health officer of the local health department having jurisdiction or their designated representative.

(5) "Manufactured home" means a factory assembled structure or structures equipped with the necessary service connections and made so as to be readily movable as a unit or units on its own running gear and designed to be used as a dwelling unit without a permanent foundation. A modular home transported on wheels to its foundation is not a manufactured home.

(6) "Manufactured home community" or "Community" means a parcel or contiguous parcels of land which has been so designed and improved that it contains three or more manufactured home lots available to the general public for the placement thereon of manufactured homes for occupancy.

(7) "Nuisance" means a condition or hazard, or the source thereof, which may be deleterious or detrimental to the health, safety, or welfare of the public.

(8) "Occupant" means any person living, sleeping, cooking, or eating in a manufactured home or having actual possession thereof whether as a tenant or owner-occupant.

(9) "Operator" means any person who owns, leases, manages or controls, or who has the duty to manage or control a manufactured home community.

(10) "Pest" means a noxious, destructive, or troublesome organism whether plant or animal, when found in and around places of human occupancy, habitation, or use which threatens the health or well-being of the public.

(11) "Plumbing Code" means International Plumbing Code as incorporated and amended in Title 15A, State Construction and Fire Codes Act.

(12) "Plumbing fixture" means a receptacle or device that is connected to the water supply system of the premises and demands a supply of water therefrom; discharges wastewater, liquid-borne waste materials, or sewage to the drainage system of the premises; or requires both a water supply connection and a discharge to the drainage system of the premises.

(13) "Premises" means any lot, parcel, or plot of land, including any buildings or structure.

(14) "Sanitary" means the condition of being free from infective, physically hurtful, diseased, poisonous, unwholesome, or otherwise unhealthful substances and being completely free from vermin, vectors, and pests and from the traces of either, and free of harborage for vermin, vectors, or pests.

(15) "Service building" means a building, buildings or room housing toilet, lavatory, bathing, laundry and other facilities, including service sinks, as may be required for the use of manufactured home community occupants.

(16) "Vector" means any organism, such as insects or rodents, that transmits a pathogen that can adversely affect public health.

(17) "Vermin" means rats, mice, cockroaches, bedbugs, flies, or any other pest or vector as determined by the local health officer to be harmful to the life, health, or welfare of the public.

(18) "Wastewater" means discharges from all plumbing facilities including rest rooms, kitchen, and laundry fixtures either separately or in combination.

Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2018-12, effective 5/24/2018

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