Defined Terms Flashcards
Food premises
A floor area where food or drink for human consumption, or an ingredient of food or drink for human consumption, is manufactured, processed, prepared, stored, displayed, handled, served, distributed, sold or offered for sale, but does not include,
(a) a private residence,
(b) a boarding house that provides meals for fewer than 10 boarders,
(c) a building to which Ontario Regulation 502/17 (Camps in Unorganized Territory) or Ontario Regulation 503/17 (Recreational Camps) made under the Health Protection and Promotion Act applies,
(d) a plant, as defined in the Milk Act, that is required to be operated under the authority of a licence issued under that Act,
(e) premises where a licensed activity, as defined in the Food Safety and Quality Act, 2001, is carried on by a person who is required to hold a licence issued under that Act,
(f) an egg-grading station or an egg-processing station, as defined in subsection 1 (1) of Ontario Regulation 171/10 (Eggs and Processed Egg), made under the Food Safety and Quality Act, 2001,
(g) a floor area occupied by a church, service club or fraternal organization for the purpose of,
(i) preparing meals for special events for its members and personally invited guests, or
(ii) conducting bake sales, or
(h) a farm building.
Plumbing system
A system of connected piping, fittings, valves, equipment, fixtures and appurtenances contained in plumbing.
Sanitary unit
water closet, urinal, bidet or bedpan washer.
Suite
A single room or series of rooms of complementary use, operated under a single tenancy, and includes,
(a) dwelling units,
(b) individual guest rooms in motels, hotels, boarding houses, rooming houses and dormitories, and
(c) individual stores and individual or complementary rooms for business and personal services occupancies.
Means of egress
Includes exits and access to exits and means a continuous path of travel provided for the escape of persons from any point in a building or in a contained open space to,
(a) a separate building,
(b) an open public thoroughfare, or
(c) an exterior open space that is protected from fire exposure from the building and that has access to an open public thoroughfare.
Noncombustible construction
A type of construction in which a degree of fire safety is attained by the use of noncombustible materials for structural members and other building assemblies.
Building area
The greatest horizontal area of a building above grade,
(a) within the outside surface of exterior walls, or
(b) within the outside surface of exterior walls and the centre line of firewalls.
Business and personal services occupancy
The occupancy or use of a building or part of a building for the transaction of business or the provision of professional or personal services.
Combustible construction
A type of construction that does not meet the requirements for noncombustible construction.
Exit
That part of a means of egress, including doorways, that leads from the floor area it serves to a separate building, an open public thoroughfare or an exterior open space protected from fire exposure from the building and having access to an open public thoroughfare.
Farm building
All or part of a building,
(a) that does not contain any area used for residential occupancy,
(b) that is associated with and located on land devoted to the practice of farming, and
(c) that is used essentially for the housing of equipment or livestock or the production, storage or processing of agricultural and horticultural produce or feeds.
Firewall
A type of fire separation of noncombustible construction that subdivides a building or separates adjoining buildings to resist the spread of fire and that has a fire-resistance rating as prescribed in this Code and the structural stability to remain intact under fire conditions for the required fire-rated time.
Fire separation
A construction assembly that acts as a barrier against the spread of fire.
Fixture
A receptacle, plumbing appliance, apparatus or other device that discharges sewage or clear water waste, and includes a floor drain.
Hotel
A floor area or part of a floor area that contains four or more suites and that provides sleeping accommodation for the travelling public or for recreational purposes.
Live load
A variable load due to the intended use and occupancy that is to be assumed in the design of the structural members of a building and includes loads due to cranes and the pressure of liquids in containers.
Live/work unit
A dwelling unit having an area of not more than 200 m2 that contains a subsidiary business and personal services occupancy or a subsidiary low hazard industrial occupancy, and which is used and operated by one or more persons of a single household.
Shelf and rack storage system
A self-contained structural system within a building, having one or more elevated platforms or walkway levels for personnel access that may also support conveyors and other material handling, storage and distribution equipment.
Walkway
A covered or roofed pedestrian thoroughfare used to connect two or more buildings.
Dwelling unit
A suite operated as a housekeeping unit, used or intended to be used by one or more persons and usually containing cooking, eating, living, sleeping and sanitary facilities.
Dead load
The weight of all permanent structural and nonstructural components of a building.
Deep foundation
A foundation unit that provides support for a building by transferring loads either by end-bearing to a soil or rock at considerable depth below the building or by adhesion or friction, or both, in the soil or rock in which it is placed. Piles are the most common type of deep foundation.
Foundation
A system or arrangement of foundation units through which the loads from a building are transferred to supporting soil or rock.
Soil
Except for the purposes of Part 8 of Division B, a portion of the earth’s crust that is fragmentary or such that individual particles of a dried sample may be readily separated by agitation in water, and includes boulders, cobbles, gravel, sand, silt, clay and organic matter.
Rock
A portion of the earth’s crust that is consolidated, coherent and relatively hard and that is a naturally formed, solidly bonded, mass of mineral matter that cannot readily be broken by hand.
bearing surface
The contact surface between a foundation unit and the soil or rock on which the foundation unit bears.
Assembly occupancy
The occupancy or the use of a building or part of a building by a gathering of persons for civic, political, travel, religious, social, educational, recreational or similar purposes or for the consumption of food or drink.
Barrier-free
When applied to a building and its facilities, that the building and its facilities can be approached, entered and used by persons with physical or sensory disabilities.
Business and personal service occupancy
The occupancy or use of a building or part of a building for the transaction of business or the provision of professional or personal services.
Mercantile occupancy
The occupancy or use of a building or part of a building for the displaying or selling of retail goods, wares or merchandise.
First Story
The storey that has its floor closest to grade and its ceiling more than 1.8 m above grade.
Subsurface investigation
The appraisal of the general subsurface conditions at a building site by analysis of information gained by methods such as geological surveys, in situ testing, sampling, visual inspection, laboratory testing of samples of the subsurface materials and groundwater observations and measurements.
Vapour barrier
The elements installed to control the diffusion of water vapour.
