25950-25953

PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE
SECTION 25950-25953




25950.  "Gas appliance" means any new residential-type furnace, air
conditioner, heater, refrigerator, stove, range, dishwasher, dryer,
decorative fireplace log, or other similar device, except a water
heater, which uses a gaseous fuel for operation and is automatically
ignited.


25951.  "Pilot light" means any gas operated device that remains
continually operated or lighted in order to ignite a gas appliance to
begin normal operation.


25952.  "Intermittent ignition device" means an ignition device
which is actuated only when the gas appliance is in operation.



25953.  As used in this chapter, the following terms have the
following meanings:
   (a) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation,
limited liability company, association, manufacturer, distributor,
retailer, contractor or builder as defined in Section 7026 of the
Business and Professions Code, or other groups, however organized,
who sell or cause to be distributed or installed, any new gas
appliance as defined in Section 25950.
   (b) "Manufacturer" means any individual, partnership, corporation,
association, or other legal relationship which manufactures,
assembles, produces, or gathers consumer goods.
   (c) "Distributor" means any individual, partnership, corporation,
association or other legal relationship which stands between the
manufacturer and the retail seller in purchases, consignments or
contracts for sale of consumer goods.
   (d) "Retail seller," "retail outlets," "seller," or "retailer"
means any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other
legal relationship which engages in the business of selling new
goods to retail buyers.
   (e) "Contractor" for the purpose of this chapter is synonymous
with the term "builder" and, within the meaning of this chapter, a
contractor is any person who undertakes to or offers to undertake to
or purports to have the capacity to undertake to or submits a bid to,
or does himself or by or through others, construct, alter, repair,
add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish any building,
highway, road, parking facility, railroad, excavation or other
structure, project, development or improvement, or to do any part
thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or other structures or
works in connection therewith. The term "contractor" includes
subcontractor and specialty contractor.