§ 39-27-3 - Definitions.
SECTION 39-27-3
§ 39-27-3 Definitions. – As used in this chapter:
(a) "Automatic commercial ice-maker" means a factory-madeassembly that is shipped in one or more packages that consists of a condensingunit and ice-making section operating as an integrated unit, that makes andharvests ice cubes, and that may store and dispense ice. This term includesmachines with capacities between and including fifty (50) and two thousand fivehundred (2,500) pounds per twenty-four (24) hours.
(b) "Ballast" means a device used with an electric dischargelamp to obtain necessary circuit conditions (voltage, current and waveform) forstarting and operating the lamp.
(c) "Boiler" means a self-contained low-pressure appliancefor supplying steam or hot water primarily designed for space heating.
(d) "Bottle-type water dispenser" means a water dispenserthat uses a bottle or reservoir as the source of potable water.
(e) "Chief of Energy and Community Services" means the headofficial of the Rhode Island state energy office.
(f) "Commercial clothes washer" means a soft mount horizontalor vertical-axis clothes washer that:
(1) Has a clothes container compartment no greater than threeand a half (3.5) cubic feet in the case of a horizontal-axis product or nogreater than four (4.0) cubic feet in the case of a vertical-axis product; and
(2) Is designed for use by more than one household, such asin multi-family housing, apartments or coin laundries.
(g) "Commercial hot food holding cabinet" means an appliancethat is a heated, fully-enclosed compartment with one or more solid doors, andthat is designed to maintain the temperature of hot food that has been cookedin a separate appliance. "Commercial hot food holding cabinet" does not includeheated glass merchandizing cabinets, drawer warmers, or cook-and-holdappliances.
(h) "Commercial pre-rinse spray valve" means a hand-helddevice designed and marketed for use with commercial dishwashing and warewashing equipment and which sprays water on dishes, flatware, and other foodservice items for the purpose of removing food residue prior to their cleaning.
(i) "Commercial refrigerator, freezer andrefrigerator-freezer" means self-contained refrigeration equipment that:
(1) Is not a consumer product as regulated pursuant to 42U.S.C. § 6291 and subsequent sections;
(2) Operates at a chilled, frozen, combination chilled rozen,or variable temperature for the purpose of storing and/or merchandising food,beverages and/or ice;
(3) May have transparent and/or solid hinged doors, slidingdoors, or a combination of hinged and sliding doors; and
(4) Incorporates most components involved in the vaporcompression cycle and the refrigerated compartment in a single cabinet.
This term does not include:
(1) Units with eighty-five (85) cubic feet or more ofinternal volume;
(2) Walk-in refrigerators or freezers;
(3) Units with no doors; or
(4) Freezers specifically designed for ice cream.
(j) "Commission" means the Rhode Island public utilitiescommission.
(k) "Compensation" means money or any other valuable thing,regardless of form, received or to be received by a person for servicesrendered.
(l) "Electricity ratio" is the ratio of furnace electricityuse to total furnace energy use. Electricity ratio = (3.412*EAE/(1000*Ef+3.412*EAE)) where EAE (average annual auxiliary electrical consumption) and EF(average annual fuel energy consumption) are defined in Appendix N to subpart Bof part 430 of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(m) "High intensity discharge lamp" means a lamp in whichlight is produced by the passage of an electric current through a vapor or gas,and in which the light-producing arc is stabilized by bulb wall temperature andthe arc tube has a bulb wall loading in excess of three (3) watts per squarecentimeter.
(n) "Illuminated exit sign" means an internally-illuminatedsign that is designed to be permanently fixed in place to identify a buildingexit and consists of an electrically powered integral light source thatilluminates the legend "EXIT" and any directional indicators and providescontrast between the legend, any directional indicators and the background.
(o) "Large packaged air-conditioning equipment" meanselectronically-operated, air- cooled air-conditioning and air-conditioning heatpump equipment having cooling capacity greater than or equal to two hundredforty thousand (240,000) Btu/hour but less than seven hundred sixty thousand(760,000) Btu/hour that is built as a package and shipped as a whole toend-user sites.
(p) "Low voltage dry-type distribution transformer" means atransformer that:
(1) Has an input voltage of six hundred (600) volts or less;
(2) Is air-cooled;
(3) Does not use oil as a coolant; and
(4) Is rated for operation at a frequency of sixty (60) Hertz.
(q) "Mercury vapor lamp" means a high-intensity dischargelamp in which the major portion of the light is produced by radiation frommercury operating at a partial pressure in excess of one hundred thousand(100,000) PA (approximately 1 atm). This includes clear, phosphor-coated andself-ballasted lamps.
(r) "Metal halide lamp" means a high intensity discharge lampin which the major portion of the light is produced by radiation of metalhalides and their products of dissociation, possibly in combination withmetallic vapors.
(s) "Metal halide lamp fixture" means a lamp fixture designedto be operated with a metal halide lamp and a ballast for a metal halide lamp.
(t) "Probe-start metal halide ballast" means a ballast usedto operate metal halide lamps which does not contain an igniter and whichinstead starts lamps by using a third staring electrode "probe" in the arc tube.
(u) "Pulldown refrigerator" means a commercial refrigeratorwith doors that, when fully loaded with twelve (12) ounce canned beverages atninety (90) degrees F, can cool these beverages to an average stabletemperature of thirty-eight (38) degrees F in twelve (12) hours or less.
(v) "Residential boiler" means a self-contained appliance forsupplying steam or hot water, which uses natural gas, propane, or home heatingoil, and which has a heat input rate of less than three hundred thousand(300,000) Btu per hour.
(w) "Residential furnace" means a self-contained space heaterdesigned to supply heated air through ducts of more than ten (10) inches lengthand which utilizes only single-phase electric current, or single-phase electriccurrent or DC current in conjunction with natural gas, propane, or home heatingoil, and which:
(1) Is designed to be the principle heating source for theliving space of one or more residences;
(2) Is not contained within the same cabinet with a centralair conditioner whose rated cooling capacity is above sixty-five thousand(65,000) Btu per hour; and
(3) Has a heat input rate of less than two hundredtwenty-five thousand (225,000) Btu per hour.
(x) "Single-voltage external AC to DC power supply" means adevice that:
(1) Is designed to convert line voltage AC input into lowervoltage DC output;
(2) Is able to convert to one DC output voltage at a time;
(3) Is sold with, or intended to be used with, a separateend-use product that constitutes the primary power load;
(4) Is contained within a separate physical enclosure fromthe end-use product;
(5) Is connected to the end-use product via a removable orhard-wired male emale electrical connection, cable, cord or other wiring;
(6) Does not have batteries or battery packs, including thosethat are removable, that physically attach directly to the power supply unit;
(7) Does not have a battery chemistry or type selector switchand indicator light; or
(8) Has a nameplate output power less than or equal to twohundred fifty (250) watts.
(y) "State-regulated incandescent reflector lamp" means alamp, not colored or designed for rough or vibration service applications, withan inner reflective coating on the outer bulb to direct the light, an E26medium screw base, a rated voltage or voltage range that lies at leastpartially within one hundred fifteen (115) to one hundred thirty (130) volts,and that falls into either of the following categories: a blown PAR (BPAR),bulged reflector (BR), or elliptical reflector (ER) bulb shape or similar bulbshape with a diameter equal to or greater than two and one quarter (2.25)inches; or a reflector (R), parabolic aluminized reflector (PARA) bulgedreflector (BR) or similar bulb shape with a diameter of two and one quarter(2.25) to two and three quarter (2.75) inches, inclusive.
(z) "Torchiere" means a portable electric lighting fixturewith a reflective bowl that directs light upward onto a ceiling so as toproduce indirect illumination on the surfaces below. A torchiere may includedownward directed lamps in addition to the upward, indirect illumination.
(aa) "Traffic signal module" means a standard eight (8) inch(two hundred millimeter (200 mm)) or twelve (12) inch (three hundred millimeter(300 mm)) traffic signal indication, consisting of a light source, a lens, andall other parts necessary for operation.
(bb) "Transformer" means a device consisting of two (2) ormore coils of insulated wire and that is designed to transfer alternatingcurrent by electromagnetic induction from one coil to another to change theoriginal voltage or current value. The term "transformer" does not include:
(1) Transformers with multiple voltage taps, with the highestvoltage tap equaling at least twenty percent (20%) more than the lowest voltagetap; or
(2) Transformers, such as those commonly known as drivetransformers, rectifier transformers, auto-transformers, uninterruptible powersystem transformers, impedance transformers, regulating transformers, sealedand nonventilating transformers, machine tool transformers, weldingtransformers, grounding transformers, or testing transformers, that aredesigned to be used in a special purpose application and are unlikely to beused in general purpose applications.
(cc) "Unit heater" means a self-contained, vented fan-typecommercial space heater that uses natural gas or propane, and that is designedto be installed without ducts within a heated space, except that such term doesnot include any products covered by federal standards established pursuant to42 U.S.C. § 6291 and subsequent sections or any product that is a directvent, forced flue heater with a sealed combustion burner.
(dd) "Walk-in refrigerator" and "walk-in freezer" mean aspace, designed for the purpose of storing and/or merchandising food, beveragesand/or ice, that is refrigerated to temperatures, respectively, at or above andbelow thirty-two (32) degrees F that can be walked into.
(ee) "Water dispenser" means a factory-made assembly thatmechanically cools and heats potable water and that dispenses the cooled orheated water by integral or remote means.