Mich. Admin. Code R. 400.18103 - Definitions
Rule 103. As used in these rules for new and existing adult foster care facilities and congregate facilities licensed for 7 or more adults:
(a) "Act" means 1979 PA 218,
MCL 400.701 to 400.737
(b) "Adult
foster care facility" has the same meaning as defined in the act.
(c) "Approved" means acceptable to the bureau
of fire services, unless specifically indicated otherwise in these
rules.
(d) "Authority having
jurisdiction" means the bureau of fire services, an employee of the bureau of
fire services, or an employee of a city, village, or township delegated to
enforce the code under section 2b of the act.
(e) "Code" means national fire protection
association standard no. 101, 2006 edition, entitled "life safety
code."
(f) "Congregate facility"
means an adult foster care facility with the approved capacity to receive more
than 20 adults for foster care.
(g)
"Conversion" means either of the following:
(i) To change the license category for an
existing facility.
(ii) To change
the purpose for which a building, a room, or an area is designed.
(h) "Cosmetic remodeling" means
surface changes made solely to the wall, floor, or ceiling, that do not
decrease the fire rating of the wall, floor, or ceiling, including the
replacement of windows and doors.
(i) "Department" means the Michigan
department of licensing and regulatory affairs.
(j) "Evacuation capability" means the ability
of residents, occupants, and staff, as a group, to evacuate the adult foster
care facility. Evacuation capability may be classified as "prompt," "slow," or
"impractical."
(k) "Existing
facility" means a facility that was licensed before the effective date of these
rules or a change in facility ownership without a conversion of the
facility.
(l) "Grade" means a
reference plane that represents the average of finished ground level adjoining
the building at all exterior walls. When the finished ground level slopes away
from the exterior walls, the reference plane shall be established by the lowest
points within the area between the building and the lot line or, when the lot
line is more than 6 feet (1,829 mm) from the building, between the building and
a point 6 feet (1,829 mm) from the building.
(m) "Impractical" means that a facilitys
evacuation capability is such that the facility cannot be evacuated in less
than 8 minutes.
(n)
"Interconnected" means that the entire fire alarm system is connected together
so that, when 1 alarm device is activated, a general alarm will sound which
shall be audible in all habitable areas.
(o) "Licensee" means the agency, association,
corporation, company, organization, person or persons, or department or agency
of the state, county, city, or other political subdivision that has been issued
a license to operate an adult foster care facility.
(p) "Listed" means the material listed by an
approved independent nationally recognized testing laboratory acceptable to the
bureau of fire services.
(q) "Large
facility" means an adult foster care facility with the approved capacity to
receive at least 13 but not more than 20 adults for foster care.
(r) "Maintenance" means repair that is
required to keep the building and its component parts in an operative condition
at all times. "Maintenance" includes the replacement of a buildings components
when, for any reason, they become undependable or inoperable, but does not
include remodeling.
(s) "New" means
a facility licensed after the effective date of these rules or a facility
licensed before the effective date of the rules that changes license
category.
(t) "Prompt" means that a
facilitys evacuation capability is such that the facility can be evacuated in 3
minutes or less.
(u) "Remodeling"
means an alteration or change of fire-rated assembly, or the installation of
new equipment required by these rules.
(v) "Resident" means a person who is
receiving adult foster care and resides in an adult foster care
facility.
(w) "Slow" means that a
facilitys evacuation capability is such that the facility can be evacuated in
less than 8 minutes, but more than 3 minutes.
(x) "Small facility" means an adult foster
care facility with the approved capacity to receive at least 7 but not more
than 12 adults for foster care.
(y)
"Story above grade" means any story that has its finished floor surface
entirely above grade, except that a basement shall be considered as a story
above grade when the distance from grade to the finished surface of the floor
above the basement is more than 6 feet (1,829 mm) for more than 50% of the
total perimeter.
(z) "Twin-twenty"
means 2 20-bed facilities that are attached or located inside the same
building, separated from each other by not less than a 2-hour fire
wall.
(aa) "Usable floor space"
means floor space under a ceiling not less than 6 feet 6 inches in height,
excluding closets.
Notes
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