Utah Admin. Code R392-501-3 - Definitions

For the purposes of this rule:

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

(2)

(a) "Housing unit" means any living quarter, including a housing accommodation, rooming house, dormitory, and manufactured home maintained, directly or indirectly, in connection with any work of or place where work is being performed by a seasonal or temporary worker, whether or not rent is paid or reserved for use or occupancy.

(b) The term includes any facility necessary to, or associated with, the buildings; and any area or site set aside and provided for camping of seasonal or temporary workers.

(c) "Housing unit" does not include a building reserved exclusively for the personal use of the landowner or employer, including the primary residence, which may serve as housing for family members and friends of the family.

(3) "Local health department" has the same meaning as provided in Subsection 26A-1-102(5).

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

(5) "Manufactured home" means a factory assembled structure equipped with the necessary service connections and made so as to be readily movable as a unit 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) "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.

(7) "Operator" means a person with ownership or overall responsibility for managing or operating a labor community.

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

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

(10) "Plumbing fixture" means a receptacle or device that is connected to the water supply system of the premises; or discharges wastewater, liquid-borne waste materials, or sewage to the drainage system of the premises.

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

(12) "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.

(13) "Service building" means a structure located within a labor community that contains a toilet, hand sink, bathing, laundry, or recreational facilities.

(14) "Temporary labor community" or "Labor community" means one or more buildings, structures, tents or related facilities together with surrounding grounds designed, constructed, or used or intended for use as living quarters or housing facilities to temporarily accommodate groups such as seasonal migrant laborers or construction, exploration, mining, or demolition workers.

(15) "Toilet fixture", means:

(a) a water flush toilet that discharges to a public sanitary sewer system or an approved onsite wastewater disposal system;

(b) a privy seat in a vault privy; or

(c) a chemical toilet in a portable restroom.

(16) "Vault privy" - means a toilet facility wherein the waste is deposited without flushing into a permanently-installed, watertight vault or receptacle. Vault wastes is periodically removed and disposed of in accordance with Rule R317-560.

(17) "Vector" means any organism such as an insect or rodent that transmits a pathogen that can adversely affect public health.

(18) "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.

(19) "Wastewater" means discharges from any plumbing facility including rest room, kitchen, and laundry fixtures, either separately or in combination.

Notes

Utah Admin. Code R392-501-3

Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2018-19, effective 9/10/2018 Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2022-06, effective 3/10/2022