§ 47.391. Definitions.
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Any other glazed installation or structure—Any portion of a building to which this subchapter applies, wherein glazing materials are used whether as doors, panels, screens, brattices, portals or aperture closures and which when subject to human impact could cause injury to persons.
Approved—Approved by the Industrial Board.
Board—The Industrial Board.
Building—Any structure or enclosure devoted to human occupancy in the following categories of use:(i) Commercial buildings—Any structures or enclosures wherein goods or services are sold or offered or stored or wherein business is transacted whether public or private or mixed or wherein persons are housed in multiple occupancy or in which industry is conducted.
(ii) Public buildings—Any structures or enclosures in which persons assemble for entertainment, convention, education, instruction, worship or coming together for any purpose, whether the use is public or private or mixed.
(iii) Residences—Residences shall include multiple housing wherein persons reside and are domiciled and including health care facilities.
Department—The Department of Labor and Industry.
Entrance door—Any closure of an opening for passage of persons which closure may be removed in any manner sliding laterally, swinging in or out or being raised above the opening, and which may be again positioned as a closure.
Fixed glazed panel—A portion of a wall, interior or exterior, consisting of a frame for the support of glazing material and the glazing material itself exclusive of decorative or stain glass in buildings intended and used for purposes of religious worship which stand in the normal path of travel and upon human impact could injure the person whose motion caused the impact or other persons then nearby.
Glass entrance door—An entrance or exit door through which may be seen the exterior or the interior of the building in a manner which may not clearly indicate the presence of solid barrier to entrance or exit or which if struck by a person or object during passage through the door could cause injury to the persons.
Glazing materials or glazed materials—Any pane of glass, whether tempered, laminated, or otherwise treated and regardless of whether the pane is safety glass, and other materials which are used as glass substitutes.
Secretary—The Secretary of Labor and Industry.
Shower door/tub enclosure—The closure of a bathing shower stall or bathtub, the materials of which upon human impact could shatter so as to injure the person whose motion caused the impact.
Sliding glass door—The closure of an opening for passage of persons, when said closure is opened in any manner by sliding laterally across the opening and contains materials which could, upon human impact, injure the person passing through the opening.
Storm door—The outer closure of an exterior opening designed for the purpose of excluding inclement weather and the materials of which could upon human impact shatter so as to injure the person passing through the opening.
Source The provisions of this § 47.391 amended January 26, 1979, 9 Pa.B. 314. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (15232) and (13470).
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