Page 1 of 5 198B.010 Definitions for chapter. As used in this chapter, unless otherwise provided: <br>(1) "Assembly occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by a gathering of persons for civic, political, travel, religious, social, <br>or recreational purposes, including among others: <br>(a) Armories; <br>(b) Assembly halls; <br>(c) Auditoriums; <br>(d) Bowling alleys; <br>(e) Broadcasting studios; <br>(f) Chapels; <br>(g) Churches; <br>(h) Clubrooms; <br>(i) Community buildings; <br>(j) Courthouses; <br>(k) Dance halls; <br>(l) Exhibition rooms; <br>(m) Gymnasiums; <br>(n) Hotels; <br>(o) Lecture rooms; <br>(p) Lodge rooms; <br>(q) Motels; <br>(r) Motion picture theaters; <br>(s) Museums; <br>(t) Night clubs; <br>(u) Opera houses; <br>(v) Passenger stations; <br>(w) Pool rooms; <br>(x) Recreation areas; <br>(y) Restaurants; <br>(z) Skating rinks; <br>(aa) Television studios; <br>(bb) Theaters. (2) "Attic" means the space between the ceiling beams of the top habitable story and the roof rafters. (3) "Basement" means that portion of a building the average height of which is at least half below grade, which is ordinarily used for purposes such as storage, laundry <br>facilities, household tool shops, and installation and operation of heating, cooling, Page 2 of 5 and ventilating facilities, but which is not ordinarily used for purposes of general <br>household habitation. (4) "Building" means any combination of materials, whether portable or fixed, which comprises a structure or nonmine underground area affording facilities or shelter for <br>any human occupancy, whether infrequent or regular, and also means single-family <br>dwellings, including those sold or constructed under a trade or brand name. The <br>word "building" shall be construed wherever used herein as if followed by the <br>words "or part or parts thereof and all equipment therein" unless the context clearly <br>requires a different meaning. "Building" shall also mean swimming pools <br>constructed below grade on site, but not swimming pools assembled above grade on <br>site. "Building" shall not mean a manufactured home governed by the National <br>Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. <br>secs. 5401 et seq., or a farm dwelling or other farm buildings and structures incident <br>to the operation and maintenance of the farm if the farm structures are located <br>outside the boundary of a municipality and are not used in the business of retail <br>trade or used as a place of regular employment for ten (10) or more people or <br>structures used in the storage or processing of timber products. (5) "Business occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof for the transaction of business, the rendering or receiving of <br>professional services, or the displaying, selling, or buying of goods, wares, or <br>merchandise, or the housing of vehicles of transportation, except where occupancy <br>is of high hazard, including among others: <br>(a) Banks; <br>(b) Barber shops; <br>(c) Beauty parlors; <br>(d) Department stores; <br>(e) Garages; <br>(f) Markets; <br>(g) Service stations; <br>(h) Offices; <br>(i) Stores; <br>(j) Radio stations; <br>(k) Telephone exchanges; and <br>(l) Television stations. (6) "Certified building inspector" means a person who has been certified by the department as having successfully completed the test requirements provided by <br>KRS 198B.090 to practice as a city, county, or state building inspector within the <br>Commonwealth. (7) "Certified plans and specifications inspector" means a person who has been certified by the department as having successfully completed the test requirements provided <br>by KRS 198B.090 to practice as a city, county, or state plans and specifications <br>inspector within the Commonwealth. Page 3 of 5 (8) "Certified plumbing inspector" means a person who has been certified by the department as having successfully completed the test requirements provided by <br>KRS 198B.090 and 318.140, or 318.090 to practice as a city, county, or state <br>plumbing inspector within the Commonwealth. (9) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of housing, buildings and construction. <br>(10) "Construction" means the erection, fabrication, reconstruction, substantial alteration or conversion of a building, or the installation of equipment therein, but shall not <br>include the ordinary repair of a building or structure. (11) "Department" means the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction. <br>(12) "Educational occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by persons assembled for the purpose of learning or of receiving <br>educational instruction. "Educational occupancy" shall not include a building for <br>occupancy or use by thirty-five (35) persons or less assembled to receive religious <br>and educational instruction. "Educational occupancy" includes but is not limited to: <br>(a) Academies; <br>(b) Care centers; <br>(c) Colleges; <br>(d) Kindergartens; <br>(e) Libraries; <br>(f) Preschools; <br>(g) Relocatable classroom units; <br>(h) Schools; <br>(i) Seminaries; and <br>(j) Universities. (13) "Equipment" means facilities or installations, including but not limited to heating, electrical, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigerating facilities or installations. (14) "High hazard occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof that involves highly combustible, highly flammable, or <br>explosive materials or which has inherent characteristics that constitute a special <br>fire hazard, including among others: <br>(a) Aluminum powder factories; <br>(b) Charging or filling stations; <br>(c) Distilleries; <br>(d) Dry cleaning plants; <br>(e) Dry dyeing plants; <br>(f) Explosive-manufacture, sale or storage; <br>(g) Flour and feed mills; <br>(h) Gasoline bulk plants; <br>(i) Grain elevators; <br>(j) Lacquer factories; Page 4 of 5 (k) Liquefied petroleum gas; <br>(l) Mattress factories; <br>(m) Paint factories; <br>(n) Pyroxylin-factories, or warehouses; and <br>(o) Rubber factories. (15) "Industrial occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building structure or any portion thereof for assembling, fabricating, finishing, manufacturing, packaging, or <br>processing operations, except for occupancies of high hazard, including among <br>others: <br>(a) Assembly plants; <br>(b) Creameries; <br>(c) Electrical substations; <br>(d) Factories; <br>(e) Ice plants; <br>(f) Laboratories; <br>(g) Laundries; <br>(h) Manufacturing plants; <br>(i) Mills; <br>(j) Power plants; <br>(k) Processing plants; <br>(l) Pumping stations; <br>(m) Repair garages; <br>(n) Smokehouses; and <br>(o) Workshops. (16) "Industrialized building system" means any structure or component thereof which is wholly or in substantial part fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility for <br>installation or assembly on a permanent foundation at the building site. (17) "Institutional occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by persons harbored or detained to receive medical, charitable, <br>or other care or treatment, or by persons involuntarily detained, including among <br>others: <br>(a) Asylums; <br>(b) Homes for the aged; <br>(c) Hospitals; <br>(d) Houses of correction; <br>(e) Infirmaries; <br>(f) Jails; <br>(g) Nursing homes; <br>(h) Orphanages; Page 5 of 5 (i) Penal institutions; <br>(j) Reformatories; <br>(k) Sanitariums; and <br>(l) Nurseries. (18) "Mobile home" means mobile home as defined in KRS 227.550. <br>(19) "Ordinary repair" means any nonstructural reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance, or decoration, and shall <br>include but not be limited to the replacement or installation of nonstructural <br>components of the building such as roofing, siding, windows, storm windows, <br>insulation, drywall or lath and plaster, or any other replacement, in kind, that does <br>not alter the structural integrity, alter the occupancy or use of the building, or affect, <br>by rearrangement, exitways and means of egress; but shall not include additions to, <br>or alteration of, or relocation of any standpipe, water supply, sewer, drainage, gas, <br>soil, waste, vent or similar piping, electric wiring, or mechanical equipment <br>including furnaces and hot water heaters or other work affecting public health or <br>safety. (20) "Story" means that part of a building comprised between a floor and the floor or roof next above which is not a basement or an attic. (21) "Person with a physical disability" means a person confined to a wheelchair; a person who uses braces or crutches; a person who because of the loss of a foot or <br>leg or because of an arthritic, spastic, pulmonary, or cardiac condition, walks with <br>difficulty or insecurity; a person who suffers from a faulty coordination or palsy; a <br>person who is blind or whose sight is so impaired that, functioning in a public area, <br>he or she is insecure or exposed to danger; a person whose hearing is so impaired <br>that he or she is unable to hear warning signals; and a person whose mobility, <br>flexibility, coordination, and perceptiveness are significantly reduced by aging. (22) "Facility for persons with physical disabilities" means any convenience or device which facilitates the health, safety, or comfort of a person with a disability, <br>including, but not limited to, ramps, handrails, elevators, and doors. (23) "Manufactured home" is defined as in KRS 227.550. Effective: July 15, 2010 <br>History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 245, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 223, sec. 2, effective April 22, 2006. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 9, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 340, sec. 15, <br>effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 405, sec. 49, effective July <br>15, 1994. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 189, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982; and <br>ch. 308, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 361, sec. 1, <br>effective July 15, 1980. -- Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 1, effective June 17, <br>1978.
Page 1 of 5 198B.010 Definitions for chapter. As used in this chapter, unless otherwise provided: <br>(1) "Assembly occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by a gathering of persons for civic, political, travel, religious, social, <br>or recreational purposes, including among others: <br>(a) Armories; <br>(b) Assembly halls; <br>(c) Auditoriums; <br>(d) Bowling alleys; <br>(e) Broadcasting studios; <br>(f) Chapels; <br>(g) Churches; <br>(h) Clubrooms; <br>(i) Community buildings; <br>(j) Courthouses; <br>(k) Dance halls; <br>(l) Exhibition rooms; <br>(m) Gymnasiums; <br>(n) Hotels; <br>(o) Lecture rooms; <br>(p) Lodge rooms; <br>(q) Motels; <br>(r) Motion picture theaters; <br>(s) Museums; <br>(t) Night clubs; <br>(u) Opera houses; <br>(v) Passenger stations; <br>(w) Pool rooms; <br>(x) Recreation areas; <br>(y) Restaurants; <br>(z) Skating rinks; <br>(aa) Television studios; <br>(bb) Theaters. (2) "Attic" means the space between the ceiling beams of the top habitable story and the roof rafters. (3) "Basement" means that portion of a building the average height of which is at least half below grade, which is ordinarily used for purposes such as storage, laundry <br>facilities, household tool shops, and installation and operation of heating, cooling, Page 2 of 5 and ventilating facilities, but which is not ordinarily used for purposes of general <br>household habitation. (4) "Building" means any combination of materials, whether portable or fixed, which comprises a structure or nonmine underground area affording facilities or shelter for <br>any human occupancy, whether infrequent or regular, and also means single-family <br>dwellings, including those sold or constructed under a trade or brand name. The <br>word "building" shall be construed wherever used herein as if followed by the <br>words "or part or parts thereof and all equipment therein" unless the context clearly <br>requires a different meaning. "Building" shall also mean swimming pools <br>constructed below grade on site, but not swimming pools assembled above grade on <br>site. "Building" shall not mean a manufactured home governed by the National <br>Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. <br>secs. 5401 et seq., or a farm dwelling or other farm buildings and structures incident <br>to the operation and maintenance of the farm if the farm structures are located <br>outside the boundary of a municipality and are not used in the business of retail <br>trade or used as a place of regular employment for ten (10) or more people or <br>structures used in the storage or processing of timber products. (5) "Business occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof for the transaction of business, the rendering or receiving of <br>professional services, or the displaying, selling, or buying of goods, wares, or <br>merchandise, or the housing of vehicles of transportation, except where occupancy <br>is of high hazard, including among others: <br>(a) Banks; <br>(b) Barber shops; <br>(c) Beauty parlors; <br>(d) Department stores; <br>(e) Garages; <br>(f) Markets; <br>(g) Service stations; <br>(h) Offices; <br>(i) Stores; <br>(j) Radio stations; <br>(k) Telephone exchanges; and <br>(l) Television stations. (6) "Certified building inspector" means a person who has been certified by the department as having successfully completed the test requirements provided by <br>KRS 198B.090 to practice as a city, county, or state building inspector within the <br>Commonwealth. (7) "Certified plans and specifications inspector" means a person who has been certified by the department as having successfully completed the test requirements provided <br>by KRS 198B.090 to practice as a city, county, or state plans and specifications <br>inspector within the Commonwealth. Page 3 of 5 (8) "Certified plumbing inspector" means a person who has been certified by the department as having successfully completed the test requirements provided by <br>KRS 198B.090 and 318.140, or 318.090 to practice as a city, county, or state <br>plumbing inspector within the Commonwealth. (9) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of housing, buildings and construction. <br>(10) "Construction" means the erection, fabrication, reconstruction, substantial alteration or conversion of a building, or the installation of equipment therein, but shall not <br>include the ordinary repair of a building or structure. (11) "Department" means the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction. <br>(12) "Educational occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by persons assembled for the purpose of learning or of receiving <br>educational instruction. "Educational occupancy" shall not include a building for <br>occupancy or use by thirty-five (35) persons or less assembled to receive religious <br>and educational instruction. "Educational occupancy" includes but is not limited to: <br>(a) Academies; <br>(b) Care centers; <br>(c) Colleges; <br>(d) Kindergartens; <br>(e) Libraries; <br>(f) Preschools; <br>(g) Relocatable classroom units; <br>(h) Schools; <br>(i) Seminaries; and <br>(j) Universities. (13) "Equipment" means facilities or installations, including but not limited to heating, electrical, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigerating facilities or installations. (14) "High hazard occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof that involves highly combustible, highly flammable, or <br>explosive materials or which has inherent characteristics that constitute a special <br>fire hazard, including among others: <br>(a) Aluminum powder factories; <br>(b) Charging or filling stations; <br>(c) Distilleries; <br>(d) Dry cleaning plants; <br>(e) Dry dyeing plants; <br>(f) Explosive-manufacture, sale or storage; <br>(g) Flour and feed mills; <br>(h) Gasoline bulk plants; <br>(i) Grain elevators; <br>(j) Lacquer factories; Page 4 of 5 (k) Liquefied petroleum gas; <br>(l) Mattress factories; <br>(m) Paint factories; <br>(n) Pyroxylin-factories, or warehouses; and <br>(o) Rubber factories. (15) "Industrial occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building structure or any portion thereof for assembling, fabricating, finishing, manufacturing, packaging, or <br>processing operations, except for occupancies of high hazard, including among <br>others: <br>(a) Assembly plants; <br>(b) Creameries; <br>(c) Electrical substations; <br>(d) Factories; <br>(e) Ice plants; <br>(f) Laboratories; <br>(g) Laundries; <br>(h) Manufacturing plants; <br>(i) Mills; <br>(j) Power plants; <br>(k) Processing plants; <br>(l) Pumping stations; <br>(m) Repair garages; <br>(n) Smokehouses; and <br>(o) Workshops. (16) "Industrialized building system" means any structure or component thereof which is wholly or in substantial part fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility for <br>installation or assembly on a permanent foundation at the building site. (17) "Institutional occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by persons harbored or detained to receive medical, charitable, <br>or other care or treatment, or by persons involuntarily detained, including among <br>others: <br>(a) Asylums; <br>(b) Homes for the aged; <br>(c) Hospitals; <br>(d) Houses of correction; <br>(e) Infirmaries; <br>(f) Jails; <br>(g) Nursing homes; <br>(h) Orphanages; Page 5 of 5 (i) Penal institutions; <br>(j) Reformatories; <br>(k) Sanitariums; and <br>(l) Nurseries. (18) "Mobile home" means mobile home as defined in KRS 227.550. <br>(19) "Ordinary repair" means any nonstructural reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance, or decoration, and shall <br>include but not be limited to the replacement or installation of nonstructural <br>components of the building such as roofing, siding, windows, storm windows, <br>insulation, drywall or lath and plaster, or any other replacement, in kind, that does <br>not alter the structural integrity, alter the occupancy or use of the building, or affect, <br>by rearrangement, exitways and means of egress; but shall not include additions to, <br>or alteration of, or relocation of any standpipe, water supply, sewer, drainage, gas, <br>soil, waste, vent or similar piping, electric wiring, or mechanical equipment <br>including furnaces and hot water heaters or other work affecting public health or <br>safety. (20) "Story" means that part of a building comprised between a floor and the floor or roof next above which is not a basement or an attic. (21) "Person with a physical disability" means a person confined to a wheelchair; a person who uses braces or crutches; a person who because of the loss of a foot or <br>leg or because of an arthritic, spastic, pulmonary, or cardiac condition, walks with <br>difficulty or insecurity; a person who suffers from a faulty coordination or palsy; a <br>person who is blind or whose sight is so impaired that, functioning in a public area, <br>he or she is insecure or exposed to danger; a person whose hearing is so impaired <br>that he or she is unable to hear warning signals; and a person whose mobility, <br>flexibility, coordination, and perceptiveness are significantly reduced by aging. (22) "Facility for persons with physical disabilities" means any convenience or device which facilitates the health, safety, or comfort of a person with a disability, <br>including, but not limited to, ramps, handrails, elevators, and doors. (23) "Manufactured home" is defined as in KRS 227.550. Effective: July 15, 2010 <br>History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 245, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 223, sec. 2, effective April 22, 2006. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 9, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 340, sec. 15, <br>effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 405, sec. 49, effective July <br>15, 1994. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 189, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982; and <br>ch. 308, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 361, sec. 1, <br>effective July 15, 1980. -- Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 1, effective June 17, <br>1978.
Page 1 of 5 198B.010 Definitions for chapter. As used in this chapter, unless otherwise provided: <br>(1) "Assembly occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by a gathering of persons for civic, political, travel, religious, social, <br>or recreational purposes, including among others: <br>(a) Armories; <br>(b) Assembly halls; <br>(c) Auditoriums; <br>(d) Bowling alleys; <br>(e) Broadcasting studios; <br>(f) Chapels; <br>(g) Churches; <br>(h) Clubrooms; <br>(i) Community buildings; <br>(j) Courthouses; <br>(k) Dance halls; <br>(l) Exhibition rooms; <br>(m) Gymnasiums; <br>(n) Hotels; <br>(o) Lecture rooms; <br>(p) Lodge rooms; <br>(q) Motels; <br>(r) Motion picture theaters; <br>(s) Museums; <br>(t) Night clubs; <br>(u) Opera houses; <br>(v) Passenger stations; <br>(w) Pool rooms; <br>(x) Recreation areas; <br>(y) Restaurants; <br>(z) Skating rinks; <br>(aa) Television studios; <br>(bb) Theaters. (2) "Attic" means the space between the ceiling beams of the top habitable story and the roof rafters. (3) "Basement" means that portion of a building the average height of which is at least half below grade, which is ordinarily used for purposes such as storage, laundry <br>facilities, household tool shops, and installation and operation of heating, cooling, Page 2 of 5 and ventilating facilities, but which is not ordinarily used for purposes of general <br>household habitation. (4) "Building" means any combination of materials, whether portable or fixed, which comprises a structure or nonmine underground area affording facilities or shelter for <br>any human occupancy, whether infrequent or regular, and also means single-family <br>dwellings, including those sold or constructed under a trade or brand name. The <br>word "building" shall be construed wherever used herein as if followed by the <br>words "or part or parts thereof and all equipment therein" unless the context clearly <br>requires a different meaning. "Building" shall also mean swimming pools <br>constructed below grade on site, but not swimming pools assembled above grade on <br>site. "Building" shall not mean a manufactured home governed by the National <br>Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, 42 U.S.C. <br>secs. 5401 et seq., or a farm dwelling or other farm buildings and structures incident <br>to the operation and maintenance of the farm if the farm structures are located <br>outside the boundary of a municipality and are not used in the business of retail <br>trade or used as a place of regular employment for ten (10) or more people or <br>structures used in the storage or processing of timber products. (5) "Business occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof for the transaction of business, the rendering or receiving of <br>professional services, or the displaying, selling, or buying of goods, wares, or <br>merchandise, or the housing of vehicles of transportation, except where occupancy <br>is of high hazard, including among others: <br>(a) Banks; <br>(b) Barber shops; <br>(c) Beauty parlors; <br>(d) Department stores; <br>(e) Garages; <br>(f) Markets; <br>(g) Service stations; <br>(h) Offices; <br>(i) Stores; <br>(j) Radio stations; <br>(k) Telephone exchanges; and <br>(l) Television stations. (6) "Certified building inspector" means a person who has been certified by the department as having successfully completed the test requirements provided by <br>KRS 198B.090 to practice as a city, county, or state building inspector within the <br>Commonwealth. (7) "Certified plans and specifications inspector" means a person who has been certified by the department as having successfully completed the test requirements provided <br>by KRS 198B.090 to practice as a city, county, or state plans and specifications <br>inspector within the Commonwealth. Page 3 of 5 (8) "Certified plumbing inspector" means a person who has been certified by the department as having successfully completed the test requirements provided by <br>KRS 198B.090 and 318.140, or 318.090 to practice as a city, county, or state <br>plumbing inspector within the Commonwealth. (9) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of housing, buildings and construction. <br>(10) "Construction" means the erection, fabrication, reconstruction, substantial alteration or conversion of a building, or the installation of equipment therein, but shall not <br>include the ordinary repair of a building or structure. (11) "Department" means the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction. <br>(12) "Educational occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by persons assembled for the purpose of learning or of receiving <br>educational instruction. "Educational occupancy" shall not include a building for <br>occupancy or use by thirty-five (35) persons or less assembled to receive religious <br>and educational instruction. "Educational occupancy" includes but is not limited to: <br>(a) Academies; <br>(b) Care centers; <br>(c) Colleges; <br>(d) Kindergartens; <br>(e) Libraries; <br>(f) Preschools; <br>(g) Relocatable classroom units; <br>(h) Schools; <br>(i) Seminaries; and <br>(j) Universities. (13) "Equipment" means facilities or installations, including but not limited to heating, electrical, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigerating facilities or installations. (14) "High hazard occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof that involves highly combustible, highly flammable, or <br>explosive materials or which has inherent characteristics that constitute a special <br>fire hazard, including among others: <br>(a) Aluminum powder factories; <br>(b) Charging or filling stations; <br>(c) Distilleries; <br>(d) Dry cleaning plants; <br>(e) Dry dyeing plants; <br>(f) Explosive-manufacture, sale or storage; <br>(g) Flour and feed mills; <br>(h) Gasoline bulk plants; <br>(i) Grain elevators; <br>(j) Lacquer factories; Page 4 of 5 (k) Liquefied petroleum gas; <br>(l) Mattress factories; <br>(m) Paint factories; <br>(n) Pyroxylin-factories, or warehouses; and <br>(o) Rubber factories. (15) "Industrial occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building structure or any portion thereof for assembling, fabricating, finishing, manufacturing, packaging, or <br>processing operations, except for occupancies of high hazard, including among <br>others: <br>(a) Assembly plants; <br>(b) Creameries; <br>(c) Electrical substations; <br>(d) Factories; <br>(e) Ice plants; <br>(f) Laboratories; <br>(g) Laundries; <br>(h) Manufacturing plants; <br>(i) Mills; <br>(j) Power plants; <br>(k) Processing plants; <br>(l) Pumping stations; <br>(m) Repair garages; <br>(n) Smokehouses; and <br>(o) Workshops. (16) "Industrialized building system" means any structure or component thereof which is wholly or in substantial part fabricated in an off-site manufacturing facility for <br>installation or assembly on a permanent foundation at the building site. (17) "Institutional occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by persons harbored or detained to receive medical, charitable, <br>or other care or treatment, or by persons involuntarily detained, including among <br>others: <br>(a) Asylums; <br>(b) Homes for the aged; <br>(c) Hospitals; <br>(d) Houses of correction; <br>(e) Infirmaries; <br>(f) Jails; <br>(g) Nursing homes; <br>(h) Orphanages; Page 5 of 5 (i) Penal institutions; <br>(j) Reformatories; <br>(k) Sanitariums; and <br>(l) Nurseries. (18) "Mobile home" means mobile home as defined in KRS 227.550. <br>(19) "Ordinary repair" means any nonstructural reconstruction or renewal of any part of an existing building for the purpose of its maintenance, or decoration, and shall <br>include but not be limited to the replacement or installation of nonstructural <br>components of the building such as roofing, siding, windows, storm windows, <br>insulation, drywall or lath and plaster, or any other replacement, in kind, that does <br>not alter the structural integrity, alter the occupancy or use of the building, or affect, <br>by rearrangement, exitways and means of egress; but shall not include additions to, <br>or alteration of, or relocation of any standpipe, water supply, sewer, drainage, gas, <br>soil, waste, vent or similar piping, electric wiring, or mechanical equipment <br>including furnaces and hot water heaters or other work affecting public health or <br>safety. (20) "Story" means that part of a building comprised between a floor and the floor or roof next above which is not a basement or an attic. (21) "Person with a physical disability" means a person confined to a wheelchair; a person who uses braces or crutches; a person who because of the loss of a foot or <br>leg or because of an arthritic, spastic, pulmonary, or cardiac condition, walks with <br>difficulty or insecurity; a person who suffers from a faulty coordination or palsy; a <br>person who is blind or whose sight is so impaired that, functioning in a public area, <br>he or she is insecure or exposed to danger; a person whose hearing is so impaired <br>that he or she is unable to hear warning signals; and a person whose mobility, <br>flexibility, coordination, and perceptiveness are significantly reduced by aging. (22) "Facility for persons with physical disabilities" means any convenience or device which facilitates the health, safety, or comfort of a person with a disability, <br>including, but not limited to, ramps, handrails, elevators, and doors. (23) "Manufactured home" is defined as in KRS 227.550. Effective: July 15, 2010 <br>History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 245, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 223, sec. 2, effective April 22, 2006. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts <br>ch. 9, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 340, sec. 15, <br>effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 405, sec. 49, effective July <br>15, 1994. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 189, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982; and <br>ch. 308, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 361, sec. 1, <br>effective July 15, 1980. -- Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 117, sec. 1, effective June 17, <br>1978.
