§ 34-28-5 — Glazing materials in buildings--Definition of terms.

Terms as used in §§ to 34-28-10 , inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, mean: (1) "Bathtub enclosure," a sliding, pivoting, or hinged door and fixed panels which are glazed or to be glazed and used to form a barrier between the bathtub and the rest of the room area; (2) "Commercial buildings," buildings such as wholesale and retail stores and storerooms, and office buildings; (3) "Commercial entrance and exit door," a hinged, pivoting, revolving, or sliding door which is glazed or to be glazed and used alone or in combination with other doors (other than doors covered by subdivision (15) of this section), on interior or exterior walls of a commercial, public, or industrial building as a means of passage, ingress, or egress; (4) "Fixed flat glazed panels immediately adjacent to entrance or exit doors," the first fixed flat glazed panel on either or both sides of interior or exterior doors, exclusive of glass lights located not less than eighteen inches above the adjacent finished floor walking surface, forty - eight inches or less in width, the nearest vertical edge of which is located within four feet horizontally of the nearest vertical edge of the door; (5) "Glazed," the accomplished act of glazing; (6) "Glazing," the act of installing and securing glass or other glazing material into prepared openings in structural elements such as doors, enclosures, and panels; (7) "Hazardous locations," those structural elements, glazed or to be glazed, in residential buildings and other structures used as dwellings, commercial buildings, industrial buildings, and public buildings, known as interior and exterior commercial entrance and exit doors and the immediately adjacent flat fixed glazed panels, sliding glass door units including the fixed glazed panels which are part of such units, storm or combination doors, shower and bathtub enclosures, primary residential entrance and exit doors and the fixed or operable adjacent sidelights, whether or not the glazing in such doors, panels and enclosures is transparent, excluding glass lights when the largest dimension is no greater than eighteen inches; (8) "Industrial buildings," buildings such as factories; (9) "Other structures used as dwellings," buildings such as mobile homes, manufactured or industrialized housing and lodging homes; (10) "Primary residential entrance and exit door," a door (other than doors covered by subdivision (15) of this section) which is glazed or to be glazed and used in an exterior wall of a residential building and other structures used as dwellings, as a means of ingress or egress; (11) "Public buildings," buildings such as hotels, hospitals, motels, dormitories, sanitariums, nursing homes, theaters, stadiums, gymnasiums, amusement park buildings, schools, and other buildings used for educational purposes, museums, restaurants, bars, correctional institutions, places of worship, and other buildings of public assembly; (12) "Residential buildings," buildings such as homes and apartments used as dwellings for one or more families or persons; (13) "Safety glazing material," any glazing material, such as tempered glass, laminated glass, wire glass, or rigid plastic, which meets the test requirements of the American National Standards Institute Standard Z-97.1-1972, and which are so constructed, treated, or combined with other materials as to minimize the likelihood of cutting and piercing injuries resulting from human contact with the glazing material; (14) "Shower enclosure," a hinged, pivoting, or sliding door and fixed panels which are glazed or to be glazed and used to form a barrier between the shower stall and the rest of the room area; (15) "Sliding glass door units," an assembly of glazed or to be glazed panels contained in an overall frame, installed in residential buildings and other structures used as dwellings, commercial, industrial, or public buildings, and so designed that one or more of the panels is movable in a horizontal direction to produce or close off an opening for use as a means of passage, ingress, or egress; (16) "Storm or combination door," a door which is glazed or to be glazed, and used in tandem with a primary residential or commercial entrance and exit door to protect the primary residential or commercial entrance or exit door against weather elements and to improve indoor climate control.

Legislative History

SL 1973, ch 232, § 1.