Section 372. Definitions

As used in this article, the following terms shall
  have  the  meaning  ascribed  to  them,  unless  the  context  otherwise
  requires:
    1. "Administrator" means  the  state  fire  administrator  established
  pursuant to article six-C of this chapter.
    2.  "Areas  of  public  assembly"  means  all buildings or portions of
  buildings  used  for  gathering  together  fifty  or  more  persons  for
  amusement,   athletic,   civic,   dining,   educational,  entertainment,
  patriotic,  political,  recreational,  religious,  social,  or   similar
  purposes,  the  entire fire area of which they are a part, and the means
  of egress therefrom.
    3. "Building" means a combination of any materials,  whether  portable
  or  fixed,  having  a  roof,  to  form a structure affording shelter for
  persons, animals or property. The word  "building"  shall  be  construed
  when  used  herein  as  though  followed  by the words "or part or parts
  thereof" unless the context clearly requires a  different  meaning.  The
  term  "building" shall also mean "factory manufactured home" and "mobile
  home". The term "building" shall not include a "temporary greenhouse".
    4. "Construction" means the construction, reconstruction,  alteration,
  conversion,  repair,  installation of equipment or use of buildings, and
  requirements or standards relating to or  affecting  materials  used  in
  connection  therewith,  including  provisions  for  safety  and sanitary
  conditions.
    5. "Council" means the state fire prevention and building code council
  created by this article.
    6. "Department" means the department of state.
    7. "Equipment" means plumbing, heating, electrical,  ventilating,  air
  conditioning,   refrigerating   equipment,   elevators,   dumb  waiters,
  escalators and other mechanical additions or installations.
    8. "Factory manufactured home" means a  structure  designed  primarily
  for   residential  occupancy  constructed  by  a  method  or  system  of
  construction whereby the structure or its components are  wholly  or  in
  substantial  part  manufactured in manufacturing facilities, intended or
  designed  for  permanent  installation,  or   assembly   and   permanent
  installation, on a building site.
    9.  "Fire  area"  means the floor area of a story of a building within
  exterior walls, party walls, fire walls, or any combination thereof.
    10.  "Fire  protection  equipment  and   systems"   means   apparatus,
  assemblies,  or  systems,  either  portable or fixed, for use to detect,
  prevent, control, or extinguish fire.
    11. "Local government" means a village, town (outside the area of  any
  incorporated village) or city.
    12. "Means of egress" means a continuous unobstructed way of exit from
  any  point in a building or structure to a public way. A means of egress
  comprises the vertical  and  horizontal  ways  of  travel  and  includes
  intervening  room  spaces,  doorways,  hallways, corridors, passageways,
  balconies, ramps, stairs, enclosures,  lobbies,  escalators,  horizontal
  exits, courts, and yards.
    13.  "Mobile  home"  means  a  moveable  or portable unit designed and
  constructed to be towed on its  own  chassis,  comprised  of  frame  and
  wheels,  connected  to utilities, and designed and constructed without a
  permanent foundation for year-round living. A  unit  may  contain  parts
  that  may  be  folded,  collapsed  or  telescoped  when  being towed and
  expanded later to provide additional cubic capacity as well  as  two  or
  more  separately  towable  components  designed  to  be  joined into one
  integral unit capable of being again separated into the  components  for
  repeated  towing.  "Mobile  home"  shall  mean units designed to be used
  exclusively for residential purposes, excluding travel trailers.

    14. "Office" means the office of fire prevention and  control  created
  pursuant to article six-C of this chapter.
    15. "Secretary" means the secretary of state.
    16.  "State  agency"  means any department, bureau, commission, board,
  public authority or other agency of  the  state,  including  any  public
  benefit  corporation  any  member  of  whose  board  is appointed by the
  governor.
    17. "Temporary greenhouse" means  specialized  agricultural  equipment
  having  a  framework  covered with demountable polyurethane materials or
  materials of polyurethane nature and lacking a permanent and  continuous
  foundation, which is specifically designed, constructed and used for the
  culture  and  propagation  of  horticultural  commodities.  A "temporary
  greenhouse" may include, but is not  limited  to,  the  use  of  heating
  devices,  water  and electrical utilities, and supporting poles embedded
  in non-continuous concrete. In no instance will a  temporary  greenhouse
  be used for the retail sale of any farm or non-farm products.
    18.  "Uniform  code"  or  "code" means the New York state uniform fire
  prevention and building  code  promulgated  pursuant  to  section  three
  hundred seventy-seven of this article.
    19.  "Truss type construction" means a fabricated structure of wood or
  steel, made up of a series of members connected at their ends to form  a
  series  of  triangles  to span a distance greater than would be possible
  with any of the individual members on their own.