- Academy
means the National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control;
- Administration
means the United States Fire Administration established pursuant to section 2204 of this title;
- Administrator
means, except as otherwise provided, the Administrator of the United States Fire Administration, within the Federal Emergency Management Agency;
- Administrator of FEMA
means the Administrator of FEMA, acting through the Administrator.
- affordable cost
means the cost to a Federal agency of leasing office space in a building that is protected by an automatic sprinkler system or equivalent level of safety, which cost is no more than 10 percent greater than the cost of leasing available comparable office space in a building that is not so protected.
- agency
has the meaning given to it under section 5701(1) of title 5.
- arson
includes all incendiary and suspicious fires.
- authorized technician
means a technician who has been certified by the manufacturer of fire control or fire rescue equipment to inspect such equipment.
- automatic sprinkler system
means an electronically supervised, integrated system of piping to which sprinklers are attached in a systematic pattern, and which, when activated by heat from a fire—
- career fire department
means a fire department that has an all-paid force of firefighting personnel other than paid-on-call firefighters.
- combination fire department
means a fire department that has—
- emergency response personnel
means personnel responsible for mitigation activities in a medical emergency, fire emergency, hazardous material emergency, or natural disaster.
- equivalent level of safety
means an alternative design or system (which may include automatic sprinkler systems), based upon fire protection engineering analysis, which achieves a level of safety equal to or greater than that provided by automatic sprinkler systems.
- Federal employee office building
means any office building in the United States, whether owned or leased by the Federal Government, that is regularly occupied by more than 25 full-time Federal employees in the course of their employment.
- fire control or fire rescue equipment
includes any fire vehicle, fire fighting tool, communications equipment, protective gear, fire hose, or breathing apparatus.
- fire service
means any organization in any State consisting of personnel, apparatus, and equipment which has as its purpose protecting property and maintaining the safety and welfare of the public from the dangers of fire, including a private firefighting brigade.
- firefighter
has the meaning given the term “employee in fire protection activities” under section 203(y) of title 29.2
- firefighting personnel
means individuals, including volunteers, who are firefighters, officers of fire departments, or emergency medical service personnel of fire departments.
- governmental authority having jurisdiction
means the Federal, State, local, or other governmental entity with statutory or regulatory authority for the approval of fire safety systems, equipment, installations, or procedures within a specified locality.
- hazardous areas
means those areas in a building referred to as hazardous areas in National Fire Protection Association Standard 101, known as the Life Safety Code, or any successor standard thereto.
- Indian tribe
has the meaning given that term in section 5304 of title 25 and “tribal” means of or pertaining to an Indian tribe;
- institution of higher education
has the meaning given such term in section 1001 of title 20.
- local
means of or pertaining to any city, town, county, special purpose district, unincorporated territory, or other political subdivision of a State;
- multifamily property
means—
- newly constructed multifamily property
means a multifamily property of 4 or more stories above ground level—
- nonaffiliated EMS organization
means a public or private nonprofit emergency medical services organization that is not affiliated with a hospital and does not serve a geographic area in which the Administrator of FEMA finds that emergency medical services are adequately provided by a fire department.
- Office
means the Office of Fire Prevention and Arson Control of the United States Fire Administration.
- person
includes any governmental or other entity.
- place of public accommodation affecting commerce
means any inn, hotel, or other establishment not owned by the Federal Government that provides lodging to transient guests, except that such term does not include an establishment treated as an apartment building for purposes of any State or local law or regulation or an establishment located within a building that contains not more than 5 rooms for rent or hire and that is actually occupied as a residence by the proprietor of such establishment;
- prefire plan
means specific plans for fire fighting activities at a property or location.
- public safety officer
means a person serving a public agency, with or without compensation, as—
- qualified fire control or rescue equipment
means fire control or fire rescue equipment that has been recertified by an authorized technician as meeting the manufacturer’s specifications.
- rebuilding
means the repairing or reconstructing of portions of a multifamily property where the cost of the alterations is 70 percent or more of the replacement cost of the completed multifamily property, not including the value of the land on which the multifamily property is located.
- rebuilt multifamily property
means a multifamily property of 4 or more stories above ground level—
- renovated
means the repairing or reconstructing of 50 percent or more of the current value of a Federal employee office building, not including the value of the land on which the Federal employee office building is located.
- Secretary
means, except as otherwise provided, the Secretary of Homeland Security;
- smoke detector
means an alarm that is designed to respond to the presence of visible or invisible particles of combustion.
- smoke detectors
means single or multiple station, self-contained alarm devices designed to respond to the presence of visible or invisible particles of combustion, installed in accordance with the National Fire Protection Association Standard 74 or any successor standard thereto.
- State
has the meaning given the term in section 101 of title 6.1
- tribal
means of or pertaining to an Indian tribe;
- United States
means the States collectively.
- volunteer fire company
means an association of individuals who provide fire protection and other emergency services, where at least 30 percent of the individuals receive little or no compensation compared with an entry level full-time paid individual in that association or in the nearest such association with an entry level full-time paid individual.
- volunteer fire department
means a fire department that has an all-volunteer force of firefighting personnel.
- wildland-urban interface
has the meaning given such term in section 6511 of title 16.