049-10 Wyo. Code R. §§ 10-2 - Definitions

The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation of minimum fire and life safety requirements for Child Care Centers and Family Child Care Centers.

(a) "Approved" pertains to materials, type of construction or appliances and refers to approval by the building or fire official as the result of investigation and tests conducted by that official or by reason of accepted principals and/or tests by nationally recognized authorities, technical or scientific organizations.

(b) "Building or Fire Official" the authorized person serving as a designated employee, representative or agent of the governing authority and may be known as fire marshal, fire chief, fire prevention officer, chief fire prevention officer, chief of the bureau of fire prevention, fire prevention chief, fire inspector, building inspector, electrical inspector, building official or authority having jurisdiction.

(c) "Child Care Center or Family Child Care Center" the use of a building or structure, or portion thereof, for educational, supervision or personal care services for more than ten (10) children shall be classified as a Group E.

(d) "Homemade Appliance" an appliance which has been manufactured or constructed by an individual who is not normally in a business of manufacturing or constructing such appliances; and where such appliance has not been tested or evaluated by a nationally recognized testing laboratory and properly labeled. Such appliances are prohibited in child care centers.

(e) "Institutional (Group I-4)" a facility that provides supervision and personal care on less than a twenty-four (24) hour basis for more than five (5) children two and one-half (2-1/2) years of age or less shall be classified as Institutional Group I-4. Exception: a child day care facility that provides care for more than five (5) but no more than one hundred (100) children two and one-half (2-1/2) years of age or less, when the rooms where such children are cared for are located on the level of exit discharge and each of these child care rooms has an exit door directly to the exterior, shall be classified as Group E.

(f) "Local Enforcement Jurisdiction" the governing authority who has the responsibility to provide minimum fire and life safety requirements within their own jurisdiction as outlined in Wyoming Statute 35-9-121.

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049-10 Wyo. Code R. §§ 10-2

Adopted, Eff. 10/7/2016.