65-3801. Safety glazing materials; definitions. - Kansas Statutes

65-3801

Chapter 65.--PUBLIC HEALTH Article 38.--SAFETY MATERIALS

      65-3801.   Safety glazing materials; definitions.As used in this act: (a) "safety glazing material" means any glazingmaterial, including but not limited to tempered glass, laminated glass,wire glass or rigid plastic, which meets the test requirements of theAmerican national standards institute standard ANSI Z-97.1-1972 and whichis so constructed, treated or combined with other materials as to minimizethe likelihood of cutting and piercing injuries resulting from humancontact with the glazing material.

      (b)   "Hazardous locations" means:

      (1)   Those structural elements, glazed or to be glazed, in residential,industrial, commercial and public buildings, commonly known as interior andexterior framed or unframed glass entrance doors;

      (2)   Those structural elements, glazed or to be glazed, in residentialbuildings and other structures used as dwellings, industrial buildings,commercial buildings and public buildings, commonly known as sliding glassdoors, including both fixed and sliding panels, storm doors, shower doors,bathtub enclosures and those fixed glazed panels immediately adjacent toframed and unframed entrance and exit doors.

      (c)   "Fixed glazed panels immediately adjacent to" means the first, fixedglazed panel on either or both sides of the door, not more than forty-eight(48) inches or less than eighteen (18) inches in width, but shall notinclude any glass panel more than eighteen (18) inches above the floor.

      (d)   "Residential building" means any building or structure or partthereof used and occupied for human habitation or intended to be so used,but such term shall not include single family dwellings.

      History:   L. 1974, ch. 198, § 1; L. 1974, ch. 199, § 1; Jan. 1, 1975.