650.205. Definitions.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

Definitions.

650.205. As used in sections 650.200 to 650.290, unless thecontext clearly requires otherwise, the following words and termsmean:

(1) "API-ASME", American Petroleum Institute-AmericanSociety of Mechanical Engineers;

(2) "ASME", American Society of Mechanical Engineers;

(3) "Board", the board of boiler and pressure vessel rules;

(4) "Boiler", a vessel intended for use in heating water orother liquids for generating steam or other vapors under pressureor vacuum by the application of heat resulting from thecombustion of fuels, electricity, atomic energy, or waste gases;

(5) "Certificate inspection", an inspection, the report ofwhich is used by the chief inspector to decide whether or not acertificate as provided by subsection 3 of section 650.265 may beissued. This certificate inspection shall be an internalinspection when construction permits; otherwise, it shall be ascomplete an inspection as possible;

(6) "Director", the director of the inspection section ofthe department of public safety;

(7) "Heating boiler", a steam boiler operating at pressuresnot exceeding fifteen psig, or a hot water heating boileroperating at pressures not exceeding one hundred sixty psig ortemperatures not exceeding two hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheitat or near the boiler outlet, or both;

(8) "High pressure, high temperature water boiler", a waterboiler operating at pressures exceeding one hundred sixty psig ortemperatures exceeding two hundred fifty degrees Fahrenheit at ornear the boiler outlet, or both;

(9) "Power boiler", a boiler in which steam or other vaporis generated at a pressure of more than fifteen psig including ahigh pressure, high temperature water boiler;

(10) "Pressure vessel", a vessel in which the pressure isobtained from an external source or by the application of heatfrom an indirect source, other than those vessels defined insubdivisions (4), (7), (8), and (9) of this section;

(11) "Psig", pounds per square inch gauge.