48:3-99 Definitions relative to energy efficiency.
1. As used in this act:
"Air-cooled very large commercial package air conditioning and heating equipment'' means air-cooled, water-cooled, evaporative-cooled or water source (but not ground water source), electrically operated, unitary central air conditioners and central air conditioning heat pumps for commercial application that are rated at or above 240,000 Btu per hour and below 760,000 Btu per hour in cooling capacity;
"Board" means the Board of Public Utilities;
"Coefficient of performance" means the ratio of heating capacity in watts to the power input values in watts obtained at standards rating conditions;
"Commercial clothes washer" means a soft mount front-loading or soft mount top-loading clothes washer that is designed for use in: applications where the occupants of more than one household will be using it, including multi-family housing common areas and coin laundries; or other commercial applications, if the clothes container compartment is no greater than 3.5 cubic feet for horizontal-axis clothes washers, or no greater than 4.0 cubic feet for vertical-axis clothes washers;
"Commercial refrigerator, freezer, and refrigerator-freezer equipment" means refrigeration equipment that:
a. is not a consumer product;
b. operates at a chilled, frozen, combination chilled/frozen, or variable temperature;
c. displays or stores merchandise either horizontally, semi-vertically, or vertically;
d. may have transparent or solid hinged doors or both, sliding doors, a combination of hinged and sliding doors or no doors;
e. is designed either for pull-down temperature applications or holding temperature applications; and
f. is connected to a self-contained condensing unit;
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Environmental Protection;
"Digital television converter box" means a device that receives and decodes digital broadcast signals for display by an analog television set;
"Energy efficiency ratio" means the ratio of the cooling capacity in Btu per hour to the power input values in watts obtained at standard rating conditions expressed in Btu per watt-hours;
"Holding temperature applications" means commercial refrigerator, freezer, and refrigerator-freezer equipment that is not designed for "pull-down" temperature applications;
"Illuminated exit sign" means an internally illuminated sign that is designed to be permanently fixed in place and used to identify an exit, a light source illuminates the sign or letters from within, and the background of the sign is not transparent;
"Low-voltage dry-type distribution transformer" means a transformer with an input voltage of 600 volts or less, is between 14kVa and 2,501kVa in size, is air-cooled, and does not use oil as a coolant, and does not include those types of transformers specifically excluded from the low voltage dry-type distribution transformer definition published in the California Code of Regulations, Title 20: Division 2, Chapter 4, Article 4: Appliance Efficiency Regulations, as amended in November 2002;
"Packaged air-conditioning equipment" means air-conditioning equipment that is built as a package and shipped as a whole to end-user sites;
"Pull-down temperature applications" means commercial refrigerator, freezer, and refrigerator-freezer equipment specifically designed to rapidly reduce all product content temperatures from various ambient temperatures at a minimum reduction rate of 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit per hour over a 12-hour period to an overall integrated product temperature equal to 38 degrees Fahrenheit when fully loaded with beverage containers;
"Self-contained condensing unit" means a factory-made assembly of refrigerating components designed to compress and liquefy a specific refrigerant that is an integral part of the refrigerated equipment and consists of one or more refrigerant compressors, refrigerant condensers, condenser fans and motors, and factory supplied accessories;
"Torchiere lighting fixture" means a portable electric lighting fixture with a reflector bowl directing light upward to provide indirect illumination;
"Traffic signal module" means a standard 8-inch (200 mm) or 12-inch (300 mm) round traffic signal indication, consisting of a light source, lens and all parts necessary for operation, and communicates movement messages to drivers through red, amber and green colors, and may include arrow modules in the same colors to indicate turning movements;
"Transformer" means a device consisting essentially of two or more coils of insulated wire that transfers alternating current by electromagnetic induction from one coil to another in order to change the original voltage or current value; and
"Unit heater" means a self-contained fan-type heater that uses natural gas, propane, or fuel oil and is designed to be installed within a heated space. Unit heaters include an apparatus or appliance to supply heat, and a fan for circulating air over a heat exchange surface, all enclosed in a common casing. Unit heaters do not include "warm air furnaces" as specifically defined under the federal Energy Policy Act of 1992, Pub.L. 102-486.
L.2005,c.42,s.1.