675 IAC 15-2-6 Definitions for design and construction

Sec. 6. The following definitions are applicable to 675 IAC 15-2-3– 675 IAC 15-2-31. "Dead load" means the weight of all permanent construction including walls, floors, roofs, partitions, and fixed service equipment. "Diagonal tie" means any tiedown designed to resist lateral or shear forces and which may secondarily resist uplift and overturning forces. "Gross floor area" means all space, wall to wall, including recess entries and areas under built-in vanities and similar furniture. Where ceiling height is less than that specified in 675 IAC 15-2-22, the floor area under such ceilings shall not be included. "Ground anchor" means any device at the mobile structure site designed for the purpose of securing a mobile structure to the ground. "Habitable room" means a room or enclosed floor space arranged for living, eating, food preparation, or sleeping purposes (not including bathrooms, toilet compartments, laundries, pantries, foyers, hallways, and other accessory floor spaces). "Interior finish" means the surface material of walls, fixed or movable partitions, ceilings and other exposed interior surfaces affixed to the mobile structure including any material such as paint. Interior finish does not include decorations or furnishings which are not affixed to the mobile structure. "Live load" means the weight superimposed by the use and occupancy of the mobile structure including wind load and snow load, but not including dead load. "Tiedown" means any device designed for the purpose to anchor a mobile structure to ground anchors. "Wind load" means the lateral or vertical pressure or uplift on the mobile structure due to wind blowing in any direction.