Section 325.3601. Definitions.

(1) As used in these rules or sections 12401 through 12434 of the act, or both:

(a)    "Act" means Act No. 368 of the Public Acts of 1978, as amended, being S333.1101 et seq. of the Michigan Compiled Laws.

(b)     "Agreement" means an offer and acceptance   arrangement  between  an applicant for a grant and the department.

(c)   "Camp" means an agricultural labor camp that is licensable under authority of the act.

(d)  "Department" means the state department of public health.

(e)    "Director" means the state director of public health or his or her designated representative.

(f)   "Double-wall construction" means frame or pole-type  construction walls that are covered with a smooth, cleanable, rigid material on the interior surface of the supporting studs or poles and by siding on the exterior surface of the walls' structural members. Cement block and poured concrete walls are considered double-wall construction.

(g)    "Garbage" means putrescible animal and vegetable wastes resulting from handling, preparing, cooking, and consuming food.

(h)  "Grant" or "state grant" means money from the migratory labor housing fund that is made available to an employer of migratory laborers for not more than 50% of the cost of an extensive remodeling project that does not cost more than $10,000.00. Projects that cost more than $10,000.00 are acceptable; however, the grant shall be based  upon  a $10,000.00 portion of the construction cost of the project.

(i)        "Grantee"  means  an  individual,   corporation,   partnership, association, or any combination thereof that operates or proposes to operate an agricultural labor camp under the act, that applies for a grant

pursuant to the act, and that has signed an acceptance agreement with  the department.

(j)   "Habitable space" means a room or enclosed floor space that is used or intended to be used at a camp for living, sleeping, cooking, or eating purposes, but does not mean any of the following:

(i)   A bathroom.

(ii)   A toilet compartment.

(iii)   A laundry.

(iv)   A pantry.

(v)   A foyer.

(vi)   A connecting corridor.

(vii)   A closet.

(viii)   Storage space.

(k)   "Hot water" means water that has been heated to not less than 110 degrees Fahrenheit and not more than 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

(l)    "Housing" means a building or portion thereof that is offered as shelter for migratory laborers and such facilities as water supply, sewage disposal, showers, and camp area.

(m)   "Refuse" means putrescible and nonputrescible solid waste, including garbage, rubbish, and ashes. "Refuse" does not mean body waste.

(n)   "Sewage" means liquid waste and includes human excreta, waste from a sink, lavatory, bathtub, shower, or laundry, and any other liquid waste of organic or chemical nature, either separately or in any combination.

(o)   "Shelter" means a building or part of a building, a tent, or a trailer that is used for sleeping or living quarters  at  an  agricultural labor camp.

(p)   "Tempered water" means hot water that has been cooled by adding cold water with a mixing device so that the water temperature is between 95 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

(q)     "Toilet facilities" means water closets, urinals, lavatories, and the rooms provided for installation of these units and privies.

(r)   "Unisex facility" means a facility which is located in a completely enclosed room with a door that can be locked from the inside and which has an entrance that  is accessible to both sexes at all times.

(2) The terms defined in the act have the same meaning when  used  in these rules.

History: 1989 AACS.