Standard for Fire-Resistive Vaults and Safes

The following terms, when used in sections 11-8-1 to 11-8-12, inclusive, have the following meanings:

1. (a) "Approved" as applied to a material or piece of equipment, means one which has been tested and is listed by Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., or any other nationally recognized testing laboratory.
2. (b) "Fire-resistive building" means a building whose structural members are of noncombustible material throughout and which can withstand a fire completely consuming combustible contents, trim and floor surfacing on any floor without collapse.
3. (c) "Nonfire-resistive building" means a building whose structural members, including floors and roof, cannot withstand a fire completely consuming combustible contents, trim and floor surfacing without collapse.
4. (d) "Vault" means a completely fire-resistive enclosure so equipped, maintained and supervised as to minimize the possibility of origin of fire within and to prevent entrance of fire from without.
5. (e) "Ground-supported vault" means one which is supported by the ground up and which is structurally independent of the building in which it is located.
6. (f) "Structure-supported vault" means one which is supported by the framework of a fire-resistive building and which may be situated independently on any floor of such building.
7. (g) The term "vault door," as used in sections 11-8-1 to 11-8-12, inclusive, designates and is limited to vault door units approved and labeled as such by Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., or any other nationally recognized testing laboratories.
8. (h) "Roof of vault" means the ceiling or roof of a single vault, or the ceiling or roof of the topmost vault of a tier; not the slab between vaults in a tier, which is classed as a floor.