N.M. Code R. § 19.15.40.7
Z. "Heating appliance" means an appliance for comfort heating or for water heating of a manufactured home.
AA. "House piping" means the LP gas piping from the point where it enters the building or foundation, up to and including the outlets.
BB. "Input rating" means the LP gas-burning capacity of an appliance in BTU's per hour as specified by the manufacturer.
CC. "Inspector" means a person hired by the bureau to enforce under administrative direction the laws and safety rules and regulations of the LP gas industry and the enforcement of the codes used in CNG, LNG and LCNG in motor vehicles.
DD. "Labeled" means equipment or materials to which has been attached a label, symbol or other identifying mark of an organization acceptable to the "authority having jurisdiction" and concerned with product evaluation that maintains periodic inspection of production of labeled equipment or materials and by whose labeling the manufacturer indicate compliance with appropriate standards or performance in specified manner.
EE. "Liquefied natural gases", "liquefied compressed natural gases", "LNG" and "LCNG" means a fluid in the liquid state composed predominantly of methane and that can contain minor quantities of ethane, propane, nitrogen, or other components normally found in natural gas.
FF. "Liquefied petroleum gases", "LPG" and "LP gas" means any material that is composed predominantly of any of the following hydrocarbons or mixtures of them: propane, propylene, butane (normal butane or ISO-butane) and butylenes.
GG. "Liquid transfer" means the transfer of LP gas in a liquid form from an approved container into another approved container.
HH. "Liquid withdrawal" means an approved LP gas container designed for the withdrawal of LP gas for utilization in an approved means.
II. "Listed" means equipment or materials included in a list published by an organization acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction and concerned with product evaluation that maintains periodic inspection of production of listed equipment or materials and whose listing states either that the equipment or material meets appropriate standards or has been tested and found suitable for use in a specified manner.
JJ. "LP gas installation" means the installation of materials, fixtures, appliances or equipment that utilize LP gas, which is installed by a licensee of the LP gas bureau.
KK. "Manufactured homes" means a movable or portable housing structure over 32 feet in length or over eight feet in width constructed to be towed on its own chassis and designed to be installed with or without a permanent foundation for human occupancy as a residence and which may include one or more components that can be retracted for towing purposes and subsequently expanded for additional capacity or may be two or more units separately towable but designed to be joined into one integral unit, as well as a single unit. Manufactured homes do not include recreational vehicles or modular or pre-manufactured homes, built to building code standards, designed to be permanently affixed to real property.
LL. "Manufactured home site" means a designated portion of a mobile home park designed for the accommodation of one mobile home and its accessory buildings or structures for the exclusive use of the occupants.
MM. "Manufactured home park" means a parcel (or contiguous parcels) of land which has been so designated and improved so that it contains two or more manufactured home sites available to the general public for the placement thereon of manufactured homes for occupancy.
NN. “Military service member” has the same meaning as defined in Paragraph (3) of Subsection F of Section 61-1-34 NMSA 1978.
OO. "Outlet" means a threaded connection or bolted flange in a pipe system to which an LP gas-burning appliance is or may be attached; such outlet must be located in the room or space where the appliance is or may be installed.
PP. "Point of delivery" means the initial junction of the consumer's gas piping with the gas company's piping, at the outlet side of the first regulator, regardless of whether it is a single-stage regulator system or the first stage regulator of a two-stage regulator system.
QQ. "Product" or "products" of liquefied petroleum gases, compressed natural gases or liquefied natural gas are considered to be liquefied petroleum gases or compressed natural gases or liquefied natural gases respectively.
RR. "Qualified instructor" means an employee who has passed the required examination and performed for at least one year the work being taught.
SS. "Readily accessible" means having direct access without the necessity of removing any panel, door or similar obstruction.
TT. "Regulator" means a device for controlling and maintaining a uniform pressure to the manifold of gas equipment.
UU. "Riser" means that portion of the yardline, which protrudes through the grade level of the ground.
VV. "Roof jack" that portion of venting system, including the cap, insulating means, flashing and ceiling plate, located in and above the roof.
WW. "Sealed combustion/direct vent system appliance", "direct vent system appliance" means an appliance which by its inherent design is constructed so that all air supplied for combustion to the combustion system of the appliance, and all products of combustion are completely isolated from the atmosphere of the space in which it is installed, and all flue gases are discharged to the outside.
XX. “Substantially equivalent” means the determination by the construction industries division that the education, examination, and experience requirements contained in the statutes and rules of another jurisdiction are comparable to, or exceed the education, examination, and experience requirements of the LP & CNG Act.
YY. "Yardline" means a buried line servicing utilities from the on-site utility terminal to the manufactured home.
[19.15.40.7 NMAC – Rp. 19.15.40.7 NMAC, 2/1/2006; A, 1/13/2023]