Illinois Compiled Statutes 225 ILCS 317 Fire Sprinkler Contractor Licensing Act. Section 10

    (225 ILCS 317/10)

    Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:

    "Designated certified person" means an individual who has met the qualifications set forth under Section 20 of this Act.

    "Fire protection system layout documents" means layout drawings, catalog information on standard products, and other construction data that provide detail on the location of risers, cross mains, branch lines, sprinklers, piping per applicable standard, and hanger locations. "Fire protection system layout documents" serve as a guide for fabrication and installation of a fire sprinkler system and shall be based upon applicable standards pursuant to Section 30 of this Act.

    "Fire sprinkler contractor" means a person who holds himself or herself out to be in the business of or contracts with a person to install or repair a fire sprinkler system.

    "Fire sprinkler system" means any water-based automatic fire extinguishing system employing fire sprinklers, including accessory fire pumps and associated piping, fire standpipes, or underground fire main systems starting at the connection to the water service after the approved backflow device is installed under the requirements of the Illinois Plumbing Code and ending at the most remote fire sprinkler. "Fire sprinkler system" includes but is not limited to a fire sprinkler system in a residential, commercial, institutional, educational, public, or private occupancy. "Fire sprinkler system" does not include single sprinkler heads that are in a loop of the potable water system, as referenced in 77 Ill. Adm. Code 890.1130 and 890.1200.

    "Licensee" means a person or business organization licensed in accordance with this Act.

    "NICET" means the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies.

    "Person" means an individual, group of individuals, association, trust, partnership, corporation, person doing business under an assumed name, the State of Illinois, or department thereof, any other state-owned and operated institution, or any other entity.

    "Supervision" means the direction and management by a designated certified person of the activities of non-certified personnel in the installation or repair of fire sprinkler systems.

(Source: P.A. 94-367, eff. 1-1-06.)

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