Any public space, public park or thoroughfare

less than three (3) meters but not less than

(2) meters in width dedicated or deeded for
public use.

alley
Shall mean direct access without the
necessity of removing any panel, door or
similar obstruction.

Readily accessible
A physical separation, which may be a low
inlet into the indirect waste receptor from the
fixture, appliance or device indirectly
connected.

airbreak
Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene

ABS
Any change, addition or modification in
construction or occupancy

Alter or Alteration
Readily accessible shall mean ______ access
without the necessity of removing any panel, door
or similar obstruction.

direct
A physical separation, which may be a low inlet
into the indirect waste receptor from the fixture,
appliance or device indirectly connected.

airbreak
The unobstructed vertical distance through the
free atmosphere between the lowest opening
from any pipe, plumbing fixture, appliance or
appurtenance conveying waste to the flood level
rim of the receptor.

Airgap drainage
The unobstructed vertical distance through the
free atmosphere between the lowest opening
from any pipe or faucet conveying potable water
to the flood level rim of any tank, vat or fixture.

Airgap water distribution

Accepted or acceptable under an applicable
specifications or standard stated or cited in this
code, or accepted as suitable for any proposed use
under procedures and powers of the
administrative authority.

approved
An organization primarily established for purposes
of testing to approve standards and approved by
the administrative authority.

Approved testing agency

The flow of water or other liquids, mixtures or
substances into the distributing pipes of a potable
supply of water from any source other than from
its intended source.

backflow
Condition or any arrangement whereby reverse
flow can occur.

Backflow connection
Occurs due to an increased reverse pressure above
the supply pressure. This may be due to pumps,
boilers, gravity or other sources of pressure.

Backpressure backflow
Device or means to prevent flow of liquid from
returning to the source of supply.

Backflow preventer
Also called vacuum breaker

Backflow preventer
The flowing back of used, contaminated polluted
water from a plumbing fixture or vessel into a
water supply pipe due to a negative pressure in
such pipe.

Back siphonage
A device installed in a drainage system prevent
reverse flow

Backwater valve
The part of a vent line, which connects directly
with an individual trap underneath or behind the
fixture and extends to the branch or main vent
pipe at any point higher than the fixture or fixture
traps it serves.

Backvent pipe
This sometimes called an individual vent.

Backvent pipe
A valve opened and closed by the fall and rise,
respectively, of an attached ball floating on the
surface of the liquid

Ball cock
A type of pipe connection in which a ball shaped
end is held in a cuplike shell and allows
movements in every direction.

Ball joint
A room equipped with a shower stall or bathtub

bathroom
Any of two or more similar adjacent fixtures which
discharge into a common horizontal soil or waste
branch

Battery of fixtures
That portion of a pipe which, for a short distance,
is sufficiently enlarged to receive the end of
another pipe of the same diameter for the
purpose of making a caulked or push-on joint

Bell or hub
A tool for straightening or bending lead pipe

Bending pin (or Iron)

Synonymous with faucet, cock, tap, plug etc. the
word “faucet” is preferred.

bibb
A plumbing fixtures used for washing the middle
private part of the body, especially the genitals

bidet
Also called a “sitz” bath

bidet
A pipe flange that is not drilled for bolt holes

Blank flange
A flange that closes the end of a pipe. There is no
opening for the passage of liquid or gas

blind flange
A controlled outlet of a pipeline to discharge liquid
or detritus

Blow-off
The Licensure Board for Master Plumbers

board
A valved outlet of a boiler that permits discharge
of accumulated sediment.

Boiler blow off

Any part of the piping system other than a main,
riser or stack.

branch
A length of soil or waste stack corresponding in
general to a story height, but in no caseless than
2.43 meters within which the horizontal branches
from one floor or story of a building are connected
to the stack.

Branch interval
A horizontal vent connecting one or more
individual vertical back vents with the vent stack or
stack vent.

Branch vent
Any joint obtained by joining of metal parts with
alloys which melt at temperatures higher than
_____ degrees centigrade, but lower than the
melting temperature of the parts to be joined.

Brazed joint, 449 degrees centigrade

B & S (specification)

Brown and sharpe

B & S (ends of pipes)

Bell and spigot

A structure built, erected and framed of
component structural parts designed for the
housing, shelter, enclosure or support of persons,
animals or property of any kind

building
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a
drainage system which receives the discharge from
soil, waste and other drainage pipes inside the
walls of the building and conveys it to the building
sewer beginning _____ meter outside the building
wall.

Building drain, 0.6 meter

That part of the horizontal piping of a drainage
system which starts from the end of the building
drain and which receives the discharge of the
building drain and conveys it to a public sewer,
private sewer, individual sewage disposal system
or other point of disposal.

Building sewer
That portion of an underground system, which
cannot drain by gravity into the building sewer

Building subdrain
The pipe carrying potable water from the water
meter or other source of water supply to a
building or other point of use or distribution on
the lot.

Building supply
Also mean water service connection

Building supply
Plugging an opening with oakum, lead or other
materials that are pounded into the annular space.
Also, the material pounded into the annular
opening.

caulking
A fitting, screwed or caulked over the end of a pipe
for closing the pipe end

cap
A receptacle in which liquids are retained for a
sufficient period of time to allow settleable
material to deposit

Catch basin
A person who has shown competence to test and
maintain backflow assemblies to the satisfaction of
the administrative authority having jurisdiction

Certified backflow assembly tester

A non-watertight lined excavation in the ground
which receives the discharge of a sanitary drainage
system or part thereof, designed to retain the
organic matter and solids discharging therefrom,
but permitting the liquid to seep through the
bottom and sides of it

cesspool
A vertical shaft for installation of different pipe
stacks

chase
A valve that automatically closes to prevent the
flow of liquid or gas in a reverse direction

Check valve
A group vent pipe which starts in front of the
extreme fixture connection on a horizontal branch
and connects to the vent stack

Circuit vent
Also called loop vent

Circuit vent
Shall mean these regulations, subsequent
amendments thereto or any emergency rule or
regulation which the administrative authority
having jurisdiction may lawfully adopt

code
A specially designed system of waste piping
embodying the horizontal wet venting of one or
more sinks or floor drains by means of a common
horizontal waste and vent pipe, adequately sized
to provide free movement of air above the flow
line of the drain

Combination waste and vent system

A structure which any part of its structural
framework will ignite and burn at a temperature of
______ degrees centigrade or less

Combustible construction, 756 degrees

centigrade
The professional regulation commission (PRC)

commission
That part of a plumbing system designed and
installed to serve more than one appliance, fixture,
building or system

common
an impairment of the quality of the potable water
which creates an actual hazard to the public health
through poisoning or spread of disease b sewage,
industrial fluids or waste

contamination
also known as high hazard

contamination
is a vertical vent that is a continuation of the drain
to which the vent connects

continuous vent
a drain connecting the compartments of a set of
fixtures to a trap or connecting other permitted
fixtures to a common trap.

continuous waste
a vertical pipe to convey rainwater

conductor or downspout
a stop valve placed at the connection of the water
service pipe to the water main

corporation cock
an open, unoccupied space, bounded on two or
more sides by the walls of the building. an ______
_____ is entirely within the exterior walls of a
building. all other courts are outer courts.

court, inside court

c-l or c/l marking on a backflow prevention device or
vacuum breaker is a point conforming to approved
standards and established by the testing laboratory
(usually stamped on the device by the manufacturer)
which determines the minimum elevation above the
flood level rim of the fixture or receptacle served
where the device may be installed.

critical level
any connection or arrangement, physical or
otherwise, between a potable water supply system
and any plumbing fixture or any tank, receptacle,
equipment or device, through which enables non-
potable, used, unclean, polluted, contaminated
water or other substances to enter into any part of
such potable water system under any condition

cross connection
the extended portion of a pipe that is closed at
one end to which no connections are made on the
extended portion, thus permitting the stagnation
of liquid or air therein.

dead-end
the administrative authority and includes any
other law enforcement agency concerned by any
provision of this code, whether such agency is
specifically named or not

department having jurisdiction

the length of a pipe along its centerline and fittings

developed length
unless specifically stated, it is the nominal
diameter as designated commercially. I.D. denotes
inside diameter of pipe and O.D denotes outside
diameter of tube

diameter
the liquid and water-borne wastes derived from
the ordinary living processes, free from industrial
wastes and of such character that permit
satisfactory disposal without special treatment. it
is discharged into the public sewer or into a private
sewage disposal system

domestic sewage
a pipe fitting with adjacent reverse bends and
shaped like the letter “s”

double-bend fitting
two offsets in succession or in series such that the
centerlines of the outside ends are in the same
straight line

double offset
the vertical portion of a rainwater conductor

downspout
a pipe, which carries ground and surface waters,
storm water or wastewater into a building
drainage system

drain
includes all the piping within public or private
premises which convey sewage or other liquid
wastes to a legal point of disposal but does not
include the mains of a public sewer system or a
public sewage treatment or disposal plant

drainage system
a vent that does not carry liquid or water borne
wastes

dry vent
a term used to describe soil or waste system
where all piping are of threaded pipe, tubing or
other such rigid construction using recessed
drainage fittings to correspond to the types of
piping

durham system
is the minimum cross-sectional area at the point of
water supply discharge measured or expressed in
terms of: (1) diameter of a circle; (2) if the opening
is not circular, the diameter of a circle of
equivalent cross-sectional area

effective opening
the ongoing installation of the plumbing system or
any part thereof which has been installed prior to
the effectivity of this code

existing work
One person living alone or a group living together,
whether related to each other by birth or not

family
A valve located at the end of a water pipe through
of which water can be drawn from or held within
the pipe

faucet
A metallic sleeve, caulked or joined to an opening
in a pipe, into which a plug is screwed that can be
removed for cleaning or examining the interior of
the pipe

ferrule
A receptacle other than a trap attached to a
plumbing system in which water or wastes may be
collected or retained for ultimate discharge into
the plumbing system

fixture
The water supply pipe between the fixture supply
pipe and the water-distributing pipe

fixture branch
the drainpipe from the trap of a fixture to the
junction of that drain with any other drainpipe

fixture drain
a water supply pipe connecting the fixture with the
fixture branch

fixture supply
is an arbitrary quantity in terms of which the load
producing effects or water requirements on the
plumbing system of different kinds of plumbing
fixtures are expressed in some arbitrarily chosen
scale. one fixture unit is equivalent to a rate of flow
at _____ liters per minute (_____ cu. ft./ minute)

fixture unit, 28.3 cu. ft./minute,

1 cu. ft./ minute
the level in a fixture at which water begins to
overflow over the top or rim of the fixture

flood level
is the top edge of a receptacle from where water
overflows

flood level rim

a fixture is flooded when the liquid therein rises to
the flood level rim

flooded
the area included within surrounding walls of a
building (or portion thereof), exclusive of vent
shafts and courts

floor area
a tank located above or integral with water closet,
urinal or similar fixtures for flushing or removing
excrements in the fixture

flush tank
is a device located at the bottom of the tank for
the purpose of flushing water closet and similar
fixtures

flush valve
is integrated within an air accumulator vessel
which is designed to discharge a predetermined
quantity of water into fixtures for flushing
purposes

flushometer tank
is a device, which discharges a predetermined
quantity of water into fixtures for flushing
purposes and is actuated by direct water pressure

flushometer valve
A valve in which the flow of water is cut off by
means of a circular disc fitted against machine-
smoothed faces, at right angles to the direction of
flow. The disk is raised or lowered by means of a
threaded stem connected to the handle of the
valve. The opening in the valve is usually as large
as the full bore of the pipe

gate valve