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National Fire Protection Association
Industry: Fire safety
Number of terms: 98780
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A shade structure, supported by posts or columns, or partially supported by a manufactured home, that is installed, erected, or used on a manufactured home site.
Industry:Fire safety
A sewer that receives wastewater from a relatively small area and discharges into a main sewer serving more than one branch sewer area.
Industry:Fire safety
A sewer that receives dry-weather flow and frequently additional predetermined quantities of storm water (if from a combined system) from a number of transverse sewers or outlets and conducts such water to a point for treatment or disposal; also called main sewer.
Industry:Fire safety
A sewer that consists of a pipe or conduit that receives wastewater from a relatively small area from two or more lateral sewers and that subsequently discharges into a trunk sewer.
Industry:Fire safety
A sewer that carries liquid and water-carried wastes from residences, commercial buildings, industrial plants, and institutions together with minor quantities of storm water, surface water, and groundwater that are not admitted intentionally.
Industry:Fire safety
A sewer privately owned and used by one or more properties or owners.
Industry:Fire safety
A sewer intended to receive only residential wastewater.
Industry:Fire safety
A sewer intended to receive only industrial wastewater or other liquid or water-carried wastes.
Industry:Fire safety
A sewer intended to receive both wastewater and storm or surface water.
Industry:Fire safety
A sewer built to carry the flows in excess of the capacity of an existing sewer; also, a sewer intended to carry a portion of the flow from a district in which the existing sewers are of insufficient capacity.
Industry:Fire safety