15 U.S.C. § 2203 : US Code - Section 2203: Definitions

Search 15 U.S.C. § 2203 : US Code - Section 2203: Definitions

As used in this chapter, the term -
(1) "Academy" means the National Academy for Fire Prevention
and Control;
(2) "Administration" means the United States Fire
Administration established pursuant to section 2204 of this
title;
(3) "Administrator" means the Administrator of the United
States Fire Administration;
(4) "Director" means the Director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency;
(5) "fire service" means any organization in any State
consisting of personnel, apparatus, and equipment which has as
its purpose protecting property and maintaining the safety and
welfare of the public from the dangers of fire, including a
private firefighting brigade. The personnel of any such
organization may be paid employees or unpaid volunteers or any
combination thereof. The location of any such organization and
its responsibility for extinguishment and suppression of fires
may include, but need not be limited to, a Federal installation,
a State, city, town, borough, parish, county, fire district, fire
protection district, rural fire district, or other special
district. The terms "fire prevention", "firefighting", and "fire
control" relate to activities conducted by a fire service;
(6) "local" means of or pertaining to any city, town, county,
special purpose district, unincorporated territory, or other
political subdivision of a State;
(7) "place of public accommodation affecting commerce" means
any inn, hotel, or other establishment not owned by the Federal
Government that provides lodging to transient guests, except that
such term does not include an establishment treated as an
apartment building for purposes of any State or local law or
regulation or an establishment located within a building that
contains not more than 5 rooms for rent or hire and that is
actually occupied as a residence by the proprietor of such
establishment; and
(8) "State" means any State, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Canal Zone,
Guam, American Samoa, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
and any other territory or possession of the United States.
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