§ 2203. — Definitions.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 15USC2203]
TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
CHAPTER 49--FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
Sec. 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.
(Pub. L. 93-498, Sec. 4, Oct. 29, 1974, 88 Stat. 1536; Pub. L. 95-422,
Sec. 2(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1978, 92 Stat. 932; Pub. L. 101-391, Sec. 3(b),
Sept. 25, 1990, 104 Stat. 749; Pub. L. 106-503, title I,
Sec. 110(a)(2)(A), Nov. 13, 2000, 114 Stat. 2302.)
References in Text
For definition of Canal Zone, referred to in par. (8), see section
3602(b) of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
Amendments
2000--Pars. (7) to (9). Pub. L. 106-503 inserted ``and'' after
semicolon in par. (7), redesignated par. (9) as (8), and struck out
former par. (8) which read as follows: `` `Secretary' means the
Secretary of Commerce; and''.
1990--Pars. (4) to (9). Pub. L. 101-391 added pars. (4) and (7) and
redesignated former pars. (4), (5), (6), and (7) as (5), (6), (8), and
(9), respectively.
1978--Pars. (2), (3). Pub. L. 95-422 substituted ``United States
Fire Administration'' for ``National Fire Prevention and Control
Administration''.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the
Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relating thereto, to
the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related
references, see sections 313(1), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6,
Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security
Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note
under section 542 of Title 6.
Functions of National Fire Prevention and Control Administration
[now United States Fire Administration] and National Academy for Fire
Prevention and Control generally transferred to Federal Emergency
Management Agency. For further details see Transfer of Functions note
set out under section 2202 of this title.
Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note
set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular
Possessions.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in title 36 section 151302.
