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65-5301.Definitions. As used in this act:

(a) "Asbestos project" means an activity undertaken to remove or encapsulate friable asbestos containing materials.

(b) "Business entity" means a partnership, firm, association, corporation, sole proprietorship, or other business concern.

(c) "Certificate" means an authorization issued by the secretary permitting an individual person to engage in an asbestos project.

(d) "License" means an authorization issued by the secretary permitting a business entity to engage in an asbestos project.

(e) "Secretary" means the secretary of health and environment.

(f) "Friable asbestos containing material" means any material that contains more than 1% asbestos, by weight, which is applied to ceilings, walls, structural members, piping, ductwork or any other part of a building and which, when dry, may be crumbled, pulverized or reduced to powder by hand pressure.

(g) "Asbestos" means that asbestiform varieties of:  Chrysotile, crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite, tremolite and actinolite.

History: L. 1985, ch. 203, § 1; Jan. 1, 1986.



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