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<section article="gen" article_name="Environment" number="6-401" title_number="6" title_name="Toxic, Carcinogenic, and Flammable Substances" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Asbestos Removal">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Asbestos material” means any material or product which contains more than 1 percent asbestos.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Asbestos occupation” means any job as an inspector, project designer, management planner, asbestos abatement contractor, asbestos supervisor, or asbestos abatement worker involving:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>A project in a public and commercial building or in a school building that involves the location, identification, physical and hazard assessment, enclosure, removal, repair, renovation, or demolition of asbestos material in a public and commercial building or in a school building;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The inspection, planning, or design of any project in a school building as enumerated in item (i) of this paragraph; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>The inspection or design of any project in a public and commercial building as enumerated in item (i) of this paragraph.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Asbestos occupation” does not include work on any small–scale, short–duration operations, maintenance, and repair activities as defined in 40 C.F.R. 763, Appendix C to Subpart E, Asbestos Model Accreditation Plan.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Business entity” means a partnership, firm, association, corporation, sole proprietorship, or other business concern.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Interior space” includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Exterior hallways connecting buildings;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Porticoes; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Mechanical systems used to condition interior space.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“License” means a license issued by the Department under this subtitle to remove and encapsulate asbestos.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Public and commercial building” means the interior space of any building that is not a school building.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Public and commercial building” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Industrial and office buildings;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Residential apartment buildings of 10 or more dwelling units;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Condominiums of 10 or more dwelling units;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Government–owned buildings;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Colleges;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Museums;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Airports;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>Hospitals;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ix">
        <text>Churches;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="x">
        <text>Stores;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xi">
        <text>Warehouses; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="xii">
        <text>Factories.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Public and commercial building” does not include any residential apartment building of fewer than 10 dwelling units, any condominium of fewer than 10 dwelling units, or any detached single–family home.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Public unit” includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Any agency, bureau, department, or instrumentality of State government that is not subject to Executive Order 01.01.1987.22;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Any agency, bureau, department, or instrumentality of federal or local government;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Educational institutions that are not subject to Executive Order 01.01.1987.22; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Any public, quasi–public, or municipal corporation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“School” means any elementary or secondary school as defined in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, at 20 U.S.C. § 7801.</text>
  </level>
</section>
