Critical facilities definition

Critical facilities means facilities that are vital to public health and safety, including police stations, fire and rescue facilities, hospitals, shelters, schools, nursing homes, water supply and waste treatment facilities.2
Critical facilities means essential, hazardous, special occupancy facilities, and Occupancy Categories III and IV as defined in the currently adopted International Building Code, and lifelines such as major utility, transportation, and communication facilities and their connections to critical facilities.
Critical facilities means buildings and facilities that are

Examples of Critical facilities in a sentence

  • Critical facilities constructed within the SFHA shall have the lowest floor elevated to or above the FPG at the site.

  • Critical facilities located in an SFHA, or having ever sustained previous flooding, must be protected to the 500-year flood event, or worst damage scenario.

  • Critical facilities located in an SFHA, or having ever sustained previous flooding, must be protected to the 500-year flood even, or worst damage scenario.

  • Critical facilities include, but are not limited to, schools, nursing homes, hospitals, police, fire, and emergency response installations, installations which produce, use or store hazardous materials or hazardous waste.

  • Critical facilities located in an SFHA, or having ever sustained previous flooding, must be protected to the 0.2-percent flood event, or worst damage scenario.


More Definitions of Critical facilities

Critical facilities means those facilities which would be particularly vulnerable to natural disasters and which poses a high risk to the public if damaged, or which is necessary for emergency (e.g., earthquake, flood, etc.) operations or are listed as category III or IV in the International building code. Refer to Table 24.15-2 for a current list of “Critical Facilities for Thurston County.”
Critical facilities means any development that pertains to schools; hospitals; police, fire, and emergency response installations; sewage and water treatment facilities; electrical substations and other utility infrastructure; or installations which produce, use, or store hazardous waste
Critical facilities means those facilities occupied by populations or which handle dangerous substances including but not limited to hospitals, medical facilities; structures housing, supporting or containing toxic or explosive substances; covered public assembly structures; school buildings through secondary including day- care centers; buildings for colleges or adult education; jails and detention facilities; and all structures with occupancy of greater than 5,000 people.
Critical facilities means that which is critical to the community’s public health and safety, are essential to the orderly functioning of a community, store or produce highly volatile, toxic or water-reactive materials, or house occupants that may be insufficiently mobile to avoid loss of life or injury. For some activities and facilities, even a slight chance of flooding is too great a threat. Typical critical facilities include electric utilities, fire stations, emergency operation centers, police facilities, nursing homes, wastewater treatment facilities, water plants, gas/oil/propane storage facilities, hazardous waste handling and storage facilities, and other public equipment storage facilities.
Critical facilities means those facilities which are particularly vulnerable to natural disasters, or which pose a high risk to the public if damaged (e.g. dams), or which are necessary for emergency (e.g., earthquake, flood, etc.) operations or are listed as category III or IV in the International building code. Refer to Table 24.15-2 for a current list of “Critical Facilities for Thurston County.”
Critical facilities means a facility for which even a slight chance of flooding or destruction caused by a geologic hazard would be too great. They include, but are not limited to: schools, hospitals, police, fire, emergency response installation, nursing homes, installations which produce, use or store hazardous materials or hazardous waste, pipelines which transmit oil and gas, municipal water and sewer facilities, and regional transportation facilities, such as airports, ports, railroads and major highways.
Critical facilities means and includes modification of selected critical facilities identified under the occupancy categories of essential facilities, hazardous facilities, and special occupancy structures in the International Building Code, 2003 Edition. These include but are not limited to: