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Purpose and Scope

The purpose of this Standard is to establish the performance requirements of an automatically deployable protective structure for ride-on turf & landscape equipment.

This Standard applies to the installation of an automatically deployable protective structure for ride on turf and landscape equipment as defined in ANSI/ASAE S323.2 This Standard does not apply to recreational machines, OHUV (Off Highway Utility Vehicles), agricultural tractors, or ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) recreational vehicles.

This standard specifies design and testing requirements for the installation of automatically deploying roll over protective structures (AD-ROPS). Performance requirements for the fully extended ROPS are not included in this standard, as these are covered in the ROPS standards that are listed in the Normative References.