HomeMy WebLinkAbout1112 OrdinanceORDINANCE NO. 1112
AN' ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, AND 8 OF ORDINANCE
NO. 1086 ELIMINATING PROVISIONS RELATING TO INDUSTRIAL AND
COMMERCIAL GAS FITTERS AND CHANGING MAIN SHUTOFF VALVE
REQUIREMENTS AND BEING AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS
3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 20, AND 21 OF ORDINANCE ,NO.' 868 (PASCO CITY CODE
5-15.12, 5-15.16, 5-15.32, 5-15.36, 5-15.40, 5-15.88, 5-15.92 AS THEY NOW
EXIST), AMENDING SECTION 30 OF ORDINANCE NO. 868 AS AMENDED BY
ORDINANCE NO.' 917 (PASCO CITY CODE 5-15.128 AS IT NOW EXISTS).
ADDING PROVISIONS_ RELATING TO INSTALLATION OF APPLIANCES IN
EXCESS OF 400, 000 BTU INPUT PER HOUR.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO DO ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 1 of Ordinance No. 1086 is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 1. Section 3 of Ordinance No. 868 and Pasco City Code
5-15.12 are hereby amended to read as follows:
1. Approved shall mean accepted by reason of the satisfactory
results of thorough investigations and tests conducted by the inspector,
or by the reason of accepted principles, or tests by recognized
authorities, technical or scientific organizations.
2. Certificate of Approval shall mean a document issued and
attached to the material, piping or appliance inspected, completely
filled out, together with date, address of the premises or consumer
and signed by the inspector.
3. City Supervisor -Engineer shall mean the City Supervisor -
Engineer or his duly authorized representative.
4. Consumer shall mean any person, persons, customer,
firm, association, municipal corporation and/or corporation that uses
gas, including residential, commercial and industrial users.
5. Construction or Construct shall mean constructing, laying,
maintaining, testing, operating, extending, renewing, removing,
replacing, repairing and using a gas distribution system.
6. Distribution System, System and -or Lines used either in
the singular or plural shall mean and include the gas pipes, pipe lines,
mains, laterals, conduits, feeders, regulators, meters, fixtures,
connections, and all attachments, appurtenances, and appliances
necessary and incidental thereto or in any way appertaining to the
distribution and use of gas.
7. Gas shall mean natural, artificial and/or mixed gas.
8. Gas Appliance shall mean any appliance or device used
for burning gas.
9. Gas Company smell mean any person, firm or corporation
holding and exercising a franchise or permit to distribute gas within
the corporate limits of the City.
10. Gas Company Service Line shall mean the gas piping leading
from the gas main to the property line, or to the point of delivery.
11. Gas Fitter shall mean any person who does any gas fitting
work, installs, repairs, or remodels and piping or appliance which
would be subject to supervision and inspection under the provisions
of this Ordinance.
' 12. Maintenance, Maintaining and/or Maintained shall mean
and include the relaying, repairing, replacing, examining, testing,
inspecting, removing, digging, excavating and restoring operations
incidental thereto.
13. Person shall mean any person, firm, association or
corporation.
14. Point. -of Delivery shall mean the junction of the utility's
meter with the consumer's piping.
15. Premises shall mean the property, including structures,
of the consumer.
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16. Public Properties shall mean and include streets, alleys,
sidewalks, curbs, roads, highways, avenues, thoroughfares, parkways,
bridges, viaducts, public grounds, public improvements and other
public places within and present and/or future corporate limits of the
City.
17. Inspector shall mean the administrative authority so
designated by this ordinance or his duly authorized representative.
1.8. Roadway shall mean the paved improved or proper. driving
portion of a public right-of-way designed or ordinarily used for vehicular
travel.
19. Transmission System shall mean a pipe line installed for
the purpose of transmitting gas from a source or sources of supply
to one or more distribution centers or to one or more large volume
customers.
20. Unit shall mean the construction of not over one mile of
distribution or transmission ;system or as determined by the City
Supervisor -Engineer by excavation of public properties.
Section 2. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 1086 is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 2. Section 4 of Ordinance No. 868 and Pasco City
Code 5-15,16 are hereby amended to read as follows:
Board of Examiners. A board of examiners is hereby created
for the purpose of examining applicants for a gas fitters license and
shall consist of the building inspector who shall be the clerk, the chief
of the fire department and three members to be appointed by the Mayor
and confirmed by the City Council. One of the appointees shall be a
representative of the distributing gas company and two competent
persons. These three appointed members shall serve for three years
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excepf for the first term, when one shall be appointed for three years,
one for two years and one for one year.
Section 3. Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1086 is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 3. Section 7 of Ordinance No. 868 and Pasco City Code
5-15. 32 are hereby amended to read as follows:
License required - gas fitters license. No person shall install,
extend, alter or repair any gas appliance or piping pertaining to or
in connection with gas service on a consumer's premises within the
corporate limits of the City unless such a person has first applied in
writing for and procured a gas fitter's license therefore in accordance
with the provisions of this ordinance. There must be at least one
licensed gas fitter on each such job.
Provided that nothing herein shall prohibit any person from
personally installing gas pipes, gas appliances or making alterations
and repairs on gas pipes and gas appliances or from doing any other
work permitted by this ordinance on his own premises under the
following terms and cor�ditions:
1. He shall apply for and secure a permit
Z. Pay the required permit fee
3. Personally do the work in the manner required by
this ordinance subject to the inspection and approval of the inspector.
Provided, However, that a person who is not a licensed gas
fitter may obtain a permit or permits for only one residence which
he .occupies each year.
Provided, Further, that qualified employees of the person,
firm or corporation who is the grantee of a franchise from the City
may engage in the work and activities mentioned in this section without
obtaining a gas fitter=s license.
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Section 4. Section 4 of Ordinance No. 1086 is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 4. Section 8 of Ordinance No. 868 and Pasco City Code
5-15. 36 are hereby amended to read as follows:
License Application. Applicants of a license as required in
this ordinance shall make application to the gas inspector, who shall
at that time notify them of the date on which they will be examined.
Provided that no one shall be entitled to take the examination
for a gas fitter2s license with less than one year of experience as an
apprentice.
Section 5. Section 5. of Ordinance No. 1086 is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 5. Section 9 of Ordinance No. 868 in Pasco City Code
5..15.40 are hereby amended to read as follows:
License and Permit Fees. The annual fee for the gas instal-
lation license shall be $50. 00 for the first year and $12. 50 per year
thereafter. The license shall be renewed on or before January 1, of
each year;
The annual fee for a gas fitters license shall be $5. 00. for the
first year and $2. 00 for each year thereafter. The license shall be
renewed on or before January 1, of each year. if the license is not
renewed by January 15th of each year, the renewal fee shall be $5. 00
instead of $2. 00. If the gas fitters license is not renewed for two
years, re-examination shall be required. Unless revoked or suspended,
the gas fitter's license shall continue in force from. January 1 of one
year to January 1 of the succeeding year and shall not be transferable.
License Not Required. The requirements contained herein
shall not be construed to limit the right of the gas utility and its
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authorized employees to render necessary service in the event of
an emergency.
Section 6. Section 8 of Ordinance No. 1086 is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 8. Section 30 of Ordinance No. 868 as amended by
Ordinance No. 917 and Pasco City Code 5-15.128 are hereby amended
to read as follows:
Condition of Vents, Piping and Appliances.
1. All domestic appliances must be vented to the extent
required by this ordinance. No person shall install or use any gas
fired hot water or room heater without a vent, except for laboratory
apparatus. (Ref. 5. 1. 1. d and 5. 1. 2. d NBFU No. 54)
2. All gas -pipings, vents, vent connections and appliances
shall be maintained in good condition; Provided however, that no
gas piping, vent, vent connection, fixture, or appliance not conform»
ing to the requirements of this ordinance shall be used or maintained,
except in case they were installed prior to the effective date of this
ordinance and shall have been approved by the inspector.
3. No gas fired equipment shall be installed in a basement,
bathroom or under buildings or within any other enclosed space unless
adequate provisions have been made to admit to the space sufficient
fresh air to support combustion. The minimum cross sectional area
of ventilation required shall be fifty square inches of free area or
equal to one (1) square inch for every thousand BTU of total input of
all appliances installed or operating within the room or enclosure,
whichever is greater.
4. No fitter or individual shall install or cause to be installed
in the same room with a vented appliance, a ventilating fan in a
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residence, apartment, hotel, or commercial cooking establishment
until the following provisions are complied with: There shall be a
permanently opened ventilator or, opening or series of openings at least
equal in area to the total square inches in the exhaust opening of the
famor fans.
5. No existing flue shall be used to vent gas appliances unless
it will deliver the products of gas combustion to the outer atmosphere
in accordance with this ordinance.
6. No person shall install any black flue pipe for the purpose
of venting products of combustion from a gas fired appliance.
7. The installation of an approved vent cap or top which will
prevent precipitation from entering the vent may be installed. An
approved vent cap or top shall be so constructed that it will prevent
birds from entering the vent and so constructed that it cannot slip down
and block the vent opening. Such an approved vent cap or top should
be positioned so that: t(1) for roof slopes less than 12/12 pitch (45°),
a twelve inch clearance is maintained between the roof or other obi
structions and the lower portion of the vent cap or top and (2) for
roof slopes greater than a 12/12 pitch, a four foot horizontal clearance
is maintained between the roof or other obstruction and the .lower
portion of the vent cap or top. A vent at its terminus shall have a free
open area equal to the cross sectional area of the vent pipe on which it
is installed.
8. All appliances and boilers shall have a gas regulator on
them of 400, 000 BTU input or more,
9. The manual shutoff valve on all gas appliances shall be an
approved type by A. G. A. operated with handle.
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Section 7. This ordinance to be in full force and effect after its
passage and publication as required by law.
PASSED BY THE City Council and APPROVED by the Mayor this
16th day of July, 1963.
Attest:
.City Clerk
Approved as to form:
City Attorney
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MAYOR