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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. 2.. 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 -3- 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. "4h 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 5- 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 ..6 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. -7� 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 m MAYOR