HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0253ORDINANCE No. 253.
All ORDINANCE AII'[ 4 D I IM SEC T I ONS 4, 9,
23, 43, 52, 57, 60, 64 and 70 and
REPEALING SECTIONS 58 OF ORDINANCE
No. 249 of the CITY OF BURLINGA12 .
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The City Council of the City of Burlingame do ordain
as follows:
Section 1. That Sections 4, 9, 23, 43, 52, 57, 60,
64 and 70 of Ordinance No. 249 entitled, "An Ordinance regulating
the installation, maintenance and repair of appliances designed
to employ natural, mixed or manufactured gas as fuel, and/or
house gas piping in the City of Burlingame; providing for the
inspection of said appliances and/or house gas piping; providing
for the issuances of permits for the installation and repair of
said appliances and/or house gas piping and the collecti on of
fees therefor; providing for the licensing of persons engaged in
selling, offering for sale, installing and for repairing said
appliances and/or house gas piping; providing for penalties for
the violation of this ordinance and repealing all ordinances in
conflict therewith", be amended to read as follows:
Section 4. Each applicant for a Gas Appliance
Dealers License shall apply to the License Collector for same.
All applications shall be approved by the plumbing inspector
before being granted.
Every person, firm or corporation engaged in the
installation or repair of gas pipes and appliances who is not a
licensed plumber in the City of Burlingame shall furnish satis-
factory proof to the plumbing inspector of his qualifications
for the making of said installations or repairs before said
license is granted.
Add to Section 9. "Failure to make application
for permit by the first workday after corunencing work, permit
fees and inspection fees shall be doubled."
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Section 23. All gas pipes shall be well secured
to the building and shall be graded toward the meter wherever.
possible. Vertical pipe risers shall have placed at the bottom
of each riser a tee plugged with a long nipk,le and cap the same
size as the vertical pipe to serve as a dirt pocket. All gas
pipes terminating at a wall or partition shall have a long male
and female drop elbow extending beyond the face of said wall or
partition.
Section 43. Except as hereinafter provided in
Sections 45 and 55, all gas appliances hereinafter installed sha
be of a design and construction approved by the National Board o
Fire Undarsariters or recognized and disinterested authority.
All such apparatus not so approved niust be of a design and con-
struction as set forts: in the specifications of 3uresu of
Standards of the Department of Coiru:_erce or similar nationally
recignized and disinterested authority, and must be installed
in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, health or
property. The heating element of all gas appliam es shall have
all the seams welded so that no product of combustion shall ente
the room or space to pe heated. .provided, however, that the
inspector may authorize the sale and, use of any appliance that i
the stock of any gas appliance dealer or jobber on date of the
adoption of this ordinance by stencillin an approval upon such
appliance.
Section 52. Vented appliances installed in
ing rooms shall be rigidly attached to the house gas piping
outlet.
Section 57. No gas appliance shall be hereafter
installed, or any gets appliance replaced unless the room or place
where such appliance is located is ventilated so as to properly
support combustion. No gas appliance shall hereafter be installe
or any existing gas appliance replaced unless the same shall be
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vented to a flue which shall be the full size of the vent outlet
of the appliance to be vented. No damper shall be installed an
any vent.
Section 60. Flues shall be constructed of terra
cotta, cement, or approved gas flue pipe of male and female type.
Each joint, :shall ,be cemented to be gas and water tight with the
male end pointing down. Flue pipe shall be cased in galvanized
iron or steel of not less than No. 26 U. 5, Standard Gauge;
provided, however, that any flue or chimney pipe approved by the
.Board of Fire Underwriters for use without metal casing may be
installed without such casing. Two or more gas appliances may be
connected to one flue if said appliances are provided with safety
pilot lights.
Section 64. Vent inlets to gas flues shall in
cases be provided by means of branch fittings, constructed of
like materials as such flues. Said inlets to be not less than
four (4) inches in diameter. Cutting of vent inlets into, flues
is prohibited. Vent connections made through a fire place shall
be made by means of a galvanized iron or steel plate set in the
chimney throat, thoroughly cemented ,and air end ga.s tight.
Section 70. Horizontal vents shall not exceed
twenty(20) feet in length, except where architectural conditions
necessitate longer runs in which case the pipe shall be increase
one pipe size larger at the twenty (20) foot limit for the
remainder of the distance. No horizontal run shall exceed the
vertical length except where forced draft is provided. PiNe
shall be graded up toward the flue not less than one (1) inch to
each foot of length.
Section 58 of said ordinance is hereby repealed.
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Section II. This ordinance shall be published for the
��.. tyre..nanner-re* rzirad—by 3€�w, and be in force and
effect from and after the date of its passage.
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The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this
Ordinance and cause the same to be published by reference in the
manner provided by law.
INTRODUCED this
18th
day
of
Jaaly
1932, and
duly and regularly passed
this
3rd
day
c
1932
by the following vote:
A'T33, Councilmen: Buck - Hock - Hunt - Russell - Stone -
NOES, Councilmen:
AB LJITT, Councilmen:
ATTr]S.
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City Cler
None
None
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