HomeMy WebLinkAbout3607~m/~% AN ORDINANCE adopting the Uniform Mechanical
~,~.~~~ Code, 1979 edition and repealing the Gas Code
and Oil Burner and Liquid Fuel regulations.
~. ~ THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. Th~ 1979 Edition of the Uniform Mechanical
Code published by the International Association of Plumbing and
Mechanical Officials, including the appendices, is adopted by
this reference pursuant to RCW 35.21.180 as the official
Mechanical and Appliance Gas Code of the City of Bremerton,
regulating the installation and use of pipes, fixtures, and
apparatus used or intended to be used to conduct or consume
natural, manufactured or mixed gas. Such adoption by reference
shall be subject to the amendments and additions to the adopted
Uniform Mechanical Code as set forth in this chapter.
Section 2. It is unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to engage in the business of installing~ extending,
altering, or repairing any gas piping, fixtures or appliances
in the city without first obtaining a Mechanical and Appliance
installing contractor's license pursuant to the terms of this
chapter.
Section 3. The following definitions shall apply:
a) Gas piping contractors and appliance installer
contractors will supply the building department with a sketch
of all gas piping and appliances installed on sheets furnished
by the building department showing the meter location and lo-
cation of all appliances installed in any building in accor-
dance with the instructions shown on the plan sheet.
b) "Gas Fitter" means any person who actually per-
forms the labor required in installing, extending, altering any
gas piping, appliance piping, who is the holder of a valid
certificate of competency issued pursuant to the provisions
of this chapter and Uniform Mechanical Code 1979 addition.
c) "Gas appliance installer" means any person who
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actually performs the labor required in installing conversions,
burners, furnaces, or appliances including duct work and venting.
Mechanical appliance installers who hold a valid certificate
of competency issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter
and the Uniform Mechanical Code, 1979 edition, may connect the
appliances to the gas piping within the room area, as shown
on the plan for location of the appliances; they shall light-off,
adjust controls and service as required.
Section 4. All applicants for gas fitter's certificate
of competency shall be familiar with all codes, ordinances, and
regulations governing the installation of gas piping, venting
of fixtures, and appliances and shall possess one of the follow-
ing qualifications:
al Proof of a reasonable amount of experience ac-
quired on installations which have been approved by a recog-
nized authority or a journeyman plumber.
b) Certificate indicating satisfactory completion of
a course in gas fitting and appliance installing.
The examing board shall determine the sufficiency
of the experience and education of the applicant.
Section 5. All applicants for mechanical and appliance
installers certificate of competency shall be familiar with all
codes, ordinances and regulations governing the installation of
fixtures, vents, and appliances and the piping thereof and shall
have a certificate indicating satisfactory completion of a
course in gas fitting and appliance installing.
Section 6. There is an examing board for gas fitters
and mechanical and appliance installer's consisting of the
plumbing inspector and the chief of the fire prevention bureau
as ex officio members who shall not be entitled to a vote: one
licensed gas installing contractor; one certified gas fitter
and appliance installer; one gas company representative; one
master plumber; one journeyman plumber. All to be appointed by
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the commissioner of public works and utilities with the approval
of the city council. They shall serve without compensation.
The term of office of each shall be four years provided, however,
in the appointing of the first board the gas installing contractor
and journeyman plumber shall be appointed to two year periods.
Thereafter, their terms shall be appointed for four years.
The board shall select its own chairman and a majority of the
members shall constitute a quorum. The plumbing inspector
shall serve as secretary to the board.
Section 7. It is unlawful for any person to engage
in or work as a gas fitter and mechanical and appliance installer
either as a journeyman or as a licensed installing contractor,
working in the capacity of a gas fitter mechanical appliance
installer or to install, extend, alter or repair any gas piping,
venting fixtures or appliance in any building or elsewhere
without first making application to the examining board herein-
above provided for and at such time and place as said board
may designate, submitting to and passing such examination as
to his qualifications and competency as a gas fitter or mechanical
appliance installer.
The examination shall be of such character, both
practical and theoretical, as to thoroughly test the applicant's
ability and competency as a gas fitter and mechanical and
appliance installer.
The examing board shall conduct examinations from time
to time, but no applicant shall be compelled to wait more than
sixty days following his application. The board shall examine
such applicant as to his knowledge of gas piping, installation
and venting of fixtures and appliances, necessary safety con-
trols, and the over all safety precautions necessary in the
installation of gas piping and appliances.
The board, if satisfied with the competency of such
applicant, shall thereupon authorize the city clerk to issue
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to the applicant a gas fitter or mechanical appliance installer's
certificate of competency authorizing him to engage in the work
of installing, extending, altering, or repairing gas piping,
venting fixtures or appliances as an artisan or journeyman gas
fitter or mechanical appliance installer. Temporary working
permits may be issued to an applicant by the plumbing and
mechanical inspector until such time as the examing board meeting
and the examination can be completed. The board shall keep
and preserve a record of all persons examined by them and to
whom such certificates of competency have been issued. A fee
of ten dollars shall be charged each person making application
for examination.
Section 8. The gas installers license or a gas
fitter and a mechanical and appliance installer's certificate
of competency shall not be required of those persons, firms,
or corporations engaged exclusively in the laying of gas mains
in the public streets or alleys and running service to a meter
within a building or other place.
Section 9. The license fee for a mechanical and appliance
installing contractor shall be and is hereby fixed in the sum
of fifty dollars per year, payable in advance for each estab-
lishment of place of business. The fee for a mechanical and
appliance installer's certificate of competency is and shall
be fixed at twenty-five dollars per year. The fee for a gas
fitters certificate of competency is and shall be fixed at ten
dollars per year.
Section 10. Any mechanical and appliance installing
contractor's license or any gas fitter's or mechanical and
appliance installers certificate of competency may be revoked
for cause by the commissioner of public works and utilities,
by notice to the licensee in writing by registered maillof the
suspension or revocation. Any licenses may, within ten days of
receipt of such notice of suspension or revocation appeal to the
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city council by filing a written notice of appeal, setting
forth grounds therefore, with the city clerk, and the city council
shall set a date for the hearing of such appeal. And the city
clerk shall notify the licensee of the time and place of the
hearing. After the hearing thereon the city council may affirm
and modify or overrule the suspension or revocation and reinstate
the license, and may impose any terms upon the continuance of
the license which to the city council may seem advisable.
The suspension of revocation shall be stayed pending final
action by the city council.
Section 11. The certificate of competency of any
gas fitter and mechanical and appliance installer shall not be
renewed without examination when allowed to become delinquent
for more than one year. All such certificates of competency
shall run for a year and shall expire June 30th.
Section 12. No person, firm or corporation shall
engage within the corporate limits of the city in the business
of installing, repairing, maintaining gas operated equipment or
any other work covered in the uniform mechanical code until
such person, firm or corporation shall have filed with the city
clerk and idemnity bond in the sum of two thousand dollars in
favor of the city, providing however, that in lieu of the bond
required herein, any licensee hereunder may submit proof that the
city or its officer will not be held responsible by reason of
any accident or accidents resulting from any installation,
maintenance, alteration or repair of any gas equipment, by
carrying liability insurance which shall protect the city in
the amount of fifty thousand dollars damage to any one person,
and one hundred thousand dollars total damage to property and
person per accident, with surety or sureties to be approved
by the city attorney; conditioned on the faithful observance of
this chapter, and to save and keep harmless the city, its officials
and employees from all damages, liabilities, losses or judgments
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that may be recovered against the city by reason of the negligent
installation, alteration, maintenance or repair of any gas equip-
ment, for a period of one year from the date of the work done
on any equipment or materials code. A gas fitter may do any work
covered in chapters 12 and 13 of the Uniform Plumbing code for
a contractor who has a Washington State Plumbing Contractors
license.
Section 13. The plumbing and mechanical inspector
may issue to an individual, not licensed hereunder, a specail
owner's permit, authorizing the individual to install gas ap-
pliances in or about a dwelling of which the individual is the
owner and resides therein; provided, however, that no such
installation authorized under such special permit shall be done
except personally by such owner; if this or any other provision
hereof shall be violated by the holder of such special permit,
such permit shall be subject to immediate cancellation by the
inspector, and the holder thereof shall be liable to the penalty
hereinafter provided for violation of this chapter.
Section 14.
a) Fees for gas appliance permits shall be paid in
advance and shall be computed from the number of such appliances
proposed to be installed.
b) Table 3-A, Chapter 3 of the Uniform Mechanical
Code, as adopted, shall be amended to provide the following
fee:
Issuance of permit $ 4.50
c) In addition to those fees provided for in Table
3-A, Chapter 3 of the Uniform Mechanical Code, as adopted, the
following fees shall be charged:
Range, dryer, refrigerator, etc. $ 4.50
Small appliance 3.00
Gas log, lights, etc. 4.50
Gas piping, up to three appliances
or one hundred feet of piping 7.00
Fuel Storage Tanks:
200 gallons or less 4.50
200 to 500 gallons 6.00
500 to 1000 gallons 7.50
1000 to 3000 gallons 10.00
over 3000 gallons 15.00
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Inspection of used appliances
(per unit) $ 4.50
Call back inspection 15.00 or
double the permit
fee, whichever is
greater.
Note: Call back inspection shall be obtained from city
building department. Each and all of the conditions,
provisions and regulations, penalties and terms of
uniform mechanical code 1979 edition, is hereby
adopted and by this reference made a part hereof.
This section shall control any conflict with Chapter
12 and 13, 1979 Edition of the Uniform Plumbing Code.
Section 15. Ordinance No. 2236, Sections 1, 2.0,
2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3, 4, 5, 7; Ordinance
No. 2483, Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10; Ordinance
No. 2557, Section 1; Ordinance No. 3170, Sections 1, 2 and 3;
and Ordinance No. 2476, Section 1 are hereby repealed.
Section 16. Ordinance No. 1777, Sections 1, 2, 3,
4, 6; Ordinance No. 1778, Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8; Ordinance
1805, Sections 1,2; Ordinance 1882, Section 1; Ordinance No.
2099, Section 12; Ordinance No. 3149; Ordinance No. 3151,
Section 2; OrdinBnce No. 3171, Section 2; Ordinance No. 3247,
Sections 1, 2; Ordinance No 3467, Section 1; Ordinance No.
3523, Sections 1, 2 are hereby repealed.
APPROVED by the City Commissioners on the first reading
this ~ day of ~. , 1980.
PASSED by the City Commissioners of the City of
Bremerton, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk
in authentication of such passage this l~ day of ~ ,
1980.
ATTEST:
KATHLEEN L. MANDIO/City Clerk
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