HomeMy WebLinkAbout1324 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE regulating the installation and use of oil burners, oil
storage tanks, oil stoves, oil burning furnaces and other mechanical devices
and equipment used to store or burn fluid fuel; providing for the issuance of
permits for and inspection of such installation; providing penalties for the
violation thereof, and repealing Ordinance No. 960 and all other ordinances
or parts o~ ordinances in conflict therewith.
TITE CITY C05~ISSION OF THE CITY OF BREN~RTON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, to
make or install any oil burner, oil storage tank, oil burning stove, oll burn-
ing furnace, or any other device or equipment or combination of devices or
equipment, used or intended to be used, to store or burn liquid fuel, of what-
soever kind or nature or for whatever purpose, in or about any dwelling house,
hotel, apartment house, store, factory, or other structure within the corporate
limits of the City of Bremerton, without having secured from the City Clerk of
the City of Bremerton, a permit therefor, The fee for such permit shall be ~1.00
and no permit shall be i'ssued by the City Clerk except with the written approval
of the City Building Inspector. The approval of the City Building Inspector
shall be secured as follows:
A written application for a permit to install such liquid fuel burning
devices or eOuipment shall be filed with the Building Inspector of the City of
Bremerton, on a form approved by said Inspector, which shall contain comi~lete
data regarding such installation, together with a copy of the specifications
and directions of the manufacturer of each unit of the proposed installation.
The said inspector shall have the right to reouire the filing of additional data
regarding said proposed installation if he does not deem the application as
originally filed to be complete. If the Building Inspector believes the proposed
installation conforms with the provisions of this ordinance, he shall in writing
authorize the City Clerk to issue the said permit; otherwise he shall reject the
application and notify the person, firm or corporation, applyihg for the permit,
of such rejection, ~d the reason or reasons therefor. Any person feeling
aggrieved by such rejection shall have the right of appeal to the City Commission
by filing with the Co~ission and the Building Inspector, duplicate copies of an
appeal, in writing, and the City Cos~nission shall set a date for the hearing of
such appeal within ten (10) days from the filing thereof.
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~~lation shall h%~e been made pursuant to such
permit, and while the said fluid fuel burning equipment remains uncovered and
all parts thereof are in plain view and can be readily inspected, the person,
firm or corporation to whom such permi~ was issued, shall notify the fire chief
of the City of Bremerton, who shall inspect such installation personally or by
a duly authorized representative, within twenty-four (g~) hours after such
notification. No such installation shall be placed in use until the fire chief,
or his dnly authorize'd representative, has inspected and approved said installati
and all parts thereof.
Section ~. Any and all fluid fuel burning equipment described herein shall
be inatalled in accordance with the specifications and directions of the manu-
facturer of such equipment.
Section ~. The issuance of a permit as hereinbefore set forth shall not be
considered a substitute for the issuance of an electrical permit, under the
Electrical Code of the City of Bremerton, and any person, firm or corporation,
installing fluid fuel burning equipment as hereinbefore described, which is
operated by electricity or requires any tFpe of electrical connection for the
operation thereof, shall, in addition to the permit herein referred to, secure
a permit in conformance with the ordinances of the City of Bremerton relating to
permits for electrical wiring and electrical installations.
Section 5. Any and all fluid fuel burning floor furnaces installed in the
City of Bremerton shall be so ~nstalled that there shall be at least twelve (1S)
inches of open space between the bottom of the furnace and the ground level below
the bottom of the furnace, and so that there will be an opening on the outside
of the building whereby easy entrance and exit can be obtained through said openi
to the said furnace, with an overall clearance between the bottom of the floor
joists and the ground level of at least three feet.
Section 6. Fuel tanks of any and all fluid fuel burning stoves or heaters,
where such tanks are an integral part of such sto~e or furnace, shall not have
a capacity in excess of six (6) gallons, and no tanks or containers used, or
intended to be used, as a container of fluid fuel, having a capacity in excess
of ten (10) ~allons, shall be permitted above the first floor of any building;
and for the ?urpose of this ordinance a basement or cellar of any building,
where a basement or cellar exists, shall be considered the first floor of such
buildings.
In cases where a tank or container of not more than ten (10) gallon capaci~
not an integral t~art of a stove or furnace, is used as a container for flui~
fuel, to sup~ly a stove or furnace above the first floor of any building, such
tank or container shall be located not more than three (3) feet from the stove
or furnace which it supplies.
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No more ~-gallon gravity tank shall be allowed
the ~irst, Secc~d or Third. Fire Zones, ~or each fluid fuel burning device, and
~'~o more than two 5~-~al!on tanks shall be allowed in the Fourth Fire Zone for
each fluid ~uel burning device, ~cel~t that a single steel dr~m~, havi~g a
caI>acity of not exce~ding J~95 gallons and constructed in acdordance with the
re'lu~re~'~ents of the N~onal Board of '~re Underwriters, may be used in the Four~
]?ire Eone for each fluid fuel burning device. Th~ tanks or containers i~ this
section mentioned, must be located inside buildings, but not above the cellar
or basement or the lowest story i~i~. buil~]i~gs"havi~:~g no cellar or baseme:at; ?ro-
vided, however, that such tanks or coast.air,ers must be set ul} on suitable stands
a[..I~roved by the fire chief and must be located at least seven (7)Feet away fro~
any l.~oint where there is likely to be a Fire or flame; ir~ovided further however
that no more than two 55-gallon tanks may be l~laced outside of buildings in the
~ourth ~ire Zone only, in which case the s~e must be z~.laced on sturdy, well
constructed stands at least two (~) feet. away from the walls of any building,
or on metal frames if attached to the outside walls of any building, il].l tanks
or drums For storage of fluid [~uel shall be [:rovided with top bungs, and must
-be vented from the top.
Section 8. Nothing in this ordinance is intended to govern the installati~
of underground tanks for the storage of fuel. The city Building Inspector shal[
have the right to refuse the issuance of a permit unless the written applicatio~
shows on its face that the owner of the real i:~roperty, wherein and whereon the
said fluid Fuel burning equit,ment is to be installed, has given his consent to
such installation.
Section 9. No ?erson, firm or corporation, owning or occupying any real
property, shall have, permit or allow thereon any tank or container containing,
or intended to contaf, n, fluid fuel in any position which is less than ten (10)
feet away from any other such tank or container, and no such tank or container
shall, be allowed in any garage. Ail tanks or containers, intended to be used
for fluid :fuel, shall be secured fast on solid timber, steel or concrete found-
ation at suf£'icient elevation so -that the bottom of the tank is at least twelve
inches above the control valve on the fluid fuelb.~urnlng' device which it serves
and not more than six (6) feet above the same, and shall be vented to the outsi~
of any building' in a manner a!~i~.,ro'ved by the fire chief.
ection t0. The rules and regulations by the National Board of Fire Under-
writers now on file and as the sapac may be hereafter esaended, be and the same
are hereby ado?ted in detail, as the rules and regulations to be enforced in
the City of Bremerton, in regard to the manner and method of installation of
liquid fuel burnin~ equipment and the storage thereof; and said rules and
regulations shall govern the building inspector t~nd ,the fire chief of the city
of Bremerton in the issuance of permits and ap?roval of installations herein
referred to. It shall be unlawful to use or cause to be used any liquid fuel
burning equipment that h. as become unsafe, or is in imminent dan~er of becoming
unsafe, through leaks or other causes, after twenty-four (24) hours' notice of
the unsafe condition by,the fire chief or his representative to the person in
charge of the prem~ses where such equipment is in use.
Section 11. Any member of the fire department of the City of Bremerton
shall be deemed the authorized representative of the fire chief of the City of
Bremerton, for any purposes set forth in this ordinance.
Section 12. PEN~TY. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions
of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100.00, or by imprizonmenl
in the city jail for a term not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by both such ftn~
Ordinance No. 1324 (cont)
and imprisonment.
Section 13. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days
after its approval, passage and publication, as provided by law.
PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, signed by the
l~ayor, and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage, this
29th day of May, 1940.
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and foregoir~g is a t~ue nn~ ~rrect copy ot
~n o~dinan.~ passed by ~he city commi~ion
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