Ordinance 3043 - Laserfiche WebLink

• • • (a) Only such gravity oil burners as have been in- spected and approved by the Fire Chief as elsewhere herein pro- vided, shall be offered for sale , installed or used within the City of Everett, Washington. (b ) The Fire chief may reject or disapprove any gravity oil burner which is not provided with adequate safe- guards against fire or explosion or which is otherwise unsafe for use within the city limits of Everett . (c ) The recommendations and regulations pertaining to oil burners of the gravity type for installation in stoves, ranges and other heating devices as provided , from time to time , by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, and the standards of construction as promulgated by Underwriters' Laboratories, or by any other organization of equivalent standing properly equipped and qualified for experimental testing, may be accepted. by the Fire Chief as prima facie evidence that any gravity oil burner complying with such regulations is safe for use within the City of Everett and the Fire Chief may, at his discretion, permit the installation and use of any such gravity oil burner, subject to the special provisions herein provided. (d) No gravity oil burner having an oil supply tank of a capacity exceeding Twelve (12) gallons, shall be installed or used in any portion of a building used for the purpose of a hotel, apartment house or assembly hall, or a rooming house , boarding house , school, theater, church, department store , or a place of refuge or detention, or in any portion of a water- front building extending over the waters of Everett harbor or river. (e ) No gravity oil tank shall have an oil capacity in excess of Two Hundred Fifty (250 ) gallons when installed as an integral part of a gravity supply tank system. ( f) Storage tanks shall be equipped with an open ven' extending from and above top of tank and provided with a return elbow. Vent openings and vent pipes shall be of ample size to prevent abnormal pressure in the tank during filling, but shall not be smaller than one inch pipe size, and proportionately larger for correspondingly larger supply tanks. Vent pipes shall be connected to the top of the tank and shall not extend through the top of the tank for a distance of more than one inch. (g) No oil burner connected to a gravity oil tank having a capacity in excess of Twelve (12 ) gallons shall be located above the lowest story of the building in which installed, or be less than Ten (10 ) feet from any stove , furnace , boiler or other heating or heat radiating device . When the capacity of the gravity oil tank does not exceed Twelve (12) gallons, such tank may be located not less than Three (3) feet from such -4-