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e BUILDING CODE SECTION No building or structure shall hereafter be constructed, altered, or removed, nor shall the equipment for the operation of a building, structure or premises be constructed, installed, altered or removed, except in conformity with generally accepted good practice and the provisions of this code. SCOPE. 1. e . , 'I " I, " II I' i' :1 e . 1. Appointment. (a). The office of building official is hereby created and the executive official in charge shall be known as the building official. (b). The building official shall be appointed as required by law. His appointment shall continue during good behavior and satisfac- tory service. He shall not be removed from office except for cause after full opportunity has been given him to be heard on specific charges. (c). During temporary absence official the appointing authority shall official. BUILDING OFFICIAL. 2. SECTION - (a). Domestic appliances with input rating in excess of 50,000 Btu per hour, except domestic gas ranges. (b). Automatically controlled appliances with input rating in excess of 5,000 Btu per hour, except automatic instantaneous water heaters of the single faucet type, where the single faucet is attached to and made a part of the appliance. (c). Automatically controlled appliances with input rating less than 5,000 Btu per hour, unless equipped with an automatic device to prevent the escape of unburned gas at the main burner or burners. The term "automatically controlled appliances" used in para- graphs (b) and (c) refers to appliances to which the gas supply is automatically turned on and off in accordance with the demand for heat, but does not include appliances equipped with devices or con- trols governing the supply of gas to the main burner or burners which cannot automatically reduce the gas supply below 30 per cent of the input rating. (d). Appliances installed in the same room, which if not vented would make the total input rating of unvented gas appliances, not including domestic gas ranges, as great as 30 Btu per hour per cubic foot of room content. of the building acting building or disability designate an any (e). Water heaters installed in bath occupied room normally kept closed. (f). Space heaters in sleeping quarters for use of transients (g). All house, heating steam and hot water boilers and warm air furnaces including floor furnaces. or rooms, bed rooms, 2. Duties. It shall be the duty of the building official to en- force all laws relating to the construction, alteration, removal, and demolition of buildings and structures. 3. Rules. (a). The building official shall promulgate rules as prescribed in this code and consistent therewith, it being the intent of this requirement that the standards of federal or state bureaus, national technical organizations or fire ,underwriters, as the same may be amended from time to time, shall serve as a guide in fixing the minimum rules of practice under this code. (b). For the purpose of securing for the public the benefits of new developments in the building industry and yet insuring public safety, the building official shall make or cause to be made investigations, or may accept duly authenticated reports from rec- ognized sources, of new materials or modes of construction, in- tended for use in the construction of buildings or' structures in the municipality which are not provided for in this code, and shall promulgate rules setting forth the conditions under which such ma- terials or modes of construction may be used. (c). No rule of the building official shall become effective until four weeks after notice of intention to enforce it shall have been giyen through the publication in a newspaper in general circu- lation in the municipality and until a public hearing on the same shall have been held; provided that said public hearing shall not be necessary unless a request shall have been made for such hear- ing during the said period of publication. Such rule shall be drawn in its proposed form and open to public inspection at the time the notice to enforce is published. 1 . . 'I 'I I r V :1 '. . 2. Types of flues. , (a). Type A flues: Chimneys or metal smokestacks.' Type A flu~s are required for: (1) all incinerators; (2) all appliances which may be converted readily to the use of solid or liquid Htel; (3) all boilers and furnaces, other than attic furnaces, except where specific approval is obtained from the building official for the use of type B gas vents; (4) all other appliances except approved appliances which produce flue gas temperatures not in excess of 5500 F. at the outlet of the draft hood when burning gas at the manufacturer's input rating. (b). Type B gas vents: Approved vent piping of noncombusti- ble, corrosion-resistant material of adequate .strength and heat insu- lating value, and having bell and spigot or other acceptable joints. Type B gas vents shall be used only with approved gas appliances which are not required by paragraph (a) above to be vented to type A flues, except that they may be used when extended through an existing non-used chimney, whether the chimney is lined or not lined. Type C gas vents: Vent pipes of sheet copper of not less U. S. gauge or of galvanized iron of not less than 20 U. S. gauge or of other approved corrosion-resistant material, may be used for runs directly from the space in which the appliance is located through a roof or exterior wall to the outer air. Such vent pipes shall not pass through any attic or concealed space nor through any floor. This shall not be construed as prohibiting the use of such vent pipes to vent attic furnaces installed in accordance with the provisions of this code. Installation with reference to clearance 36 (c) than 24