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Editor's Note: The provisions regarding oil-burning equipment in this article are derived from former Ch. 90, Building Construction and Fire Prevention, Art. II.
The Sanford Fire Department or Codes Department finds that improperly installed or serviced appliances burning oil for fuel and used for the heating of buildings, heating of water, or cooking are dangerous to persons and property. The use of such equipment shall be discontinued.
The Sanford Fire Department or Codes Department shall be duly authorized to have access at reasonable times to the records of all suppliers of oil-burning equipment in this City for the purpose of ascertaining to whom such equipment has been sold or supplied.
No oil-burning equipment and no fuel storage tank to be used in connection therewith shall be installed, maintained or used in this City unless it shall conform to the standards established by the State of Maine Oil and Solid Fuel Board and the Propane and Natural Gas Board pursuant to the provisions of 32 M.R.S.A. Ch. 33, as amended, and with the standards herein prescribed, whichever shall be higher. No such equipment or storage tank shall be installed, maintained or used which shall be unsafe or which shall endanger life or property.
No person, firm or corporation shall install any such equipment or tank without application for a certificate therefor having first been made to the Sanford Codes Office. Such application shall describe the installation to be made, the premises upon which it is to be made, the name of the person, firm or corporation making such installation, such installer's license numbers by the State of Maine Oil and Solid Fuel Board and the Propane and Natural Gas Board. Application for such certificate shall be in writing, signed either by the owner of the premises upon which such equipment or tank is to be installed or by the person who shall make such installation. The fee for such certificate shall be $1.50, payable to the City of Sanford.
After such equipment or tank has been installed and within 72 hours after notice thereof from the applicant, a Sanford Building Official shall inspect the said installation. No person, firm or corporation shall use any such equipment or tank, or maintain the same after installation, until inspected by a Sanford Building Official.
No inspection shall be required for the maintenance or use of any such equipment or tank where such equipment or tank was installed prior to the effective date of this article. All such equipment and tanks shall conform to the standards set in § 91-16 hereof.
If such equipment or tank should not comply with the standards set in § 91-16 hereof, a Sanford Building Official should notify the installer and set forth wherein the installation does not meet the specifications of the standards. The installer shall have 10 days after date of notification to comply with the standards in § 91-16 hereof. If, at the end of the specified time limit, a Sanford Building Official shall determine that the installation is still in violation of the standards as set forth in § 91-16, he shall give written notice that such equipment or tank does not conform to the standards set forth in § 91-16 hereof to the State of Maine Oil and Solid Fuel Board and the Propane and Natural Gas Licensing Board.
Violations of this article shall be punished by a fine as set forth in 30-A M.R.S.A. § 4452. Each day of violation shall be a separate offense.