[Ord. 1085-2006, 4-17-2006]
This chapter shall be known as the "Fuel Gas Code of the City
of Tahlequah" and may be cited as such.
[Ord. 1281-2019, 4-15-2019]
A. The purpose of this chapter is to provide minimum standards, provisions
and requirements for safe installation of consumers' gas piping
and gas appliances. All such gas piping and gas appliances installed,
replaced, maintained or repaired within the corporate limits of the
City shall conform to the requirements of this chapter and to the
specifications, rules and regulations entitled 2015 International
Fuel Gas Code, hereby approved and adopted by the Council of the City,
which specifications, rules and regulations are hereby incorporated
herein by reference and made a part of this chapter as if fully set
forth herein. Copies of such specifications, rules and regulations
shall be kept on file in the office of the City building inspector.
B. The International Fuel Gas Code shall be enforced by the building
inspector of the City of Tahlequah. The term "code official," wherever
found in the International Fuel Gas Code, shall mean the building
inspector of the City of Tahlequah.
[Prior Code § 4-16]
Notwithstanding any provision in this chapter to the contrary, consumers' piping installed prior to the adoption of this chapter on natural gas need not comply with Section
5-302 of this chapter, if the inspector finds, upon inspection and proper tests, that such piping will render reasonable satisfactory gas service to the consumer and will not in any way endanger life or property. Otherwise, such piping installed prior to the adoption of the regulations in Section
5-302 of this chapter shall be altered or replaced, in whole or in part, to conform with the requirements of this chapter.
[Prior Code, Secs. 4-20, 4-51]
A. Rough piping inspection shall be made after all new piping authorized
by the permit has been installed and before any such piping has been
covered or concealed or any fixtures or gas appliances have been attached
thereto.
B. Final piping inspection shall be made after all piping authorized
by the permit has been installed and after all portions thereof which
are to be concealed by plastering or otherwise have been so concealed,
and before any fixtures or gas appliances have been attached thereto.
This inspection shall include a pressure test, at which time the piping
shall stand an air pressure equal to not less than the pressure of
a column of mercury 12 inches in height and the piping shall hold
this air pressure for a period of at least 15 minutes without any
perceptible drop. A mercury column gauge shall be used for the test.
All tools, apparatus, labor and assistance necessary for the tests
shall be furnished by the installer of such piping. All inspections
under this chapter shall apply to the premises of the owner of those
premises and shall not apply to those installations made by a department
or agency of the City.
[Prior Code, Sec. 4-21]
The inspector shall issue a certificate of approval at the completion
of the work for which a permit for consumer piping has been issued,
if after inspection it is found that such work complies with the provisions
of this chapter. A duplicate of each certificate issued covering consumer's
gas piping shall be delivered to the gas company and used as its authority
to render gas service.
[Prior Code, Sec. 4-22]
This chapter shall not be construed as imposing upon the City
any liability or responsibility for damages to any person injured
by any defect in any gas piping or appliance mentioned herein or by
installation thereof, nor shall the City thereof, be held as assuming
any such liability or responsibility by reason of the inspection authorized
hereunder of the certificate of approval issued by the inspector.
[Prior Code, Sec. 4-24]
The following definitions are provided for the purpose of interpretation
and administration of this chapter:
CERTAIN APPLIANCES
Conversion burners, floor furnaces, central heating plants,
vented recessed heaters, water heaters and boilers.
CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL
A document, or tag issued and/or attached by the inspector
to the inspected material, piping or appliances, installation, filled
out together with date, address of the premises and signed by the
inspector.
GAS COMPANY
Any person distributing natural gas within the corporate
limits of the City or authorized and proposing to so engage.
INSPECTOR
The person appointed as inspector, and shall include each
assistant inspector (if any) from time to time acting as such under
this chapter by appointment of the Council of the City.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, firm, corporation or any other
organized group of individuals.