[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 § 4-17]
A.
No person shall engage in or work at the installation, extension
or alteration of consumers' gas piping or certain gas appliances,
until such person shall have secured a license as hereinafter provided,
and shall have executed and delivered to the City a good and sufficient
bond in the penal sum of $1,000 with corporate surety, conditioned
for the faithful performance of all such work entered upon or contracted
for in strict accordance and compliance with the provisions of this
chapter. The bond herein required shall expire on January 1 next following
its approval by the City Clerk and thereafter on January 1 of each
year a new bond, in form and substance as herein required, shall be
given by such to cover all such work as shall be done during such
year.
B.
Upon approval of the bond, the person desiring to do such work shall
secure from the City Clerk a nontransferable license which shall run
until January 1 next succeeding its issuance, unless sooner revoked.
The person obtaining a license shall pay an annual license fee of
$25 to the City Clerk; except that a person residing outside of the
County shall pay an annual license fee of $50.
C.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed as prohibiting an individual
from installing or repairing his own appliances or installing, extending,
replacing, altering or repairing consumers' piping on his own
premises; provided, however, all such work must be done in conformity
with all other provisions of this chapter, including those relating
to permits, inspection and fees.
[Prior Code, Sec. 4-18]
A.
No person shall install a gas conversion burner, floor furnace, central
heating plant, vented recessed heater, water heater, boiler, consumer's
gas piping or convert existing piping to utilize natural gas without
first obtaining a permit to do such work from the City Clerk; however,
permits will not be required for setting or connecting other gas appliances,
or for the repair of leaks in house piping.
B.
When only temporary use of gas is desired, the inspector may issue
a permit for such use, for a period of not to exceed 60 days, provided
the consumer's gas piping to be used is given a test equal to
that required for a final piping inspection.
C.
A gas company shall not be required to obtain permits to set meters
or to extend, relocate, remove or repair its service lines, mains
or other facilities, or for work having to do with its own gas system.
[Prior Code, Sec. 4-19]
A.
No permit shall be valid until such fees as are established from
time to time by the City shall have been paid; nor shall an amendment
to a permit be approved until the additional fees, if any, shall have
been paid.
B.
If any person commences any work on a gas installation before obtaining
the necessary permit from the City, he shall be subject to the penalty
prescribed herein.
[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:
Conversion burners, floor furnaces, central heating plants,
vented recessed heaters, water heaters and boilers.
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.
Any person distributing natural gas within the corporate
limits of the City or authorized and proposing to so engage.
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.
Any individual, partnership, firm, corporation or any other
organized group of individuals.
