(a)
Standards.
All gas fittings used in any house, building,
or structure in the city shall be of safe design. All pipes placed
for the conveyance of natural gas or any other gas and all gas connections
to stoves, ranges, cooking stoves, gas heaters, hot water heaters,
and other gas appliances shall be wrought iron or steel or flexible
metal tubing and all fittings malleable iron, brass, copper, or bronze,
shall be free from defects, and shall be installed without the use
of lead pipe, caulking tool, or rubber hose connection of any kind,
excepting that extensions from the gas lines on the interior to small
heaters may be of flexible metal tubing. Every connection of pipe
or iron, brass, copper, or bronze fittings [sic]. No shoddy or defective
pipe or fitting shall be used, and no paint, cement, preparation or
dope of any kind shall be used on said pipe or fittings to close cracks,
openings or defects, except that pure white lead, or pipe compound
of equal or better quality, shall be used on the threads of every
joint connected.
(Ordinance adopted 4/17/1951; Ordinance adopting Code)
(a)
General standards.
All gas appliances such as water
heaters, floor furnaces, unit furnaces, vented type radiators, or
similar gas-fired heating devices must be vented to open air or the
vent pipe of such appliance connected properly to a brick chimney
flue. When such vent pipe or pipes are carried out of the building
to open air the top shall be properly flashed with a vent cap. The
vent to such appliance shall not be smaller than the vent opening
of the appliance served, and when more than one appliance is served
by the same vent, then the vent pipe area shall be increased in size
to fifty percent of the combined area of the appliances served. No
two vent openings shall connect into any vent pipe at the same level.
No chimney flue or other vent pipe shall be used to vent any gas appliance,
when used for purposes other then venting gas appliances.
(b)
Vents concealed in combustible partition.
Vents to gas
appliances such as water heaters, floor furnaces, unit furnaces, vented
type radiators or similar gas-fired heating devices, when concealed
in a combustible partition, shall be installed of material approved
by the National Board of Fire Underwriters and shall be of incombustible,
noncorrosive material of sufficient thickness, cross-sectional area
and heat insulating quality to avoid temperature in excess of 165
degrees F. on adjacent material and bonded with insulating cement
if transite piping is used. Such vents when used shall be of bell
and spigot type and shall be cemented together gas-tight and shall
not be placed closer to any combustible material than 3/4 of an inch.
(c)
Metal vent pipes.
Metal vent pipe shall not be used
in any concealed places or be placed within any combustible woodwork
or partitions, and when a metal vent pipe is used same must not be
placed closer than six inches (6") to any woodwork or combustible
materials, except when such pipe passes through a wall, ceiling or
roof. When such vent pipe passes through a wall, ceiling or roof of
combustible materials, then there shall be not less than two inches
(2") of ventilating space around the vent pipe.
(Ordinance adopted 4/17/1951; Ordinance adopting Code)
The city council does hereby adopt the International Fuel Gas
Code, 2018 edition as published by the International Code Council,
which code is incorporated herein as if set out herein in its entirety.
A copy of the International Fuel Gas Code, 2018 edition shall be kept
in the office of the city secretary.
(Ordinance adopted 12/3/2013,
sec. 8; Ordinance 200901A, sec.
9, adopted 9/1/2020)
