For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section, unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
AUTOMATIC INSTANTANEOUS WATER HEATER
A large copper coil using gas as a fuel, surrounded by a cast-iron
or steel jacket and equipped with either thermostatic or water value control,
and not connected with a tank, range boiler or other storage tank, the water
supply coming directly from the house piping and delivering through the hot
water piping system.
AUTOMATIC STORAGE WATER HEATER
A tank in which service water, heated by a tank heater or base burner,
is stored and the temperature of which is controlled by a thermostat that
actuates the fuel valve.
DEPUTY
A deputy inspector or some other properly authorized representative
of the inspector.
GAS
Either a manufactured city gas or other gas used for heating purposes,
such as propane, pyrofax and butane, usually distributed in containers for
use in rural districts.
GAS CONVERSION BURNER
Any type of gas burner which with thermostatic control is used to
create steam or heat hot water or air in connection with an existing heating
boiler or heating furnace.
GAS HOUSE HEATING BOILER
A cast-iron or steel sectional boiler of either the steam or hot
water type using gas as a fuel.
INSPECTOR
The plumbing/mechanical inspector of the city.
INSTALLATION
The original or subsequent placing, equipping or connecting of apparatus.
SERVICE WATER
Hot water heated by any fuel to be used for any purpose except power
or heating.
TANK HEATER
A copper coil through which water is heated, the coil being surrounded
by a cast-iron or steel jacket.
TANK OR RANGE BOILER
Any vessel of any type or construction used to store heated service
water in which hot water may be confined to or subject to a pressure of fifteen
(15) pounds or more per square inch pressure above atmosphere, except any
pressure vessel used for generating or storing steam or hot water for the
purpose of power or heating and except any boiler as defined in R.I.G.L. § 28-25-1.
No tank heater or automatic storage water heater shall be installed
unless such tank heater and any tank or range boiler used in connection therewith
or such automatic storage water heater is constructed and equipped in compliance
with the provisions of this chapter, nor unless a permit for such installation
shall first have been secured from the inspector, nor shall the same be placed
in service until approved by him or her.
No tank or range boiler shall be installed for use on a working pressure
greater than forty-two and one-half percent (42 1/2%) of the tested pressure
stamped on the tank or range boiler by the manufacturer, nor if solder which
fuses at a temperature below six hundred degrees Fahrenheit (600° F.)
has been used to hold the tank or range boiler together and not merely for
the purpose of making it watertight, nor if solder is used in its construction,
unless such solder will not become weakened beyond the normal strength of
the material of which the shell and heads are constructed, when subjected
to a temperature up to three hundred degrees Fahrenheit (300° F.), nor
shall it be installed in any event unless it has been tested to at least two
hundred (200) pounds per square inch hydraulic pressure and bears the name
of its manufacture and his or her stamp showing at what hydraulic pressure
per square inch it has actually been tested.
No service water heating system equipped with a reducing valve or check
valve in the cold water line supplying a tank or range boiler or a check valve
embodied in the water meter supplying a tank or range boiler shall be installed
unless, in addition to the temperature relief, it has a pressure relief valve
located at a point where it will relieve the pressure within the tank or range
boiler when and if such pressure exceeds seventy-five (75) pounds per square
inch hydraulic pressure.
No tank heater or automatic storage water heater shall be installed unless such tank heater or automatic storage water heater or the tanks or other apparatus connected therewith shall be provided with a temperature relief and a pressure relief in accordance with the regulations contained in §§
235-4 and
235-5, except as therein otherwise provided.
No automatic storage water heater, gas house heating boiler, gas house
heating furnace or gas conversion burner shall be installed unless it is equipped
with a thermostatic pilot or thermostatic gas shutoff which will actuate the
main gas valve to a closed position in case the pilot light is extinguished
nor unless it is properly connected to a chimney or to an equivalent flue
discharging outside the building, provided that it shall not be required to
connect to a chimney or flue any automatic storage water heater whose consumption
of gas does not exceed ten (10) cubic feet per hour.
No automatic instantaneous water heater shall be installed unless it
is properly connected to a chimney or to any equivalent flue discharging outside
building.
No tank heater shall be installed in a room having a capacity of less
than one thousand (1,000) cubic feet unless it is properly connected to a
chimney or suitable flue.
No tank heater or automatic storage or automatic instantaneous water
heater shall be installed in a bedroom, bathroom or closet.
No person shall use oxygen or gas under pressure, either separately
or in combination, to aid combustion, unless effective means shall be provided
to prevent reverse travel in the direction of the gas main, nor unless a suitable
check valve has been installed in the gas line between the gas meter and the
appliance using oxygen or gas.
No person shall install or assist in installing any apparatus contrary
to any of the provisions of this chapter, or turn on gas for any apparatus
contrary to any of the provisions of this chapter, or turn on or use air,
oxygen or gas contrary to any of the provisions of this chapter. The owner
or occupant of premises shall not be regarded as a person who installs or
assists in installing apparatus or who turns on or uses air, oxygen or gas,
unless he or she personally installs or assists in installing apparatus or
personally turns on air, oxygen or gas.
It shall be part of the duties of the inspector to enforce all provisions
of this chapter, irrespective of whether or not permits are necessary.