[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Old
Field 8-12-1980 as L.L. No. 1-1980. Section
116-10 added at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art.
I. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
No fireplace, stove, furnace, heating device, cooking unit, incinerator,
boiler, firebox or other device which requires an outlet to convey smoke or
hot gases to the outer air shall be constructed, installed or maintained unless
a permit shall first have been obtained from the Village Building Inspector.
An application, along with drawings and specifications of the proposed
construction or installation, shall be submitted to the Building Inspector
and, after approval of same and construction or installation in accordance
with same, an inspection shall be made by the Building Inspector and a certificate
of occupancy issued prior to the operation of the device.
The installation shall meet the standards of the New York State Building
Code, Part 5, entitled "Heat-Producing Equipment," and the State Energy Conservation
Construction Code and, if applicable, shall be installed according to the
manufacturer's specifications.
A fee of twenty-five dollars ($2:5.) payable to the Village of Old Field,
shall accompany each application.
A.
No person or persons shall construct a chimney in or
attach any chimney to any dwelling or structure unless such chimney is either
a masonry chimney designed for the use of all types of fuels and is built
up from the footings below grade or a factory-fabricated chimney approved
as a result of tests and listed by a nationally recognized laboratory for
use with all types of fuel and is installed in accordance with the conditions
of approval and listing.
B.
The minimum free area of the chimney shall be equivalent
to a seven-inch round flue.
All chimneys, smokestacks or similar devices for conveying smoke or
hot gases to the outer air and all the devices to which they are connected
shall be constructed, installed and maintained in such a manner as not to
create a hazardous condition.
Every factory-built chimney shall be approved by the Underwriters Laboratories,
Inc., and shall be installed in accordance with the conditions of the approval.
Also every factory-built chimney shall be equipped with a cleanout tee and
one of the following methods of termination used:
Factory-built chimney housings which are field-assembled shall be equipped
with steel tension straps secured to the roof framing by nails and to the
chimney housing by bolts.
Factory-built chimney housings which are factory-assembled must be secured
to the roof framing with screws or bolts.
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this chapter
shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a violation pursuant to the Penal
Law of the State of New York, punishable by a fine not exceeding $250 or by
imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this chapter shall
constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate and distinct
offense hereunder.
