[Adopted 2-10-1965 as Ch. 11 of the General Ordinances, approved 2-10-1965]
No person shall use or permit any other person to use a boiler
or power-developing unit or power-producing unit, as hereinafter defined,
until the same shall have been duly licensed as provided in this article,
nor for a longer period than authorized by such license, nor after
such license has been revoked, nor until duly inspected and the use
thereof permitted by the State of New York, Department of Labor, Division
of Industrial Safety Service.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
A closed vessel in which water is heated, steam is generated
or steam is superheated, or any combination thereof, under pressure
or vacuum for uses external to itself by the application of heat from
combustible fuels, electricity, nuclear energy or any other source,
but not including a device or apparatus used solely to heat water
for a hot-water supply system. The term "boiler" shall include the
apparatus used by which heat is generated and all controls and devices
related to such apparatus or to the closed vessel. The term "boiler"
also shall include fired units for heating or vaporizing liquids other
than water where these units are separate from processing systems
and are complete in themselves.
The provisions of this article shall not apply to:
A.
A boiler located on a farm and used solely for agricultural purposes.
B.
A steam or vapor boiler operating at a gauge pressure of not more
than 15 pounds per square inch and which is located in a dwelling
occupied by less than six families.
C.
A hot-water boiler which is located in a dwelling occupied by less
than six families.
D.
A boiler subject to inspection or control by a federal agency.
Any other provision of this article notwithstanding, this article
shall apply to any boiler, power-developing unit or power-producing
unit when used in connection with any building wherein is located
any theater, school, hospital, nursing home or convalescent home without
regard to the amount of pressure produced thereby.
All boilers subject to the provisions of this article shall
be constructed and stamped in accordance with the requirements of
the New York State Boiler Code affecting localities over which such
state reserves jurisdiction or in accordance with the requirements
of the Code of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. No such
boiler shall be installed in any building in this City unless there
shall first be filed with the Inspector of Steam Boilers a copy of
the manufacturer's data report on the standard form of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers.
No person shall subject or permit any other person to subject
any boiler to a higher pressure than that specified for its use in
the license to be issued.
No power-producing unit shall be used which shall not have a
safety valve of sufficient area to carry off excess pressure as fast
as generated and have attached thereto an escape pipe of like area
leading to the open atmosphere.
Such license shall, as near as may be possible, describe the
boiler inspected, tested and licensed, the name of the owner, the
date when inspected and tested and the number of pounds per square
inch approved, and such license, when so issued, shall only authorize
the operation of such boiler by such owner or his duly authorized
agent to the extent there indicated. All licenses shall at all times
be conspicuously displayed in the room where such licensed boiler
is located.
If any boiler shall be removed or reset or any change made in
connection therewith without the previous written authority of the
aforesaid New York State Department of Labor, Division of Industrial
Safety Service after any inspection or test conducted, authorized
or accepted by said Department, such reset or removal or such change
shall operate as a revocation of the license.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 98-33, Board of Examining
Engineers, and former § 98-34, Records and Reports of Board,
which immediately followed this section, were repealed 3-24-1999 by
L.L. No. 2-1999, effective 6-30-1999 and 6-14-2000, respectively.
