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All boilers, tanks, jacketed kettles, generators or other apparatus used for generating or transmitting steam for power or using steam under pressure for power or using steam under pressure for heating or steaming purposes, and all other tanks, jacketed kettles and reservoirs under pressure of any kind, shall be inspected under the authority or pursuant to the mandate of the building commissioner as often as the commissioner deems necessary. If a hydrostatic pressure test is deemed necessary, the hydrostatic pressures used in such test shall not exceed the maximum working pressure of the apparatus being tested by more than 50 percent and a careful external and internal examination of the apparatus shall be made prior to administering the test. In all cases where a hydrostatic pressure test is used, an internal examination of such apparatus shall be made after the test is administered.
(Prior code § 17-2A.5; Amend Coun. J. 9-13-89, p. 4604; Amend Coun. J. 12-2-09, p. 78837, Art. 7, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 2-22-17, p. 43916, Art. VIII, § 15)