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A permit shall be required for the installation, alteration, or replacement, of house gas piping for the installation of gas-fired appliances required by OBBC and this Building Code to have a flue or vent connection; and for the installation of gas conversion burners in existing heating devices.
(a) All house gas piping and all gas-fired appliances shall be installed in conformity with the requirements of OBBC and this Building Code and in conformity with accepted safe practice.
(b) Except as provided in OBBC and this Building Code, or in statutes, or in regulations promulgated by authority of statute, or in other ordinances, conformity with the requirements of the following standards shall be accepted as conformity with accepted safe practice; provided that the Board of Building Standards and Building Appeals may change, modify, or supplement any of the requirements of such standards when deemed necessary in the interests of public safety or to further define accepted safe practice.
(c) When deemed necessary for safety to life or property, the Commissioner may require compliance with any recommendation or requirement of the standards listed in Section 3101.07.
(a) All gas piping, tubing, fittings, accessories, appurtenances, and gas appliances shall be of a type approved by the Board of Building Standards and Building Appeals or Ohio Board of Building Standards. Piping, tubing, fittings, accessories, appurtenances and gas appliances which conform to the standards hereinbefore specified and which have been approved by the Underwriters’ Laboratories, Inc. or the American Gas Association, or which have been approved by other nationally recognized testing laboratory which possesses adequate equipment, experience, and competency in this field, may be approved by the Board without additional test.
(b) No person, firm, association or corporation shall display, sell, barter, replace, offer for sale, deal in, supply, rent, donate, connect, or install within the City any piping, tubing, fitting, accessory, appurtenance, or gas appliance which has not been approved by the Cleveland Board or the Ohio Board of Building Standards and which does not bear the seal of approval or listing symbol prescribed or accepted by such Boards.
(a) All gas services shall be equipped with an approved curb cock placed in an accessible location outside of the building.
(b) Every system of gas service piping shall have an accessible main shut-off cock located on the house gas piping immediately adjacent and on the service pipe side of the meter.
(a) Whenever any concealed house gas piping, irrespective of length, or exposed house gas piping in excess of fifty (50) feet in length, is installed, altered or replaced; and whenever any gas-fired appliance required by OBBC or this Building Code to have a flue or vent connection, or any gas conversion burner, is installed, replaced, or relocated, the gas supply to such piping, appliance, or burner shall not be turned on by the installer of such piping, appliance, or burner, or by the owner or his or her agent, or by any person acting directly or indirectly for the owner, until the installation has been approved and written authorization to turn on the gas has been given by the Commissioner. In interpreting this subsection, the public utility organization supplying gas to the premises shall be not deemed to be the agent of the owner or to be acting for the owner.
(b) Whenever there is a change in a meter manifold which will provide for an increased number of meters, the gas supply to such manifold shall not be turned on until the installation has been approved and written authorization to turn on the gas has been given by the Commissioner.
(c) The term “altered” as used in this section means a change in the house gas piping involving disassembly of the piping.