(A) No person shall cause or permit the use, or if intended for use in the city, except as provided in division (E) below, the purchase, sale, offering for sale, storage, or transportation of fuel, which, as determined by the methods of the American Society for Testing and Materials, contains more than the following quantity of sulfur per million BTU in the following use classifications:
(1) From July 1, 1971, until July 1, 1972, one and eight-tenths pounds of sulfur per million BTU heating value; or
(2) After July 1, 1972, nine-tenths pounds of sulfur per million BTU heating value.
(B) All new space heating equipment, the plans for which are 50% or less completed by July 1, 1971, shall be limited to the use of fuels containing no more than nine-tenths pounds of sulfur per million BTU. All existing space heating equipment shall be limited to the use of fuels containing not more than one and eight-tenths pounds of sulfur per million BTU on and after July 1, 1971, to and including July 1, 1972, and shall thereafter be limited to the use of fuels, containing no more than nine-tenths pounds sulfur per million BTU on and after July 1, 1972.
(C) All new and existing industrial power plants, electric power generating plants, and process plants, except as provided in division (E) below, shall be limited to the use of fuel containing no more than one and thirty-five hundredths pounds of sulfur per million BTU from and after July 1, 1971, and shall be limited to the use of fuel containing no more than nine-tenths pounds of sulfur per million BTU on and after July 1, 1972.
(D) No fuels exceeding the sulfur limitations set forth in this section shall be used in the city without prior notification of its use to the Department.
(E) The following exceptions apply to divisions (A) through (D) above:
(1) Fuels which exceed the sulfur limits as specified in division (A) above may be sold, stored, or transferred for use in the city if intended for use in combination simultaneously with other fuels in a facility whereby emissions of sulfur dioxide will not exceed that which could result from burning fuels having limits specified in division (A) above;
(2) Fuels which exceed the sulfur limits specified in division (C) above may be burned in industrial power plants, electric power generating plants, and process plants if burned in combination with other fuels or materials in a facility whereby the emissions of sulfur dioxide shall not exceed that which would result from burning fuels specified in division (C) above; and
(3) Any facility which has installed equipment which has been approved by the Department for the control of sulfur oxide emissions, may use fuels of higher sulfur content than that stipulated in divisions (A) and (C) above.
(Prior Code, § 102.151) Penalty, see § 95.999