For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AIR CONTAMINANT. A dust, fume, gas, mist, odor, smoke, vapor or any combination thereof.
AIR POLLUTION. The presence in the outdoor atmosphere of air contaminants in quantities, of characteristics and under conditions and circumstances and of a duration which are injurious to human life or property or which unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life and property, and which are reasonably detrimental to plant and animal life in this state and excludes all aspects of employer-employee relationships as to health and safety hazards. Nothing in this chapter shall apply in any respect to motor vehicles.
BRIDGEWALL. Any wall at the rear of the grate or stoker that acts as deflector or radiant heat reflector for the furnace gases and as a stop to the fuel bed or a rear wall to the ash pit.
CERTIFICATE OF OPERATION. A certificate issued by the Director authorizing the use of any process, fuel burning, refuse burning or control equipment for the period indicated after it has been found that it can be operated in compliance with the provisions of this chapter.
CHIMNEY. Any conduit, duct, vent, exhaust structure or opening of any kind whatsoever capable of and used for the emission of smoke, soot, cinders, noxious acids, gases, fly ash or industrial dusts.
COMBUSTION EQUIPMENT. Any furnace, incinerator, refuse burning equipment, boiler apparatus, fuel burning equipment, device, mechanism, stack or structure used in the process of burning fuel or combustible material.
DIRECTOR. The Director of City Services or his or her duly authorized representative.
FLY ASH. Any gas or air-borne particles larger than one micron (approximately .00004 inch) and consisting essentially of fused ash and/or unburned combustible material.
INDUSTRIAL DUSTS. Any gas or air-borne particles larger than one micron emanating from a manufacturing process or material storage or handling.
OPEN BURNING. A fire from which the products of combustion are emitted directly into the open air without passing through a stack or chimney.
PARTICULATE MATTER. The material, except uncombined water, that exists in a finely divided form as a liquid or solid at standard conditions.
PROCESS EQUIPMENT. Any equipment, device or contrivance for changing any materials whatever or for storage or handling of any materials, and all appurtenances thereto, including ducts, stacks, and the like, the use of which may cause any discharge of an air contaminant into the outdoor atmosphere, but not including that equipment specifically defined as “fuel burning equipment” or “refuse burning equipment” in this chapter.
REFUSE BURNING EQUIPMENT. Any equipment, device or contrivance used for the destruction of garbage, rubbish and/or other wastes by burning, and all appurtenances thereto.
REPAIR. Any work which requires the heating or power equipment to be wholly or partially dismantled and which results in the restoration of the heating or power equipment to its original state.
RULES. The rules and regulations for air pollution control as approved and adopted by the City Commission.
SALVAGE OPERATION. Any operation conducted in whole or in part for the salvaging or reclaiming of any product or material.
SMOKE. The visible finely divided material that escapes from a substance during combustion except such materials as are otherwise covered by this chapter.
SMOKE CHART. The “Ringelmann Smoke Chart” for the purpose of providing the standard of comparison for grading the density of smoke, as such Ringelmann Smoke Chart is published and used by the Federal Bureau of Mines.
SMOKE INDICATOR. Any device electrically or mechanically operated, fixed or movable, consisting of photoelectric devices, mirrors or series of mirrors which will allow firefighters or other persons operating boilers and/or other fuel burning equipment to determine the density and color of smoke and/or the ingredients of smoke, noxious fumes, acids, oxides, industrial dusts, or other air contaminants being expelled into the atmosphere.
(Prior Code, § 9.202) (Ord. effective 5-31-1991; Ord. effective 8-14-1992)