(a) General Requirements. Every dwelling and multi-family dwelling shall have heating facilities and the owner of the heating facilities shall be required to see that they are properly installed, safely maintained and in good working condition and that they are capable of safely and adequately heating all habitable rooms, bathrooms and toilet rooms located therein, to a temperature of at least an average of seventy degrees Fahrenheit with an outside temperature of ten degrees below zero. The owner shall maintain a minimum average room temperature of seventy degrees Fahrenheit in all habitable rooms including bathrooms and toilet rooms when rented, at all times on the basis of ten degrees below zero outside.
(Ord. 59, 1969.)
(b) Smoke Control. Fuel-burning, heat producing equipment shall be installed and maintained so that the emission or discharge into the atmosphere of smoke, dust, particles, odors or other products of combustion will not create a nuisance or be detrimental to the health, comfort, safety or property of any person.
(c) Warm Air Heating. Ducts and other air handling equipment used for heating shall conform to the requirements of such equipment used for ventilating purposes.
(d) Prohibited Locations for Heat Producing Equipment. Fuel-burning water heaters shall not be located in sleeping rooms, bathrooms or toilet rooms.
(e) Fuel Supply Connection. Fuel-burning equipment shall be permanently fastened and connected in place. Fuel supply connection to such equipment shall be made with pipe or tubing of solid metal.
(f) Installation and Clearance. Where heat-producing equipment is installed on, or adjacent to, combustible materials, the location, insulation, clearance and control of the equipment shall be such that the temperature on the surface of the combustible materials will not exceed a safe temperature.
(g) Air Supply.
(1) Direct-fired, heat-producing equipment and the enclosure in which it is located shall be provided with a supply of air adequate both for complete combustion at the rate gross output of the equipment and for the ventilation of the enclosure to prevent the accumulation of heat.
(2) Rooms containing fuel-burning equipment shall have such air supply provided by means of one or more openings to the exterior, or by means of fixed openings to interior spaces which open to the exterior.
(h) Removal of Products of Combustion.
(1) Equipment for burning solid or liquid fuel shall be connected to suitable chimneys or flues and shall not be connected to gas vents. Unvented heaters burning liquid fuel shall be prohibited.
(2) Fuel-burning space heaters located in sleeping rooms or rooms normally kept closed shall be connected to a suitable chimney flue or gas vent.
(3) Gas-fired equipment shall be connected to a suitable chimney, flue or gas vent when the discharge of products of combustion into the space where the equipment is installed would be a hazard.
(i) Safety Devices.
(1) Equipment capable of developing hazardous pressures or temperatures shall be provided with means to relieve safely such pressures and temperatures.
(2) Controls for the safe operation of automatically operated heat-producing equipment shall be provided to function as follows: when failure or interruption of flame or ignition occurs, the fuel supply shall be cut off. When a predetermined temperature or pressure is exceeded, the input of additional heat shall be prevented or reduced to a safe rate. When the water level in a steam boiler drops below a predetermined level, the fuel supply shall be cut off. When failure or interruption of pilot light or main burner of liquid fuel equipment occurs, the fuel supply to each pilot light and main burner shall be cut off.
(j) Heating of Garages. Fuel-burning equipment for garages servicing multiple dwellings shall be located in heater rooms, except that equipment burning gas or liquid fuel, located in the vehicle storage space, shall be permitted in stories at or above grade where elevated so as not to be exposed to possible accumulation of flammable gases.