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CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF EUCLID, OHIO
CERTIFICATION
DIRECTORY OF OFFICIALS (2024)
PRELIMINARY UNIT
THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EUCLID, OHIO
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATION CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION AND TAXATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - HEALTH AND SANITATION CODE
PART THIRTEEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
PART SEVENTEEN - BUILDING AND HOUSING CODE
CHAPTER 1739
Smoke Abatement
1739.01   Definitions.
1739.02   Prohibited emission of products of combustion.
1739.03   Kettle fires.
1739.04   Combustion devices to conform.
1739.05   Permits.
1739.06   Inspection and certificate of operation.
1739.07   Exceptions.
1739.08   Sealing of combustion device.
1739.09   Fees.
1739.10   Duties of the Fire Department.
1739.11   Obstructing or interfering with enforcement.
1739.12   Incinerators prohibited.
1739.99   Penalty.
   CROSS REFERENCES
   Power to prevent dense smoke - see Ohio R.C. 715.44
   Air pollution - see Ohio R.C. Ch. 3704
   Noxious or offensive odors - see Ohio R.C. 3767.13
   Fire Department - see ADM. Ch. 143
   Exhaust smoke - see TRAF. 337.21
   Smoke detectors - see B. & H. 1755.27
   Ohio Fire Code - see F. P. Ch. 1525
1739.01 DEFINITIONS.
   For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
   (a)   “ASTM” means the American Society for Testing and Materials.
   (b)   “Combustion device” means any furnace, incinerator, refuse-burning equipment, boiler, apparatus, device, mechanism, stack, chimney or structure used for the burning of fuel or other combustible material, or for the emission of products of combustion, or used in connection with processes which generate heat and may emit products of combustion, and includes process furnaces and stills.
   (c)   “Dust” means gas-borne particles larger than one micron in mean diameter, and includes fly ash.
   (d)   “Dust-separating equipment” means any device for separating dust from the gas medium in which it is carried.
   (e)   “Fly ash.” See “Dust.”
   (f)   “Fumes” means gases or vapors that are of such character as to create an unclean, destructive, offensive or unhealthful condition.
   (g)   “Grate” means the surface on which fuel is supported and burned, and through which air for combustion is passed.
   (h)   “Heating or low-pressure boilers” means all boilers carrying fifteen pounds or less steam pressure.
   (i)   “Incinerator” means a device intended or used for the destruction of garbage or other combustible refuse by burning.
   (j)   “Internal-combustion engine” means an engine in which combustion or a gaseous, liquid or pulverized solid fuel takes place within one or more cylinders.
   (k)   “Mechanically-fired apparatus” means a combustion device in which fuel is introduced into the combustion chamber by power-driven mechanical equipment.
   (l)   “Open fire” means a fire from which the products of combustion are emitted directly into the open air without passing through a stack or chimney.
   (m)   “Power boilers” means all boilers carrying pressure greater than fifteen pounds per square inch.
   (n)   “Process furnaces and stills” means furnaces, other than boiler furnaces or warm-air heating furnaces, used in a manufacturing process.
   (o)   “Ringelmann Smoke Chart” means the Ringelmann Chart with instructions for use as published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Circular 7718, dated August, 1955.
   (p)   “Smokeless coal” means coal conforming to the limitations specified by the American Society for Testing and Materials for low volatile bituminous coal on a mineral matter free basis (ASTM Spec. No. D-388-38T) containing, namely, seventy-eight percent or more but less than eighty-six percent of fixed carbon, and twenty-two percent or less but more than fourteen percent of volatile matter, both on a dry basis.
   (q)   “Soot” means agglomerated particles consisting mainly of carbonaceous material.
   (r)   “Stack or chimney” means a flue, conduit or opening arranged to conduct products of combustion to the open air.
   (s)   “Volatile” means the gaseous constituents of solid fuels as determined by the procedure defined in ASTM Spec. No. D-121-30.
(Ord. 10267. Passed 3-15-54.)
1739.02 PROHIBITED EMISSION OF PRODUCTS OF COMBUSTION.
   No person shall cause, suffer or allow smoke in excess of the following limitations to be discharged from any stack coming under the provisions of this chapter:
 
Ringelmann Chart No.
Railroads and Steamships
Other Combustion Devices
(1)
No limitation
No limitation
(2)
No limitation
10 minutes in any 1 hour
(3)
RR--1/2 minute in any 4 minutes
6 minutes in any 8 hour period
SS--6 minutes in any 1 hour
(4)
Not allowed
Not allowed
(5)
Not allowed
Not allowed
 
(Ord. 10267. Passed 3-15-54.)
1739.03 KETTLE FIRES.
   Open fires shall not be used for melting tar or asphalt or other similar material. Tar kettles and asphalt kettles shall be equipped either with oil burners approved by the Fire Chief or shall be coke-fired in an approved manner.
(Ord. 10267. Passed 3-15-54.)
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