(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation to install or alter any oil-fired or gas-fired heating equipment covered by this chapter in the city, except as herein provided, without a permit from the Department. Application for such permit shall be on forms furnished for such purpose by the Department and shall contain sufficient information for a proper description of the burner, equipment and accessories to be installed or altered.
(B) The Department shall issue numbered tags, of a type which will be destroyed upon removal, to licensed oil burner and gas-fired space heating installation contractors and shall keep a record of tags so issued. These tags shall be attached to the fuel oil fill or vent pipe by the contractor upon completion of an oil burner installation or to the fuel line of the gas space heating apparatus at the manually operated shutoff valve by the contractor upon the completion of the gas space heating installation.
(C) Upon issuance of an oil burner or gas burner installation permit, the Department shall inspect the installation and if found to conform with the provisions of this chapter, a permanent metal tag, property numbers shall be affixed by the Inspector.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any owner, occupant, firm, partnership, association or corporation having control or management of any building or structure to use or permit to be used therein any fuel oil burner, oil-burning heater which has been installed or altered subsequent to the effective date of the chapter without a permit as herein provided. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, association or corporation, except authorized personnel of the gas company, to turn on the gas for use in any gas-fired space heating equipment which has been installed or altered in any building or structure subsequent to the effective date of this chapter without the said permit.
(E) No person oa1 persons, firm or corporation shall supply with fuel oil any tanks or containers for fuel oil unless such fuel oil burners and equipment shall have, as herein provided, a tag attached to the fill or vent pipe of such tank or container.
(F) Fees for the issuance of installation or alteration permits for inspections required under the provisions of this chapter shall cover the cost of inspection and supervision resulting from the enforcement of this chapter. The fee shall be $5.
(Ord. 19, passed 1-7-1955) Penalty, see § 156.999