(a) A work permit shall not be required for the installation or alteration of the following equipment or apparatus:
(1) Air conditioning, ventilating, or exhaust systems not designed to remove air contaminants generated by or released from equipment or exhaust systems for controlling steam and heat.
(2) Air contaminant detector or air contaminant recorder.
(3) Construction equipment except for generators.
(4) Deicing storage tanks.
(5) Dilution ventilating systems for control of welding fumes and gases.
(6) Equipment with an environmental rating of D.
(7) Fuel burning equipment that has a Btu input or a gross output of less than four million two hundred thousand Btu per hour and uses a fuel gas, natural gas, gasoline or fuel oil grade No. 1 or 2.
(8) Installations for the preparation of food for on-site consumption or retail purchase, unless required elsewhere in this code or pursuant to rules issued by the commissioner.
(9) Internal combustion engines used to power any motor vehicle or any stationary engine that has an output of not more than six hundred horsepower.
(10) Laboratory equipment used exclusively for chemical or physical analyses of non-radioactive material.
(11) Refrigeration equipment used for cold storage.
(12) Steam safety valves.
(13) Vents used exclusively by tanks used for the storage of fuel oil, biodiesel, liquid soap, liquid detergent, tallow or vegetable oil, waxes, or emulsions.
(14) Vents used exclusively as part of a sanitary or storm drainage systems.
(15) Vacuum cleaning systems used exclusively for industrial, commercial or residential housekeeping.
(16) Ventilating or exhaust systems for storage rooms or cabinets for paint, ink, or solvents.
(17) Water cooling towers and water cooling ponds not used for evaporative cooling of process water, or not used for evaporative cooling of condensed water for jet or barometric condensers.
(18) Equipment for which a registration is required pursuant to section 24-109 of the code.
(19) Anti-icing trucks used by the department of transportation.
(20) High-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) vacuum.
(21) Any other equipment or apparatus exempted by the commissioner by rule.
(b) A work permit shall not be required for the installation or alteration of equipment or apparatus in one and two-family dwellings.
(c) Although a work permit is not required for the installation or alteration of the equipment or apparatus listed in subdivisions (a) and (b) of this section, such equipment and apparatus shall otherwise comply with this code.
(d) A work permit shall not be required to begin an alteration of equipment or apparatus if delaying the alteration may endanger life or the supplying of essential services. The department shall be notified in writing of the alteration within twenty-four hours or on the first working day, after the alteration is commenced, and an application for a work permit shall be filed within fourteen days after the day the alteration is commenced.
(e) Nothing in this section shall in any way alter, affect, or change any other requirement or law of any other governmental agency or department.
(Am. L.L. 2015/038, 5/6/2015, eff. 5/6/2016)