The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall for the purpose of this chapter have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this chapter, unless a different meaning is clearly indicated.
(a) “Air contaminant” means any solid, liquid, or gas, or any combination thereof except uncombined water, discharged into the atmosphere.
(b) “Air pollution” means the presence in the atmosphere of one or more contaminants in such quantities for such period of time that they are, or may be, injurious to human, plant or animal life, or to property, or that they interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property or the conduct of business.
(c) “Air Pollution Control Officer” means the enforcement officer responsible for control of air pollution within the boundaries of the City.
(d) “Appeals Board” means the Board to which an appeal may be made from a decision of the Board of Health.
(e) “Board” means the Board of Health of the City.
(f) “City” means the City of Portsmouth, Ohio.
(g) “Commissioner of Air Pollution Control” means the person appointed by the Board to represent them between meetings and to execute the Board’s directives, and preside at all hearings with the exception of appeals.
(h) “Control equipment” means any equipment designed to regulate the release of contaminants from process, fuel-burning or refuse-burning equipment by reducing the creation of air contaminants or the emission of air contaminants into the atmosphere, or both.
(i) “Council” means Council of the City.
(j) “Emission” means the act of passing in to the atmosphere an air contaminant or the material so passed to the atmosphere.
(k) “Fuel-burning equipment” means any furnace, boiler apparatus, stack and all appurtenances thereto, whose combustion product emits or exhausts to atmosphere, and is used in the process of burning fuel for the primary purpose of producing heat or power.
(l) “Hearing officer” means the official assigned by the Board to hear complaints with reference to violation of this chapter.
(m) “Opacity” means the state of a substance which renders it partially or wholly impervious to the rays of light. Opacity as used in this chapter refers to the obscuration of an observer’s view.
(n) “Open burning” means any fire from which the products of combustion are emitted directly into the outdoor atmosphere without passing through a stack.
(o) “Particulate matter” means material other than uncombined water, which is suspended in or discharged into the atmosphere in a finely divided form as a liquid or solid, at standard conditions.
(p) “Person” means any individual, partnership, co-partnership, firm, company, public or private corporation, association, trust, estate, or any agency, board, department of the City, or any other legal entity.
(q) “Process equipment” means any equipment, device, or contrivance for changing any material whatever or for storage or handling of any materials, and all appurtenances thereto, including ducts, stacks, etc., the use or existence of which may cause any discharge of air pollutants into the outdoor atmosphere but not including that equipment specifically defined as fuel-burning equipment or refuse- burning equipment in this chapter.
(r) “Process weight” means the total weight of all material introduced into an industrial operation or process, including solid fuels, but excluding liquid fuels and gaseous fuels when these are used as fuels and air introduced for purposes of combustion, cooling or transport.
(s) “Process weight per hour” means for continuous or steady state operation or process: the total process weight for the entire period of operation or for a typical portion thereof, divided by the number of hours of such period or portion thereof. For batch operation: the total process weight for a period which covers a complete operation of an integral number of cycles divided by the hours of actual process operation during such period.
(t) “Refuse-burning equipment” means any equipment, device, or contrivance used for the destruction of garbage, and/or other combustible wastes by burning, and all appurtenances thereto.
(u) “Salvage operations” means any operation conducted in whole or in part for the salvaging or reclaiming of any product or material.
(v) “Seal” or “sealing equipment or premises” means a device, tag or marking installed by the Board so as to prevent use of the process, fuel-burning, refuse- burning, or control equipment or premises causing the violation or from which violations of this chapter originate.
(w) “Smoke” means small gas borne particles, consisting essentially of carbonaceous material, in sufficient number to be observable.
(x) “Stack” means a stack, chimney, flue, conduit, or opening arranged for the emission into the outdoor atmosphere of air pollutants.
(y) “Standard conditions” means a gas temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit and a gas pressure of 14.7 pounds per square inch absolute dry air.
(z) “Volatile content” means the gaseous constituents of solid fuels as determined by the standard procedure of the American Society for Testing Materials designated D-980 as amended or revised to date.
(Ord. 1970-69. Passed 7-28-70.)