(A) (1) It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire Department to personally inspect all chimneys, steam generating plants and apparatus in use, make written reports to the Board of Public Works and Safety, and keep a permanent record of all essential facts.
(2) If, in the opinion of the Chief of the Fire Department, smoke emitted is a nuisance, he or she shall make complaint to the persons maintaining the nuisance defining its cause.
(3) If the cause is unskillful hand stoking, he or she shall make immediate complaint against all persons violating this subchapter.
(4) If the nuisance is caused by the construction of the furnace, size or height of stack, connections or engineering details relating to boiler or furnace construction or connection, he or she shall make a statement of the cause of the nuisance and report to the owners or operators as to necessary changes, alterations or additions and fix a limit of time for the changes, alterations or additions to be made. The time shall not exceed three months.
(B) (1) In the event, however, that it is necessary to install stokers, the time shall not exceed six months. If it is apparent from the inspection of the Chief of the Fire Department that no change, appliances or alteration of the furnace, boilers, connections, stack or appurtenances thereto would eradicate the smoke nuisance, and that the nuisance is caused by the steam generating plant being worked in excess of its normal capacity or, for other organic reasons, cannot be converted to eliminate the nuisance, then he or she shall report to the owners or operators the conditions of the plant and the required changes or additions necessary so that it will not operate as a nuisance.
(2) Notices shall be in writing, and at the expiration of the time allowance the Chief of the Fire Department shall report as to the conditions of the plant.
(3) In the event it is maintained as a nuisance, he or she shall make complaint against all persons violating this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 94.36) (Ord. 231-1910, passed - -1910)