EDITOR'S NOTE: By virtue of an agreement entered into on July 17, 1964, between the City of Rossford and the City of Toledo, the enforcement of Ordinance 574-64, codified as Chapter 1321, Air and Water Pollution, is delegated to the Toledo Pollution Control Division.
1321.01 Definitions.
1321.02 Commissioner to promulgate rules and regulations.
1321.03 Fuel-burning equipment to be approved by Commissioner.
1321.04 Air pollution prohibited; control equipment; standards of measurement.
1321.05 Testing installations; notice to Commissioner.
1321.06 Water pollution prohibited.
1321.07 Obstruction or interference prohibited.
1321.08 Persons liable.
1321.09 Coordination of departments.
1321.10 Prosecution.
1321.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Water pollution - see Ohio R.C. 715.08, 743.23
Smoke abatement - see Ohio R.C. 715.44
Burners giving off noxious gases - see Ohio R.C. 2923.25
Air pollution - see Ohio R.C. Ch. 3704
Trash, harmful substances in watercourses - see GEN. OFF. 521.08
Noxious or offensive odors - see GEN. OFF. 521.09
Fencing for water-collecting areas - see GEN. OFF. 521.10
Commercial dredging causing pollution - see BUS. REG. 707.01(b)(2)
Burning of sanitary landfill waste not to cause dense smoke - see S.U. & P.S. 923.03
Open burning - see FIRE PREV. 1503.02 et seq.
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Dust" means gasborne particles larger than one micron in mean diameter.
(b) "Dust-separating equipment" means any device for separating dust from the gas medium in which it is carried.
(c) "Fuel-burning equipment" means any furnace, incinerator, refuse-burning equipment, boiler, apparatus, device, mechanism, stack or structure used in the process of burning fuel or combustible material.
(d) "Fumes" means gases or vapors that are of such character as to create an unclean, destructive, offensive or unhealthful condition.
(e) "Internal combustion engine" means an engine in which combustion of a gaseous liquid or pulverized solid fuel takes place within one or more cylinders.
(f) “Open fires” means any fire wherein the products of combustion are emitted into the open air and are not directed thereto through a stack or chimney.
(g) "Person" means any individual, partnership, association, syndicate, company, firm, trust, corporation, government corporation, department, bureau, agency or any other entity recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties.
(h) "Ringelmann Smoke Chart" means the Ringelmann Chart with instructions for use as published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines, current edition.
(i) "Smoke" means small gasborne particles consisting essentially of carbonaceous material in sufficient number to be observable.
(j) "Dense smoke" means smoke which has a density of No. 2 or greater as established by the Ringelmann Chart, hereinafter referred to and adopted.
(k) "Soot" means agglomerated particle consisting essentially of carbonaceous material.
(l) "Stack" or "chimney" means a flue, conduit or opening arranged for emitting gases into the open air.
(m) "Technical engineer" means a person qualified by law to practice professional engineering or one having qualifications for full membership in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
(n) "Volatile" means the gaseous constituents of solid fuels as determined by the standard A.S.T.M. procedure amended or revised to date.
(o) "Waters of the City" means all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, open drainage systems and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, which are within the jurisdiction of the City, except those private waters which do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters.
(p) “Water pollution” means the placing of any noxious, toxic or deleterious substances in any waters of the City which renders the waters harmful or inimical to the public health, animal or aquatic life or to use of the waters for domestic water supply or for industrial or agricultural purposes or for recreation.
(Ord. 574. Passed 6-22-64.)
(Ord. 574. Passed 6-22-64.)
(a) The Commissioner of Air and Water Pollution Control is hereby authorized to prepare and promulgate rules and regulations for the installation and operation of equipment and devices that are susceptible for use in a manner that violates the provisions of this chapter.
(b) The Commissioner may from time to time alter, amend or rescind the rules and regulations and promulgate amended or additional rules and regulations as shall be deemed advisable. Rules and regulations that may be prepared, revised, amended or rescinded shall be effective thirty days after their publication and copies provided for distribution at the office of the Commissioner.
(Ord. 574. Passed 6-22-64.)
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