No person shall commence or proceed with the installation, alteration, replacement or addition to any mechanical refrigeration system or part thereof in any building in the City until application has been made for a mechanical refrigeration permit, nor until such plans, specifications and other information as may be required by the Building Inspector for the proper enforcement of the provisions of this Building Code pertaining to mechanical refrigeration have been filed with the Building Inspector and the mechanical refrigeration permit applied for has been issued by him
A permit shall be required for every new installation or alteration of a refrigerating system containing a Group 2 or Group 3 refrigerant, as such classifications are described in an American National Standards Institute publication, designated ASA B 9.1-1964.
A permit shall be required for every new installation or alteration of a refrigerating system containing more than sixty pounds of a Group 1 refrigerant.
No permit for a refrigerating system containing a Group 3 refrigerant shall be issued and no such system shall be installed except after approval by the Building Inspector given upon submission of acceptable evidence that no public hazard will be created thereby. A refrigerating system containing Group 3 refrigerant shall be installed in conformity with the conditions of approval specified by the Building Inspector.
(Ord. 8611. Passed 3-27-56.)