(a) No person shall construct, install, reconstruct, alter aor repair any furnace, boiler furnace, stack or other apparatus connected with a stack, unless he or she applies in writing to the building Commissioner, on a form furnished by the Commissioner, duly sworn tot before a notary public, or any person authorized to administer oaths, for a permit for such construction, installation, reconstruction, alteration or repair. Such application shall five the plans and specifications show the style and dimensions of the furnace, boiler-furnace, stack or other apparatus connected with a stack intended to be used; describe the building or part thereof in which such furnace, boiler-furnace, or other apparatus is located, including the means provided for regulating the temperature of such building or part thereof and ventilating the same, and generally all provisions made for preventing smoke; together with a statement of the kind of fuel proposed to be used and of the operating requirements to be made of the furnace of furnaces referred to therein. Unless such application shall be passed upon by the Building Commissioner and approved in writing and a permit issued as provided in division (b) hereof no work shall be done. Provided, however, that minor or emergency repairs which do not increase the capacity of such furnace or which do not involve any substantial alteration in such furnace, boiler-furnace, stack or other apparatus, and which do not involve any alteration in the method or efficiency of smoke prevention, may be made without a permit.
(b) Any application shall be approved or rejected within ten days after the same is filed in the office of the Building Commissioner.
(1982 Code, § 709.04) (Ord. 2223. Passed 12-5-1929.)