The following sections of the 2021 International Fuel Gas Code, adopted by reference in Section 6-1-1 of this Chapter, are hereby amended as follows:
Section 101.1 is amended to read as follows:
101.1 Title. These regulations shall be known as the fuel gas code of the Town of Winter Park, herein referred to as “this code.”
Section 103.2 is amended to read as follows:
103.2 Building Official. See Town Code 6-1-2, Section 103.2.
Section 103.3 is amended to read as follows:
103.3 Deputies. See Town Code 6-1-2, Section 103.3.
Section 104.8 is amended to read as follows:
104.8 Liability. See Town Code 6-1-2, Section 104.8.
Section 106.1.1 & 106.1.2 shall be repealed in its entirety.
Section 106.5.1 shall be amended by replacing the word with “REVIEWED FOR CODE COMPLIANCE”
Section 109.2 is amended to read as follows:
109.2 Fee Schedule. The fees for work shall be in accordance with Title 1 Chapter 11 of the Town Code.
Section 109.6 is amended to read as follows:
109.6 Fee Refunds. The building official shall authorize the refunding of fees as follows:
1. The full amount of any fee paid hereunder that was erroneously paid or collected.
2. Not more than 80 percent of the permit fee paid when no work has been done under a permit issued in accordance with this code.
3. Not more than 80 percent of the plan review fee paid when an application for a permit for which a plan review fee has been paid is withdrawn or canceled before any plan review effort has been expended.
The building official shall not authorize the refunding of any fee paid, except upon written application filed by the original permittee not later than 180 30 days after the date of fee payment.
Section 107.2.2 is amended by adding a new subsection to read as follows:
107.2.2 Inspection Requests. It shall be the duty of the holder of the permit or his or her duly authorized agent to notify the code official when work is ready for inspection. It shall be the duty of the permit holder to provide access to and means for inspection of such work that is required by this code. All inspections requested prior to 4:00 pm the day requested will be performed the following working day. Such request for inspection may be made by calling the 24-hour automated telephone answering system or the automated inspection portal.
107.2.2.1 Reinspections. A reinspection fee, as specified in Title 1, Chapter 11 of the Town Code, may be assessed for each inspection or reinspection when such portion of work for which inspections is called is not complete or when corrections called for are not made. Reinspection fees may be assessed when the inspection record card is not posted or otherwise available on the work site, the approved plans are not readily available to the inspector, for failing to provide access on the date for which the inspection is requested, or for deviating from plans requiring the approval of the building official. In instances where reinspection fees have been assessed, no additional inspection of work will be performed until the reinspection fees have been collected by the building department.
107.2.2.2 Investigative fee - Work without a permit. Whenever any work for which a permit is required by this code has been commenced without first obtaining said permit, a special investigation shall be made before a permit may be issued for such work. An investigation fee, in addition to the permit fee, shall be collected whether a permit is then or subsequently issued. The investigation fee may be up to or equal to the amount of the permit fee required by this code. The minimum investigation fee shall be set forth and adopted by the Town Council. The payment of such investigation fee shall not exempt any person from compliance with all other provisions of this code nor from any penalty prescribed by law.
Section 108.4 is amended to read as follows:
108.4 Violation Penalties. Any person who shall violate a provision of this code or shall fail to comply with any of the requirements thereof or erect, install, alter or repair work in violation of the approved construction documents or directive of the building official, or of a permit or certification issued under the provisions of this code, shall be guilty of a violation, punishable by a fine of per Town Code or by imprisonment not exceeding (NUMBER OF DAYS) per Town Code, or both such fine and imprisonment. Each day that a violation continues after due notice has been served shall be deemed a separate offense. In accordance with Title 1 Chapter 4 of the Town Code of Winter Park.
Section 108.5 is amended to read as follows:
108.5 Stop Work Orders. See Town Code 6-1-5, Section 108.5. Section 109 is repealed in its entirety and reenacted to read as follows: Section 109 Means of Appeal. See Town Code 6-1-2, Section 113.
Section 303.3 is amended to read as follows:
303.3 Prohibited Locations. Appliances shall not be located in sleeping rooms, bathrooms, toilet rooms, storage closets or surgical rooms, or in a space that opens only into such rooms or spaces, except where the installation complies with one of the following:
1. The appliance is a direct-vent appliance installed in accordance with the conditions of the listing and the manufacturer’s instructions.
2. Vented room heaters, wall furnaces, vented decorative appliances, vented gas fireplaces, vented gas fireplace heaters and decorative appliances for installation in vented solid fuel-burning fireplaces are installed in rooms that meet the required volume criteria of section 304.5.
3. The appliance is installed in a room or space that opens only into a bedroom or bathroom, and such room or space is used for no other purpose and is provided with a solid weather-stripped door equipped with an approved self-closing device. All combustion air shall be taken directly from the outdoors in accordance with section 304.6.
Section 406.4.1 is amended to read as follows:
406.4.1 Test Pressure. The test pressure to be used shall not be no less 11/2 times the proposed maximum working pressure, but not less than 10 psig, irrespective of design pressure. Where the test pressure exceeds 125 psig (862 kPa gauge), the test pressure shall not exceed a value that produces a hoop stress in the piping greater than 50 percent of the specified minimum yield strength of the pipe.
Section 501.8 is amended to read as follows:
501.8 Appliances Not Required to Be Vented. The following appliances shall not be required to be vented provided appliance is listed and tested and installed per manufacturers specifications:
1. Ranges.
2. Built-in domestic cooking units listed and marked for optional venting.
3. Hot plates and laundry stoves.
4. Type 1 clothes dryers (type 1 clothes dryers shall be exhausted in accordance with the requirements of section 614.).
5. A single booster type automatic instantaneous water heater, where designed and used solely for the sanitizing rinse requirements of a dishwashing machine, provided that the heater is installed in a commercial kitchen having a mechanical exhaust system. Where installed in this manner, the draft hood, is required, shall be in place and unaltered and the draft hood outlet shall be not less than 36 inches (914 mm) vertically and 6 inches (152 mm) horizontally from any surface other than the heater.
6. Refrigerators.
7. Counter appliances.
8. Direct-fired make-up air heaters.
9. Other equipment listed for unvented use and not provided with flue collars.
10. Specialized equipment of limited input such as laboratory burners and gas lights.
Section 603.1 is amended to read as follows:
603.1 General. Log lighters are prohibited.
Section 621.1 is amended to read as follows:
621.1 Prohibited Installation. Installation of unvented room heaters is prohibited.
(Ord. 507, Series of 2017; amd. Ord. 612, Series of 2023)