§ 38-86. Heating equipment and portable cooking units.

Standards for heaters shall be as follows:

(1)

No heater employing an open flame or glowing element shall be installed in garage, storing, parking or repair areas or sections communicating therewith, except as specifically provided in this section.

(2)

All heating equipment shall be of a type approved by the chief of the bureau of fire prevention. Heating equipment being listed by a nationally recognized testing laboratory may be considered in evaluating safe design. Improvised furnaces, salamanders or space heaters shall not be used in any buildings or enclosed areas; and steam heaters, approved electric heaters, approved gasoline- and oil-fired heaters should be used in preference to salamanders burning solid fuel outside of buildings. When exposed-flame heaters or salamanders are used for heating outside of buildings, such heaters shall not be located closer than 30 feet to buildings.

(3)

The use of salamander type heaters shall be permissible on new construction, provided they are so located as to not interfere with work operations and are not used on combustible floors. In buildings to which additions, repairs or alterations are being made, salamander type heaters may be used provided the premises are inspected and authorization given by the fire department. In such cases, the heaters shall be located where they will not be struck or overturned by persons, vehicles or other objects, and their use shall be supervised.

(4)

Unvented portable flame type space heaters or heating devices and portable flame type cooking units are hereby declared a hazard to life, and possession or use of such devices is hereby declared unlawful in structures, except in owner-occupied single-family dwellings. The fire chief or building official, or their appointee, shall seize, take, remove or cause to be removed at the expense of the owner all such unlawful heaters or cooking units.

(Code 1961, § 11-7; Code 1985, § 9-21; Ord. No. 2053, § 2, 1-3-89)