Safeguarding Persons and Property and Promoting the Welfare of the Public; Creating the Office Warm Air Heating etc.

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page 3• from office by the Mayor. Each appointed member shall receive the sum of Five ($5) Dollars for each day during which he attended a meeting of the Board, except the City Engineer appointed to the Board, who shall serve without pay. Records of the meetings'of the Board shall be kept open to the public for inspection at all times. The Board shall keep a record of all licenses and certificates and shall have printed a manual of its rules and regulations for the conduct of examinations. SECTION 6. DUTIES AND AUTHORITY OF BOARD. The Board shall hold a regular meeting twice during each year on the second Monday in January and the Second Monday in July, at the call of the Chairman of the Board, for the examination of applicants for licenses providing any such applications are pending. It shall be the duty of the Board to examine the reports of persons, firms and corporations who apply for licenses; to issue certificates therefore to qualified applicants who have paid the prescribed fees and to revoke or suspend any license on the grounds set forth in this Ordinance. New licenses or renewals shall not be issued without written approval of the Board. The Board shall supervise the Warm Air Heating, Residential Air Conditioning and Ventilating Department. The Board shall establish.the necessary rules and standards for the operation of the department, in- cluding the standard of inspections equipment and its installation and the rules for the operation of the Departments Continued disregard of instructions by the Board shall be sufficient reason for the Board's recommendation to the Mayor that such employees be dischargedi Four (4) members of the Board present at any meeting shall constitute a quorum for any meetingts transaction of business, but any action taken at any meeting shall require the affirmative vote of at least four (4) members. SECTION 7. STANDARDS FOR THE INSTALLATION OF WARM AIR HEATING, RESIDENTIAL AIR CONDITIONING AND VENTILATING EQUIPMENT. All installations of warm air heating, residential air conditioning and ventilating equipment or system shall be reasonably safe to persons and property and in conformity with the provisions of this Ordinance. Conformity of installations of warm air heating, residential air conditioning and ventilating equipment or system with this Ordinance and with applicable regulations set forth in the rules, regulations and statutes of the State of Indiana, the current manuals of the National Warm Air Heating and Air Conditioning Association, and the Guide for Installers as issued by the American Gas Association and the Local Electrical Ordinance #3913 shall be prima facie evidence that such installations are reasonably safe to persons and property. The Board shall have the power to grant permits for trial installat- ions of new types of warm air heating, residential air conditioning or ventilating equipment or system or any new methods of installing such equipment. All gas equipment must be installed according to the American Gas Association rules and regulations for the particular type of equipment being installed. Gas lines shall be run to within 12" of the gas meters only. Connections into the gas meter by the installing contractor shall be made only with special permission of the Utility and the Inspector.