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

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provisions of the Ordinance: He shall 1 also keep on file a list of. inspected heating, -air donditioning and ventilating appliances' issued by or for Underwriters LaboratpriesJ Ino. or approved by American Gas Association) which,lists shall be accessible for public reference during regular office hours. The Inspector is empov,ered to employ, after receiving the approval of the Mayor, any assistants necessary for the proper conduct of his office and the inspection of heating, air conditioning and ventilating installations as provided for in the Ordinance. The salary of such assistants shall be determined by the Mayor and the City Council. It shall be unlawful for the Inspector or any of his assistants to engage in the business of the sale, installation or maintenance of heat- ing, air conditioning or ventilating equipment, either directly or in- directly, and he shall have no financial interest in any concern engaged in such business at any time while holding such office as herein provided for. SECTION 4. AUTHORITY OF THE INSPECTOR. The Inspector shall have the authority to make heating, air condition- ing or ventilating inspections and when any heating; air conditioning or ventilating equipment is found by the Inspector to be dangerous to persons or to property because it is defectively installed, the person] firm or corporation responsible for the heating, air conditioning or ventilating eo_uiprient shall be notified in writing and shall change or repair it in the judgement of the Inspector to place such equipment in safe condition and if such work is not completed within 48 hours or any longer period that may be specified by the Inspector in said notice, the Inspector shall have the authority to disconnect or to order the discontinuance of service to said heating, air conditioning or ventilating equipment and shall place a red violation tag on the equipment. In cases of emergency, where necessary for safety to persons or property, or where heating br air conditioning equipment may interfere *ith the work of the fire department, the Inspector shall have the authority to immediately disconnect or cause the disconnections of any heating equipment. The Inspector may delegate any of his powers or his duties to any of his assistants. SECTION 5. HEATING, AIR CONDITIONING AND VENTILATING EXA1uINING BOARD CREATED. There is hereby created a Heating, Air Conditioning and Ventilating Examining Board of the City of South Bend, hereinafter designated as the "Board" which shall consist of five (5) members to be appointed by the Mayor, as follows: Four (4) members shall be Class it Contractors and one (1) member shall be a professional heating engineer. Of the five (5) members appointed, two (2) shall serve for a term of one (1) year, two (2) for a term of two (2) years, and one (1) for a term of three SS32 years, and thereafter each appointment shall be for a term of three l3) years or until a successor is appointed. The Mayor shall appoint one of the members to act as chairman of the Board. Any appointed member may be removed from office by the Idayor. Each appointed member shall receive the sum of Five ($5) Dollars for each day during which he attended a meeting of the Board. Records of the meetings of the Board shall be kept open to the pub Pic 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 regu- lations 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 l O