HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 475 ORDINAECE NUNBER~~NNEW SERIES
AN ORDI~ANCE AMENDING E~ERG~CY ORDINANCE NUMBER
341 NE~:~ SERIES OF THE CI~ OF BAI~RSFIELD BY ADD-
ING THERETO A SECTION TO BE ~0~ AS SECTION
BY ~DING SECTION 19 OF SAID ORDINANCE,
REPEALING ORDINANCE N~ ~l N~ SERIES OF SAID
BE IT ORDAEE BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAERSFIELD~
as fellows:
SECTION 1.
T~t ~e~gency Ordin~ce N~ber ~l New Series of the City
of Bakersfield, entitled "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR TE CONSTRUCTION,
OPE~TION AND Y~INTENANCE OF EFRIGE~TING PL~TS IN TE CI~' OF BAK-
ERSFIELD,'~'~D PRESCRIBING SAFE~ ~ND SIGNALING APPLI~CES ~D D~ICES
TO BE USED IN CONNECTION THER~'~ITH AND PRESCRIBING A PENALTY FOR TE
VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE" be and the sme is hereby amended by
adding thereto a section to be lme~ as Section ll, to ~ead as follows:
SECTION ll.
(a) None of the provisions of ~is ordinance shall be so
construed as to apply to small ~it ~ef~igerating systems using Sulphu~
..~Dioxide, ~reon, Methyl C~oride, ~onia or other refrigerating liquids
where the entire liquid c~rge of such mit refrigerating systems does
not exceed twenty (20) pounds, but s~ll .apply to all refrigerating
~its, pl~ts or systems where such refrigerating agent either, in a
single ~it or in a combination of plants located within the sme
building, exceeds twenty (20) pounds in weight. A notorized statement
shall be filed with the Chief of the Bakersfield Fire Department setting
forth the maximm ~ount of refrigerating liquid to be used in such
refrigerating unit.
(b) All refrigerating mits, plants or systems with not
less th~ twenty (~0) or more than seventy-five (78) pomds refrig-
erating agent in the entire system s~ll be equipped with a spring
pressure or heat actuated device for discharging such refrigerating
agent into the open air through a cast iron diffuser at a point
desi~ated by the Chief of the Bakersfield Fire Depa~ment.
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(c) All refrigerating units, plants or systems with more
than seventy-five (V5) pobu~ds refrigerating agent in the entire
refrigerating system shall be equipped with a device or devices for
discharging such refrigerating agent, in case of emergency, into
sufficient water to absorb all discharged gas and carry it off to
the sewer.
(d) Such device or devices herein referred to shall be
constructed in accordance with that recommended by the American
Society of Refrigerating Engineers and shall be under the direct
supervision of the Chief of the Bakersfield Fire Department. The
officers or members of the Fire Dopartment shall have sole use of
the device, or devices, herein mentioned for the control of said
refrigerating agent, or liquid, and shall apply the necessary water
for the absorption of such agents, liquids or gases when water is
needed.
(e) In all portions of the City of Bakersfield not speci-
fied in Ordinance Number 304 New Series, which fixes and establishes
the Fire Limits in the City of Bakersfield, a maximum of one hundred
(100) pounds of refrigerating agent may be diffused into the open air
in the same manner as prescribed in subdivision (b) of this section.
(f) All charged refrigerating lines, high and low pressure,
when carried in flexible copper tubing, shall be protected against
mechanical or accidental injury by rigid or flexible conduit from
a point not more than three feet from the compressor to a point not
more than three (3) feet from box, cabinet or equipment containing
refrigerating coil or device.
SECTION 2.
That Section 19 of Ordinance Number 341 New Series be and
the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 19.
None of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be so con-
strued as to apply to unit household type refrigerating systems or
to small portable two or four hole unit ice cream cabinets.
SECTION 3.
That Ordinance Number 431 New Series of the City of Bakers-
field and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield on the~~
day of January, 1936, at a regular meeting thereof, by the follow-
ing vote:
BARTLETT, BODEN, GZ,ST, SZEMON, SM3,'i'H, ~,OLLEH, S, WZLSON
Ci io Clerk of
Council of the City of Bakersfield.
MAYOR of the City of Bakers field.
the