Carpinteria Municipal Code Ch. 8.28 Gas Heaters

The following definitions shall apply to this chapter:

A. "Adequately vented" means the condition of a gas heater which is connected to an effective vent leading to the outside air, which vent conforms in type and design to the minimum standards, and has been installed in compliance with the installation and venting requirements set forth in the rules and regulations of Title 15 of this code or other applicable state or city laws or regulations.

B. "Gas heater" means and includes every space or room heater which is designated to use natural, manufactured, or mixed gas or liquefied petroleum gas or liquefied petroleum gas/air mixture as a fuel medium.

C. "Persons" means and includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, firms, associations or any legal entity.

D. "Place of human habitation" means and includes any dwelling or dwelling unit including private residences, hotels, motels, apartments, apartment houses, trailer houses, roominghouses, or any other place where human beings customarily live or sleep.

(Prior code § 4147)

It is unlawful for any person to install any gas heater in any place of human habitation without first obtaining a permit for such installation from the city building official. The fee for issuing such permit shall be two dollars.

(Prior code § 4148)

Every person having sold, rented or otherwise transferred possession of any gas heater which is so designed or constructed that it cannot readily be adequately vented shall submit notice of such sale, rental or transfer within forty-eight hours thereof to the city building official in the form of a duplicate bill of sale, which bill of sale shall be identical with the original and shall contain the following information:

A. Name and address of the person, store or business selling, renting or transferring the gas heater;

B. Date of sale;

C. Make, serial number, and type of heater sold;

D. Name and address of person buying, renting or obtaining the gas heater;

E. A statement signed by the transferee which states:

"I have entered into this transaction with the understanding that the gas heater which is the subject matter of this transaction cannot be legally installed in a place of human habitation within the city of Carpinteria."

(Prior code § 4151)

It is unlawful for any person to sell, rent or otherwise transfer possession of any gas heater which is so designed or constructed that it cannot be adequately vented without first informing the transferee in writing that the subject matter of the transfer cannot be legally installed in a place of human habitation in the city.

(Prior code § 4150)

It is unlawful for any person to install or permit to be installed or to use or permit to be used in any place of human habitation any gas heater which is not adequately vented.

(Prior code § 4149)