Clovis Municipal Code Art. 4 Heat Transfer Systems Utilizing Water

For the purposes of this article, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this article are defined as follows:

(a)

“System”

shall mean any equipment, apparatus, contrivance, or device, or any combination thereof, whereby water is used wholly or in part to add heat to or remove heat from a gas, a liquid, a product, or a machine and shall include air-conditioning and refrigeration systems.

(b)

“Drainage well”

shall have the meaning designated by Section 6.6.01.

(c)

“Evaporative cooler”

shall mean any device whereby air is directly cooled by the evaporation of water.

(d)

“Premises”

shall mean a property, or that portion of a property, or properties served with City water from a single connection to a City main.

(e)

“Water conservation device”

shall mean an evaporative condenser, water cooling tower, or similar apparatus by which any fluid or gas used in any system for heat transfer is cooled by recirculated water and which does not consume water in an amount in excess of 0.15 gallons per minute per ton of capacity, and, as to an evaporative cooler, it shall mean a water recirculating device.

(f)

“Ton of capacity”

shall mean cooling capacity for the computation of which the following relationships shall be deemed correct: one ton per hour which equals one horsepower which equals 12,000 B.T.U.’s per hour.

(g)

“Water Division”

shall mean the Water Division of the Department of Public Utilities of the City.

(h)

“City water”

shall mean water furnished by the Water Division.

(i)

“Director”

shall mean the Director of Public Utilities of the City.

(§ 1, Ord. 447, eff. April 17, 1968; Ord. 96-20, Amended, 12/18/1996; § 5, Ord. 09-21, eff. December 2, 2009)

No person shall install or replace any system which requires a supply of City water without having first obtained a permit from the Planning and Development Services Department.

(§ 1, Ord. 447, eff. April 17, 1968; as amended by Ord. 94-6, eff. March 24, 1994)

(a) No person shall install or replace any system, including portable systems on any premises, unless such system is equipped with a water conservation device, and such device is properly maintained at all times, except as follows:

(1) In a multi-story building, unconserved water-cooled refrigeration units used only for the commercial preservation of food may be installed, replaced, or maintained provided such unit has a capacity of less than one ton and that all such units on any one premises do not exceed a cumulative total capacity of two (2) tons and do not consume more than one and one-half (1.5) gallons of water per minute per ton of capacity per unit.

(2) Evaporative coolers may be installed, replaced, or maintained provided no evaporative cooler or coolers on any premises shall have a cumulative total capacity of more than one thousand eight hundred (1,800) cubic feet of air per minute.

(3) A system may be installed, replaced, or maintained provided it is not connected to City water, and a source of water supply is developed on the same premises for the exclusive use of such system, and a drainage well, drilled pursuant to and in conformance with the provisions of Chapter 6 of this title, is used as the sole means of disposing of water discharged from such system.

(b) When a system is installed or maintained on any premises contrary to the provisions of this article, no City water service shall be granted to serve such premises, whether located in or out of the City limits.

(c) No person shall sell or deliver any evaporative cooler designed to deliver more than one thousand eight hundred (1,800) cubic feet of air per minute which he knows or has reason to know is intended to use City water unless such cooler is, when sold and delivered, equipped with a water conservation device.

(§ 1, Ord. 447, eff. April 17, 1968)

Any system using City water shall conform to all other applicable sections of this code.

(§ 1, Ord. 447, eff. April 17, 1968)

(a) Whenever the Director shall find that, because of illegal or improper installation, alteration, improper operations, or lack of maintenance, any system connected to City water will, when operated, cause use of City water in excess of 0.15 gallons per minute per ton of capacity for systems with conservation devices, or one and one-half (1.5) gallons per minute per ton of capacity for systems described in Section 6.5.403(a)(1), or will cause waste water therefrom to be discharged in violation of any provisions of this code, the Director shall give notice in writing to correct the deficiency. The notice shall identify the system and specify the correction or corrections required and shall contain a statement that if the deficiency is not corrected or the system disconnected from City water within fifteen (15) days from the date of service of such notice, the Director will order that City water service to the premises on which such system is located be discontinued forthwith. The notice shall be directed to and served upon the person in whose name water service to the premises is then being furnished, as shown by the accounting records of the City or, if such service is in the names of more than one person, to either or any of such persons. A copy of such notice shall also be served upon each person having possession as tenant or otherwise of all or any part of the premises and who receives City water service by the same service connection which supplies the system described in the notice.

(b) If, upon the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the date of service of the notice, the system has not been corrected as specified in the notice or disconnected from City water, the Director shall order the City water service to the premises on which such system is maintained to be discontinued; provided, however, the Director may for good cause extend the time for making any required correction for not to exceed an additional thirty (30) days.

(c) No premises which have been disconnected from City water service by order of the Director pursuant to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section shall be reconnected until the system has been corrected as specified in the notice or disconnected from City water and until all the reconnection charges required by this chapter have been paid.

(§ 1, Ord. 447, eff. April 17, 1968; as amended by Ord. 94-6, eff. March 24, 1994; 96-20, eff. 12/18/1996)