Exeter Municipal Code Ch. 13.24 Air Conditioning Systems and Evaporative Coolers

All installations of air conditioning systems and evaporative coolers shall thereafter be made only after issuance of a permit therefor by the city and payment of the customary building and/or plumbing permit fees to the city.

(Ord. 316 §1, 1974)

A. All new installations of evaporative coolers shall be furnished with a circulating pump or be drained to yard areas, seepage wells or leaching devices, or storm drains.

B. All new installations of air conditioning units, industrial, commercial or residential, shall have cooling water discharge recirculated or used for irrigation purposes or disposed of through a private dry well or public storm drains, or shall be of such type as not to require cooling water discharge. In no case shall discharge be permitted to be connected to the sanitary sewer system, except that condensation only from recirculation units or from heat pump units, or bleed-off water from cooling towers, may be discharged to the sanitary sewer system.

(Ord. 316 §2(2)(b), 1974)

A. Whenever replacements or reinstallations of existing evaporative coolers are made, existing connections to the sanitary sewer shall be disconnected and installation made in accord with the provisions of this chapter governing new installations of evaporative coolers.

B. Whenever replacements or reinstallations of air conditioning units are made, such replacements or reinstallations shall conform in all respects to the requirements for new installations of this chapter, and shall be disconnected from the sanitary sewer.

(Ord. 316 §2(c), (d), 1975)

No person shall discharge or cause to be discharged any water from evaporative coolers to any sanitary sewer. Existing units now discharging to the sewer shall cease such discharge to the sewer on or before July 1, 1982.

(Ord. 316 §2(e), 1975)