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ORDINANCE NO. If j '/--ll.-,
A.MENDME:NT TO GAS ORDINANCE NO. 360.
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING GAS ORDINANCE NO. 360J
REGUL'lTING GAS PIPING• APPLIANCES-• FIXTURES AND APPA-
RATUS IN ALL BUILDIUGS AND STRUCTURES OF GAS CONSUMERS,
AND THE INSTALLATION, CONSTRUCTION. ADJUSTMENT AND RE-"-
PAIR THEREOF; FIXING ADDITJ;ONAL INSFBCTION FEE, FIXING
PENALTY FOR VIOLATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF LUBBOCK, TEXASt
SECTION l& That gas ordinance No. 350 here-
tofore passed by the City crommission of the City of Lub-
bock, Texas, be amended by adding thereto the following:
provisions,
,SECTION 2t No refund of the annual license
fee or any part thereof will be made to aeyone who ceases
to do business during the year. '1
SJ£CTION 3& Service pipe from main to building
must be one and one-fourth (l¾) inches inside ·diameter
or larger. ;<.No pipe less than one (l) inch inside diameter
will be permitted on hori~ontal run for more than one open•
ing. Use of-finch inside diameter pipe will be permitted ,
on horiz.ontal run for only one opening. x.,
Vertical pipes or risers in two and three story
buildings must be¾ inch inside diameter for one opening,
and l inch inside diameter or larger for two or more open-s
ings, depending on the number of openings. / }',
The use of street ells will be permitted at the
meter loop only when the street ell is placed on riser, \..._
then screwing ell on streetell, making ell l.ook down fr am
the property ownerts half of meter loop. Bushings or plugs
are prohibited.
SECTION 4t Unions and valves must not be used
in service lines, use right and left hand coupling instead.
SECTION 5t In the Fire Limits no metal or tubber
tubing will be permitted, but all gas using appliances shall
be connected up solid.
Outside the Fire Limits the use of metal or rubbe?
tubing will be permitted, provided no cut off is used between
the appliance and the tuping except no netal or rubber tub-
ing will be permitted in connecting appliances used for cook-
ing purposes or connecting water heaters.
SECTION 6t In addition to the fees provided, a
fee of 75¢ shall be charged for inspecting installation of
all water heaters for heating water by the use of gas. No
person, firm or corporation, shall install or connect such
hot water heater unless the same be provided with a metal
hood to which shall be connected a suitable ventilating pipe
not leas than the size of the heater opening and said pipe
v'shall extend to a chimney flue or to the open air above the
roof. Where vent pipes pass through woodwork same shall be
protected with metal vent thimbles. In case such ventilat-
ing pipe shall extend to open air, it shall be provided with
a cap or cowl, so as to prevent back draft.
Where hot water heaters are placed in closets, it
will be necessary to put a loc~l vent ten inches in diam-
eter in the ceiling of the closet in addition to the vent
pipe provided above;
provided that in cases ~~~are it is impracticable to vent
through ceiling a vent 8"Xl011 1n lower part of closet door
will be permitted. ~~. •·