41-11 Modifies several sections to modernize Code, Repeals Chpt 761

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761.04 DUTIES OF INSPECTOR The Inspector shall have chazge of the enforcement of all ordinances pertaining to smoke regulation and the prepazation and execution of educational plans for securing the cooperation of the public in the reduction of the emission of smoke. In addition, he shall exercise general supervision over the Division of Smoke In- spection and Regulation. He shall be charged with the examination of all applications and plans submit- ted, the inspection of the installations, according to the plans approved, of all healing, power and fuel and refuse-burning equipment, and the prevenfion and abatement of smoke, fumes and fly-ash, as more fully detailed in this chapter. 761.05 STANDARD OF MEASUREMENT. The Ringehnann Chart, as now published and used by the United States Bureau of Mines, which Chart is made a part hereof by reference, shall constitute the standard for and shall be used for the purpose of grading the density of smoke in the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter,. 761.06 EMISSION OF DENSE SMOKE. The emission of dense smoke within the City from the smokestack of any boat, tug, roller, demck, pile driver, taz kettle or other similaz machine or contdyance, or from any open fire, or from the smokestack or chimney of any building, roundhouse or premises, except for a period of or periods aggregating six min- utes or less in any one hour at a rime when the firebox is being cleaned out or a new fue is being built therein, or from the stack of any locomotive for a period in excess of one continuous minute after such locomotive is in or ready for ser- vice, of a density equal to or greater than No 2 smoke, as defined by the Ringelmann Chart,zs prohibited and is hereby declazed to be a nuisance and may be summarily abated by the Inspector or by anyone whom he may duly au- thorize for such purpose. Such abatement maybe in addition to the fine provided for in Section 761.99. 761.07 EMISSION OF SOOT, GASES AND ASH. No person shall cause, permit or allow to escape from any smokestack or chim- ney into the open air, abnormal quantities of soot, cinders, noxious acids, fumes, gases or burnt paper. 761.08 FUEL-BURNING DEVICES. Excepting fuel-burning devices used for the production of heat in buildings used exclusively for private residence purposes in which the number of families oc- cupying apartments is less than four, to which buildings and the fuel-burning devices used therein this section shall not apply. No person shall install or use any fuel-burning device of the surface burning type for the production and gen- eration of heat and power, or either of them, unless the fuel used in such device is a smokeless solid fuel as hereinafter defined. "Smokeless solid fuel", for the purpose of this chapter, means and shall be con- sidered as afuel the volatile content of which is twenty-three percent or less on a dry basis, provided, however, that if a fuel contains volatile matter in excess of twenty-three percent on a dry basis, it shall be acceptable under the terms of this chapter if it meets the same standards in regazd to smoke production as that of a