15.52.030 Definitions.
The following definitions are in addition to those set forth in the City’s building code:
“Bay Area Air Quality Management District” means the air quality agency for the San Francisco Bay Area pursuant to the California Health and Safety Code.
“EPA” means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
“EPA-certified wood heaters” means any wood heater that meets the standard in Title 40, Part 60.530 Subpart AAA, Code of Federal Regulations in effect at the time of installation and is certified and labeled pursuant to those regulations. An EPA-certified wood heater may be freestanding, built-in, or an insert within a fireplace.
“Fireplace” means any permanently installed masonry or factory-built wood-burning appliance designed to be used with an air-to-fuel ratio greater than or equal to thirty-five (35) to one.
“Garbage” means all solid, semi-solid and liquid wastes generated from residential, commercial and industrial sources, including trash, refuse, rubbish, industrial wastes, asphalted products, manure, vegetable or animal solids, and semi-solid wastes.
“Gas fireplace” means any masonry or factory-built fireplace in which a device that has been designed to burn natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas in a manner that simulates the appearance of burning wood has been permanently installed so the burner pan and associated equipment are affixed to the masonry or metal base of the fireplace.
“Insert” means any wood heater designed to be installed in an existing masonry or factory-built fireplace.
“Paint solvents” means all original solvents sold or used to thin paints or clean up painting equipment.
“Paints” are all exterior and interior house and trim paints, enamels, varnishes, lacquers, stains, primers, sealers, under-coatings, roof coatings, wood preservatives, shellacs, and other paints or paint-like products.
“Pellet-fueled heater” means any appliance that operates exclusively on solid fuel pellets.
“Solid fuel” means wood or any other non-gases or non-liquid fuel.
“Treated wood” means wood of any species that has been chemically impregnated, painted or similarly modified to improve resistance to insects or decay.
“Waste petroleum product” means any petroleum product, other than fuels that have been refined from crude oil, and has been used or has been contaminated with physical or chemical impurities.
“Wood-burning appliance” means a fireplace, wood heater, or pellet-fired heater or similar device burning solid fuel used for aesthetic or space-heating purposes.
“Wood heater” means an enclosed, wood-burning appliance that is not a fireplace capable of and intended for space heating, that meets all of the following criteria:
1. An air-to-fuel ratio in the combustion chamber averaging less than thirty-five (35) to one (1) as determined by the test procedures prescribed and approved by the Chief Building Official;
2. A usable firebox volume of less than twenty (20) cubic feet (0.57 cubic meters);
3. A minimum burn rate of less than eleven (11) pounds/hour (kilograms/hour); and
4. A maximum weight of less than one thousand seven hundred sixty (1,760) pounds (eight hundred (800) kilograms). For the purpose of this chapter, fixtures and devices that are normally sold separately, such as flue pipe, chimney and masonry components that are not an integral part of the appliance or heat distribution ducting, do not count as part of the appliance weight.
“Wood stove” means a freestanding wood heater. (Ord. 943 § 1 (part), 2008)