Title 10 Regulation of Activities
Division II. License Code
Chapter 10.29 Contractors and Workers
Article II. Boilers
Section 10.29.020 Operator’s License
No person may operate or have charge of a steam boiler of any size or a hot water heating or supply boiler of five hundred thousand BTU input or larger without a license, issued by the building services department, of the appropriate class as follows:
A low-pressure boiler operator’s license authorizes the holder to have charge of and operate any specifically described and located fifteen-pound steam boiler or hot water boiler used for heating purposes only not exceeding four million BTU; or
A small high-pressure boiler operator’s license authorizes the holder to have charge of and operate a small high-pressure boiler not exceeding eight hundred thousand BTU input or one hundred fifty pounds psi.
A third-class boiler operator’s license authorizes the holder to have charge of and operate a high-pressure (power) boiler not exceeding four million BTU input, or
and operate any size low-pressure boiler, or
an opposite shift to a second-class boiler operator.
A second-class boiler operator’s license authorizes the holder to have charge of:
and operate a high-pressure boiler not exceeding eight million BTU, or
an opposite shift to a first-class boiler operator, or
and operate any size low-pressure boiler.
A first-class boiler operator’s license authorizes the holder to have charge of any size high-pressure or low-pressure boiler.
Boiler operator’s licenses are class IIB licenses under chapter 4.04 SMC
They are annual licenses which expire on December 31st.
Date Passed: Monday, November 26, 2007
Effective Date: Wednesday, January 2, 2008
ORD C34135 Section 1
