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...There is hereby created the historical boilers licensing board consisting of seven members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. Terms of office shall be for five years, each term ending on the same day of the same month of the year as did the term that it succeeds. One member shall be an employee of the division of boiler inspection in the department of commerce; one member shall be an...

...The historical boilers licensing board shall do all of the following: (A) Adopt rules concerning all of the following: (1) Criteria that inspectors of historical boilers shall utilize in determining the safe operation of historical boilers; (2) Procedures for the inspection of historical boilers; (3) The standards for riveted or welded repairs or alterations made to historical boilers; (4) Standards and pro...

...(A) Any person may apply to the historical boiler licensing board to become licensed to operate historical boilers in public. The board shall issue a license to any person who satisfies the following criteria: (1) Is sixteen years of age or older; (2) Has completed a historical boiler operator's course that is approved by the board; (3) Passes a written or verbal examination that is approved by the board and th...

...(A) The owner of a historical boiler that is operated in public shall maintain a current valid certificate of operation for the historical boiler in accordance with the requirements of this section. (B) At least once every three years, inspectors designated by the chief of the division of boiler inspection in the department of commerce shall inspect thoroughly, internally and externally, and under operating conditi...

...Sections 4104.32 to 4104.36 of the Revised Code do not apply to historical boilers that are smaller than the size determined by the historical boilers licensing board pursuant to division (I) of section 4104.34 of the Revised Code.

...As used in sections 4104.41 to 4104.45 of the Revised Code: (A) "Building services piping" means piping systems and their component parts that are part of a building system and that promote the safe, sanitary, and energy efficient occupancy of a building. "Building services piping" includes, but is not limited to, cold and hot potable water distribution for plumbing fixtures; sanitary lines leading from plumbing fix...

...(A) The owner of any power piping or process piping system shall ensure that all of the following are performed in compliance with applicable sections of the B31 standards contained in the code for pressure piping, published by the American society of mechanical engineers: (1) The design, fabrication, assembly, installation, testing, examination, and inspection of power and process piping systems; (2) Qualifi...

...(A)(1) The board of building standards shall adopt rules establishing requirements for the design, installation, inspection of and design review procedure for building services piping. (2) The board of building standards shall adopt rules establishing requirements for the design, installation, inspection of and design review procedure for nonflammable medical gas, medical oxygen, and medical vacuum piping sys...

...All welding and brazing of metallic piping systems shall be performed in accordance with section IX of the boiler and pressure vessel code, published by the American society of mechanical engineers. The owner shall maintain, at the job site, the certified performance qualification records of all welders and brazers employed at the facility. The owner shall submit copies of all certified welding and brazing proc...

...A person who inspects the installation of or witnesses the testing of any nonflammable medical gas and vacuum piping system shall be certified to do so pursuant to division (E) of section 3781.10 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The design, installation, and testing of nonflammable medical gas and vacuum piping systems within the scope of the national fire protection association standard, section 1-1 of "NFPA 99C, Gas and Vacuum Systems," is governed by that national fire protection association standard. (B) Installers, inspectors, verifiers, construction contracting maintenance personnel, and instructors for the design, installation, a...

...(A) No person shall violate sections 4104.41 to 4104.48 of the Revised Code, fail to perform any duty lawfully enjoined in connection with those sections, or fail to comply with any order issued by the superintendent of industrial compliance or any judgment or decree issued by any court in connection with the enforcement of sections 4104.41 to 4104.48 of the Revised Code. (B) Every day during which a person vi...

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) or (B) of section 4104.101 or section 4104.20 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (B) Whoever violates section 4104.05 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Elevator" means a hoisting and lowering apparatus equipped with a car, cage, or platform which moves on or between permanent rails or guides and serves two or more fixed landings in a building or structure to which section 3781.06 of the Revised Code applies or in a private residence. "Elevator" includes dumb-waiters other than hand-powered dumb-waiters, escalators, manlifts, moving wa...

...The board of building standards, established by section 3781.07 of the Revised Code, shall: (A) Formulate and adopt rules governing the design, construction, repair, alteration, and maintenance of elevators. Such rules shall prescribe uniform minimum standards necessary for the protection of the public health and safety and shall follow generally accepted engineering standards, formulae, and practices established a...

...No person may act, either as a general inspector or as a special inspector, of elevators, unless the person holds a certificate of competency from the division of industrial compliance. Application for examination as an inspector of elevators shall be in writing, accompanied by a fee to be established as provided in section 4105.17 of the Revised Code, and upon a blank to be furnished by the division, stating the s...

...The superintendent of industrial compliance, with the consent of the director of commerce, shall hire an assistant who has at least ten years of experience in the construction, installation, maintenance, and repair of elevators and their appurtenances. The superintendent, with the consent of the director, and in compliance with Chapter 124. of the Revised Code, may appoint and hire general inspectors of eleva...

...From the holders of certificates of competency in the inspection of elevators, any company that is authorized to insure elevators in the state, may designate persons to inspect elevators covered by such company's policies, and the department of public safety of any city and the clerk of any village may designate persons to inspect elevators in such city or village. Such persons shall, upon the payment of a fee ...

...A commission to serve as a special inspector may be suspended or revoked by the superintendent of industrial compliance, for the incompetence or untrustworthiness of the holder thereof, or for the falsification of any matter or statement contained in the holder's application or in a report of any inspection.

...If a certificate or commission issued under sections 4105.02 and 4105.04 of the Revised Code is lost or destroyed a new one shall be issued in its place by the division of industrial compliance without another examination, upon the payment of a fee to be established as provided in section 4105.07 of the Revised Code.

...If an elevator is insured by a company authorized to insure elevators in the state, the inspection may be made by a special inspector of such company, and the only fee collectible by the state shall be the certificate fee provided for in section 4105.17 of the Revised Code.

...If an elevator is not inspected by a special inspector, the inspection shall be made by a general inspector, and for each inspection there shall be a fee charged as provided in section 4105.17 of the Revised Code.

...The owner or user of any elevator shall register, with the division of industrial compliance, every elevator operated by the owner or user, giving the type, capacity, and description, name of manufacturer, and purpose for which each is used. Such registration shall be made on a form to be furnished by the division.

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, elevators shall be inspected in accordance with the following: (1) Every passenger elevator, escalator, moving walk, and freight elevator, including gravity elevators, shall be inspected twice every twelve months. (2) Power dumb-waiters, hoists, and other lifting or lowering apparatus, not designed to carry persons, permanently installed, either on or betwee...

... taken at the expense of the agency. A party adversely affected by an order issued following such adjudication hearing may appeal to the court of common pleas of the county in which the party is a resident or in which the elevator affected by such order is located. The court in such case shall not be confined to the record as certified to it by the agency, but any party may produce additional evidence and the ...