NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1965 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 860

HOUSE BILL 610

 

 

AN ACT RELATING TO SAFETY FEATURES OF CERTAIN HOT WATER HEATERS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  (a) No individual, firm, corporation or business shall install, sell or offer for sale any automatic hot water tank or heater of 120 gallon capacity or less which does not have installed thereon by the manufacturer of such tank or heater an American Society of Mechnical Engineers and National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors approved type pressure-temperature relief valve, and so labeled by the manufacturer's identification stamped or cast upon the tank or heater or upon a plate secured to it.

(b)        No individual, firm, corporation or business shall install, sell, or offer for sale any relief valve, whether it be pressure type, temperature type or pressure-temperature type, which does not carry the stamp of approval of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors.

Sec. 2.  (a) No individual, firm, corporation or business shall install, sell or offer for sale any hot water supply storage tanks or heaters of 120 gallon capacity or less which utilize dip tubes, supply and hot water nipples, supply water baffles or heat traps that have not been tested to withstand a temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit without deteriorating in any manner, and such tank or heater so labeled by the manufacturer.

(b)        No individual, firm, corporation or business shall install, sell, or offer for sale any water baffles or heat traps, which are not constructed and tested to withstand a temperature of 400 degrees Fahrenheit without deterioration in any manner and such baffles or heat traps to be so labeled by the manufacturer.

Sec. 3.  Violation of any provision of this Act is hereby made a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court.

Sec. 4.  Nothing in this Act shall be interpreted as relieving any individual, firm, corporation or business from complying with additional protective regulations relating to the safety features of hot water heaters as may be prescribed by local law, county or municipal charter or ordinance; provided, however, that no local law, county or municipal charter or ordinance shall fix or govern the temperature or pressure settings of a pressure-temperature relief valve on an automatic hot water tank or heater covered by this Act if there is installed on such tank or heater a pressuretemperature relief valve having settings in compliance with the North Carolina Building Code.

Sec. 5.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6.  This Act shall become effective January 1, 1966.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1965.