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:174 ORDINANCE NO. 623. An Ordinance amending Ordinance No.426 of the City of Santa Ana, Oalifornia, pertaining to the regulation of plumbing and adding a new section thereto to be known as Section 14~ and pertaining to the ventilation of Gas water heaters. The Board of Trustees of the City of Santa Ana, does ordain as follows:- Section 1. That a new Section be added to Ordinance No.426 of the City of Santa Ana, entitled: "An Ordinance providing for the appointment of Plumbing Inspector and the construction of plumbing work in the City of Santa Ana, California, "said section to be known as 14~ and to read as follows to-wit:- "Section 14~. Gas Water Heatsrs. Every gas water heater now in use or hereinafter installed for use for the purpose of heating water in any enclosed building in the City of Santa Ana, California, shall be provided with a vent pipe not less than 3 inches in diameter and not less than the smoke or fume outlet from said heater and extending through and undiminishing in size and at least 12 inches above the roof of the building where the same is or shall have been installed and shall have a T connection on the top of said pipe; around every such vent at all unexposed places to the outside view when the e a me shall pass from the room in which the aforesaid water heater shall have been installed, there shall be a galvanized iron sleeve extending the full length of the con- cealed portion of said pipe with a clear air space around said vent of not less than 1 inch, provided however, that any gas water heater fixture may be vented into any brick, stonedchimney or 'flue ~ 1~, which shall have a capacity of an outlet in excess of the outlet provided for on the gas water heater. Ail gas water heaters installed in a closed bath room, or other room which has n~ other outlet than a door or entrance to said bath room shall have a fresh air intake under the furnace e~ual in size to the vent of said heater. Section 2. The City Clerk shall cause this Ordinance to be published once in the "Santa Aha Daily Register" a newspaper published and generally circulated in the City of Santa Ana, and thereupon and thereafter it shall take effect and be in force. The above Ordinance was passed, adopted and approved this 7th day of May, 1917, by the following vote to-wit: Ayes, Trustees Tubbs, McPhee, Greenleaf, MarMatt and Visel. Noes, Trustees None. ~--~ A.J. VISEL ~ Approved this ?th day of May,l~lT. President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Santa Ana, Cal. A.J.VISEL President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Santa Ana,~Cal.