CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5243

                        54th Legislature

                      1995 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate February 15, 1995   YEAS 46   NAYS 0 President of the Senate Passed by the House April 5, 1995   YEAS 95   NAYS 0

CERTIFICATE I, Marty Brown, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5243 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Speaker of the       House of Representatives

Secretary

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Governor of the State of Washington

Secretary of State                   State of Washington

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                            ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 5243

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                     Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session

State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By Senator Oke

Read first time 01/16/95.  Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce & Trade.

Revising provision authorizing a special permit for miniature boilers.

     AN ACT Relating to special permits for miniature boilers; and amending RCW 70.79.070.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

     Sec. 1.  RCW 70.79.070 and 1993 c 193 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

     (1) All boilers and unfired pressure vessels which were in use, or installed ready for use in this state prior to the date upon which the first rules and regulations under this chapter pertaining to existing installations became effective, or during the twelve months period immediately thereafter, shall be made to conform to the rules and regulations of the board governing existing installations, and the formulae prescribed therein shall be used in determining the maximum allowable working pressure for such boilers and unfired pressure vessels.

     (2) This chapter shall not be construed as in any way preventing the use or sale of boilers or unfired vessels as referred to in subsection (1) of this section, provided they have been made to conform to the rules and regulations of the board governing existing installations, and provided, further, they have not been found upon inspection to be in an unsafe condition.

     (3) A special permit may also be granted for miniature hobby boilers ((manufactured before January 1, 1995, which)) that do not comply with the code requirements of the American society of mechanical engineers adopted under this chapter((, which)) and do not exceed any of the following limits:

     (a) Sixteen inches inside diameter of the shell;

     (b) Twenty square feet of total heating surface;

     (c) Five cubic feet of gross volume of vessel; and

     (d) One hundred fifty p.s.i.g. maximum allowable working pressure, and if the boiler is to be operated exclusively not for commercial or industrial use and the department of labor and industries finds, upon inspection, that operation of the boiler for such purposes is not unsafe.

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