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What is NYC AC § 27-827?

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This section defines fuel oil and establishes general requirements for its use, including specifications for flashpoints and commercial grades. It prohibits the use of crankcase refuse oil as fuel oil, with certain exceptions for portable burners and industrial processes. Applies to building owners using fuel oil in their operations.

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§ 27-827 General requirements.

AC § 27-827

For the purpose of this subchapter fuel oil shall mean hydrocarbon oils as classified in reference standards RS 14-3 and RS 14-12 and shall have a flashpoint not lower than one hundred degrees Fahrenheit when tested in accordance with reference standard RS 14-13 and marketed under the following commercial grades: range oil or no. 1 fuel oil; diesel oil or no. 2 fuel oil; no. 4 fuel oil; no. 5 fuel oil; no. 6 fuel oil. Except as provided in section 27-4056 of this title the use of crankcase refuse oil as fuel oil is prohibited. These requirements shall not apply to (1) the use and installation of portable burners not requiring a connection to a flue where such burners are of the type commonly used for household purposes such as oil stoves, oil heaters and oil lamps equipped with a woven wick; (2) portable apparatus such as blow torches, soldering pots, tar heaters, snow melters, etc.; (3) storage tanks for oils used in industrial process such as cracking, distilling, manufacture of gas, or other similar processes. For the requirements governing the storage of such oils see chapter four of this title.

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