Sec. 29-316. (Formerly Sec. 29-59). Regulation of fuel oil burners. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 29-316. (Formerly Sec. 29-59). Regulation of fuel oil burners. "Fuel oil burner", as used in this section, means any device designed and arranged to burn fuel oil to obtain warmth in dwellings and other buildings or for cooking purposes. No fuel oil burner shall be sold, offered for sale or installed, unless such burner has been approved by a nationally recognized testing laboratory acceptable to the State Fire Marshal. The warden or burgesses of a borough, the selectmen of a town, the common council of a city or the commissioners of a fire district may enact rules and regulations for the installation of fuel oil burners, equipment therefor and fuel oil storage tanks. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.

      (1949 Rev., S. 3682; 1957, P.A. 296; P.A. 87-200, S. 1, 2; P.A. 99-163, S. 5.)

      History: Sec. 29-59 transferred to Sec. 29-316 in 1983; P.A. 87-200 required that on and after January 1, 1988, no fuel oil burner be sold, offered for sale or installed unless approved by a nationally recognized testing lab, and that state fire marshal adopt regulations specifying names of acceptable labs; P.A. 99-163 removed obsolete language and deleted the requirement that the State Fire Marshal adopt regulations listing acceptable testing laboratories.

      Annotation to former section 29-59:

      Cited. 149 C. 192.