Posted on 06/30/2008 10:44:37 AM PDT by ZGuy
RULE 445. WOOD BURNING DEVICES
(a) Purpose
The purpose of this rule is to reduce the emission of particulate matter from wood burning devices.
(c) Definitions
(4) FIREPLACE means any permanently installed masonry or factory-built device used for aesthetic or space-heating purposes and designed to operate with an air-to-fuel ratio greater than or equal to 35-to-1.
(18) WOOD BURNING DEVICE means any fireplace, wood burning heater, or pellet fueled wood heater, or any similarly enclosed, permanently installed, indoor or outdoor device burning any solid fuel for aesthetic or space-heating purposes, which has a heat input of less than one million British thermal units per hour (Btu/hr).
(d) Requirements
(1) No person shall install a permanently installed wood burning device into any new development.
(2) Notwithstanding the requirements of paragraph (d)(1), effective September 8, 2008, no person shall sell, offer for sale, supply, or install, a new or used permanently installed indoor or outdoor wood burning device or gaseous-fueled device unless it is one of the following:
(A) A U.S. EPA Phase II-Certified wood burning heater; or
(B) A pellet-fueled wood burning heater; or
(C) A masonry heater; or
(D) A wood burning device or fireplace determined to meet the U.S.
EPA particulate matter emission standard established by Title 40 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 60, Subpart AAA, February 28, 1988 or subsequent revisions; or
(E) A dedicated gaseous-fueled fireplace.
(h) Penalties
Any person that violates the provisions of subdivision (e) is subject to the following:
(1) For first time violators during each wood burning season, attendance at a wood smoke awareness course that has been approved by the Executive Officer or payment of a penalty of $50;
(2) For second time violators during each wood burning season, payment of a penalty of $150 or submission of proof of installation of a dedicated gaseous-fueled fireplace within 90 days after receiving the notice of violation; and
(3) For third time violators during each wood burning season, payment of a penalty of $500 or implementation of an environmentally beneficial project as derived through the mutual settlement process.
In short:
Beginning March 9, 2009, permanently installed indoor or outdoor wood-burning fireplaces or stoves are not permitted after this date in new construction.
The Southern California Air Quality Management District covers, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Orange Counties.
So if you want to build a new house with a wood fireplace in Southern California, you'd better start building now. And remember, they aren't kidding. If you get caught violating the new rules they'll send you to a wood smoke awareness course! (see h(1))
But I bet they’ll still add tax on them on their property appraisals...............
Man, even the cavemen had fire.
You can’t burn wood. You can’t afford heating oil. State of California to residents: DROP DEAD
This thing is going to come to a head. Americans are about to lose it and it ain’t gonna be pretty for those in power who keep oppressing the citizenry.
A record amount of wood is burning as I type this!
Can you still have a fire?
I stopped caring about environmentalists a long time ago. There is no pleasing them. Paper or plastic? Both are wrong -- so I just say screw it and I do what I feel like doing.
WHEN will the people of this country wake up? WILL they wake up?
MM
Eventually they will try to ban ALL fireplaces. There’s already talk of that around my county, Santa Cruz. They’ll never get away with it because there are too many rural homes that have no other heat source.
I’ve got 65 cords of wood and we’re still cutting. The Bliss-Ninnie-Nannys can go to hell.
“Can you still have a fire?’
Sure, just ban clear cutting and see how big a fire you have.
Bakersfield has “no burn” nights. Your neighbors are to turn you in.
How nice.
That was my reaction also. I’m planning on heating as much as possile with wood for a very long time.(live in Virginia)
They can have my wood stove when they pry it from my cold dead hand.
When firewood is outlawed, only outlaws will have firewood.
Dude! What happened to subdivision (e)?
You forgot to mention Global Warming Sensitivy classes and the community service refreezing ice floes in the Arctic.
This is rediculous!....How the hell are we going to heat the mud huts the whack left has ready for us???...
and subdivision (b), (f) and (g)?
...land of the free
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