5.20.160 Fire extinguisher servicing businesses.
A. Definitions.
1. “Fire equipment dealer” means any person who maintains facilities and equipment for servicing portable fire extinguishers or fire extinguishing systems and who is engaged in the business of testing or servicing portable fire extinguishers or fire extinguishing systems.
2. “Fire extinguishing system” means any fixed fire extinguishing system which contains chemicals, fluids or gases employed primarily for the purpose of extinguishing fires, which is equipped with the means for application of its contents and is normally permanently mounted and will automatically actuate in the event of fire. This term does not include water sprinkler systems or water standpipe systems.
3. “Licensee” means any individual who sells and services, hydrostatically tests or repairs any fire extinguishing equipment as referred to in this chapter.
4. “Portable fire extinguisher” means any device, except a bucket, open container, or garden hose or fire hose, which contains chemicals, fluids, or gases employed primarily for the purpose of extinguishing fires, which is equipped with the means for application of its contents for that purpose, and which can be transported readily from place to place.
5. “Service” or “servicing” means the charging, filling, maintaining, recharging, refilling repairing or testing of portable fire extinguishers or fire extinguishing systems.
B. License Application – Qualifications – Requirements to Apply – Examination Required. No person shall service or receive payment for servicing portable fire extinguishers or fire extinguishing systems without successfully having passed an examination administered by the fire department and having been issued a license by the city; provided that a person who holds a valid license or certification from other jurisdictions acceptable to the fire marshal will be issued a license without the examination requirement by submitting proof of valid certification with license application.
C. License Regulations – Service Tag to Be Affixed. Whenever a licensee or an apprentice under the supervision of a licensee services a portable fire extinguisher or a fire extinguishing system, a reinforced ringed tag shall be affixed, which shall be of a type and form approved in writing by the fire department, and the following information shall appear in legible print on such tag:
1. The name, address and telephone number of the organization or individual who performed the service;
2. His certificate of registration number, license or apprentice permit number;
3. The type of service performed;
4. Date of service;
5. Initials of person servicing the extinguisher or fire extinguishing system;
6. Hydrostatic test date. (Ord. 4012 § 2, 1984.)