Code of Alabama - Title 25: Industrial Relations and Labor - Chapter 12 - The Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Act

• Section 25-12-1 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Act" and, except as otherwise provided in this chapter,...
• Section 25-12-2 Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The Board of Boilers and Pressure Vessels. (2) BOILER. A...
• Section 25-12-3 Board of Boilers and Pressure Vessels
  There is created within the Department of Labor a Board of Boilers and Pressure Vessels, which shall be referred to in this chapter as the...
• Section 25-12-4 Rules and regulations
  (a)(1) The department, with the advice of the board, shall formulate definitions, rules, and regulations for the safe construction, installation, inspection, maintenance, and repair of...
• Section 25-12-5 Installation and operation to conform with rules and regulations
  No boiler or pressure vessel which does not conform to the rules and regulations of the department governing new construction and installation shall be installed...
• Section 25-12-6 Maximum allowable working pressure
  (a) The maximum allowable working pressure of a boiler carrying the ASME Code symbol or of a pressure vessel carrying the ASME or API-ASME symbol...
• Section 25-12-7 Exceptions
  (a) This chapter shall not apply to the following boilers and pressure vessels: (1) Boilers and pressure vessels under federal control or under regulations of...
• Section 25-12-8 Chief inspector
  (a) The secretary may appoint as chief inspector a citizen of this state who at the time of the appointment shall have not less than...
• Section 25-12-9 Deputy inspectors
  The secretary may employ deputy inspectors who shall be responsible to the chief inspector. A deputy inspector at the time of appointment shall have three...
• Section 25-12-10 Special inspectors
  (a) In addition to the deputy inspectors authorized by Section 25-12-9, the secretary, upon the request of any company licensed to insure and insuring in...
• Section 25-12-11 Examination of inspectors
  The examination for chief, deputy, special, or owner or user inspectors shall be in writing and shall be held by the board or by an...
• Section 25-12-12 Certificate of competency - Suspension, hearing, reinstatement
  (a) An inspector's certificate of competency may be suspended by the secretary after investigation and recommendation by the board for the incompetence or untrustworthiness of...
• Section 25-12-13 Certificate of competency - Replacement upon loss or destruction
  If a certificate of competency is lost or destroyed, a new certificate of competency shall be issued without further examination.
• Section 25-12-14 Certificate inspection
  (a) The secretary, the chief inspector, or any deputy inspector shall have free access, during reasonable hours, to any premises in the state where a...
• Section 25-12-15 Inspection report; maintenance of records; inspection certificate
  (a) Each company employing special inspectors, within 30 days following each certificate inspection made by the inspectors, shall file a report of the inspection with...
• Section 25-12-16 Reinspection; payment of fees
  (a) Boilers and pressure vessels subject to operating certificate inspections by special inspectors, or owner or user inspectors, shall be inspected within 60 calendar days...
• Section 25-12-17 Operation without valid inspection certificate
  After 12 months for power boilers, 24 months for low pressure steam heating, hot water heating, and hot water supply boilers, and 36 months for...
• Section 25-12-18 Disposition of fees
  The owner or user of a boiler or pressure vessel required by this chapter to be inspected by the chief inspector or his or her...
• Section 25-12-19 Bond
  The chief inspector shall furnish a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) and each of the deputy inspectors employed and paid by...
• Section 25-12-20 Appeal and review
  (a) Any person aggrieved by an order or an act of the secretary or the chief inspector under this chapter may, within 15 days of...
• Section 25-12-21 Preemption
  No county, municipality, or other political subdivision shall have the power to make any laws, ordinances, or resolutions providing for the construction, installation, inspection, maintenance,...
• Section 25-12-22 Sunset provision
  Repealed by Act 2016-30, §3, effective February 29, 2016.

Last modified: May 3, 2021