Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 70 Public Health And Safety - Chapter 70.79 Boilers And Unfired Pressure Vessels

70.79.010 Board of boiler rules -- Members -- Terms -- Meetings
There is hereby created within this state a board of boiler rules, which shall hereafter be referred to as the board, consisting of five members ...

70.79.020 Compensation and travel expenses
The members of the board shall be compensated in accordance with RCW 43.03.240 and shall receive travel expenses incurred while in the performance of their ...

70.79.030 Duties of board
The board shall formulate definitions and rules for the safe and proper construction, installation, repair, use, and operation of boilers and for the safe and ...

70.79.040 Rules and regulations -- Scope
The board shall promulgate rules and regulations for the safe and proper installation, repair, use and operation of boilers, and for the safe and proper ...

70.79.050 Rules and regulations -- Effect
(1) The rules and regulations formulated by the board shall have the force and effect of law, except that the rules applying to the construction ...

70.79.060 Construction, installation must conform to rules -- Special installation and operating permits
(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, no power boiler, low pressure boiler, or unfired pressure vessel which does not conform to ...

70.79.070 Existing installations -- Conformance required -- Miniature hobby boilers
(1) All boilers and unfired pressure vessels which were in use, or installed ready for use in this state prior to the date upon which ...

70.79.080 Exemptions from chapter
This chapter shall not apply to the following boilers, unfired pressure vessels and domestic hot water tanks: (1) Boilers and unfired pressure vessels under federal ...

70.79.090 Exemptions from certain provisions
The following boilers and unfired pressure vessels shall be exempt from the requirements of RCW 70.79.220 and 70.79.240 through70.79.330 : (1) Boilers or unfired pressure ...

70.79.095 Espresso machines -- Local regulation prohibited
A county, city, or other political subdivision of the state may not enforce any law specifically regulating the manufacture, installation, operation, maintenance, or inspection of ...

70.79.100 Chief inspector -- Qualifications -- Appointment, removal
(1) Within sixty days after the effective date of this chapter, and at any time thereafter that the office of the chief inspector may become ...

70.79.110 Chief inspector -- Duties in general
The chief inspector, if authorized by the director of the department of labor and industries is hereby charged, directed and empowered: (1) To cause the ...

70.79.120 Deputy inspectors -- Qualifications -- Employment
The director shall employ deputy inspectors who shall have had at time of appointment not less than five years practical experience in the construction, maintenance, ...

70.79.130 Special inspectors -- Qualifications -- Commission
In addition to the deputy boiler inspectors authorized by RCW 70.79.120, the chief inspector shall, upon the request of any company authorized to insure against ...

70.79.140 Special inspectors -- Compensation -- Continuance of commission
Special inspectors shall receive no salary from, nor shall any of their expenses be paid by the state, and the continuance of a special inspector's ...

70.79.150 Special inspectors -- Inspections -- Exempts from inspection fees
Special inspectors shall inspect all boilers and unfired pressure vessels insured or operated by their respective companies and, when so inspected, the owners and users ...

70.79.160 Report of inspection by special inspector -- Filing
Each company employing special inspectors shall, within thirty days following each internal or external boiler or unfired pressure vessel inspection made by such inspectors, file ...

70.79.170 Examinations for inspector's appointment or commission -- Reexamination
Examinations for deputy or special inspectors shall be in writing and shall be held by the chief and a member of the board, or by ...

70.79.180 Suspension, revocation of inspector's commission -- Grounds -- Reinstatement
A commission may be suspended or revoked after due investigation and recommendation by the board to the director of the department of labor and industries ...

70.79.190 Suspension, revocation of commission -- Appeal
A person whose commission has been suspended or revoked shall be entitled to an appeal as provided in RCW 70.79.361 and to be present in ...

70.79.200 Lost or destroyed certificate or commission
If a certificate or commission is lost or destroyed, a new certificate or commission shall be issued in its place without another examination.[1951 c 32 ...

70.79.210 Inspectors -- Performance bond required
The chief inspector shall furnish a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars and each of the deputy inspectors, employed and paid by the ...

70.79.220 Inspections -- Who shall make
The inspections herein required shall be made by the chief inspector, by a deputy inspector, or by a special inspector provided for in this chapter.[1951 ...

70.79.230 Access to premises by inspectors
The chief inspector, or any deputy or special inspector, shall have free access, during reasonable hours, to any premises in the state where a boiler ...

70.79.240 Inspection of boilers, unfired pressure vessels -- Scope -- Frequency
Each boiler and unfired pressure vessel used or proposed to be used within this state, except boilers or unfired pressure vessels exempt in RCW 70.79.080 ...

70.79.250 Inspection -- Frequency -- Grace period
In the case of power boilers a grace period of not more than two months longer than the period established by the board under RCW ...

70.79.260 Inspection -- Frequency -- Modification by rules
The rules and regulations formulated by the board applying to the inspection of unfired pressure vessels may be modified by the board to reduce or ...

70.79.270 Hydrostatic test
If at any time a hydrostatic test shall be deemed necessary to determine the safety of a boiler or unfired pressure vessel, [the] same shall ...

70.79.280 Inspection during construction
All boilers and all unfired pressure vessels to be installed in this state after the twelve-month period from the date upon which the rules of ...

70.79.290 Inspection certificate -- Contents -- Posting -- Fee
If, upon inspection, a boiler or pressure vessel is found to comply with the rules and regulations of the board, and upon the appropriate fee ...

70.79.300 Inspection certificate invalid on termination of insurance
No inspection certificate issued for an insured boiler or unfired pressure vessel inspected by a special inspector shall be valid after the boiler or unfired ...

70.79.310 Inspection certificate -- Suspension -- Reinstatement
The chief inspector, or his or her authorized representative, may at any time suspend an inspection certificate when, in his or her opinion, the boiler ...

70.79.320 Operating without inspection certificate prohibited -- Penalty
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, partnership, or corporation to operate under pressure in this state a boiler or unfired pressure vessel, ...

70.79.330 Inspection fees -- Expenses -- Schedules -- Waiver of provisions during state of emergency
The owner or user of a boiler or pressure vessel required by this chapter to be inspected by the chief inspector, or his deputy inspector, ...

70.79.350 Inspection fees -- Receipts for -- Pressure systems safety fund
The chief inspector shall give an official receipt for all fees required by chapter 70.79 RCW and shall transfer all sums so received to the ...

70.79.361 Board determinations -- Appeals
(1) No person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other entity may install or maintain any standards that violate this chapter. In cases where the interpretation and ...

70.79.900 Severability -- 1951 c 32
The fact that any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this chapter is declared unconstitutional or invalid for any reason shall not affect the ...