HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE 22-91C
ORDINANCE NO.22-91
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 13.08.080
OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE TOWN OF
ESTES PARK,COLORADO
WHEREAS,the Board of Trustees has determined that it is
necessary to amend Section 13.08.080 of the Municipal Code of the
Town of Estes Park.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF ESTES
PARK,COLORADO.
Section 1.Paragraph G,Power Factor of Section 13.08.080
is amended to read as follows:
Consumer shall at all times maintain a power factor as near
unity as practicable and never lower than ninety—five percent
lagging.Luminous electric discharge tubes or other loads having
inherent low power factor shall at all times be provided with
effective power factor correction equipment such that the power
factor resultant from such energy use will not be less than
ninety—five percent.Where such power factor correction equip
ment is used,the consumer shall install disconnecting or controllingequipmentasneededtopreventexcessivevoltage
variations on department’s system.
Section 2.Paragraph IC,Water Heaters.A new Paragraph KisaddedtoSection13.08.080 to read as follows:
Water heaters shall be of a two—element storage type
approved by the Town.Each element shall be noninductive and
shall be connected through a separate thermostat.The capacity
rating of the lower and upper units shall be twenty and thirty
watts per gallon,respectively,to the nearest NEMA Standard.
Water heaters of the quick—recovery type shall be forty gallons
or larger and the capacity rating of each of the lower and upper
elements shall not exceed five thousand watts.The upper
thermostat and element shall be interconnected with the lower
thermostat and element to allow operation of only one element at
the same time.The lower,or base,element shall be placed so as
to heat the entire tank,and the upper,or booster,element shall
be placed so as to heat not more than the upper one—third of the
tank.
Section 3.Paragraph L,Electric Space-Heating Equipment.
A new Paragraph L is added to Section 13.08.080 to read as
follows:
The Town shall be advised as to the impending installation
of electric space—heating equipment in advance in order to
determine if extensions of or additions to the Town’s facilities
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will be required and to allow arrangements therefore,and to
determine the available voltage at the consumer’s installation.
Each space—heating element over one thousand six hundred fifty
watts shall be individually controlled by a thermostat.No
single space heating element shall have a rated capacity greater
than five kilowatts.No thermostat shall control more than five
kilowatts.
Section 4.This Ordinance shall take effect as of January
1,1992.
Section 5.The adoption of this Ordinance is hereby
declared an emergency due to the fact that it is necessary to
immediately implement these amendments in order for the effective
date of these amendments to be January 1,1992 and;WHEREAS,it
is the opinion of the Board of Trustees that an emergency exists
and this Ordinance shall take effect immediately after its
passage,adoption and signature of the Mayor.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF
ESTES PARK,COLORADO,THIS/&DAY OF DECEMBER,1991.
TOWN OF ESTES PARX,COLORADO
By:________________________________
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TOWN CLERK
I hereby certify that the above Ordinance was introduced and read
at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on the ,ø-day of/Qeet,%.ejA
1991,and published in a newspaper of general crculatio in the
Town of Estes Park,Colorado on the day of
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1991.iz;
Town Clerk
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