2006 New York Code - Heating System Efficiency Tests

 
    §  17-105.  Heating  system efficiency tests.   1. For the purposes of
  this section:
    a. "Contractor" means any person who contracts to install,  repair  or
  service oil or gas heating systems for customers.
    b. "Oil heating system" means a device which burns either No. 2 or No.
  4 fuel oil for heating purposes.
    c. "Gas  heating system" means a device which burns either natural gas
  or propane for central heating purposes.
    d. "Service contract" means an oral or  written  agreement  between  a
  contractor  and  a customer which requires the contractor to service the
  customer's oil or gas heating system.
    e. "Customer" means any person who resides in, or is the owner  of,  a
  one,  two  or  three-family  dwelling  or  a  single  unit of a multiple
  dwelling, including an individual condominium unit or cooperative  unit,
  who  uses an oil or gas heating system for heating such dwelling or unit
  and who is responsible for the operation and maintenance of such oil  or
  gas heating system.
    f. "Efficiency test" means a test of steady-state efficiency and shall
  include  the  following  procedures:  (1) with respect to an oil heating
  system, measuring the carbon monoxide, measuring the carbon  dioxide  or
  oxygen content, measuring the net stack temperature, measuring the smoke
  level,   and   such  other  procedures  as  the  contractor  shall  deem
  appropriate; and (2) with respect to a gas heating system, measuring the
  carbon  monoxide,  measuring  the  carbon  dioxide  or  oxygen  content,
  measuring  the  net  stack temperature, and such other procedures as the
  contractor shall deem appropriate.
    2. Every contractor  who  offers  to  perform  service  contracts  for
  customers  shall  offer to include in such contracts a yearly efficiency
  test. Such test, which  shall  be  at  a  customer's  option,  shall  be
  performed  after any repairs or adjustments have been completed pursuant
  to the service contract, and the additional cost, if any, for such  test
  shall  be  separately charged. Upon the completion of any such test, the
  contractor shall provide the customer with a form listing the values for
  carbon monoxide,  carbon  dioxide  or  oxygen  content,  the  net  stack
  temperature,  and  the smoke level, as appropriate, and the steady-state
  efficiency (expressed in a percentage) determined therefrom.
    3. The commissioner  shall  make  reasonable  efforts  to  notify  all
  contractors  of  their obligation to offer efficiency tests to customers
  as provided by the provisions of this section.