2011 Washington Code
Title 70 Public health and safety
70.94 Washington clean air act.
70.94.453 Wood stoves -- Definitions.

Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply throughout RCW 70.94.453 through *70.94.487:

     (1) "Department" means the department of ecology.

     (2) "Wood stove" means a solid fuel burning device other than a fireplace not meeting the requirements of RCW 70.94.457, including any fireplace insert, wood stove, wood burning heater, wood stick boiler, coal-fired furnace, coal stove, or similar device burning any solid fuel used for aesthetic or space-heating purposes in a private residence or commercial establishment, which has a heat input less than one million British thermal units per hour. The term "wood stove" does not include wood cook stoves.

     (3) "Fireplace" means: (a) Any permanently installed masonry fireplace; or (b) any factory-built metal solid fuel burning device designed to be used with an open combustion chamber and without features to control the air to fuel ratio.

     (4) "New wood stove" means: (a) A wood stove that is sold at retail, bargained, exchanged, or given away for the first time by the manufacturer, the manufacturer's dealer or agency, or a retailer; and (b) has not been so used to have become what is commonly known as "secondhand" within the ordinary meaning of that term.

     (5) "Solid fuel burning device" means any device for burning wood, coal, or any other nongaseous and nonliquid fuel, including a wood stove and fireplace.

     (6) "Authority" means any air pollution control agency whose jurisdictional boundaries are coextensive with the boundaries of one or more counties.

     (7) "Opacity" means the degree to which an object seen through a plume is obscured, stated as a percentage. The methods approved by the department in accordance with RCW 70.94.331 shall be used to establish opacity for the purposes of this chapter.

[1987 c 405 § 2.]

Notes:

     *Reviser's note: RCW 70.94.487 was repealed by 1988 c 186 § 16, effective June 30, 1988.

     Severability -- 1987 c 405: See note following RCW 70.94.450.