New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Saf - Department of Safety
Subtitle Saf-C - Commissioner, Department of Safety
Chapter Saf-C 6000 - FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY RULES
Part Saf-C 6009 - UNVENTED SPACE HEATERS
Section Saf-C 6009.01 - Compliance Required
Current through Register No. 40, October 3, 2024
(a) All persons testing, selling, purchasing, installing, or using unvented space heaters or storing fuel for such heaters shall comply with all applicable provisions of RSA 158:28 and this section.
(b) No person shall install or use in any building which is used in whole or in part for human habitation an unvented space heater that uses fuel other than kerosene, propane, or natural gas with the exception of flameless catalyst type heaters.
(c) No person shall install or use an unvented space heater as the primary source of residential heat.
(d) No person shall install or use any fuel fired unvented space heaters in educational, day care, health care, residential board and care, ambulatory health care, detention and correctional, lodging and rooming, apartments, hotels, and dormitory occupancies.
(e) No person shall install or use any natural or propane gas unvented space heaters in educational, day care, health care, detention, and correctional occupancies.
(f) All persons installing or using an unvented space heater shall install at least one carbon monoxide detector in accordance with RSA 153:10-a and Saf-C 6010.
(g) All unvented space heaters shall be installed and used in accordance with the manufacturer's installation instructions, and the state fire code.
#2898, eff 11-8-84; ss by #4971, eff 11-8-90; ss by #6339, eff 9-25-96; ss by #7052, eff 7-2-99; amd by #7776, eff 10-9-02; ss by #8180, eff 9-23-04; ss by #10058, eff 12-23-11
