New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 10 - MAINTENANCE OF HOTELS AND MULTIPLE DWELLINGS
Subchapter 25 - METHODS, DEVICES AND SYSTEMS FOR INDIRECT APPORTIONMENT OF HEATING COSTS IN MULTIPLE DWELLINGS
Section 5:10-25.3 - Criteria for acceptance

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 5:10-25.3

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024

(a) Before accepting a device or system of devices for indirect apportionment of heating costs for use in multiple dwellings, the Bureau, after consultation with the Bureau of Construction Project Review, shall be satisfied that it is:

1. Reliable and accurate;

2. Subject to an appropriate inspection and maintenance schedule;

3. Capable of equitably measuring distribution of energy to all occupancies based on actual usage;

4. Equipped with individual thermostats for each dwelling unit;

5. Designed to produce itemized billing statements, or to produce data for itemized billing statements, based on actual use in each dwelling unit; and,

6. Not designed so as to include additional costs or usages, whether apportioned or not, in the data or billings for individual dwelling units.

(b) The Bureau, in consultation with the Bureau of Construction Project Review, shall review testing records for all devices and systems, inspection and maintenance records for devices and systems previously in use and proposed schedules for inspection and maintenance.

(c) The following general classes of systems may be approved:

1. Gas, oil, or electric-fired furnace systems that monitor time of delivery of gas, or electricity or oil consumed, rate of consumption and accuracy of timer activation;

2. Hydronic heated/cooled systems that monitor changes in water temperature, volume of water, and time period of usage; and

3. Any other type of system that the Department approves in accordance with these rules.

(d) The following general classes of methods, devices and systems shall not be approved because of inherent inaccuracy:

1. Methods that rely on any means of calculation other than the use of approved devices or systems; and

2. Any device or system not meeting the requirements set forth in ASHRAE Guideline 8-1994, "Energy Cost Allocation for Multiple-Occupancy Residential Buildings," incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented, published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Inc., 1791 Tullie Circle, NE, Atlanta, GA 30329-2305.

(e) The Bureau shall not reject, on technical grounds, any device or system that is approved by the Bureau of Construction Project Review.

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