Section 27-827. General requirements  


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  • For the purpose of this subchapter fuel
      oil  shall mean hydrocarbon oils as classified in reference standards RS
      14-3 and RS 14-12 and shall have a flashpoint not lower than one hundred
      degrees Fahrenheit when tested in accordance with reference standard  RS
      14-13  and  marketed under the following commercial grades: range oil or
      no. 1 fuel oil; diesel oil or no. 2 fuel oil; no. 4 fuel oil; no. 5 fuel
      oil; no. 6 fuel oil. Except as provided in section 27-4056 of this title
      the use of crankcase  refuse  oil  as  fuel  oil  is  prohibited.  These
      requirements shall not apply to (1) the use and installation of portable
      burners  not  requiring a connection to a flue where such burners are of
      the type commonly used for household purposes such as  oil  stoves,  oil
      heaters and oil lamps equipped with a woven wick; (2) portable apparatus
      such  as  blow torches, soldering pots, tar heaters, snow melters, etc.;
      (3) storage tanks for oils used in industrial process such as  cracking,
      distilling,  manufacture  of  gas,  or  other similar processes. For the
      requirements governing the storage of such oils see chapter four of this
      title.