PURPOSE: This rule prohibits the operation of hand-fired fuel-burning equipment.

1. (1) General.

   1. (A) This regulation shall apply to all fuelburning equipment including, but not limited to, furnaces, heating and cooking stoves and hot water furnaces. It shall not apply to wood-burning fireplaces and wood-burning stoves in dwellings, fires used for recreational purpose nor to fires used solely for the preparation of food by barbecuing.
   2. (B) Hand-fired fuel-burning equipment is any stove, furnace or other fuel-burning device in which fuel is manually introduced directly into the combustion chamber.

2. (2) Prohibition.

   1. (A) After three (3) years (March 25, 1976) from the effective date of this regulation (March 25, 1976), it shall be unlawful to operate any hand-fired fuel-burning equipment in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area.
   2. (B) The director may order that any handfired fuel-burning equipment not be used at any time earlier than three (3) years (March 25, 1976) from the adoption of this regulation (March 25, 1976), whenever that equipment has been found in violation of any air contaminant emission regulation on three (3) or more occasions in any six (6)-month period.

AUTHORITY: section 643.050, RSMo (1994).* Original rule filed March 14, 1967, effective March 24, 1967. *Original authority 1965, amended 1972, 1992, 1993.