Arkansas § 20-23-301 Certificate of inspection required - Application of rules and standards - Penalties

Arkansas Statutes

§ 20-23-301 — Certificate of inspection required - Application of rules and standards - Penalties

Arkansas § 20-23-301

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Bluebook

Ark. Code Ann. § 20-23-301 (2026).

Text

(a)(1) No owner or user of a boiler or pressure vessel or engineer or fireman in charge of a boiler or pressure vessel shall operate or allow the boiler or pressure vessel to be operated without a certificate of inspection issued by the Director of the Division of Labor or shall allow a greater pressure in the boiler or pressure vessel than is allowed by the certificate of inspection.

(2)(A) All boilers and pressure vessels installed or in operation in this state shall conform to those rules and standards that shall from time to time be adopted by the Boiler Inspection Division with the approval of the director.

(B)The rules and standards shall not exceed those set out in the several sections of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and shal

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(a) (1) No owner or user of a boiler or pressure vessel or engineer or fireman in charge of a boiler or pressure vessel shall operate or allow the boiler or pressure vessel to be operated without a certificate of inspection issued by the Director of the Division of Labor or shall allow a greater pressure in the boiler or pressure vessel than is allowed by the certificate of inspection. (2) (A) All boilers and pressure vessels installed or in operation in this state shall conform to those rules and standards that shall from time to time be adopted by the Boiler Inspection Division with the approval of the director. (B) The rules and standards shall not exceed those set out in the several sections of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and shall have the force of law immediately upon their approval by the director. (3) No person shall operate or cause to be operated any boiler or unfired pressure vessel on which the certificate of inspection has been suspended or the operation of which has been forbidden by an inspector as provided in §§ 20-23-203 , 20-23-306 , 20-23-310 , 20-23-401 , and 20-23-402 . (4) All pressure piping installed in this state shall conform to those rules and standards that shall from time to time be adopted by the Boiler Inspection Division with the approval of the director. The rules and standards shall not exceed those set out in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Code for Pressure Piping, Power Piping Code, B31.1. (b) Any person violating this section shall be subject to an administrative fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).

Legislative History

Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 2052, eff. 7/24/2019. Amended by Act 2019, No. 315,§ 2051, eff. 7/24/2019. Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 5456, eff. 7/1/2019. Acts 1961, No. 494, § 5; A.S.A. 1947, § 81-505; Acts 1993, No. 477, § 4; 1999, No. 982, § 8; 2005, No. 1012, § 4.