§ 9-4-103 — Duties - rules

(1) The director shall keep in his or her office a
complete and accurate record of the names of owners or users of boilers inspected,
giving a full description of the boiler, the pressure allowed, the date when last
inspected, and by whom. The director or chief boiler inspector shall investigate and
report to the division of oil and public safety the cause of any boiler explosion that
occurs within the state. Definitions and rules for the safe construction, installation,
inspection, operation, maintenance, and repair of boilers and pressure vessels in the
state of Colorado, in addition or supplemental to the existing rules, shall be
formulated by the section under the direction of the chief boiler inspector and shall
become effective upon approval by the director.

(2) The definitions and rules so formulated for new construction shall be
based upon and at all times follow the generally accepted nationwide engineering
standards, formulas, and practices established and pertaining to boiler and
pressure vessel construction and safety, and the section, with the approval of the
director of the division of oil and public safety, may adopt an existing codification
thereof known as the boiler and pressure vessel code of the American society of
mechanical engineers, and when so adopted and incorporated by reference
pursuant to section 24-4-103 (12.5), C.R.S., shall constitute a part of the whole of
the definitions and rules of the section.

(3) The section, under the direction of the director, shall formulate rules
establishing a schedule for the inspection of boilers and pressure vessels and may
formulate other rules governing the inspection, operation, maintenance, and repair
of boilers and pressure vessels in addition and supplemental to those rules that are
part of the Colorado boiler construction code as originally enacted and amended.
The rules so formulated shall be based upon and at all times follow the generally
accepted nationwide engineering standards and may be based upon those portions
of an existing published codification of such rules known as the inspection code of
the national board of boiler and pressure vessel inspectors as are considered by the
section to be properly applicable. Rules formulated by the section and identification
of those portions of the national board inspection code which are declared to be
applicable shall be made available to all persons directly affected by a publication
which will be prepared and issued, upon request, to such persons by the section.

(4) Inspectors shall carefully inspect every boiler used or proposed to be
used in this state for steaming, hot-water heating purposes, or hot-water supply,
including all attachments and connections, in accordance with the inspection
schedule established pursuant to subsection (3) of this section.

Legislative History

Source: L. 71: R&RE, p. 270, � 1. C.R.S. 1963: � 17-3-3. L. 2000: (3) and (4) amended, p. 163, � 1, effective March 17. L. 2001: (1) and (2) amended, p. 1135, � 58, effective June 5. L. 2011: (1) amended, (HB 11-1050), ch. 8, p. 17, � 3, effective August 10.