Section 675IAC15-2-79. Gas clothes dryers

   (a) Gas clothes dryers shall be exhausted to the outside by a moisture-lint exhaust duct and termination fitting listed or certified as components of the dryer.

  (b) A clothes dryer moisture-lint exhaust duct shall not be connected to any other duct, vent or chimney.

  (c) The exhaust duct shall not terminate beneath the mobile structure.

  (d) Moisture-lint exhaust ducts shall not be connected with sheet metal screws or other fastening devices which extend into the interior of the duct.

  (e) Gas Clothes Dryer Stub in Requirements. A mobile structure may be provided with "stubbed in" equipment at the factory to supply a gas clothes dryer for future installation by the owner provided it complies with the following provisions:

(1) The "stubbed in" gas outlet shall be provided with a shutoff valve, the outlet of which is closed by threaded pipe plug or cap.

(2) The "stubbed in" gas outlet shall be permanently labeled to identify it for use only as the supply connection for a gas clothes dryer.

(3) A moisture-lint exhaust duct system shall be roughed in by the manufacturer at the time of original installation. The moisture-lint exhaust system shall comply with the provisions of (a) through (d).

(Fire Prevention and Building Safety Commission; 675 IAC 15-2-79; filed Mar 25, 1986, 1:44 pm: 9 IR 2009, eff Jun 15, 1986; errata, 9 IR 2931; readopted filed Nov 29, 2001, 12:21 p.m.: 25 IR 1306; readopted filed Sep 21, 2007, 9:20 a.m.: 20071010-IR-675070388RFA; readopted filed Oct 10, 2007, 9:16 a.m: 20071031-IR-675070388RFA; readopted filed Aug 4, 2011, 8:35 a.m.: 20110831-IR-675110254RFA)