§ 27-175. General prohibitions.

(a)

Unless otherwise authorized by this article, no owner or operator shall construct or operate any source of air pollution, including parking facility(ies), except in accordance with a valid air quality license, permit, or parking facility(ies) license, and all general and specific conditions contained therein, including any other requirements under federal, state or local regulations.

(b)

Concealment: No person shall build, erect, install or use any equipment, machine, or device, the use of which will conceal an emission which would otherwise constitute a violation of any of the provisions of this article.

(c)

Circumvention: No person shall circumvent any air pollution control equipment, or allow the emission of air pollutants without the applicable air pollution control device operating properly.

(d)

Maintenance: No person shall operate any air pollution control equipment or systems without proper and sufficient maintenance to assure compliance with this article.

(e)

Objectionable Odor: No person shall cause, suffer, allow or permit the discharge of air pollutants from a Stationary Source which causes or contributes to an objectionable odor. For the purposes of this article, this prohibition does not apply to odors generated from restaurants and residential dwelling units.

(f)

Volatile Organic Compounds Emissions or Organic Solvents Emissions: Unless otherwise authorized by this article, no person shall store, pump, handle, process, load, unload or use in any process or installation volatile organic compounds or organic solvents without applying known and existing air pollution control equipment or systems deemed necessary and ordered by EPGMD.

(g)

Cumulative Impacts: No owner or operator of a Major Source of air pollution constructed, reconstructed, or modified after the effective date of this article shall cause, let, permit, suffer or allow the emission of criteria pollutants in quantities that will reduce by more than one-half (½) the margin between the existing ambient concentrations and the applicable NAAQS.

(h)

Unconfined Emissions of Particulate Matter: No person shall cause, let, permit, suffer, or allow the emissions of particulate matter, from any source whatsoever, including, but not limited to, vehicular movement, transportation of materials, construction, alteration, demolition or wrecking, or industrial related activities such as loading, unloading, storing, handling, surface coating, or surface preparation without taking reasonable precautions to prevent such emission, as described in Subsection 27-177(b) of this article.

(i)

Visible Emissions: Unless otherwise authorized by this article or any federal or state specific emission limiting standard, no person shall cause, let, permit, suffer or allow to be discharged into the outdoor atmosphere any air pollutants from sources, the opacity of which is equal or greater than twenty percent (20%). If the presence of uncombined water is the only reason for failure to meet visible emission standards given in this section, such failure shall not be a violation of this prohibition.

(j)

Visible Smoke from Motor Vehicles:

(1)

No person shall operate any gasoline-powered motor vehicle which generates visible smoke from the exhaust pipe(s) for more than a continuous period of five (5) seconds;

(2)

No person shall operate any diesel-powered motor vehicle which generates visible smoke from the exhaust pipe(s) for more than a continuous period of five (5) seconds while in the cruise mode or idle mode.

(Ord. No. 2006-19, § 1, 6-27-06; Ord. No. 2009-56, § 1, 8-25-09)