Vessel Pollution and Dangerous Chemicals Regulations (SOR/2012-69)

Marginal note:Limits of smoke emission — general

• 119 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a person must not operate on a vessel a fuel-burning installation that does not utilize hand-fired boilers and that is emitting smoke of a density greater than density number 1.

• Marginal note:Relaxation of limit

  (2) A fuel-burning installation that does not utilize hand-fired boilers may emit smoke of density number 2 for an aggregate of not more than 4 minutes in any 30-minute period.

• Marginal note:Limits of smoke emission — hand-fired boilers

  (3) Subject to subsection (4), a person must not operate on a vessel a fuel-burning installation that utilizes hand-fired boilers and that is emitting smoke of a density greater than density number 2.

• Marginal note:Relaxation of limit

  (4) A fuel-burning installation that utilizes hand-fired boilers may

  • (a) while in the Detroit River, emit smoke of a density not greater than density number 3 for an aggregate of not more than 9 minutes in any 30-minute period; and

  • (b) while elsewhere than in the Detroit River, emit smoke

    • (i) of a density not greater than density number 3 for an aggregate of not more than 9 minutes in any 30-minute period, and

    • (ii) of a density not greater than density number 4 for an aggregate of not more than 3 minutes in any 30-minute period.