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1.1 These requirements apply to factory-built gas appliances having inputs of more than 400,000 Btu per hour, per individual combustion chamber which requireflame failure and other precautions and which are intended primarily for commercial and industrial installation. The appliances covered by these requirements are gasburners, comfort heating furnaces, heaters and gas-fired boiler assemblies except watertube boilers having outputs of 10,000 pounds of steam per hour or more.

1.2Gas-heating equipment covered by these requirements may be operated without a competent attendant being constantly on duty at the burners while the burnersare in operation.

1.3 These requirements do not apply to process equipment.

1.4 Other requirements are available for central-heating gas appliances, domestic conversion burners, floor furnaces, room heaters, unit heaters, and water heaters asdefined by the Standard for Installation of Gas Appliances and Gas Piping, NFPA 54-1996.

1.5 A product that contains features, characteristics, components, materials, or systems new or different from those covered by the requirements in this standard, andthat involves a risk of fire, electric shock, or injury to persons shall be evaluated using the appropriate additional component and end-product requirements asdetermined necessary to maintain the acceptable level of safety as originally anticipated by the intent of this standard. A product whose features, characteristics,components, materials, or systems conflict with specific requirements or provisions of this standard cannot be judged to comply with this standard. Where consideredappropriate, revision of requirements shall be proposed and adopted in conformance with the methods employed for development, revision, and implementation ofthis standard.