{"id":12627,"date":"2023-02-03T04:51:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-resident-fined-for-installing-furnace-without-authorization\/"},"modified":"2023-02-03T04:51:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T12:51:36","slug":"ontario-resident-fined-for-installing-furnace-without-authorization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-resident-fined-for-installing-furnace-without-authorization\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario resident fined for installing furnace without authorization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/files\/membership-default-internal\/\" class=\"memberhide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/01\/20220718_175041000_iOS.jpg\" alt=\"-\"><\/a><br\/><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1003292041\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1003292041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Technical Standards and Safety Authority Logo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zhoufeng Yu, sole director of Lucky Air Systems operating in the Greater Toronto Area, pled guilty on Friday to one count of repairing a natural gas appliance without a gas technician certificate issued by the Technical Standard and Safety Authority (TSSA). The Ontario Court of Justice ordered Yu to pay a total fine of $7,000 for both counts, plus a 25 per cent victim surcharge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yu was also found guilty of one count of knowingly making a false statement or furnishing false information, which are considered offenses under the Technical Standards and Safety Act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the TSSA, Yu, who has not held a valid certificate since 2018, entered into a verbal contract with a Toronto homeowner to repair a natural gas furnace, which had previously been issued a hazard tag by Enbridge Gas. The TSSA also says that Yu signed the hazard tag with the name of another individual that held a valid TSSA certificate, thereby indicating under someone else\u2019s legal authority that the hazard had been cleared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImproper installation and poor work have been identified as major contributing factors to fuels- and carbon monoxide-related safety risks in people\u2019s homes,\u201d said Sam Sadeghi, director of fuels safety for the TSSA. \u201cHiring only those authorized by TSSA to perform fuel-related work is essential to safeguarding one\u2019s health and wellbeing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>www.tssa.org<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n\t  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=761779333850340&version=v2.0\";\n\t  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n\t}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- News - Bottom -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5143531171910809\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8320848692\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiancontractor.ca\/canadian-contractor\/ontario-resident-fined-for-installing-furnace-without-authorization\/1003292040\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ontario-resident-fined-for-installing-furnace-without-authorization\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Technical Standards and Safety Authority Logo Zhoufeng Yu, sole director of Lucky Air Systems operating in the Greater Toronto &#8230; <a title=\"Ontario resident fined for installing furnace without authorization\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/ontario-resident-fined-for-installing-furnace-without-authorization\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ontario resident fined for installing furnace without authorization\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1090],"tags":[1091],"class_list":["post-12627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-contractor","tag-canada","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}