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PAGE TWELVE THE CLINTON CHRONICLE, (Continued from Preceding Page) subject to a fine of one hundred dol lars ($100.00) or imprisonment for thirty (30) days, or both. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the Town eleetrician to so direct the plac ing of poles and wires in the streets, alleys and public places of the town, that the same shall cause as little obstruction as possible, either to pub lic travel or such thoroughfares or to the private use and enjoyment of ad jacent property. It shall also be his di^ty, and he shall have authority, to compel the removal of unsafe or superfluous poles. SEC. 8. Any person or company owning and using any such poles who shall fail or refuse, after five days’ notice from the Town electrician, to remove any pole or poles deemed by him unsuitable, unsafe or improperly located, or the location of which he shall require to be changed, upon con viction, be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than twenty dollars ($20.00). And the erection or use of any poles rejected or condemn ed by the city electrician shall sub ject the offender, upon conviction, to a like penalty. SEC. 9. The town electrician shall cause all wires, except telephone wires, that have not been used for thirty days, and which are known as dead wires, 'to be removed at once at the expense of the owners of such wires. All dead wires of telephone companies shall be detached from the buildings with which they have been connected. SEC. 10. On any pole of any elec tric light, power, street railway, tele phone or telegraph company used jointly by two or more such com panies, each company shall be allot ted a special zone, and shall confine its wires to that zone. Spaces shall be measured from the tops of poles downward, and a suitable zone on every pole shall at all times be re served for the free use of the town in stringing its fire alarm or police telegraph wires. SEC. 11.' The town electrician shall keep a full and complete daily record of all work done, permits and licenses issued, examinations made, and other official work performed, as required by this ordinance, and shall make a report thereof t^ the Council on or before the first of January of each year. SEC. 12. Whenever builders or persons engaged in repairing, paint-, ing, etc., find it necessary to remove wires from buildings in prosecuting their work, the owner of such build ing or the contractor engaged thereon shalfc serve the city electrician with written notice twenty-four hours be fore such contemplated work is be- pose of, or distribute Blazer, or so- called wind matches, whether of the so-cayed safety er strike-anywhere type. SEC. 2. No person, firm or cor- poratiori shall sell or otherwise dis tribute for use, any matches, unless the box jmt container in which such matches are packed bears plainly marked on the outside thereof, the name of the manufacturer and the brand or trade-mark uhder which such matches are sold or distributed. SEC.' 3. Not more than one case of outside of any building, and then only if kept in self-closing metal cans or tanks made for the purpose. SEC. 4. Unless a storage of quan tities in excess of those given in Sec tion 3 is to be maintained for at least 30 days, nothing in this ordinance shall require an owner or occupant, or his agent, to obtain a permit for the use of, nor does it prohibit the use by him of, paints, oils, varnishes, and similar inflammable liquids. ■ Application for a permit shall be made to the Chief of the Fire ; De- each brand of matches of any type 1 partment in ^Writing and shall state or manufacture shall be open at any time in any stord or warehouse in the In otl^r than frame buildings: Class 1. Not exceeding .60 gallons in sealed containers or safety cans of not more than 5’gallons capacity, in drums and barrels arid in tanks not exceeding 120 gallons capacity. (To tal quantity .to be stored in this man ner unlimited.) , ' ‘ Class 3. In sealed containers, drums and barrels and in tanks not exceeding 240 gallons capacity. (To tal quantity to be stored in this man ner unlimited.) SEC. 8. Special rooms for the storage of inflammable liquids and wayy, nrmmm ■« VJ <2 Town of Clinton, and no loose boxes or paper wrapped packages of match es shall be kept on shelves or stored loose in such stores or warehouses at a height exceeding five feet irom the floor. Section 4. Matches when stored must be kept only in sound cases and not piled to a height exceeding ten feet fiom the floor. No matches shall be stored within a horizontal distance of ten feet from any heating appara tus such as boiler, furnace, stove, etc., nor within a horizontal distance of twenty-five feet from any explosive material stored on the same floor. SEC. 5. Matches shall be packed in boxes or suitable packages containing the location of the building and the | the handling and use of inflammable quantify of gasoline, benzine, benzol, | liquids where called for in this ordi- naphtha, or other inflammable liquids i nance shall be constructed as follows: ft is desired to keep on storage or sale; provided, however, no provision in thiw ordinance is intended to prohi bit the carrying of gasoline in the storage tanks of automobiles, or other gasoline driven vehicles. Walls, floor and ceiling to be of eight inches of brick or concrete, or four inches of. reinforced concrete; door openings to other rooms or buildings to be provided with sills raised six inches and with automati- SEC. 5. No permit shall be issued: cally closing fire-doors; .windows to for the storage or keeping for sale! be wired glass in metallic sash and or use of gasoline, benzine, benzol, naphtha, or other inflammable liquids [ in construction except thaf floor sur- exceeding 10 gallons in quantity (ex cept Class 3 liquids as provided for in Section 3) save in underground (buri ed in the ground) metal tanks with no opening for drawing off contents be low the level of the ground but to be drawn from by pumps. Such tank frames; no combustible material used not more than seven hundred matches shall be constructed of steel or iron in any box or package, provided, how-1 galvanized or painted and of suitable 'thickness and ever, that when mote than three hun-J thickness and weight, and shall be dred matches are packed in any oiift equipped with a fill pipe outside and box or package, the said matches shall at least ten feet from the building, be arranged in two nearly equal por- Pill pipe shall be provided with a dons, the heads of the matches in the screen near the top and terminating upper portion pointing in the opposite ! 1 " direction from the heads oi the matches in the lower portion. All boxes containing three hundred and fifty or more -matches shall have placed therein a center holding or pro tecting strip, made of chip board, not less than 11-4 inches wide; said strip shall be placed on the top of the matches in position when the box is* nested in the shuck or withdrawn from it. SEC. 6. All match boxes or pack ages shall be packed in strong ship ping containers or cases, which shall comply in full with the regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission. SEC. 7. Any person, firm, or cor poration violating any of the provis ions of this ordinance shall be fined not less than five ($5.00) dollars nor more than twenty-five ($25.00) dol lars for each offense. SEC. 8. This ordinance shall take in an iron cover which shall be kept locked. The vent pipe shall extend outside to a point at least 10 feet away from the building or to a point above the roof, and be equipped at the end with a goose neck. Tanks must be set upon a firm foundation, and outside tanks M(hen above ground, except portable tanks, must be electrically grounded. “ * * “ ground must have facing may be of wood, with proper ventilation provided; no opening to rooms below except as made necessary by trade or manufacturing process, and openings to rooms and other parts of building above to be provided with automatically closing fire-doors or trap doors. SEC. 9. Portable tanks (by which shall be understood a metal receptacle mounted on wheels and provided with means for filling, and withdrawing liquids) shall, when not in use, be kept outside of building, unless before the establishment is closed at night the liquid shall have been withdrawn from such tank or tanks and such tanks shall be fijled outside of building only. No such portable tanks shall have a capacity in excess of 60 gallons. SEC. 10. Except as otherwise per mitted in this ordinance, the storage of inflammable liquids shall be out side building in under-ground tanks or above-ground tanks, except that tions of this character shall be sub ject to the inspection of the Chief of the Fire Department and it shall be unlawful to install any such engine without first obtaining a permit there for from him, or to use such engine until the inspection shall have been made and the permission granted for the use of same by the said chief. SEC. 20. All persons, firms or.cor porations failing to comply with or violating any of the terms of this ordinance shall be fined twenty $20f dollars for each and every day said a rson/ firm or corporation shall so il or offend. SEC. 21. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the above are hereby repealed. SEC. 22. This ordinance phall be in effect on and after date of passage. SEC 23. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not.exceeding one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or be imprisoned for not ex T ceeding thirty (30) days. Done and ratified in Council assem- held this the 10th day of August, 1925. J. F. JACOBS, Mayor. Attest: MARY CHALMERS, • > Clerjc & Treasurer. ■ ■ »— Tanks mfbfe than one foot above the must have foundations and j the storage in tanks above ground and supports of non-combustible material, outside building is prohibited within except wooden cushions;,no combust:-j the following limits: Hampton Ave- ble material shall be permritted under! nbe to Providence on Broadway, Lau- nor wjthin 10 feet-of any above ground ! rens Street , to Pickens Street on Pitts outside storage tank. j and West Main, East Carolina Avenue Tanks containing crude petroleum | to business house limit on Musgrove, shall be surrounded by an embank- all of Wall Street, Enterprise Street, ment or wall of sufficient height to Pickens Street, and one-half block provide storage equal to 11-2 times from Broadway on East Carolina Ave- the capacity of the tank. nue; provided that for existing tanks SEC. 6. Tanks shall be located within such limits which are properly underground with their tops at least J safeguarded and do not introduce a effect and go in force from date of three feet below the surface of the distinct hazard to other property a passage. SEC. 9. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred ($100.00) dollars,.or be imprisoned for not ex gun, and said city electrician shall ceeding tfcirty (30) days have authority in his discretion to di rect the owners of such wires to re move the same. SEC. 13. Any person, firm or cor poration who shall fail to correct any defect or defects in his work, after having been duly notified for ten days by the city electrician, shall not re ceive any further permit until such defect or defects have been corrected; and any case in which any person shall continue to or persistently vio late the ordinance of the city in re gard to electrical affairs or the orders of the town electrician touching the same, the license of such person shall be forfeited. SEC. 14. In any case of failure to comply with this ordinance, the town electrician shall have authority, after due notice, to cut out lights or current in any locality concerned and to en force discontinuance of the same until said requirements are complied with. SEC. 15. Any person, firm or com pany who shall violate any of the pro visions of this chapter, for which no specific penalty has been provided, or shall fail, neglect, or refuse to com ply with any order of the town elec trician given in pursuance of and by the authority of this ordinance and the rules embraced therein, shall, upon Done and ratified in Council assem- held this the 10th day of August, 1925. J. F. JACOBS, Mayor. Attest: MARY CHALMERS, , Clerk & Treasurer. or encased in concrete. Tank may have a test well, provided test well extends to near bottom of tank, and top end shall be hermetically sealed XU and locked, except when necessarily o. * o »_ 4- .. open. When tank is locate^ under state of South Carolina, neath a building the test" well shall County of Laurens, extend at least twelve feet above the npnivAvrp atikp source of * u W ] y- The limit of » toT - A THi? R «5TnRAr? <5AJp LI HANn ? a g« permitted shall depend upon loca- ANn ItSf OF INFI AMM A*i tion ° f tanks to the BLE LIQUIdI aND THE I'RO. buildi^A^ollow,’^ “ nd adjl,Cent TOWN 3 Of’cMNTON IN THE | NoV&ing 500 gallons, total TOWN Or CLliNlUN. 'capacity, if top of tank is not. lower ground and below the level of the permit shall be granted, lowest pipe in building to be supplied.) SEC. 11. Mixing, storing or hand- Tanks may be permitted underneath , ling of inflammable liquids of Class building if buried at least three feet! 1 and Class 2 in open containers is below the ground; provided, however, ! prohibited in any store or in any that fill and vent pipe shall be ex- j building housing more than ,two fami- tended to outside of building in ac-1 lies, or in a frame building housing cordance with provisions of Section j more than one family; .provided that 5. Tanks shall be set on a firm foun- j this shall not apply to drug stores dation and surrounded with soft J where inflammable liquids are in mak- earth or sand well tamped _uito place ing and compounding medicines and - XIII State of South Carolina, County of Laurens, Town of Clinton. DRY CLEANING AND DRY DYE ING ESTABLISHMENTS. AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE USE OF CARBON BISUL PHIDE AND GASOLINE, NAPH THA, BENZOLE AND OTHER LIGHT PETROLEUM AND COAL- TAR PRODUCTS IN DRY CLEAN ING AND DRY DYEING ESTAB- aiSHMENTS IN THE TOWN OF CLINTON. SEC. 1. Be it ordained by the Council of the Town of Clintqn: That it shall be unlawful for any petson, persons, firms or corporation to carry on the dry cleaning or dry dyeing business ir\ the Town of Clinton with out complying with the regulations hereinbeftw set forth: (a) No dry cleaning and or dry dyeing business shall be operated or carried on in any building within the fire limits unless same is entirely of fire-proof construction, with all wall openings exposed, or liable to be ex posed, within 25 feet protected in a standard manner. No building out side fire limits shall be used for the business of dry cleaning and or dry dyeing unless it be of fire-proof con struction as above described, or de tached at least 25 feet from any other building, in which case walls shall be constructed entirely of brick, concrete and or steel or other non-combustible material. (b) For the purpose of this or- any electric dynamo or generator, ■ball- be located, maintained or Used inside of or within a distance of ten (10) feet of any structure used for the busihess of dry cleaning er dry dyeing.es above defined. (f) The lighting of such structure shall be qeeured only be. keyless- socket incandescent electric light, with globes or bulbs enclosed in vapor- proof receptacles, and all switches, cut-outs or fuses used in the installa tion and, or operation of such lights shall l)e located and operated from the outside of such structure. The entire electrical equipment must con form to the most advanced stage of the art at the time of installiftion. (g) The heating of such structure shall be secured only by the use of steam and ,or hot water circulating systems. SEC. 3. All volatile substances re ceived for the use in the business of dry cleaning or dry dyeing, as above defined, shall be stored in steel tanks, the shell of which ntay not be less than three-sixteenths (3-16) inch thick, the interior of such tank to be coated with approved rust-preventive, and all joints in same shall be calked in an approved manner. (a) No storage tank shall be pla ced, constructed or maintained under p public side-walk or in a side-walk area. . (b) No such tank.shall exceed in capacity 275 gallons, and each shall be buried under ground to such de pth as to secure a covering of earth at least three. (3) feet above the top of the tank at the surface level of the ground; or, such tank may be en closed in a cement-lined under-ground pit, having, an arched cement roof at the level of the surrounding ground surface. (c) All tanks shall be provided with a vent pipe, not less than two (2) inches in diameter, extending from the top of the tank to the outer air, and discharging at a point not less than two (2) feet above the roof of the highest building within a radius of thirty (30) feet of such pipe; said vent pipe must be provided with brass wire screen of 30 mesh at a point near the junction of the pipe with the shell of the tank, and also be provided at its discharge end with an inverted “U” cap or goose neck. (d) All such tanks shall be pro vided with a filling pipe of not less than two (2) inches in diameter, ex tending from the top of tanx shell to within one (1) inch of the bottom qf the tank; each such feed pipe shall be provided with two brass wire screens of not larger than 30 mesh, one of such screens to be placed in the pipe at or near its junction with said tank and the other immediately above the contrdlling cock or valve at its in take end; said filling pipe must be laid with inclination toward the tank to secure proper drainage; the 'I, 4 W i >» 'A ’ft in- prescriptions. SEC. 12. Except where kept in dinflnee . a dry cleaning and, or I take end of said feed pipe shall be dry dyeing business is defined to fitted with a controlling feed cock or be the business or cleaning or dyeing cloth, clothing, feathers or conviction, be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each of fense, or confined in city prison or worked upon the streets of the town not exceeding sixty (60) days, either or all, in the .discretion of the record er. SEC. 16. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the pro visions of this chapter are hereby re- ptalrd • ' SEC. 17. This ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage. SEC. IS.Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or be imprisoned for not ex ceeding thirty (30) days. Done and ratified in Council assem- held this the 10th day of August, 4925. r- J. F. JACOBS, Mayor. Attest: — MARY CHALMERS, Clerk A Treasurer. Be it ordained by the Mayor JW’d Board of Aldermen in the Town of Clinton that for the purpose of regu lating the> storage, sale, handling and use of gasoline, benzine, benzol, naph tha, alcohol, kerosene and other in flammable liquids and the products thereof in the Town of Clinton, the following is hereby ordained: SEC. 1. For the purpose of this or dinance inflammable liquids are di vided into three classed according to the flash point as follows: Class 1: Liquids, with flash point i below 25 degrees Fahrenheit closed cup tester. Class 2: Liquids, with flash point above that for Class 1 and below 70 sealed containers, Class 1 liquids shall I any sor t of fabrics by the use of car- be kept in storage tanks under ground i bon bisulphide, gasoline, naphtha, ben- 6r outside the building, and no dis- j z j n e, benzole, other light petroleum, or charge sustem shall have outlet in side building, unless in a special room, as given in Section 8; provided that coal-tar products, or cleaning or dry dyeing by process known as dry clean ing or dry dyeing, where inflammable safety cans of not over ten gallons! volatile substances are used, capacity may be used; except that if] SEC. 2. No building to be used for of over one gallon capacity they must valve which shall be kept closed ex cept while in use, and the in-take end of the pipe’above such cock or valve shall be provided with a screw cap se cured in place by an iron or other metal chain; such screw cap to be se curely ,screwed on the feed pipe inlet when same is not in use. Both the controlling cock or valve and feed pipe inlet must be enclosed in an iron be kept and used in special rooms, as given in Section 8. the business of dry cleaning or dry . box or hood, set level with the surface f dyeing as above defined, or for the I 0 f ^b e g roun d, and be kept securely ■w — / stor&^0 OI volatile substances for use , Iriplrprl whpn nnt in nap* qiipIi fppd ninp SEC. 13.'' Drawing or handling of, j n suc h business, shall be located, con- j n j e ^. an( j controllihg cock or valve 1-4, -- --r ” " w Jii Classes 1 and 2 liquids in rooms hav-] s t ruc ted or maintained until an appli-I s h a n j n no suc h case be located in-” than-every Tloor^ basement cellar or-,ing open- heat or lights other than^tion for permission to do so. acconf^g 111 l n "J ShS ^ p* in any building withur 10 fket, m incandescent electric, will not be per-! pained b y full plans and specifications , 4,1 c„,i mitted which case it must be^entirely encased in six inches of concrete. Not exceeding 1,500 gallons total capacity, if top of tank is lower than any floor, basement, cellar or pit within a radius of 30 feet. Over 1,500, but not exceeding 5,000 gallons, if top of tank is lower than any floor, basement, cellar or pit within a radius of 30 feet. Over 5,000, but not exceeding 20,- 000 gallons, if top of tank is lower than any floor, basement, cellar or pit within a radius of 50 feet. More than 20,000 gallons may be , , , , ,. pained by full plans and specificationsn . ( e ) ^11 pipes .connected to such , .. ,. A " d "" the » truc ‘“ r ; an .d lt3 location, shall stora(re tanks must enter - or be at _ ?£?.“ i' 1 .? 1 ” lth “ w™™ 1 ky tached to same at the top; aervioo ~ , u -a i j a a i installed under ground only by special degrees Fahrenheit closed cup tester .[permission of council; provided, how ever', that more than 20,000 gallons classes to anv customer in excess of, the Chief of the Fire Department, one pint, exefept in metal cans if pro- ( a ) All buildings used for the pur- per appliances for automatically clos-, poses of the business of dry cleaning ing the aperture when such cans are not being used for filling or empty ing, )>r through hose connection, or dry dyeing 5s above defined must not be in excess of 2,500 square feet ground area, and not to exceed one SEC. 14. Th6 use of gasoline in s tory in height, and be without base open vessels in a building for cleaning ment, cellar or open space below the purposes is prohibited. ] grade floor, and shall have no other SEC. 15. All tanks or containers occupancy. coming within the provisions of this ordinance, except those of ten gal lons capacity or less* kept outside the XI of South Carolina, CqoLOty of Laurens, TonTTof Clinton. AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE MANUFACTURE, STORAGE, DISTRIBUTION OF j divisions, shall be obtained: MAIVHISS. (a) For the storage or handling Be it ordained by the Town Council 0 f a total quantity of Class 1 liquids Class 3: Liquids, with flash point above that for Class 2 and bAftr 200 degrees Fahrenheit closed cup tester. Flash point shall be determined with the Abel-Pensky or the Pfensky- Martins or Tag closed cup tester. Tag closed cup tester as standardized by the U. S. Bureau of Standards. SEC. 2. Representative examples of the inflammable liquids are: Class 1—Ether. Carbon bisulphide. Gasoline. Naphtha. Benzol. Collodion. Hydro-carbon. Liquefied Petroleum gas. Class 2—Acetone. Alcohol. Amyl acetate. • Toluol. Class 3—Kerosene. Amyl alcohol. Turpentine. U Whiskey. Brandy. SEC. 3.—Except as specified in Section 4, a permit, which shall be for one or both of the following sub- in any of D>e Town of Clinton -SEC. 1.. It shall be unlawful for any person, association or corporation, to manufacture, store, offer for sale, sejL or otherwise dispose of, or dis- tnjjute white phosphorous, single dip- peiL strike-anywhere matches of the type popularly known as “Parlor matches”; nor manufacture, store, sell, offer for sale or otherwise dis- poai of, or distribute White phosphor- fNUL f ‘ doublq-dipped, strike-anywhere marches, er any other type of double- tiipped matches, unless the bulb or dip of such match id' composed of 'lied safety or inert composition, itibie on an abrasive surface; nufactufe, store, sell, offer for sdl<V or otherwise dispose of, or dis- tribafte matches which when packed in ’■of five hundred approximate . and placed ’in an oven mairt- at M constant temperature of Fahrenheit, will ignite in ; nor manufacture, store, for sale, aeU, or otherwise dis- in excess of one gallon in any dwell ing, apartment house or tenement; and in excess of five gallons in any other building; and in excess of ten gallons outside of any building, and then only if kept in self-closing metal cans or tanks made for the purpose and free from leaks; and provided further, no cans shall be filled inside ^he build ing. (b) For the storage or handling of a total quantity of Class 2 liquids in excess of five gallons in any dwell ing, apartment house or tenement; and in excess of ten gallons in any other building; and in excess of 25 gallops outside of any building, and then only if kept in self-closing metal cans pr tanks made for the purpose, and free from leaks; and provided, further, no cans shall be filled inside the building. (c) For the storage or. -handling of a total quantity of Clast 3 liquids in . excess of 25 gallon* inside any building and in excess of 55 gallons shall not be stored within fire limits nor within 50 feet of any building out side fire limits, unless top of tank is lower than any floor, cellar or pit within a radius of 50 feet. SEC. 7. The storage of inflam mable liquids 7 inside building, except ing building now so used, shall be as given in the following sub-sections; provided that in a special storage room or fire-proof building conform ing to requirements given iii Section 8 an unlimited quantity may be main tained therein, except of Class *1 liquids: (a) Within the limits given Section 10. In frame buildings: Classes 1 and 2 prohibited. Class 3. Maximum limit of tank or container to be 60 gallons. In other than frame building: Class 1. Iq sealed container or safety cans of not more than 1 gallon capacity and not exceeding a total of 10 gallons. Class 2^ In sealed containers, or safety cans of not monr than 5 ^gal lons capacity, and in barrels, drums or tanks of not more than 60 gal lons capacity. (Total quantity to be stored in this manner unlimited.) Claas 3. In sealed containers in not more than 5 gallons capacity, in bar rels and rums and in tanks not ex ceeding 120 gallons capacity. (Total quantity to be stored in this manner unlimited.) (b) Outside the limits given Section 10. In frame buildings: Class L In sealed containers All walls of such structure snrall be of brick, laid in cement mor tar, or if reinforced concrete, not less building above ground, shall bear the j than twelve (12) inches in thickness, label of the Underwriters Laborator-1 0 r of skeleton steel frame and terra ies, Inc. I cotta construction, or of stone laid ,,, ... „ I1V ... .... SEC. 16. AH dealers shall report i n cement mortar. The roof of such naratus or machines or be returned to Chief of Fire Department daily tht I structure, when within the fire limits, 11 0 the storage tank from such devices names and addresses of all persons, I shall al.o be entirely of fire-resistive ! except ^ fiyns or -corporations to whom over! construction. There shall be no sewer; HnanrihoH • tvL trans pipes carrying the volatile substances from storage tanks to the cleaning or dyeing process shall extend from the top^ of the tank shell to within two (2) inches of its bottom and bg provided with brass wire screens of not larger than SO mesh at or near its junction with the shell of the tank and also below the controlling cock or valve at its delivery end inside of the cleaning or dyeing structure; such controlling cock or valye shall be kept closed when not in use. (f) No volatile substance shall be carried or conveyed into the cleaning or dyeing structure or any of its ap- <4 one gallon of grasoline, benzine, ben zol or naphtha is delivered; provided, however, nothing in this section shall i. There shall be no sewer; j cgcr jbed; the movement or from such structure, and m i s8 j 0 n' of such volatiles 1 connection the floor shall be of concrete con struction, laid on a level with the sur apply to the delivery of the above j face of the earth surronding the walls, named liquids to tanks of automobiles i and be pitched at such grade from all or other gasoline driven vehicles. ‘ or r,°i^ er ,f aS xT , dri x e [its walls as to secure perfect drain- l in the service Dines bv gravltv when BEC. 17. Nothing in this ordinance i age-flow of al 1 liquids to an under- delivery is shut off to the storae-e is intended to prohibit duly licensed I ground cement-lined pit or* well of tank * ^ through said service pipe shall be secured by r tip or siphon only, such devices to so located as to insure the return of all volatile substances remaining '4. V wholesale dealers in oils and gasoline j sufficient capacity to hold twice the from carrying such liquids in tanks quantity of liquids that may be used in l safety or of not exceeding mortf 1 first obtaining a permit therefor from than 1 gallotf capacity, and not e^c ceeding a total of 10'gallons. Class 2. In sealed containers of not more than 5 gallons capacity and in barrels, drums or tanks not exceeding 60 gallons capacity. (Total quantity to be stored‘in this manner unlimit ed.) Class 3. In sealed containers or safety can* not exceeding 5 gallons capacity. In barrels and drams and in tanks not exceeding 120 gallons S apacfty. (Total quantity to be stored n this manner unlimited.) above ground on their premises, pro vided such tanks are located 100 feet or more from any building other than dealer’s own warehouse, stable or shed, or in tanks, wagons, barrels or closed cans for delivery to their cus tomers, but no such tanks shall be so located that the oils or gasoline in event of accident would drain into a running stream or towards other buildings in the vicinity. SEC. 18. Construction, Installation and Use of Gifcoline Vapor Gas Light ing Machines, Lamps and Systems— The construction, installation and use of all gasoline vapor gas lighting machines, lamps and systems, shall conform to the ^Rules’and Require ments of the National Board of Fire Underwriters” as they are now es tablished or may hereafter be amend ed, and the said rules and require ments are hereby approved as a part of this ordinance. All installations of this character shall be subject to the inspection of the Chief of the Fire Department, and it shall be unlawful to install any such system without him, or the usq of such system until the inspection.shall ha\e been made and the permission granted for the use of same by the said chief. SEC. 19. Stationary Gasoline En gines—The construction, installation, and use of all stationary gasoline en- gines-shall conform to the “Rules and Requirements of the National Board of Fire Underwriters” as they are now established or may be hereafter amended, and the said rales and re quirements are hereby approved as a part of this ordinance. All installa- oi; kept in such building. Said pit or well to be provided ^with an air-tight cover, to be kept locked when not in use. (c) Ventilating apertures of size not less than 10x6 inches shall be placed in the walls of such structure tank. (g) All volatile substances to be used for cleaning or dyeing purposes shall be kept in tightly closed ma chines or apparatus during the pro cess indident to said operations of. cleaning or dyeing. (h) The use, storage or handling of any such volatile substances in ■t 4 at or near the level of its floor, and be vessels, vats, pans or devices of any m a. , • m . , m ; 1_* 1 ? . _ « 1 • • ■ spaced not over six feet apart from center to center, and be properly screened by wire mesh. Additional means of ventilating shall be provid ed by the location of an exhaust fan, operated by other means than motor with commutator, at a point in one of the walls, close to the floor of the structure, of such capacity as to in sure a complete change of the aic within the building enclosure each five minutea*; the said fan to dis charge into metal pipe of suffictent area to carry off the vapors delivered by said fan, the said metal dischage pipe to be erected against the outside wall of the cleaning or dyeing struc ture, and -to be carried two (2) feet above its roof, the top of said dis charge pipe to be covered with an in verted ru” cap or goose neck; such exhaust fan shall he in continuous ser vice and operation during the hand ling or use of volatile substance with in such structure. (d) For the purpose of extinguish ing fires, there shall be located at convenient points in'the room, where they will be readily accessible, metal pails filled with dry sand; three pails lor each 1,000 spuare feet of floor area or fraction thereof; but-no sdeh building to have less than five of said pails of sand. \(e) No heat-geheratftig device, nor kind which are open to the air is ab solutely prohibited. SEC. 4. No greater quantity than two hundred and seventy-five (275) gallons of any volatile substance shall be stored or kept on hand at anv one time at or near the location of any dry cleaning or dry dyeing establish ment, and then only under the condi tions above specified and by speciaL permit of the chief of the fire depart- ihent. SEC. 5, Any person, firm or cor- { >oration that now-has, or shall estab- ish, or carry on a dry cleaning or dry dyeing business in violation of this ordinance, shall, on conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars and the cost of prosecution, for each day’s continuance in said business. SEC. 6. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not exceeding one hundred ($100.00) dollars, or be imprisoned for not ex ceeding thirty (30) days. Done and ratified in Council assem- held this the 10th day of August, 1925. ' J. F. JACOBS, Mayor. Attest: • . ; MARY CHALMERS, Clerk & Treasurer. I r I