Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0128ORDINANCE NO.128 An Ordinance amending Section 3 0£ Ordinance number 111 of the City of Burlingame entitled "An Ordinance regulating the keeping storing and use of petroleum, gasoline, benzine, naptha, crude pertoleum or any produce of petroleum, or hydro -carbon liquids within the City of Burlingame, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof. The Board of Trustees of the City of Burlingame do ordain as follows: Section 1. Section 3 of Ordinance number 111 of the City of Burlingame entitled "An Ordinance regulating the keeping storing and use of petroleum, gasoline, benzine, naptha, crude petroleum or any other produce of petroleum, or hydro -carbon liquids within the City of Burlingame, and providing a pen&lty for the violation of same is hereby amended to read as follows to -wit: Section 3. On written permission of the Board of Trustees of the City of Burlingame, it shall be lativfull for persons to keep or store any of the articles mentione8. in Section2 of said Ordinance number 111 of the City of Burlingame in quantities in excess of fifty gallons and not more than three hundred gallonsp unless the same be kept or stored in a tank constructed of not less than No. 12 gauge galvanized steel, rivited, steel to steel joints soldered and coated with tar or other rust -resisting materiel, or in an iron tank of not less than three -sixteenth of an inch in thickness, rivited and caulked, coated with tar or other rust - resisting material, such tanks to be placed outside of the walls of any building, under ground, the top of said tank to be at least four feet below the surface of the earth, and to be completely covered with at least four feet of earth, said tank to be supplied with proper feed pipe and pump and each pump to be supplied with automatic cut-off. The tank shall be filled through a section hose suitable for the ,zurpose, directly connected to the tank delivery wagon,which shall be detached from the fee4 pipe when not in 4 service. Gravity pressure or syphon process for taking oil from said tank will be permitted only in the residence section of the City and whent he Board has examined into same and is satisfied that same is perfectly safe and in accordance with law. No tank shall be erected or located nearer than twenty feet from any furnace, stove or other fire. When possible to obtain a gravity flow the tank shall be buried at least two geet underground and when placed above ground said tank must be placed not less than fifteen feet from any building, structure or part thereof. The bottom of said tank for the gravity flow instalation shall in no case be at a height greater than five feet above the place of the burning point. Before any such storage tank or tanks shall be built or erected, the person, firm, company or co•rpora,tion intending to build or erect shall make application to the Board of Trustees of the City of Burlingame, submitting plans of the proposed tank or tanks, showing their size and capacity, construction, proposed contents, location distance from water and streams, and showing the location of all adjacent buildings. They shall also submit plans specifications for a brick or concrete wall to surround said tank I or tanks. An inspection fee of ?2.50 shall be charged for inspection of any gravity system installed in the City of Burlingame. Said inspection shall be made by the fire Marshall of the City of Burlingame. Section 2. This Ordinance shall be published for two successive publications in the Burlingame Advance and be in force and effect from and after the date of its passage. 2 Introduced the 7yh any if July, 1919 and duly and reglarly a - passed the t any of 1919 by the following vote ,/ Byes, � � , Noes, (� Absent, President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Burlingame i C y Clerk FILED I!; 7 OF THE GCITY ERR. 3