There is hereby adopted for the purpose of establishing rules and regulations for the storage and handling of liquefied petroleum gases within the corporate limits of the City that certain code or compilation of regulations known as “Standards for the Storage and Handling of Liquefied Petroleum Gases” (NFPA Publication No. 58), written and compiled by the National Fire Protection Association, being particularly the 1976 Edition thereof, and is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set out at length herein.
(Ord. 25-78. Passed 5-2-78.)
A complete copy of such code or compilation of regulations shall be kept on file at the office of the Clerk of Council, at the office of the Fire Chief and in the County Law Library. The Clerk of Council shall keep copies available for distribution to the public at cost, all in compliance with the provisions of Ohio R.C. 731.231.
(Ord. 25-78. Passed 5-2-78.)
Every owner or tenant of either commercial or residential premises within the corporate limits of the City upon which any liquefied petroleum gas of any kind is stored and/or consumed, including mobile home owners or tenants, shall be required to make application to and to secure from the Director of Public Service-Safety a written permit to store and handle liquefied petroleum gases, and to pay in connection therewith to the City the sum of fifteen dollars ($15.00) for each commercial and residential premises unit equipped with storage tanks or cylinders with holding capacity in excess of 125 water gallons of liquefied petroleum (LP) gas, and the sum of five dollars ($5.00) for each residential premises unit equipped with storage tanks or cylinders with holding capacity of less than 125 water gallons of liquefied petroleum (LP) gas. Subject permits shall be issued hereunder for an indefinite period either until such time as the permit holder sells and conveys or vacates the particular premises or until such time as the permit may be revoked for lack of compliance with the regulations following an on-site inspection by a duly authorized representative from the Fire Prevention Bureau.
(Ord. 26-78. Passed 5-2-78.)
All owners or tenants of commercial premises units, as well as owners or tenants of residential premises units equipped with any storage tank or cylinder with holding capacity in excess of 125 water gallons of liquefied petroleum (LP) gas, shall be subject to the following rules and regulations.
(a) All such storage tanks or cylinders shall be of a type approved by the Federal Department of Transportation;
(b) All such storage tanks or cylinders shall be installed upon a concrete slab of not less than four inches in thickness extending not less than six inches at every point beyond all tank or cylinder steel or concrete side-supporting devices;
(c) All storage tank or cylinder steel or concrete side-supporting devices shall have a fire resistance rating of not less than one hour;
(d) All such storage tanks or cylinders shall be enclosed with an industrial-type fence no less than six feet in height, which fence shall have at least one means of emergency exit and shall at no point be nearer than three feet to the storage tank or cylinder itself;
(e) The intervening area between such storage tank or cylinder and the fence surrounding same shall be covered with a plastic or similar type material and then shall be covered with crushed stone to a depth of at least four inches;
(f) No such storage tank or cylinder shall ever be installed underground, nor shall any such storage tank or cylinder ever be installed upon any roof or other location determined by the Fire Prevention Bureau to be hazardous or unsuitable in any way. (Ord. 26-78. Passed 5-2-78.)
All owners or tenants of residential premises units equipped with storage tanks or cylinders with holding capacity of less than 125 water gallons of liquefied petroleum (LP) gas, shall be subject to the following rules and regulations.
(a) All such storage tanks or cylinders shall be of a type approved by the Federal Department of Transportation;
(b) All such storage tanks or cylinders shall be installed upon a concrete slab of not less than four inches in thickness extending not less than six inches at every point beyond all sides of the tank or cylinder wall;
(c) All such storage tanks or cylinders shall be anchored by at least a one-inch steel chain, cable or comparable fasteners;
(d) No such storage tank or cylinder shall ever be installed underground, nor shall any such storage tank or cylinder ever be installed upon any roof or other location determined by the Fire Prevention Bureau to be hazardous or unsuitable in any way. (Ord. 26-78. Passed 5-2-78.)
(a) Whoever violates any provision of this chapter or whoever fails to comply herewith, or fails to secure the permit herein required, or violates or fails to comply with any order made hereunder, or builds, constructs or erects any storage tank or cylinder in violation of any provision hereof or which may subsequently be found to be in violation of the plans submitted with the application for a permit, or any permit issued hereunder, and from which no appeal has been taken, or whoever fails to comply with such an order as may be affirmed or modified by a court of competent jurisdiction, is severally for each and every violation and noncompliance respectively, guilty of a minor misdemeanor. The imposition of one penalty for any violation shall not excuse the violation or permit its continuance, and all such persons shall be required to correct or remedy such violations or defects within a reasonable time, and when not otherwise specified, each five days which prohibited conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense.
(b) The application of subsection (a) hereof, shall in no case be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
(Ord. 26-78. Passed 5-2-78.)
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