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.)
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