13-112-140 Rooms prohibited in basements.

   None of the following herein described hazardous use units:

   Asphalt, tar, pitch, resin or paraffin heating room;

   Corrosive liquid storage room;

   Dip tanks having a capacity or liquid surface area in excess of the following:

 

	Capacity	Liquid Surface Area
Class I	10 gallons	4 square feet
Class II	60 gallons	10 square feet
Class III	125 gallons	15 square feet

 

   Drying room for any article or material which will give off explosive or flammable vapors during the drying process;

   Flammable liquids storage (except as provided in Section 15-24-270 of this Code);

   Fume or flammable compressed gas;

   Grinding or dust producing;

   Hazardous chemical;

   Highly flammable material storage;

   Highly toxic materials;

   Japanning or enameling;

   Nitrocellulose products;

   Paint spraying or mixing except for water base paint;

   Picker or shredder;

   Standard fireproof vault;

   Sulphur storage;

shall be located in any story below grade in any building hereafter designed, erected, altered or converted for any purpose; provided, however, that one or more rooms built for no purpose other than that of the operation of water purification plants or a refrigerating unit may be located in any basement of any building.

(Prior code § 60-14)