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The driver, operator or attendant of any tank vehicle shall not leave the vehicle while it is being filled or discharged. Smoking by truck drivers, helpers or attendants shall not be permitted while driving such vehicles, while filling or discharging any tank or compartment or while making any repairs to such vehicles. Motors of tank trucks shall be shut down during making and breaking of hose connections. If loading or unloading is done without the use of a power pump on the truck, the truck motor shall be shut down throughout such operations. No tank or compartment shall be loaded to a volume in excess of 99 and one- fourth percent of its capacity.
(Prior code § 129.1-103)
It shall be the duty of the owner of every vehicle used for the transportation of flammable liquids to cause such vehicle, including any tank mounted on such vehicle's frame or chassis, to be inspected. The vehicle shall be inspected semiannually before January 1st and July 1st of each year, and the vehicle's tank or tanks shall be inspected annually, for the purpose of ascertaining whether such vehicle and its tank or tanks are in the safe condition and repair as required under this chapter. The owner of such vehicle shall file with the fire commissioner on January 1st and July 1st of each year in the case of trucks, and on July 1st of each year in the case of tanks, a report in writing by an agency approved by the fire commissioner certifying that such vehicle and tanks have been inspected and found to be in compliance with all of the structural and safety requirements provided for in this chapter. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any such vehicle for which a report has not been filed for any current annual or semiannual period. Whenever any vehicle used to transport flammable liquids is involved in an accident, the owner thereof shall cause such vehicle to be reinspected following such accident.
(Prior code § 129.1-104; Amend Coun. J. 5-18-16, p. 24131, § 147)
It shall be unlawful for any person to transport flammable liquids on any public way within the city under which is constructed any subway used exclusively for local passenger transportation purposes. Such public ways shall include but not be limited to the following:
S. and N. State Street from E. 13th Street to E. and W. Division Street.
W. Division Street from N. State Street to N. Clybourn Avenue.
N. Clybourn Avenue from W. Division Street to W. Willow Street.
S. and N. Dearborn Street from W. Harrison Street to W. Lake Street.
W. Lake Street from N. Dearborn Street to N. Milwaukee Avenue.
N. Milwaukee Avenue from W. Canal Street to W. Division Street.
W. Congress Parkway from S. Dearborn Street to S. Des Plaines Street.
N. Tilden Street from W. Canal Street to W. Des Plaines Street.
N. Milwaukee Avenue from N. Albany Street to N. Kimball Avenue.
N. Kimball Avenue from W. Diversey Avenue to W. School Street.
Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the operator of any authorized motor vehicle used for the transportation of flammable liquids from crossing any such public way at an intersection or from making deliveries in any block, in which case such person shall approach and leave the place of delivery by means of the nearest intersecting street.
(Prior code § 129.1-105)
For purposes of the transportation of Class I flammable liquids by tank vehicles from primary sources of supply, such as refineries, waterway terminals or pipeline terminals, to any wholesale bulk plant or user bulk storage destination within the City of Chicago, route or routes for such transportation are hereby established as follows:
Archer Avenue between State Street and west city limits;
Ashland Avenue between 95th Street and Peterson Avenue;
Brainard Avenue between south city limits and 130th Street;
Burley Avenue between 87th Street and 83rd Street;
Cermak Road between State Street and west city limits;
Chicago Skyway between east city limits and Dan Ryan Expressway;
Cicero Avenue between 87th Street and north city limits;
Columbus Avenue between Western Avenue and south city limits;
Cottage Grove Avenue between 75th Street and 35th Street;
Ewing Avenue between Indianapolis Blvd. and 92nd Street;
Grand Avenue between Ogden Avenue and west city limits;
Halsted Street between 127th Street and 95th Street;
Harlem Avenue between Howard Street and 65th Street;
Indiana Avenue between 130th Street and 127th Street;
Indianapolis Blvd. between 106th Street and Ewing Avenue;
Irving Park Road between Ashland Avenue and west city limits;
Mackinaw Avenue between 92nd Street and 87th Street;
North Avenue between Ogden Avenue and west city limits;
Ogden Avenue between North Avenue and west city limits;
Pershing Road between Cottage Grove and Archer Avenue;
Peterson Avenue between Ashland Avenue and Cicero Avenue;
Roosevelt Road between Ashland Avenue and west city limits;
South Chicago Avenue between 95th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue;
Stony Island Avenue between 103rd Street and 95th Street and between South Chicago Avenue and 75th Street;
Torrence Avenue between 106th Street and 103rd Street;
Western Avenue between 95th Street and north city limits;
59th Street between Ashland Avenue and Western Avenue;
75th Street between Stony Island Avenue and Cottage Grove Avenue;
79th Street between Ashland Avenue and west city limits;
87th Street between east city limits and west city limits;
95th Street between east city limits and west city limits;
103rd Street between Torrence Avenue and Halsted Street;
106th Street between east city limits and Torrence Avenue;
127th Street between Indiana Avenue and Halsted Street;
130th Street between Brainard Avenue and Indiana Avenue;
Certain words and phrases used in this ordinance are defined as follows:
(a) “Wholesale bulk plant” means an establishment to which Class I flammable liquids are transported by rail tank cars or motor tank vehicles primarily for storage and for distribution by tank vehicle.
(b) “User bulk storage” means the storage of Class I flammable liquids in any storage tank having a capacity in excess of 6,000 gallons, primarily for consumption, packaging or processing or for servicing of aircraft.
(Prior code § 129.1-106)
The following additional routes may be used, in addition to those outlined in Section 15-24-1160:
Calumet Expressway between the Dan Ryan Expressway and south city limits;
Dan Ryan Expressway between 31st Street and south city limits;
Dwight D. Eisenhower Expressway between Ashland Avenue and west city limits;
John F. Kennedy Expressway between north city limits and Ogden Avenue;
Stevenson Expressway between Ashland Avenue and west city limits;
If the expressways are closed for repairs, or if truck traffic is banned for some other reason, then the following streets are acceptable alternatives:
State Street between 95th Street and Cermak Road;
Milwaukee Avenue between north city limits and Elston Avenue and Elston Avenue between Milwaukee Avenue and Ashland Avenue.
(Prior code § 129.1-106.1)
On and after the 1st day of January, 1952, it shall be unlawful, except as otherwise provided in Section 15-24-1190, to transport Class I flammable liquids by tank vehicle from any primary source of supply to any wholesale bulk plant or user bulk storage within or beyond the City of Chicago on or over any public street, avenue, public way or public place in the city which is not designated in this ordinance as a route or part of a route for such transportation.
(Prior code § 129.1-107)
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