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It shall be unlawful to store in a loose condition, not in suitable bales or packages, any highly flammable materials, as defined in Section 15-28-500, whether housed or in the open within 100 feet of any adjoining lot line except as hereinafter specified. No such material shall be stored within 200 feet to any lot line on which an institution, school, assembly or open assembly building is situated. It shall be unlawful to store any highly flammable material in any basement of any building.
Quantities of loose highly flammable materials up to and including 100 cubic feet shall be permitted to be stored in any building provided it shall be kept in bins constructed of wood plank lumber, not less than two- inch nominal thickness, lined with sheet metal of not less than No. 26 gauge and be equipped with a self- closing, hinged cover and equipped with a fusible link so arranged to close the cover automatically in the event of a fire. A bin constructed of sheet metal not less than No. 26 gauge with a hinged self-closing cover and equipped with a fusible link so arranged to close the cover automatically in the event of a fire. Each such bin shall have a capacity not exceeding 50 cubic feet. Quantities stored in excess of 100 cubic feet shall be in rooms or buildings complying with the applicable sections below.
No person shall keep, pile, store or accumulate within the city, shavings, sawdust or excelsior in any quantity exceeding 20,000 pounds, unless such person shall first submit to the fire commissioner the written consents of the property owners representing the majority of the total frontage in feet of any lot or plot of ground lying wholly or in part within the lines 150 feet distant from and parallel to the boundaries of the lot or plot of ground upon which said storage is to be installed; provided, however, that for the purpose of this section only the frontage of any such lot or plot of ground, or that part of the frontage of any part of such lot or plot of ground, or that part of the frontage of any part of such lot or plot of ground as comes within the 150 feet limit herein prescribed shall be considered; and provided further, that all petitions containing such consents of property owners shall be based on and contain the legal descriptions of the property affected. Whenever the lot or plot of ground in which said storage is to be installed is in any other shape than rectangle, the 150 feet limiting line aforementioned shall not exceed in distance 150 feet from any point in the boundaries of such lot or plot of ground. No such storage yard shall be installed in any lot or plot of ground where any of the boundaries of such lot or plot of ground are within 200 feet of the nearest boundary of any lot or plot of ground used for a church, school or hospital.
(Prior code § 92-49; Amend Coun. J. 5-18-16, p. 24131, § 157)