(A) An
OIL PLANT is any place where gasoline or other highly flammable or explosive petroleum or other products are received in tank cars or other bulk quantities, stored and delivered by tank wagon or otherwise to dealers, consumers or places outside the plant.
(B) Oil plants shall be kept in proper shape and repair and clean and free from rubbish, litter and waste oils as may render it unnecessarily hazardous and a menace to life and property.
(C) No oil plant shall be established or located within the business or fire district or in or near any mercantile or manufacturing sections, nor shall an oil plant be established or located within any other part of the town unless its arrangement, construction, equipment and location conform to the following requirements.
(1) Each tank for storage of the products shall be of steel or reinforced concrete, shall conform to the specifications of the National Board of Fire Underwriters or U.S. Bureau of Standards and shall rest on noncombustible supports of ample strength and stability, with factor of safety not less than five. Shutoff gate valves shall be of a gate type and shall be equipped with two or more layers of nickel gauze separated one-half inch or more and not larger than 40 mesh to the inch. All tank supports shall be of brick or concrete or properly protected steel work and all valves and pumps shall be of an improved design, make or specification and location as are approved by the National Board of Fire Underwriters or U.S. Bureau of Standards, as modern and standard equipment for such purposes.
(2) All tanks shall be thoroughly and effectively grounded as protection against lightning and static electricity. No tank shall be located nearer than 25 feet to the boundary line of the land occupied by the oil plant, unless it is the line of a railroad or common carrier, nor nearer than 50 feet to any building not a part of the plant; provided that, in case of large storage tanks, 25,000 gallons’ capacity or over, the distance shall not be less than is prescribed by the rules and regulations of the National Board of Fire Underwriters.
(3) Oil tanks shall not be located on land sloping toward combustible property or in proximity to streams, drainage, ditches or waterfronts where escaping oil can reach combustible property. In locations where aboveground tanks are liable, in case of breakage or overflow, to endanger surrounding property, each tank shall be protected by an embankment or dike. The protection shall have a capacity of not less than one and one quarter times the capacity of the tanks surrounded and shall be at least four feet high, but in no case higher than one quarter the height of the tank when the height of the tank exceeds 16 feet.
(Prior Code, § 11-17)