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If any gasoline and oil filling station is abandoned, such station shall be presumed to be a nuisance affecting or endangering surrounding property values and to be detrimental to the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, property or general welfare of the community and shall be abated. Abandoned is defined as operating for less than 180 consecutive days.
(Ord. 25-1974. Passed 1-21-74.)
Whenever the Director of Service finds any gasoline and oil filling station to be abandoned within the meaning of this chapter, he or she shall give notice in the same manner as service of summonses in civil cases or by certified mail addressed to the owner of record of the premises at his or her last known address or to the address to which tax bills are sent, or by a combination of the foregoing methods. Such notice shall be to abate such abandoned condition within thirty days either by placing the station in operation in accordance with this chapter, adapting and using the building for another permitted business use, or razing the gasoline and filling station structure, removing the pumps, storage tanks and signs and filling depressions to the grade level of the lot. However, if the station is in operation at the time notice is given and remains in operation for ninety consecutive days thereafter, or is placed in operation within three months after notice is given and continues to operate for ninety days consecutively, the provisions of this chapter shall not apply. Further, Council, by resolution, may determine that by reason of the effect of a national emergency which would curtail the operation of motor vehicles or of a state of general economic depression, the provisions of this chapter shall not apply.
Upon the failure, neglect or refusal of any owner to comply with the notice to abate such abandonment, the Director of Service shall advise the Director of Law of all the facts and such Director of Law shall proceed to exercise on behalf of the City any remedy which shall then be available to it to secure an abatement of such abandonment, including any that pertains to the abatement of a public nuisance, and to recover any damages or enforce any penalties which may be recovered or imposed at the instance of the City.
Inoperative service stations, whether or not abandoned, shall be maintained in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and the owner shall cut all grass and remove all rubbish and weeds from the premises. The parking of motor vehicles upon such premises shall be prohibited and the owner shall place in the window of such gasoline and oil filling station a sign of at least ten square feet in area notifying the public of this fact. If the Director of Service shall find that such notice is not complied with by the public, he or she may order the owner of the premises to install fencing approved by such Director of Service which will be sufficient to block motor vehicle access to such property.
(Ord. 97-1970. Passed 5-18-70.)
All gasoline and oil filling stations operating within the City are hereby required to have on display the price per gallon of each grade of gasoline sold on the premises pursuant to the following regulations:
(a) The display shall consist of an announcement board not to exceed fifteen square feet on each side and fourteen feet in height. Any gasoline and oil filling station dealing in a self-service operation shall also have a display posting the price per gallon of each grade of gasoline sold on a self-service basis, such display to be subject to this section.
(b) The display shall be placed within five feet of the front property line and the prices shall be visible from the street, and in the event that a gasoline and oil filling station is located on a corner lot, there must be a display erected on each frontage area.
(Ord. 127-1977. Passed 6-6-77.)
(c) There shall be no other wording, announcement or graphics other than the present price per gallon of each grade of gasoline sold.
(d) The announcement board required in this section shall be in addition to the signs permitted by Chapter 1735 of the Building and Housing Code.
(Ord. 151-1974. Passed 6-17-74.)
The owner or operator of a gasoline and oil filling station, or the agent or employee of such owner or operator, shall, when consummating a credit card purchase for a customer, write or have placed upon the credit card receipt the number of gallons purchased and the price per gallon as well as the total price of the purchase.
(Ord. 95-1974. Passed 5-6-74.)
(a) Each filling station offering self-service shall be operated in accordance with National Fire Protection Association Standard No. 30 (1974) and the provisions of the “Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970,” 84 Stat. 1590, 5 U.S.C.A. 5108, and any amendments thereto and standards adopted thereunder.
No such self-service filling station shall be permitted to commence operation or public business without first obtaining an inspection business permit therefor from the Bureau of Fire Prevention of the Fire Department. Any self-service filling station presently in operation shall, within sixty days from the effective date of this section, obtain such inspection business permit.
The inspection business permit shall be issued on an annual basis to any individual or corporate entity doing business as a self-service filling station.
The aforesaid permit shall be based upon the following schedule: An aggregate fee based on the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) for each self-service dispensing gasoline nozzle located and/or operating on the premises.
The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall be responsible for and authorized to issue the permit after he or she or an officer designated by him or her from the Bureau has made a safety inspection of the premises and the Bureau finds that the permit applicant has complied with all applicable Federal, State and City laws and ordinances pertaining thereto.
The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention or an officer of the Bureau is authorized during regular business hours to make periodic inspections to assure that all pertinent Federal, State and City laws and ordinances are currently complied with.
If, after an inspection at any such self-service filling station, the Bureau of Fire Prevention finds evidence of a violation of any applicable law or ordinance, the permit shall be suspended until the violation(s) are corrected and an inspection thereof is made by the Bureau and approval given.
(Ord. 54-1997. Passed 3-3-97; Eff. 4-3-97.)
(b) The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall fix reasonable standards and shall prescribe, modify and enforce reasonable orders governing the equipment, operation and maintenance of filling stations. The standards and orders shall be such as are necessary for the protection of the persons and property of the public, but shall require as a minimum those standards which are established within this chapter.
(Ord. 17-1977. Passed 1-17-77.)
All full service gasoline and oil filling stations within the City which do not have the facilities to supply air or do not provide air shall be required to post notice of that fact. The notice shall be posted on a display placed within five feet of the front property line, which shall be visible from the street, and in the event that a gasoline and oil filling station is located on a corner lot, there must be a display erected on each frontage area.
All gasoline and oil filling stations within the City which sell or offer for sale any gasoline blended or mixed with any ethanol, methanol or co-solvent, or any combination thereof, in quantities greater than three-tenths of one percent by volume and sold or offered for sale to the public, shall disclose:
(a) The fact that the gasoline contains ethanol, methanol or co-solvent; and
(b) The maximum percentage, to the nearest tenth of a percent, of any ethanol, methanol or co-solvent contained in the gasoline.
The disclosure required herein shall be made by a printed sign or label affixed to the retail dispensing pump. The printed sign or label shall be visible and legible to the purchaser and shall be displayed in a clear, conspicuous and prominent manner, with the words in block letters not less than one inch in height, reading:
“CONTAINS % ALCOHOL.”
(Ord. 42-1986. Passed 3-17-86.)
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