It shall be unlawful for any person to erect any buildings or tanks for storage of large quantities of dynamite, nitroglycerin, giant powder, explosives or inflammable oils or to store kerosene, gasoline, or other petroleum products in large quantities in barrels for the purpose of carrying on the oil business or to erect or construct any building, apparatus, structure, or equipment, used or useful in the operation of any petroleum refinery or skimming plant, unless the persons secure a permit so to do from the Mayor and Council, in writing. The permit shall specify the exact location where such petroleum refinery, skimming plant, or storage tanks may be placed or where and under what conditions such kerosene, oil, and gasoline in barrels may be stored. The Mayor and Council is hereby empowered, at any time the public good demands to order the removal of kerosene tanks, gasoline tanks, inflammable oil tanks, explosives, petroleum refinery, skimming plant, or any building or house containing any of such products. Underground tanks, when hereafter built for the storage of any gasoline or petroleum products shall be constructed in accordance with the rules and regulations of the National Board of Fire Underwriters which, according to law, are hereby incorporated and made a part of this section the same as though set out at length herein.
(Prior Code, § 92.33) Penalty, see § 10.99