The term
FILLING STATION as used in this article shall mean any building, structure, premises, enclosure or other place within the city where a container or tank, either portable or stationary, containing ether, carbon bisulfate, gasoline, naphtha, benzene, hydrocarbon (gas drips), liquefied petroleum gas, acetone, kerosene, turpentine or other inflammable liquids, having a flash point below 187°F, are kept or located for the purpose of selling, offering for sale or distributing any such liquids from such container or tank; provided, however, that the provisions of this article shall not apply to any place where such inflammable liquids are kept or sold for medicinal purposes only.
(1929 Code, § 465)