(A) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, company or corporation to keep or permit to be kept within the city any gasoline, benzene, petroleum or petroleum products or other highly inflammable oils, chemicals or compounds in any quantity exceeding the following:
(1) Gasoline: ten gallons;
(2) Benzene: ten gallons;
(3) Kerosene or coal oil: 100 gallons; and
(4) Other petroleum products or highly inflammable oils, chemicals or compounds: 50 gallons.
(B) In stores or other places of business where such oils, chemicals or compounds shall be kept in hermetically sealed cans in original unopened packages, or in iron or steel tanks, to be approved by the Building Inspector; provided that, druggists and chemists may keep in open cans or decanters any of the oils, chemicals and compounds above mentioned in quantities not exceeding five gallons of each, for the purpose of compounding prescriptions, mixtures and ordinary retail trade. This section shall not include persons or entities commonly considered retail or bulk dealers of petroleum products, gasoline stations or gasoline sales outlets or the storage of home heating oils when used in connection with heating premises.
(1992 Code, § 7-1-202)