HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 04.14.1960 - Explosive Liquids1.87
Ail' ORDINANCE OF T;.TF CITY OF GEORG'-_T(WJgv, TEXAS
AITMIDING THAT CERTAITTt CPPITTAi�SCL' AND AI + M11ENT
THERETO RECTTTLATING THE HANDLING OF VOUTILI OR
T!MPLOSIVE LIQUIDS, TIT T V€AS PASSED AzNID APPROVED
ON THE 10 ITT DAY OF " F ?!.TI YA4 L'� , AND
Al E'NDTTu G 37C T ION 5 ,AND 5A AS fit,` I'iDMT) ON APRIL
7`t'E 19503 AND ADDING TO SAID ORDTN?A iCE, 5EC`a IOIT
j .AIM 5A AS T�J'EINLfBM REGARDING UN`DT3'R(XROTJUD TANKS
AND CAPACITY 0F TRUCKS HAULING GASOLINE IN SAID
CITY SO THAT SAID SUBSECTIONS ?',ENTIOhTBD ABOVE SHALL
APPLY TO °' PTt! arAT C PLANT" AND INCA
� i INCREASING CAPACITY Y OF
STORAGE TANKS FROM 10200 GALLONS TO 2,000 GALL07INTS AND
INCREASING THE TOTAL C01,0INED CAPACITY OF ALL TANKS
AT ANY ONE TtI'SAIL PILLING STATION F;E'O74vi4,000 GALLONS
TO 5,000 GALLONS AND COMBINED TOTAL GALLONS NOT TO
EXCEED 2,000 GALLONS AT ANY PRIVATE PLANT AND LI2,UTING
CARRYING CAPACITY OF TRUCKS HAULING GASOLINE TO PILI-
VATS PLANT WITHIN SAID CITY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GE OR GET TEW
That Sections 5 and 5A of that certain ordinance of the said City
that regulates they handling of volatile or explosive liquids and that was
passed and approved on -the 10th day of 1"'ebruary ,. L. 1,Q40, and the 2'th
day of April, 1950, shall hereafter read as follows:
Sectio. 5. Storage tanks and pumps regulated: Only underground
tanks shall be used for the stowage: of gasoline at filling stations, and
the said tanks and appliances shall. be placed entirely within the property
lines of the premises. That no tank shall be installed at any retail fil«
ling station or private plant with a capacity greater than. 2,000 Two
i
Thousand) gallons; and only one tank shall be permitted for each purup in
service. That the totalcombined capacity of all of the tanks at any one
retail filling stat, on shall not exceed' 5,0Wi(Five Thousand gallons and
combined capacity not to exceed 2,0+00 gallons at any private plant. .All of
such tanks shall be'laboled shoring "Underwriter's Laboratories Approved
Tank". Gasoline shall be drawn from underground storage tanks only through
openings in the top thereof and only by means of pumps, bearing the: approval
of the National Board of Underlrrritc rs. All such pumps and apparatus shall
be placed inside the property lines, and so placed 'tha.t it will be impractical
to serge rotor vehicles therefrom while such vehicles are standing on any p art
of any sidewalk, street, or alley of said City. No pump shall be used other
than one that has been approved by the Undorr'idw.iters Laboratories,, Inc., for
such use. :All such pumps shall, be tested, examined, approved and sealed by
the Cit; Plumbing Inspector of the City of Georgetown, Texas, before being
placed in service.
Section a'A. That no truck, hauling gasoline, that has a, carrying
capacity of over 1,400 (Fourteen riundred gallons shall hereafter be per~
witted to deliver gasoline, therefrom to any filling station, private plant
or to any tank used by any filling station or private plant distributing
gasoline therefrom within said city. That each truck used
gasoline or other volatile or explosive liquids are transp
livered, within the said City, shall carry such gasoline,
or gather explosive liquids, in a tank thereon suitable for
that such tanks shall be made of not less than twelve gauge
or by which ,
other volatile,
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vanize steel,*
or at
least
one-fourth
inch
black
open hearth
tank steel; a
d that
such
tank
shall
be equipped
with
outlet
faucets of
the antidrip
pproved
self"
closing type; and also must be equipped with automatic chec4X valves for safety
in the event of mechanical injury to the outlet faucets, and said tank and
equipment shall have been approved by and shall bear the label of approval of
the National Board of Fire. Underurriters •
That other than as here amended, all of the said ordi once that is hereby
being amended, shall be and remain in full force and effect and that:this
amendment shall be considered as a part of the original ordnance and amend"
men.ts pass thereto.
That if any word, sentence, clause:, or paragraph of this amendment be
declared to be void, the said void portion hereof shall not effect the validity
of all of the remaining portions hereof.
'he fact that the matters covered hereby are of mate ial importance,
creates an emergency, making it necessary that the rules rewiring that
ordinance be read at three separate rneetings be suspended aid the said rules
are here and now suspended, and this ordinance is at once pssed, and it is
ordered that it take effect from and after its passage,
Passed and approved this the 14th, day of . pri'' ,
v ayor, MY of e lrFetown. Texa •
. TTEST O
Ci y Secretary, City of Georgetown, Texas
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