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Home My WebLink AboutORD 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, N : x 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 ei L 183 THE STATE OF TEXAS, COMITY OF VIILLIA".'SON. TO THE HONORABLE C. A. FORBES, 1:AYOR, A':D T 77 CITY COUNCIL OF T:'E CITY OF GEORGETOVM, TEXAS. Now comes Three Way Grain & Seed Company, a partnership composed of W. R. Ross, 11. L. Hicks and Lois Hicks, and present this their ap- plication for permit to erect or construeb a private bulk storage tank on the property and premises owned by them in the south part of Georgetown, Texas between Austin Avenue and the U. S. Highway No. 81. Said proposed storage tank shall be located north of and adjacent to the offices of Three Viay Grain & Seed Company as more particularly shown by a plat or plan of the proposed location for said storage tank at- tached -hereto marked Exhibit "A" and made a part hereof. Three copies in addition to the copies of said plan attached to this petition are herewith submitted. The storage tank to be placed on said premises is an 8,000 gallon tank and will be used only by the Three Way Grain & Seed Company for its vehicles, and to be used for storing gasoline only. The proposed pump and the tank to be used in connection with said tank will bear the label of the Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. There is no sidewalk area within 300 feet of said proposed location, andno waste oil or water will be concentrated at said point. The location of said tank with reference to adjoining buildings and streets within 300 feet of said tank is shown on said plat or plan attached hereto. vMMFORE, your applicant asks that it be granted permit to locate said bulk storage tank and pump on its premises. Th -REE WAY GRAIN AND SEED COMPANY BYs C121 C. HICK3, Dr AIIAGER 184 G Com" C PERMIT TO STORE GASOLINE IN BULK STORAGE PLANT - PRIVATE PLANT. The application of Three Way Grain & Seed Company for a permit to store gasoline at a private plant having been presented to the Council on this the 14th day of Llarch, 1960, and the Council having examined said application and the proposed plan attached thereto= and the motion having been made to grant said permit was passed by unanimous vote of those present. It is therefore the Order of the Council that said application be and the same is hereby granted, subject to the compliance by the Three 'day Grain & Seed Company with the further installation provisions of the Ordinances of the City of Georgetown. When the applicant has completed said plant and has complied with all the provisions of the ordinance regarding the same and the installation has been approved by the City Plumbing Inspector, the City Kanager Lee Black, is authorized to issue to said applicant a Certificate of Operation for such private plant.