HomeMy WebLinkAbout0039_0001AN ORDINANCE or THE CITY OF GEORGETOIR4. TVtAS, REGULATING T
STORAGE AND HANDLING OF GASOLINE AND OTHER VOLATILE OR EXPLOSIVE
LIQUIDS AND EQUIPMENT THEREFOR AT FILLING STATIONS, WHOLESALE OR
BULK STORAGE PLANTS, PRIVATE PLANTS, DEFINING CERTAIN WORDS AND
PHRASES USED, IERMN: PROHIBITING THE REFECTION OR ALTERATION OF
ANY FILLING STATIONp IMOLESALE OR BUIX STORAGE PLANTOR PRIVATE
PLANT WITHOUT PERMIT TiERFOA FROM THE COUNCIL; PRESCRIBING APPA
CATION FOR SUCH PEMUT AND MOV[DINGPROCEDURE AND BASIS FOR CON-
SIDERATION OF SUCU APPLICATION, PROVIDING FOR INSPECTION OF FILLING
STATIONS AND SUCH PLANTS, PROVIDING FOR REVOCATION OF SUCH POWITS,
=GULATING THE SALE, DELIMff, AND PURCHASE OF GASOLINE FROM TANK
TRUCKS OR PORTABLE TANKS, THE BUILDINGS USED IN CONNECTION WI1U ANY
FILLING STATION, REGULATING THE USE OF FILLING STATION BUILDING OR
PORTION THEREOF FOR SLMMPING FOR LIVING QUARTERS, PROVIDING A
PENALTY FOR VILLATION, PROVIDING A SAVING CLAUSE, REPEAU,'KG ALL
CONFLICTING ORDIANCES OR PARTS` THEMP AND 'DECLAMG AN EMERGENCY.
$E IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GEORGETOM-TEXAS-.
Section -I. Words and Phrases defined: The following words and phrases used in the Ordinancir
shall for the purpose ofthie Ordinance have the meanings respectfully ascribed to them in
this Section.
(a) Person. Every natural person, firm, co -partnership, association partnership,, corporc.ti
or other entity.
(b) Filling—Station, Any place where gasoline or other volatile liquid is sold, oupplied.
dispensed or offered for.sale to the retail motor vehicle trade.
{c) Tank Truck. A metal receptacle of mare ::than sixty (60) gallons capacity, mounted an
wheels and ordinarly used for the purpose of transporting gasoline.
(d) Portable Tank. A metal receptacle or not more than sixty (80) gallons capacity, isounte
on wheels and provided with means for filling,and withdrawjAg liquid and bearing thq label r -t
the National Board of Fire Underwriters,
(e) Wholesale or Bulk Storage Plant. Any place where gasoline or other volatile liquid in
stored for the purpose of sale "to the wholesale trade, or any place where such liquid is s+� wr
to the wholesale trade.
(f) Private Plant. Any gasoline pump or other gasoline despe:ioing equipment used by an fm -
or operator thereof, or by authority of such owner or operator, exclusively for motor vehi.
owned or operated by such owner or operator and from which no gasoline is Bold.
Section 2, Scope of Ordinance Defined. it shall be unlawful for any person, or the agen t•
representative of any person, to keep, store, handle, or offer for sale, gasoline, or any
*ther volatile or explosive fuel or liquid, except upon conpliance by such person with the
provisions of this Ordinance. The regulations,set forth in this .Ordinance shall govern all
filling stations, wholesale or b%lki storage plants, private plants, tank trucks building -
within the corporate limits of the City of Georgetown in thesale and delivery of gasoline or
any other volatile or explosives fuel or liquid.
Section 3. Permits and Certification Required. (a) Any person desiring to erect a filling
station, or wholesale or bulk storage plant, or private plant, or to erect or alter and
building to be used as a filling station or as such a plant, shall first obtain a permit
therefor from the City Council. The application for such permit shall be in vvitiag, and
sahll be signed by the owner or authorized agent, or the peoperty upon which the fining
station is to be located,.:: - f and shall be accompanied by four (4) like plana showinp
(1) the proposed layout of the filling station or lant inclusding the proposed location o°'
buildings•, tanks, pump and other service units, (23 'whether each proposed tank or pump bea-v
the label of the Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (3) aoy proposed use of the sidewalk area
for driveways, and (4) the proposed method of collecting wAste oil and water and final con
centration of same for disposal; all in relation to contiguos street and property lines.,
(b) In granting or refusing the permit to erect, maintain a filling station , wholeaole,
or bulk storage plant, or private plant, or to erect or alter any building to be used for
the purpose of storing ormhandling gasoline or otehr volatile or explosive xiquid, the Couro'