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ROLL CALL
VOTING AYE NAY
Barnes Salt Lake City,Utah, Dec. 6, ,192
Burton I move that the ordinance be passed.
Green
Stewart
Mr. Chairman
Result AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE D,'frdDING SECTION 1124 of Chapter X:XIII,
Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, 1920, relating to storage
tanks above ground outside of any building.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt
Lake City, Utah:
SECTION I. That Section 1124 of Chapter XXIII, Revised
Ordinances of Salt Lake City, 1920, relating to storage tanks
above ground outside of any building, be, and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 1124. STORAGE TANKS :.BOVE GROUND OUTSIDE
OF ANY BUILDING. (Quantity over 300 gallons - any flash
test.) It shall be unlawful for any person to build, main-
tain or erect above ground any tank for the storage of
gasoline, benzine, naphtha, distillate petroleum or any
products of petroleum or hydro-carbon liquids in greater
quantities than three hundred (300) gallons, without first
submitting to the Chief of the- Fire Department with the
application required plans of the proposed tank showing its
size, capacity, construction, proposed contents, location,
distance from water or railroad tracks and the location of
all adjacent buildings, together with plans and specifiaa-
tions for aa, rete-or reinforced concrete wall to surround
said tank. And it shall be unlawful for any person to build,
maintain or erect any such wall of any material other than tu..eku�
mormandwor reinforced concrete.
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11 such storage tanks shall be located a suffi-
oient distance from railroad tracks, bulkheads, or water
fronts of streams, lakes or ponds to allow the construction
of a concrete wall not less than four (4) feet high; and plan
concrete walls must be at least thirteen (13) inches thick
at the top and reinforced with buttresses at every ten (10)
feet. .,
Plans and ,apecific&tiors for;ell walls must be ap-
proved by the chief 2of the.-fire 4epartmeft.
The reservoir formedby Such concrete walls must
have a capacity of at least thirty (30) per cent greater than.
� that of the tank, .and there shell be no opening of any kind
in said walls.
A11 storage tanks and walls, as mentioned in this
ordinance, that do not ccmply with the provisions hereof
shall be constructed so as to comply with the provisions of
this ordinance within thirty days after written notice from
the Chief of Fire Department given to the owner or person
maintaining or controlling said tank or reservoir.
SECTION 2. Any persona convicted of violating any provi-
sion of this ordinance shall be punished as provided in Section 7
of the Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, 1920.
SECTION 3. In the opinion of the Board of Commissioners
it is necessary to the peace, health and safety of the inhabitant
of salt Lake City that this ordinance become effective immediately.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect at once
upon publication. �j
Passed by the Board of Co i5nm ssoners of Salt Lake City
Utah, this day of , A.D. 1923.
Mayor.
City Recorder.
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