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75 of 1912 - regulating buildings for clothes cleaning establishments. AN ORDINANCE . An ordinance to regulate the construction of buildings used for clothes cleaning establishments and the use of gasoline, naphtha, ben- zine, and other light petroleum and coal products in clothes cleaning establishments in Salt Lake City, Utah. Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah: SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. (a) The term "benzine" or "gasolene", wherever used herein shall mean any product of petroleum, or any hydro carbon liquid that will flash or emit an inflammable vapor below the temperature of one hundred and ten (110) degrees Fahrenheit. (b) "Chief of*Fire Department" moans Chief of Fire Department of Salt Lake City, Utah. 1 (c) "Approved" shall mean approved by Chief of Fire Department. (d) "Clothes Cleaning Establishment" shall mean any building or promises where more than one quart of benzine or gasoline is kept or stored to be used for cleaning or renovating any clothing or articles of wearing apparel or fabric of any kind, including dye works and tailor shops. (e) "Tests". The Chief of Fire Department shall test and decide the flashing point. SECTION 2. THE CHIEF OF FIRE DEPART= TO GRANT DER ITS. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation hereafter to establish or maintain a clothes cleaning establishment where more than one (1) quart of benzine or gasoline is kept or stored, without first obtaining a permit therefor from the Chief of Fire Department, speci- fying the came of the permittee and the location of the premises to be used es such clothes cleaning establishment, and the amount of benzine or gasoline desired; provided, that all persons, firms or corporations now conducting the business of clothes cleaning shall after the passage of this ordinance comply with all the requirements hereafter specified in this ordinance governing the storage and use 73 • -2- of gasoline or benzine. No permit shall be granted by Chief of Fire • Department where any portion of building is used or occupied as a hotel, apartment house or lodging, house. • SECTION 3. A.PPLICATION FOR PERMITS. All applications for per- mits to store benzine or gasoline to be used in clothes cleaning es- tablisiiments shall be made to the Chief of lire Department, who shall ; determine the conditions under which any privilege granted shall be exercised, and shall furnish each applicant with a written or printed • copy of all requirements imposed by this ordinance for their informa- tion and guidance as to the manner in which benzine or gasoline shall be stored for the cleaning or renovating of clothes or any articles of wearing apparel or fabric of any kind. When application is mode to conduct and maintain a clothes clean-. ing establishment, the applicant shall, immediately after filing the application, cause to be posted conspicuously on the premises a notice that such application has been made, said notice to be kept posted until said application is granted or denied. SECTION 4. DRY CLE NIN ROOM. The dry cleaning room of a clothes cleaning establishment shall be a fire proof building not more than 1 one story high, with no basement beneath; building must be of brick, laid in cement mortar, stone or concrete construction with cement floor. (a) The doors of such room must be of the most improved pattern of automatic fire doors; the windows shall be of fire glass with metal frames and sashes. • (b) The walls of said room shall have vent holes at the floor line not less than 6 x 8" in area, two such openings in each outside wall of the room, the openings properly protected by iron bars. The Chief of Fire Department may require, when deemed advisable for proper ventilation, that an exhaust blower be located in an air conduit who, le inlet openings shall be at or near the floor lino, and the discha, ��i -3- • end of such conduit shall be carried four feet above the roof of the building. The exhaust blower and conduit shall be of size sufficient to change the air of the building every three minutes, and such blower shall be in operation at all times during working hours. (c) The dry cleaning room shall be equipped with fire buckets filled with sand for use in extinguishin_; fires, the number of buckets and quantity of sand to be determined by the Chief of Eire Department. (d) Where steam is available, the dry cleaning room of a clothes cleaning establishment shall have installed in same an approved steam fire extinguishing system, the supply valve for which shall be placed on the outside of the room with one valve so arranged that same can be turned on from the outside of the building. (e) There shall be no coneiec!ion from the said clothes cleaning establishments to public or private sewers, drain, catch basin or pit, and all such establishments shall be heated by hot water or steam heat. (f) The lighting must be done by electricity in the most improver manner, the wires to be run in conduits; all lamps must be approved • vapor proof lamps with keyless sockets; and all switches must 4- feet above the floors of such establishments, located near door so as not • to allow opportunity for vapor to collect near them. (g) It shall be unlawful to locate, have, use or maintain steam II! generating boiler, dynamo or motor within the walls of any clothes cleaning establishment except in a room entirely separated from the • cleaning and dyeing rooms. SECTION 5. STORAGE OF GASOLINE AND BENZINE. Not more than one gallon of gasoline or benzine shall be kept or stored for use above ground, and in any clothes cleaning establishment except in closed machines. All quantities of benzine or gasoline in excess of one gallon shall be stored in underground tanks of the following specifi- cations: //1 (a) All storage tanks shall be constructed of not less than/]u icy": ✓1 1 -4- gauge galvanized steel, carefully riveted and soldered and coated on • • • the outside with asphaltum or other rust proof material. There shall be no openings or pipe connections except on top thereof, and no tank shall be connected 'either directly or indirectly with any drain, catch basin or sewer. (b) Tanks must not exceed 300 gallons capacity each, and not more than 6 tanks for benzine or gasoline of 300 gallons capacity each shall be allowed in connection wih any one clothes cleaning e .tab- lishment. SECTION 6. INSTALLATION OF STO LGE TANfS. (a) All tanks are to be installed underground outside of building, in yard, under sidewalk as near the curb line as possible, or under a public alley, the top of tanks to be four (4) feet below the surface and entirely surrounded by earth. • (b) Where more than one tank is installed, they shall be sepa- • • rated by at least twelve (12) inches of earth, all well tamped in • place. The tops of tanks must be below the level of the lowest pipe • line in the building used in connection with the equipment. • (c) No storage tanks shall be covered with earth until on inspec- • tion has bean made by the Chief of 1`ire Department. (d) All storage tanks shall be provided with one (1) inch diam- eter galvanized iron vent pipe, same to be connected to top of tanks. • (e) This vent pipe must be carried up at least twelve (12) feet • Stove the ground level and terminate in a double goose neck spark pro- tector, the openings of which must be covered by a brass or copper • wire screen of at least 30 mesh. This vent pipe must be placed on a dead wall as remote from windows and doors as possible, and must be • attached to wall with pipe hooks, and kept firmly in place. (f) Filler pipes must be made of galvanized iron piping two (2) inches or more in diameter, entering in at the top of tank, and ex- r-) tending to the bottom of the tank. Upper end of such filler pips(mAst terminate in screw cap securely locked. ,(14/ ii • -5- (g) When filler pipe runs to sidewalk or to alley, or to other public hihways, it must terminate in screw cap securely locked, and be protected by cast iron filler box, same to be flush with the side- walk or alley; cover of said filler box to be securely locked. (h) All storage tanks shall be filled from a tank wagon in the day time. Im no case shall any tanks or drums of gasoline, empty or otherwise, be allowed in, upon or about any clothes cleaning estab- lishment or dye works. (i) Where the space under the sidewalk•is excavated for use ad part of the basement, tanks shall rest- on or beneath the basement floor, shall be surrounded by a brick or concrete wall not loss than twelve (12) inches thick,=.extending from the bottom of the tank to four (4) feet above the top thereof; the space between the top of the tank and the top of the wall shall bd filled with earth, and the earth covered with at least three (3) inches of concrete. SECTION 7. PUMPS. All gasoline or benzine must be drawn from storage tanks by automatic closing valve pumps, and no gravity-siphon, air or water system shall be permitted; such pumps to be located above the top of the tanks and may be placed inside of the building. Pumps must be of an approved design having valves to close all suction pipe lines. SECTION 8. PIBES. All pipes must lead out of the top of all tanks. (a) All piping shall be galvanized and be put together with litharge and glycerine. SECTION 9. HANDLING 01' GASOLINE AND BENZINE. The piping shall be so)arran;ged that all gasoline shall be pumped from tanks to washers and return without being ex osed to the air. SECTION 10. REGLiLI.TIOT;S. (a) No open lights of any kind shall be allowed in any room where benzine or gasoline is used. (b) No stove, fore, torch, boiler or other furnace, flam 14 ; -6- ._ fire shall be allowed in any room where benzine or gasoline is used. (c) All electric meters shall be placed at least four and one half (42) feet above the floor. SECTION 11. DUTY OP CI.IEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. It shall be the duty of Chief of Fire Department to see that the provisions of this `-. odine1144 ar4 complied with, and for that purpose he shall have access fi ,y :` t° n 'a d .a.`Al buildings 1 emi e seal as clothes clefnain ,,,estab- 5 t. li it tsd _ill 1 ' 4 #v t>( ,).. IF.i any propriety ,a _ of any clothes n estab- lishmdYi ha-1 fail or re!us ,450 i. with any of th p 'ov't ions of tc t i s o;rdidna e (which ar fo �bst p c safety) , sal. bl of of Fire , { 7 ,f u. i Deaic�eritJshall notify e ro ri �'r or managero gpea-r before 1 th4 Board of Commissioners o Sc. t Lake City within five days after the seice of said notice, and show erase why the permit which may have been :;-ranted to store benzine or gasoline shall not be revoked. SECTION 12. PENALTY. Any person, or persons, firm or company or corporation that violates, disobeys, or refuses to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misde- meanor, and moon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding f- or by imprisonment in the City Jail :or not more than imett.4161e, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and such person or persons, firm, company or corporation shall be a deemed guilty of separate offense for every day at such violation, dis n- obedience or refusal shall continue, and shall be subject to the pen- alty imposed by this ordinance for each and every separate offense. SECTION 13. All ordinances and resolutions, or parts of ordi- nances and resolutions in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. SECTION 14. This ordinance shall take effect J aL — —. 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