The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-24
BY AUrHoRITY.1
AN ORDINANCE
Relating to Keeping and Storing
Oils and Other Inhammable
or Explosive Substances.

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City Council Of Salt Lake City: |
That it shall be unlawful, without |!
the permission of the City Council, |
for any person or persons, firm |
or corporation, to store, permit |
the storage of, or keep for sale |
in any one building within the cor
porate limits of the city, in larger /
quantity than twenty gallons, to be |
always kept in metal cans, any crude |
Petroleum, Gasoline, or any product
of Petroleum, or hydro-carbon IL
guilds, which shall flash or emit an
infammable vaper at a temperature
below 10 degrees Fahrenheit, I'M
less the same be kept in iron tanks
and stored in a building or ware
house specially licensed for, used
for, and devoted to the storage of
crude Petroleum, Gasoline, and other
products of Petroleum or hydro
carbon liquids.
SEC. 1T shall be unlawful for
any person or persons, firm or cor
poration to store, permit the stor-
age of, or keep for sal e in any one
building within the corporate lin
its of Salt Lake City, any refined
product of Petroleum in larger
quantities than one thousand gal
Ions, to be always kept in m etal
cans, unless the same shall stand
fire test of Ito degrees Fahrenheit
| before it shall fash or emit an in
fiammable vapor, and unless the
same be stored in building or ware
house licensed for, used for and de-
voted to the storage Of such sub
stances: Provided, that all buildings
used for the storage of any refined
products of Petroleum, in quantity
more than enc hundred and less than
one thousand gallons, shall be so
constructed as to be deemed fire.
proof, and a certificate thereofsshall
be obtained from the Inspector of
Buildings for said city before any
permit shall be granted, which GER
tif1cate shall be filed in the Office of
the City Recorder. Said permit
shall specify the room in such
building where the same may be
kept or stored, and the name of the
person, firm or corporation to whom
the same shall be granted. All such
permits may be revoked whenever
the Council shall deem such reVo-
cation necessary.
SEC. 3.-No building or warehouse
shall be specially licensed for the
storage Of unlimited quantities Of
oil or other infammable substances
as contemplated in this Ordinance,
except on the recommendation Of
the Inspector of Buildings, the Chief
Engineer of Fire Department and
the City Marshal, as being suitable
therefor; said building or warer ouse
to be located at such place as may
be approved by the City Council,
and not to be within twenty rods of
any dwelling house or place of bust
ness in said city without the per
mission in writing of the owner OF
such dwelling house or place of bust
ness. The person or persons, firm
or corporation, making appli-
cation for such special license
shall, as soon as the same shall be
granted by the Council, pay into
the City Treasury the sum Of
twenty-five dollars yearly, in ad.
vance: PTOUided, That no such
warehouse or building shall be used
: for the storage of crude Petroleum
Gasoline or other products of Pc
troleum which shall flash or emit
an infammable vapor at tempera
ture below ITO degrees Fahrenheit
unless such warehouse or building
shall be especially recommended
and accepted by the City
Council for such storage anC
have prominently painted ex-
ternally on the front thereof, il
plain Roman letters at least 6v
inches in length, the words: S'Li
: censed for the Storage of Gasoline.
SEC. At shall be unlawful TO
any person, persons, firm or corpora
ton to mix, adulterate, or offer 70
sale. any oils used for illuminating
purposes with Benzine, NapthS
Gasoline or any other substance
and all oils or fluids manufacture
from Petroleum, or its produces, t
be used for illuminating purpose
shall be required to stand fire ties
of 40 degrees Fahrenheit before
shall flash or emit an inflammabl
vapor.
SEC. 5.-NO person, persons, fri
or corporation shall manufactuI
acids or any combustible or explc
u sive chemicals, or boil or refine oil
or maintain, erect or cause to /
erected any works for the manufa
is ture of acids or explosive chemical
or for boiling or refining oils, with
forty rods OF any dwelling house
- place of business in said city; al
no person shall receive, keep or stol
or suffer to remain in any pla,
~ within the limits of said city, an
of explosive substance, or any He
Ike cules, Dynamite or Giant PoWdt
having an explosive power great
IN than that of any ordinary gunpo'
C. der.
tn SEC. 6-The places wherein t
ITS articles mentioned in sections tV
we and three of this Ordinance are ke
or stored, shall not be opened befC
MT sunrise nor after sunset on a
day; nor shall FIRE or light be ke
or carried into such places at a
5O time.
SEC. Amy person, persons, Fl
or corporation who have, prior
der the passage Of this ordinance,
oh ceived grant or permit from
OF City Council to store oils as conte