The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-27
[BY AUFHORITY.l
AN ORDINANCE
Relating to Keeping and Storing
Oils and Other Infammable
or Explosive Substances.

or Explosive Substances.
SECTION BE 1t Ordained 6y the
city Council Of Salt Lake Litg:
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 tie 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 Ii
guilds, which shall flash or emit an
lnt1ammabie Vap9r at a temperature
below no degrees Fahrenheit, un.
less the same be kept in iron tanks
and stored in 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 sale 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 NJ etal
cans, unless the same shall stand a
fire test of Ito degrees Fahrenheit
before it shall flash or emit an in
hamma6le 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: PTO0ided, that all buildings
used for the storage of any refined
products of Petroleum, in quantity
more than one hundred and less than
one thousand gallons, shall be so
constructed as to be deemed fire
proof, and certificate thereof shall
be obtained from the Inspector of
Buildings for said city before any
permit shall be granted, which GER
tlficate 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 reYo-
cation necessary.
SEC. 3.-No building OF 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 warehouse
| 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: P9O0ided, 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 lnfammable VapOr at a tempera-
ture below 10 degrees Fahrenheit,
unless such warehouse or building
shall be specially recommended
and accepted Ly the City
Council for such storage and
have prominently painted ex-
ternally on the front thereof, in
plain Roman letters at least five
inches in length, the words: sLi-
censed for the Storage of Gasoline"
SEC. At shall be unlawful for
any person, persons, firm or corpora
ton to mix, adulterate, or offer for
sale, any oils used for illuminating
purposes with BenZine, Naptha,
Gasoline or any other substance;
and all oils or fluids manufactured
from Petroleum, or it's produces, to
be used for Illuminating purposes,
shall be required to stand a fire test
of110 degrees Fahrenheit before it
shall flash or emit an infammable
vapor.
SEC. 5.-No person, persons, firm
or corporation shall manufacture
acids or any combustible or explo-
sive chemicals, or boil or refine oils,
or maintain, erect or cause to be
erected any works for the manufac,
ture OF acids or explosive chemicals,
or for boiling or refining oils, within
forty rods OF any dwelling house or
place Of business in said city; and
no person shall receive, keep or store,
or suffer to remain in any place
within the limits of said city, any
explosive substance, or any Her
cules, Dynamite or Giant Powder.
having an explosive power greater
than that of any ordinary gunpoW-
der.
SEC. 6-The places wherein the
articles mentioned in sections two
and three Of this Ordinance are kept
or stored, shall not be opened before
sunrise nor after sunset on any
day; nor shall fire or light be kept
or carried into such places at any