Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-12-11
City Ordinances
AN ORDINANCE NO. 221-

To regulate the manufacture, stor-
age and keeping for sale of certain
-Ghemicals, Combustibles and explo-
sives in the City of Fitzgerald, County
of Irwin and State of Georgia, and to
provide punishment for violation Of
same.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
City Council of Fitzgerald, Georgia
that after the passage of this ordi-
nance No. 221 the following rules and
regulations embodied In paragraphs
Nos. one to thirteen inclusive shall
be in effect.
/. Permits and licenses herein
provided for to be issued only upon
application in writing to the city
Council of Fitzgerald.
2. The City Council reserves the
right, if at any time in It's judgment
the public safety shall require it, to
amend and add to the requirements
or restrictions herein prescribed be-
fore the expiration of any permit or
license granted hereunder, and to re-
quire compliance with such amend
ment or additions.
8. BY the term explosive COM
pound or mixture" is meant any
compound or mixture capable of
causing a sudden and great develop
ment of gases and consequent vio-
lent increase of pressure by rapid
combustion or decomposition.
4. No person, firm or corporation
without first procuring permit or IL
cense therefor from the City Council
shall, within the corporate limits of
the city of Fitzgerald transport, have
store, keep, manufacture, use or sell
any explosive compound or mixture,
or a mixture compound, adoption or
contriyance containing an explosive
compound or mixture, but this proh1-
bition shall not apply to the ordinary
keeping and sale of small arms am
munition as practiced in hardware
and sporting goods houses.
5. No person, firm or corporation,
without first procuring permit or
license therefor as herein provided,
shall, within the corporate limits OF
Fitzgerald, store, manufacture or
keep for sale or keep for use in any
art, trade or manufacture, any liquid
which will emit an int1amable vapor
at temperature below ITO Fahren-
heit, as tested in G.. Tagliabue's
closed Pyrometer, except that if
kept in self-closing metal cans, not
exceeding one gallon of gasoline,
benzine or naphtha may be kept in a
building without a permit therefor,
and not exceeding five gallons may
be kept outside a building without
obtaining O special permit therefor.
6. A permit for the manufacture
of gas from gasoline, benzine or
naphtha shall only be issued where
the generating apparatus is either out
side the building and underground
ut least two feet, or else In building
isolated from all other buildings and
used exclusively for manufacturing
said gas, said building to be removed
q distance of not less than thirty
feet from all other buildings, streets,
or public places, in accordance with
the size and capacity of the gener'
ating apparatus.
7. All apparatus used for general
Ing or holding acetylene gas shall be
so constructed located and used as
to secure the greatest measure OF
safety; all such apparatus to be lo-
Gated outside Of buildings.
s. No permit to be-issued for the
storage or keeping for sale or use OF
gasoline, benzine or naphtha IN bulk,
save in underground (buried in the
ground) metal tanks, with no open
ing for drawing off contents below
the level of the ground, but to be
drawn from by pumps. Said tanks
must be provided with a ventllatlng
pipe extending up as high as the
roofs of the surrounding buildings
and no such tank capable of holding
more than 1875 gallons will be per-
mitted within 100 feet of buildings,
but any such tank containing less
than 1875 gallons, if properly buried
may be located within
ten feet of other buildings.
8. No person, firm or corporation,
without first procuring a permit or
license therefor as herein provided,
shall, within the corporate limits OF
store manufacture, keep
for sale or keep for use in any art,
trade or manufacture, any carbide
that will free an inflammable gas by
contact with water or moisture or
free an infammable gas by contact
with water.
10. A permit may be issued for the
aud keeping of calcium car
bide in hermetlcally sealed iron re-
ceptacles and in quantities not ex-
ceeding 100 pounds in the aggregate,
in the isolated buildings where 1t
will not be an exposure to any ad-
Joining property, provided the build
ing is water proof, we'll ventilated
and drained, with floors raised above
the grade upon which it stands.
ii If the building is used exclusive
Iy for the storage of calcium carbide
and if it is detached at least thirty
feet from other buildings, written
permit may be given by the City
Council for the storage in quantities
in excess of 100 pounds and not ex-
ceeding 500 pounds, provided the
calcium carbide is stored in not eX-
ceeding 1O0-pound packages in sealed
iron receptacles. In such buildings
no artificial light or fire other than