Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-13

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transporting volatile infiammable Ii
quid to and from the storage tanks for
; filing and charging the automobile.
! The said portable tanks shall be sup
/ ported on rubber-tired wheels and Ii
Guilds must be drawn by means OF a
tight-ftting pump. Hose attachment
aust not exceed ten feet in length.
eanipped at the end with a shut-off
valve.
Section g. No volatile infammable
liquid shall be allowed to run upon the
floor or to fall or pass into the drain
age system of a garage, nor shall any
such liquid be put into or removed
from the tanks of vehicle while any
light or fire on the same is burning.
1 Section 7. Where electric charging
apparatus is installed or placed in
public or commercial garage, all such
appa, atus except the wires leading to
the automobile to be charged shall be
placed within room separated from
/
! the main garage by fre-proof walls.
which wall sEall not be inferior in fire.
resisting qualities to reinforced con-
crete construction four inches in
thickness; &ry openings from said
roont into the main garage shall be
protr led by self-closing fire doors,
and door s;.ls shall be raised at least
eight inches above the floor level.
Section 8. No person shall smoke
in any garage. A notice in large let
ters mo SMOKING" shall be kept dis
played in a conspicuous place and
manner on all floors and at the en-
trance of all garages.
Section 9. On the floor of every
garage there shall be constantly kept
and maintained convenient receptacles
filled with dry sand to be used in abb
sorbing waste oils on the floor; in adj
dition thereto sand shall be kept on
every floor in boxes or buckets provid
ed with hand scroops to be used for
fire extinguishing purposes only. There
shall be one such box or bucket for
each two thousand square feet of floor
area or fraction thereof, or in lieu
Of such boxes or buckets there may
be maintained cart on wheels filled
with sand, such cart to hold not less
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Section TO- There shall maintained
at least one approved 1-2 gallon and
one approved 1-quart chemical fire ex-
tinguisher for each three thousand
square feet of floor space, or fraction
thereof, but not less than one of each
on each floor.
Section IL. Self-closing metal cans
set firmly on four-inch legs shall be
kept ON all floors of every garage, into
which all infiammable waste materials
shall be deposited at all times when
not in use, and there shall be one such
can for each three thousand square
feet of floor area or fraction thereof.
The contents of all waste cans shall be
removed from the building daily.
Section IL. Calcium carbide shall be
kept in air-tight containers of non
eombustible material, preferably gall
yanized iron of not less than Is y. S
metal gauge, with bottom at least six
inches above the floor, and having Sc
curely fastened automatic closing COW
ers.
*The storage, sale and use of gaso'
line, benzine, bezol or naphtha shall
conform to rules and requirements as
set forth in Advisory Ordinance as is
sued and recommended by the South
Eastern Underwriters Association.
%Note-If ordinance referred to-
above is adopted. this section may
be omitted
Section 49, Two printed copies OF
this ordinance shall be kept conspic
uously posted on each floor of every
public or commercial garage.
Secion IA. Any person. firm or cor
poration who shall violate any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun
ished by a fine of not less than five
dollars 90 nor more than twenty-five
dollars (25).
Section Is. All ordinances or parts
of ordinances in conflict with the fore
going are hereby repealed.
, Section 1e This ordinance shall
take effect and be in force from and al
| ter its passage.
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