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480 - NOT ADOPTEDi7,�-9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 0RDINP..N0I_; N0. x-80 AN ORDINANCE RI GULATIN G THa TESTI-NG STORAGE A d is SALE; AND DELIVERY OF PETROLEUM AND PETROLEUM PROLIJCTS IN THE CITY OF ANAHEIM AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: It shall be unlawful for any person, association, firm or corporation to sell, offer for sale, or deliver or offer for delivery or cause or permit to be sold, offered for sale or delivered in the City of Anaheim any of the products of petroleum specifically defined and described in Sections 2 and 3 hereof, unless such petroleum or products thereof shall conform to the standards and tests fixed and established in said sections 2 and 3, except as hereinafter provided. SECTION 2: GASOLINE. For the purpose of this ordinance, the gasoline sold, delivered, offered for sale or delivery in the City of Anaheim as fuel for internal combustion engines is defined as follows: The liquid distilled from petroleum or extracted from natural gas, or a blend thereof which conforms to the following requirements: (a) It shall be free from undissolved water, suspended matter and from admixture of any detrimental substance. (b) It shall have a vapor tension not greater than ten pounds per square inch at a temperature of 1006 Fahrenheit, when tested in accordance with the method prescribed in the United States Bureau of Explosives Pamphlet No. 21-A. (c) It shall distill within the following limits, when tested in accordance with the American Society for Testing Materials, Standard D -86-21-T, using the Low Distillation thermometer. 1. When the first drop has been recovered in the receiver, the thermometer shall not read more than 1310 F. 2. When 20% has been recovered in the receiver, the thermo- meter shall not read more than 2210 F. -1- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 I 23 24 25' 26' 27 28 29 30 31 32 3. When 50% has been recovered in the receiver, the thermo- meter shall not read more than 2840 F. 4. When 90% has been recovered in the receiver, the thermo- meter shall not read more than 3920 F. 5. The end point shall not be higher than 4370 F. 6. At least 95% shall be recovered as distillate in the receiver from the distillation. PROVIDED, that the following modification of the methods of test hereinabove prescribed shall be used: 1. The condenser bath shall be maintained at a temperature between 360 and 400 F. 2. The first drop shall be recovered in the receiver from five to six minutes after the heat is applied. (d) CORROSION TEST. A clean copper strip shall not be discolored when submerged in the gasoline for three hours at 1220 F. (e) Color. The color shall not be darker than No. 16 saybolt. SECTION 3: For the purposes of this Ordinance, engine distillate sold, offered for sale, delivered or offered for delivery, in the City of Anaheim, as fuel for internal combustion engines, is defined as follows: The liquid distilled from petroleum which conforms to the following requirements: (a) It shall be free from undissolved water, suspended matter and from admixture or any detrimental substance. (b) It shall distill within the following temperature limits, when tested in accordance with American Society for Test- ing Materials, Standard D -86-21-T, using the High Distillation Th ermomet er. . 1. When the first drop has been recovered in the receiver, the thermometer shall not read more than 2600 F. -2- i w A 1 2. When 40% has been recovered in the receiver, th-e thermo- 2 meter shall not read more than 3800 F. 3 3. When 50% has been recovered in the receiver, the thermo- 4 meter shall not read more than 4700 F. nor less than 3740 F. 5 4. The end point shall not be higher than 5390 F. nor less 6 than 4370 F. 7 SECTION 4: The Sealer of Weights and Measures, or any 8 person authorized by him, is hereby authorized and empowered to 9 take such sample or samples as he may deem necessary of any 10 petroleum or any products thereof when the same is kept or stored 11 within the City of Anaheim. It shall be unlawful for any person, 12 firm or corporation to refuse to permit the Sealer of Weights and 13 Measures, or any person authorized by him, to take such sample or 14 samples, or to prevent or attempt to prevent said Sealer of 15 Weights and Measures, or a person authorized by him, from taking 16 the same. 17 SECTION 5: It shall be unlawful for any person, association, 18 firm or corporation to sell, offer for sale, or deliver, or cause 19 or permit to be sold, offered for sale, or delivery, in the City 20 of Anaheim, any petroleum products as a fuel for internal combus- 21 tion engines which does not conform to the requirements of either 22 Section two or three unless there shall be firmly attached or 23 painted at or near the point of outlet cf the container from 24 which or into which said petroleum products represented as fuel 25 for internal combustion engines are drawn or poured out for sale 26 or delivery, a sign or label, consisting of the following legend 27 in red letters, not less than one half inch in height, on a white 28 back ground: "This petroleum product does not comply with the 29 Ordinance Specifications of the City of Anaheim for any of the 30 fuels therein defined and intended for Internal Combustion 31 Engines." 32 SECTION 6: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or -3- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 corporation to display any sign, label or other designating mark which described any petroleum, oilo or petroleum products not actually sold or offered for sale or delivery at the location at which the sign or other designating marks is displayed, or to display any label upon any container which label names or describes a petroleum product not actually contained therein, but offered for sale or sold as such. SECTION 7: Storage of Gasoline. Except as hereinafter pro- vided, all gasoline other than that contained in the tanks of automobiles shall be kept in underground tanks in accordance with the following specifications: 1. No single tank shall have a capacity of more than one thousand (1,000) gallons. 2. All gasoline storage tanks above 250 gallon capacity shall be constructed of at least twelve (12) guage.galvanized steel or one-Oarter (1/4) inch black open hearth stock. Provide tanks of 250 gallons or less may be constructed of not less than fourteen (14) guage galvanized steel. 3. All tanks made of galvanized steel shall be carefully riveted and soldered. All tanks made of black steel shall be carefully riveted and calked. 4. All tanks shall be coated on the outside with asphaltum or other rust -resisting material. 5. There shall be no openings or connections of any tank except on the top thereof and no tank shall be connected either directly or indirectly with any drain, catch basin, public or private sewer. 6. All tanks shall be underground, outside of any building, in the yard, or under the sidewalk as near the curb line as possible, or under a public alley. The top of the tank shall be four (4) feet below the surface and entirely surrounded by not less than five (5) feet of earth and shall rest upon an earth 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1511 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 foundation. 7. Where the space under the sidewalk is excavated for use as part of basement, tanks shall rest on earth, with no floor underneath, and shall be surrounded on the sides w ith, a concrete wall not less than twelve (12) inches thick, extending from the base of the excavation to four ( 4 j feet above the top of the tank, The space between the top of the tank and the top of the wall shall be filled with earth, and the earth covered with at least three (3) inches of concrete. B. Where more than one tank is installed, the tanks shall be separated by at least twelve (12) inches of earth, all well tamped in place. The top of every tank shall be below the level of the lowest pipe line in the building used in connection with the equipment, not to have connection with each other. 9. No storage tank shall be covered with earth until an inspection has been made and approval in writing signed by the chief of the fire department. 10. Any storage tanks shall be provided with one (1) inch diameter galvanized iron vent pipe, same to be connected to top of the tank. This vent pipe shall be carried up at least twelve (12) feet above the ground level and terminate in a double goose- neck spark protector, the openings of which shall be covered with brass or copper wire screen of at least thirty (30) mesh. This vent pipe shall be placed on a dead wall as remote from the win- dows and doors as possible, and shall be attached to wall with pipe hooks and kept firmly in place. 11. All storage tanks shall be filled only from a tank wagon and in the daytime. In no case shall any track or drum of gasoline, empty or otherwise, be allowed in or about any garage. 12. Filler pipes shall be made of galvanized iron piping, which pipes shall enter at the top and extend to the bottom of the tank. The upper end of such filler pipe must terminate in -5- t y i 1 a screw cap securely locked. 2 13. When filler pipe runs to sidewalk or to alley or to 3 other public highway, it shall terminate in a screw cap securely 4 locked, and be protected by a cast iron filler box, which shall 5 be flush with the sidewalk or alley of the highway. 6 14. All pipes shall be galvanized and put together with 7 litharge and glycerine. 8 (g) Pumps. Gasoline shall be drawn from storage tanks only 9 by automatic closing valve pumps. Such pumps must be located 10 above the top of the tanks. 11 SECTION 8: Chief of Fire Department and Assistants to 12 enforce this Ordinance and have success to all buildings, for the 13 purpose of enforcing this Ordinance, and ascertaining whether the 14 provisions of the Ordinance are complied with. It shall be un - 15 lawful for any owner or occupant of any building or premises to 16 refuse, or interfere with the entrance to any building or premis- 17 es by the Chief of the Fire Department or any of his assistants 18 for the said purpose. 19 SECTION 9: Any person, firm or corporation of any employee, 20 officer, agent or representative of any person, firm or corpor- 21 ation, violating any provision of this Ordinance shall be guilty 22 of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed 23 fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the city jail not to exceed 24 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each day of 25 violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be a 261 separate dffence . 27 SECTION 10: All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances to the 28 extent that the same conflict herewith are to that extent hereby 29 repealed. 30) SECTION 11: If any Section, sub -section, sentence, clause, 31 or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be unconsti- 32 tutional, void or invalid, the validity of the remaining portion -6- i 1 of this Ordinance shall not be affected thereby, it being the 2 intention of the Board of Trustees of Anaheim in adopting this 3 Ordinance that no portion thereof, or provision or regulation 4 contained therein, shall become inoperative or fail by reason of 5 any unconstitutionality or invalidity of any other portion, pro - 6 vision or regulation. 7 SECTION 12: The City Clerk of the City of Anaheim shall 8 certify to the passage of the Ordinance and cause the same to be 9 published once in the Anaheim Gazette, a weekly newspaper of 10 general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said 11 City of Anaheim, and thirty days after its final passage, it 12 shall take effect and be in full force. 13 The foregoing Ordinance Number is signed, approved and 14 attested by me this day of A.D. 1925. 15 16 President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim. 17 18 19 (SEAL) 20 21 Attest: 22 23 Edward B. Merritt, Clerk of the City of Anaheim. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 -7- 1 2 3 9 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 19 1r. 16 17 1E 1° 2C 21 22 222 24 2F V 2E 2'7 2E 2c 3C 31 32 STATE OF CA LIFOR1 IA : COUNTY OF ORANGE SS. CITY OF ANAHEIM I, Edward B. Merritt, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of Anaheim, held on the day of 1925 and that the same was passed and adopted at a meeting of said Board of Trustees held on the day of 1925, by the following vote: AYES : NOES: ABSENT AND NOT VOTING: And I further certify that the President of the Board of Trustees signed and approved said Ordinance on the day of 1925. IN 'WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said City, this the day of 1925. (SEAL) Edward B. Merritt, Clerk of the City of Anaheim.