§ 2502.07. Flammable or combustible liquid.  


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  • Any person engaged in the conditions or operations involving flammable or combustible liquids, as indicated below, must pay an annual or one-time, fire inspection fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175.00) unless the condition or operation is covered by another permit issued by the fire official pursuant to this code.

    (A)

    To use or operate a pipeline for the transportation within facilities of flammable or combustible liquids. This requirement shall not apply to the off-site transportation in pipelines regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOTn) nor does it apply to piping systems.

    (B)

    To store, handle or use class I liquids in excess of five (5) gallons in a building or in excess of ten (10) gallons outside of a building, except for the following:

    (i)

    The storage or use of class I liquids in the fuel tank of a motor vehicle, aircraft, motorboat, mobile power plant or mobile heating plant, unless such storage, in the opinion of the local fire code official, would cause an unsafe condition.

    (ii)

    The storage or use of paints, oils, varnishes or similar flammable mixtures when such liquids are stored for maintenance, painting or similar purposes for a period of not more than thirty (30) days.

    (C)

    To store, handle or use class II or class IIIA liquids in excess of twenty-five (25) gallons in a building or in excess of sixty (60) gallons outside a building, except for fuel oil used in connection with oil-burning equipment.

    (D)

    To store, handle or use class IIIB liquids in tanks or portable tanks for fueling motor vehicles at motor fuel-dispensing facilities or where connected to fuel-burning equipment.

    Exception: Fuel oil and used motor oil used for space or water heating.

    (E)

    To remove class I or class II liquids from an underground storage tank used for fueling motor vehicles by any means other than the approved, stationary on-site pumps normally used for dispensing purposes.

    (F)

    To operate tank vehicles, equipment, tanks, plants, terminals, fuel-dispensing stations, refineries, distilleries and similar facilities where flammable and combustible liquids are produced, processed, transported, stored, dispensed or used.

    (G)

    To place temporarily out of service (for more than ninety (90) days) an underground, protected aboveground or aboveground flammable or combustible liquid tank.

    (H)

    To change the type of contents stored in a flammable or combustible liquid tank to a material that poses a greater hazard than that for which the tank was designed and constructed.

    (I)

    To manufacture, process, blend or refine flammable or combustible liquids.

    (J)

    To engage in the dispensing of liquid fuels into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles at commercial, industrial, governmental or manufacturing establishments.

    (K)

    To utilize a site for the dispensing of liquid fuels from tank vehicles into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles, marine craft and other special equipment at commercial, industrial, governmental or manufacturing establishments.

(Ord. 2049-95: Ord. 1210-2006 § 1 (part): Ord. 1446-2007 § 1 (part); Ord. No. 2577-2014, § 1, 12-15-2014)