HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE - 733 - 2/2/1971 - STORAGE OF LIQUID PETROLEUMORDINANCE NO. 733
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 6.304
PARAGRAPH (C) OF THE ELK GROVE VILLAGE
MUNICIPAL CODE
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the President and the Board
of Trustees of the Village of Elk Grove Village, Counties of Cook
and DuPage, State of Illinois, as follows:
Section l: That Paragraph (C) of Section 6.304 of the
Municipal Code of Elk Grove Village be and is hereby amended to
read as follows:
"(c) Bulk storage of liquified petroleum gas referred to in
Section 21.6(a) of the Fire Prevention Code is hereby
prohibited, unless:
1. Said storage is in accordance with all requirements
of the latest issue of Pamphlet 58 of the National Fire Protection
Association, and provided, however, that an additional 50% in
pressure relief venting capabilities is provided in addition
to those possible by said pamphlet for the tanks used for
storing said liquified petroleum gas.
2. A security fence six (6') feet in height with
barbed wire above is constructed and provided around all such
tank installations, said fence shall be appropriately screened
from view.
3• The plans for said bulk storage and construction
are approved by the President and Board of Trustees as being safe
from fire hazards and inaccordance with the provisions hereof.
4. That no tanks be installed in the flood plain,
except when provided with devices capable of anchoring the
tank to prevent its going afloat under flood conditions.''
5. That no transfilling operations be allowed except
that which is required from the mobile tank, truck or railroad
car to the stationary above -ground storage tank.
Section 2: Any person who shall violate the above section of
this Code hereby adopted, or shall fail to comply therewith, or shall
violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or shall build
in violation of any detailed statement of specifications or plans submitted
and approved thereunder, or any certificate or permit issued thereunder
and from which no appeal has been taken, or shall fail to comply with
such an order as affirmed or modified by the Chief of the Fire Prevention
Bureau or by a court of competent jurisdiction, within the time fixed
herein, shall severally for each and every such violation and noncompliance,
respectively, be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable for a fine of not less
than $10.00, nor more than $200.00, or by imprisonment for not less than
10 days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
The imposition of one penalty for any and all such persons shall be re -
qui red to correct or remedy such violations or defects within a reasonable
time; and when not otherwise specified, each ten days that prohibited
conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense.
The application of the above penalty shall not be held to
prevent the enforced removal of prohibited conditions.
Section 3: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its passage, approval and publication, according to law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 2 day of February 1971.
Vote: Ayes 6
Nays 0
Absent 0
ATTEST:
Margrethe E. Schwellenbach
Village Clerk, Acting
Published this
17th
Jack Pahl
Village President
day of Februa
in the Elk Grove Herald and the Wood Dale Register
- 2-
1971.