Ord 0997 9/10/1928ORDINANCE NO.
3A 9- r
AN ORDINANCE��tEGULATIN' T7: ?! ST' RA'E �' CALCIUT� CARBIDE �NITHIN
THE CORPORATE ZI%SITS OF THE CITY OF ".rIC'iTTA FALLS, TEXAS;, RE-
QUIRING A PEKHIT FOR KEEPI i'G IN EXCESS OF ONE HUNDRED POUNDS;
PROVIDING SPECIFICALLY THE
CS�TONAND
'LOCATION
SGE
BUILDIvS, REQUIRINGREPORTSTOBEADETTHE rIRE �ARSHALLAND
PRESCRIBING A PENALTY.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD F ALDEIRMEIIf OF THE CITY nF
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS:
SECTION 1: That it shall be a nuisance for any person,
firm or corporation to store, keep or have calcium carbide in
any building within the corporate limits of "Vichita Falls, un-
less said.person, firm or corporation shall have first pro-
cured a license or permit from the City 'Manager of the City so
to do; provided, hoer,,ever, that any person, firm or corporation
may store, keep or have an amount of calcium carbide not exceed-
ing one hundred pounds in any building within the corporate lim-
its of this city without said license or permit if the same shall
be stored in a strong water -tight metal receptable holding not
exceeding 50 two pound cans, or 20 five pound cans, or lo ten
in
pound cans, said receptacles
tobwaterproofaandewelldventalated;
storage places which ay�
and also provided thv.t call but one of the packages of each size
of carbide shall be sealed and the seal shall not be broken so
long as there is carbide in excess of one pound in any other
unsealed package in the building. Such storage place shall be
in the generator room and not elsewhere unless a more suitable
place can be provided.
The license or permit above mentioned shall be granted by
the City Manager upon sworn application in writing, stating the
place or building in wri ch the applicant desires to store or keep
or have calcium carbide, with a full description of the manner in
which he desires to store, keep or have the same. If kept, stored
or had in quantities less than 6UO pounds, under license or per-
mit, it shall. be stored, kept or had in strong, water -tight metal
cans containing; not exceeding JOU pounds each.
No license shall be granted. until the Fire Marshall shall have
bertified_.t0 1th6 -City Managet' that he -has- examined, the promises upon
which the applicant desires to store, keep or have calcium car-
bide, and that the building where it is desired_ to keep, Have or
store same is of good construction, water -proof, well drained and
ventilated, and that the calcium carbide will be stored above grade.
SECTION 2: Calcium carbide in excess of six hundred (600)
pounds shall be stored in approved metal packages above ground
in one-story buildings without cellar or basement and used exclusively
for the storage of calcium carbide, unless in a specially constructed
outside generator house. Storage buildings shall be constructed,
to be dry, waterproof and well ventilated and shall be located out-
side congested mercantile or manufacturing districts. If storage
building is of incombustible construction, it may adjoin other
one-story buildings if separated therefrom by an unpierced fire
wall; if detached less than ten feet fro :� such one-story buildings,
there shall be no openings in the adjacent sides of either building.
If the storage building is of combustible construction, it must
not be within twenty feet of other one-story or two-story buildings,
not within thirty feet of other buildings over two stories.
Pakkages must be made of metal of sufficient strength to
'Jzre handling without rupture and must be provided with a screw
or its equivalent. They must be so constructed as to be water
,.r tight without the use of solder, except at such points as
rP nPcessary to use this in order to close small crevises
which cannot , a manner
e°sthatafire would.
edisruptmust nthe pa.ckagebe used on
joints in such
Packages conba�eingDancalcium
eroueifbide must be not kept drycons�icuously
marked "Calcium Car
SECTION : Any peon or persons keeping or in any way
interested in keeping,, having or storing calcium carbide in any
quantity in any building in the City of Wichita. Falls for com-
mercial purposes or in any public automobile garage shall make a
written report of such fact to the Fire ?,Marshall, stating the
street number of the building and. where the said calcium carbide
is kept therein. A failure to mare such report or the keeping
or having on hand_ of any calcium carbide in any public automo-
bile garage or' in any building for commercial purposes without
said report having been made shall be a violation of this ordi-
nance.'
SECTION 4: The st'oring,ax keeping or having of calcium
carbide contrary t•o, any of the provisions of this ordinance or
not in accordance with the terms and provisions hereof,shallin
be, and constitute, a ,nuisance Wand the' offender or any person
anywise interested in storing, keeping or having same, shall upon
conviction before the Corporation Court, be fined in any sum
not less than Five Dollars and not more than One Htnorehed lla're,
and each and every, day , thaat� same is so stored, kpp
in
violation of the terms hereof or cont°racy to the terms and pro-
visions hereof,; shall be and constitute a separate offense, sub-
jecting the offender to a like-Qena.lty.
PASSED AND APPRQVED this /� day of , A.D. 192.
ATTEST:;
CITY CLERK.
Y �
MAYOR.
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