GASOLINE SERVICE STATIONS and SERVICE STATION
Any place of business where gasoline or any highly volatile fuels for motor vehicles or other internal combustion engines are sold or offered for sale at retail and dispensed into the fuel tanks of such motor vehicles. This definition shall also include the private storage and dispensing of fuel products for the same purposes as those served by a service station, whether the storage is maintained for the use or benefit of the owner, lessee, agents or employees of either, or of any others.
[Ord. No. 1982-56]
A. 
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to erect, install or maintain a gasoline service station in the City shall first make application to the Bureau of Fire Prevention for permission to do so. Said application shall specify the location and ownership and shall be accompanied by complete set of plans and specifications showing floor plans and floor elevations; location of buildings and all details of structure, tanks, pumps, driveways and oiling houses relative to sewer location and property lines. If, but only if, said location, petition, plans and specifications do not violate this article or any other provisions of the Code of the City of Bloomington, the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall grant a permit. Said permit shall expire 60 days after so granted by Bureau of Fire Prevention unless the actual construction of the station has been started within said period.
B. 
Application for curb cuts may be contained in said petition as a separate part thereof or may be the subject of a separate petition, but the granting of a permit for the erection of a service station shall not include any curb cuts unless specifically authorized by the City Manager.
[Ord. No. 1973-58]
Any person, firm or corporation operating a gasoline service station under permit as herein provided for, or operating any such station at the time this article takes effect, shall conduct said station in such a manner that it will not interfere with traffic or the free passage of pedestrians and shall at all times maintain the buildings and the station property in a clean, neat and well painted condition and shall maintain the surrounding streets and sidewalks in a clean and well kept condition and shall not do or permit anything to be done which shall cause the operation and maintenance of said business to become dangerous to life or property or to become a nuisance in any form.
[Ord. No. 1982-56]
It shall be the duty of the Fire Chief to have the Bureau of Fire Prevention inspect all gasoline filling stations in the City to ascertain if they are being conducted and maintained in accordance with the requirements of this article and all other provisions of the Code of the City and the laws of the State of Illinois.
[Ord. No. 1996-112]
Gasoline service stations shall be built to meet the Code requirements of the BOCA National Fire Prevention Code of the Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc. which is adopted by reference herein.
[Ord. No. 1989-97]
Installation, upgrading, testing, repair or removal of leaking or abandoned underground storage tanks shall meet the requirements of Illinois Administrative Code Title 41, Chapter 1, Section 170. Before installing, upgrading, repairing or removing any underground storage tank or its associated piping, a permit shall be secured from the Building Safety Department before work begins.
A. 
It shall be illegal for any person, firm or corporation to drive or cause to be driven upon any City street any tank truck, truck trailer or any other type of truck or vehicle having a capacity of 500 gallons or more which is carrying or is used to carry: (1) Class 1, Class II or Class III flammable liquids as defined by Standard 321, Classification of Flammable and Combustible Liquids, in the 1993 National Fire Codes of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA); or (2) liquefied petroleum gases as defined by Standard 58, Liquefied Petroleum Gases, Storage and Handling, in Volume 2 of the 1993 National Fire Codes of the NFPA; or (3) hazardous chemicals that are highly flammable or highly toxic as defined by Standard 49, Hazardous Chemicals Data, in Volume 9 of the 1993 National Fire Codes of the NFPA; (4) unless such truck or vehicle is constructed and maintained pursuant to the standards set forth in Standard 385, Tank Vehicles for Flammable and Combustible Liquids, in Volume 6 of the 1993 National Fire Codes of the NFPA; or (5) unless such truck or vehicle is driven only on those streets which are necessary to go to or from a location where such products are to be or have just been delivered.
As a requirement for the health and safety of all persons within the City, it shall be the responsibility of every person, firm or corporation to be sure such Standards of the National Fire Codes of the NFPA are complied with, and it shall not be a defense that the Defendant did not know of any such Standards or that they were not complied with at the time in question. The Defendant shall have the burden of proving that such Standards were complied with and that the vehicle was being driven on an allowable street after evidence is introduced which indicates that apparently one or more parts of such Standards were not complied with or that the vehicle apparently was not being driven on an allowable street at the time in question.
[Ord. No. 1993-80]
B. 
Except while making such a delivery of such products, it shall be illegal or any person, firm, or corporation to park or cause to be parked on any street, alley, public place, or on any residential property in the City any vehicle having a capacity of 500 gallons and less than 2,400 gallons, and carrying or having carried any of the hazardous liquids, gases, or chemicals mentioned in Subsection A of this section.
[Ord. No. 1980-11]
C. 
At all times it shall be illegal for any person, firm or corporation to park or cause to be parked upon any street, alley, public place, or on any residential property in the City any vehicle having a capacity of 2,400 gallons or more carrying or having carried any of the hazardous liquids, liquefied petroleum gases or chemicals referred to in Subsection A of this section. While deliveries from such trucks are being made, it is anticipated that they will at all times be parked only on the private nonresidential property where the delivery is being made.
[Ord. No. 1980-11]
No gasoline, naphtha, alcohol or any other inflammable antifreeze solution shall be kept inside of a service station building, but shall be outside. Storage shall be limited to one sixty-gallon drum, with not more than one such drum held in reserve, except where underground storage is provided in conformity with the storage rules for other liquids herein provided. Such underground storage may be in addition to the limits hereinabove set.
[Ord. No. 1973-58]
No bulk storage plant for gasoline or any highly volatile fuels for motor vehicles or internal combustion engines hereafter shall be located within said City without the permission of the City Council. The application for such permission shall be in writing and signed by the applicant. It shall be accompanied by plans and specifications showing the approval thereof by Fire Marshal of the State of Illinois. They also shall show the details of the pump house, storage house, size and capacity of each tank, and provide for a metal fence enclosure not less than eight feet in height. All electric wiring shall be in rigid conduits, with explosion proof motors. Switches and vapor-proof globes shall be provided for all light openings, and all electrical work shall conform to the National Code and the Code of the City of Bloomington. If said application, plans and specifications are approved by the State Fire Marshal and do not violate any State law or the Code of the said City, either as to construction or location, said permit shall be granted by said City Council.
[Ord. No. 1989-97]
Any person, firm or corporation violating or failing to comply with any of the terms or requirements of this article shall be fined in a sum not less than $50 or more than $500. Each day that such violation or failure continues shall be considered as a separate offense.