No plant for the storage of gasoline, petroleum, shale oil or the liquid product thereof, or of coal tar or any volatile, flammable liquid of an explosive nature shall be erected or maintained without a permit being obtained from the Board of Trustees for such purpose.
[Amended 6-21-1983 by L.L. No. 6-1983; 5-16-1995 by L.L. No. 3-1995]
Applications for storage plants and storage tank permits shall be made, in writing, to the Village Clerk, shall contain such information as shall be required by the Board of Trustees and shall be accompanied by a fee of $200 for a plant permit and $200 for each tank permit. Such permit shall be issued by the Clerk only upon a resolution of the Board of Trustees approving the same.
No permit for a storage plant shall be issued for any building or structure which is occupied for residence purposes, hotel or lodging house; or premises where paints, varnishes, lacquers or similar items are manufactured or kept for sale; or premises where dry goods or other highly flammable materials are manufactured or kept for sale; or premises where resin, turpentine, hemp, cotton or any explosives are stored or kept for sale; or premises situated within 100 feet from the nearest wall of a building or structure occupied as a school, theater or other place of public amusement, public assembly or assembly.
No permit shall be issued for placing tanks or containers for the storage of gasoline, kerosene or other oils within the bounds of a public highway or upon the surface thereof nor to permit arrangements for the filling or drawing therefrom upon the curbline of such street.
No tank forming part of a buried oil storage system shall be covered from sight until after an inspection by the Village Plumbing Inspector, and such tank shall be installed in conformity with this Code.
Each tank used for the storage of gasoline or any volatile, flammable, explosive oils or liquids shall be constructed of steel of a thickness determined in accordance with regulations of the National Fire Protection Association; shall have a capacity of no more than 10,000 gallons for Class 1 liquids nor more than 20,000 gallons for Class 2 liquids; and shall, under test, stand a hydrostatic pressure of at least 100 pounds to the square inch. Underground tanks may also be built of materials other than steel, such as fiberglass, if in accordance with the standards prescribed in the National Fire Protection Code No. 30 and upon the approval of the Superintendent of the Building Department.
A. 
Coating, foundation, depth. Each storage tank shall be coated on the on the outside with tar or other rust-resisting material, shall be set on a solid foundation, shall have an eight-inch concrete slab over the entire tank extending at least one foot beyond both ends and sides of said tank and reinforced with six-by-six, fifty-four pound mesh wire, and there shall also be at least one foot of earth between the top of the tank and the bottom of said concrete slab.
B. 
Pipes, fittings, joints. Each storage tank shall be provided with a filling pipe, a drawing-off pipe and a vent pipe, provided that tanks installed as part of a hydraulic storage system shall not be required to have a vent pipe. All pipes shall be galvanized wrought iron with malleable iron fittings. All screw joints shall be made with litharge and glycerin.
C. 
Location of vent pipes. Vent pipes shall be so constructed that the lower end thereof shall extend through the top of the tank for a distance of not more than one inch and the upper end thereof shall extend at least one foot above the level of the top of the filling pipe; and no such vent pipe shall be placed within four feet of a window or other opening in any building in such a way that gases from such vent will be likely to accumulate in such building.
D. 
Location of filling pipe intake. The filling pipe shall be at least two inches in diameter and shall be laid at a descending grade from the sidewalk in front of the building to the tank. The intake of the filling pipe shall be located in a heavy metal box, which shall be sunk flush with the sidewalk at the curb level or at some other location for the filling of the tank from a barrel wagon and fitted with a heavy metal cover and shall be kept locked when not in use.
E. 
Screen for filling pipe. The filling pipe shall be provided with a screen made of two thicknesses of twenty-inch-mesh brass wire gauze, placed immediately below the filling cock or valve.
F. 
Intake of filling tank. The filling tank shall be closed at the intake by a cock or valve fitted with a coupling for attaching through the hose of a barrel wagon and with a screw cap to close the opening when not in use.
G. 
Burial of steel storage tanks, receptacles. No tanks or receptacles for the storage of gasoline, petroleum, shale oil or the liquid product thereof, or of coal tar or of any volatile, flammable liquid of an explosive nature shall be erected or maintained above the ground level, and all such storage tanks forming a part of a gasoline or other product of petroleum or volatile, flammable, explosive liquid storage plant shall be buried so that the tops thereof shall be at least two feet below ground level and at least two feet below the level of the lowest cellar floor of any building within a radius of 10 feet from the tank; and no such tanks shall be buried underneath any building or structure.
A. 
Fiberglass tanks shall be installed upon firm foundations having a six-inch minimum backfill bed, except that when fiberglass tanks are to be installed over rock, stone, shale, clay areas or in water, the backfill bed shall be constructed to a minimum thickness of 12 inches.
B. 
The depth of cover shall be not less than three feet nor more than seven feet of approved material, or not less than 18 inches of approved material plus six inches of reinforced concrete paving, or not less than 18 inches of approved material plus eight inches of asphaltic concrete paving. Whenever paving options are used to reduce the cover as hereinabove referred to, the pavement shall extend not less than one foot beyond the tank outline in all directions.
C. 
Fiberglass tanks shall be backfilled with approved backfill in such manner as to provide not less than 12 inches of backfill material between tank ribs and the side of the hole, between tank ends and the side of the hole and between tank ribs of adjacent tanks.
D. 
Backfill bedding and backfill materials shall consist of any of the following:
(1) 
A naturally rounded free-flowing aggregate with a particle size not less than 1/8 inch nor more than 3/4 inch in diameter.
(2) 
A free-flowing angular aggregate with a particle size not less than 1/8 inch nor more than 1/2 inch. Angular material may be either crushed stone or gravel meeting quality and soundness requirements of ASTM C-33.
E. 
Cover materials shall consist of any of the following:
(1) 
A naturally rounded free-flowing aggregate with a particle size not less than 1/8 inch nor more than 3/4 inch in diameter.
(2) 
A free-flowing angular aggregate with a particle size not less than 1/8 inch nor more than 1/2 inch. Angular material may be either crushed stone or gravel meeting quality and soundness requirements of ASTM C-33.
(3) 
Clean, suitable backfill material free of rock, shale, topsoil, humus, root matter, stumps, spongy materials and any other objectionable material. Whenever clean, suitable backfill material is used as cover material, the required bedding and backfill materials placed in accordance with this specification shall be covered with a polyethylene film or suitable substitute prior to filling between the tank top and finished grade.
F. 
All bedding, backfill bedding and approved backfill materials shall be tamped into place.
G. 
Fiberglass tanks that are subject to uplifting forces shall be securely anchored using noncorrosive hold-down straps or approved alternate materials and fittings in accordance with requirements prescribed by an engineering review of the factors involved.
H. 
Fiberglass tanks shall be tested for concealed damage prior to installation and prior to being placed in service. Testing shall be pressure testing at five pounds per square inch with fittings soaped. During this test procedure and whenever the tank is being held under pressure, the tank shall not be left unattended. No tank shall be placed in service until the pressure test of five pounds per square inch shall have been completed to the satisfaction of the Superintendent of Building Department.
I. 
No repairs to fiberglass underground storage tanks shall be made by other than the manufacturer's authorized representative or a qualified person engaged in such work.
Each tank used for the storage of gasoline or any volatile, flammable, explosive oils or liquids shall have a capacity of no more than 10,000 gallons for Class one liquids nor more than 20,000 gallons for Class two liquids.
No tank for the storage of gasoline or any volatile, flammable, explosive oils or liquids shall be located under a sidewalk or beyond the building setback line or within five feet of any building or property line.
No stove, forge, torch or other device employing flame or fire nor any electrical or other apparatus likely to produce an exposed spark, except such electrical motors as are of the fully enclosed type, shall be placed within 10 feet of tanks regulated in this article unless it be placed in a room or compartment separated therefrom by a partition constructed of fire-retarding material and provided with a self-closing door.
No system of artificial light, other than incandescent electric lights, shall be installed in any premises used for the storage of explosive liquids.
Any tank regulated by this article, if abandoned, unused, leaking or defective, shall be immediately removed from the premises.
[Amended 5-16-1995 by L.L. No. 3-1995]
No tank having been heretofore used for the storage of liquids as regulated in this article shall be removed or carried through the streets of the Village except pursuant to a permit therefor, obtained in the same manner as provided in § 65-42. Such permits shall be issued only after due inspection and the payment of a fee to the Clerk of $125 for each tank.
Any tank already installed or proposed for installation for the purposes described in this article shall conform as to design, construction, installation, maintenance, removal and in all other respects to the most restrictive provisions of this Code, the regulations of the National Fire Prevention Association and the provisions of the Nassau County Fire Prevention Ordinance, all as determined by the Superintendent of the Building Department.
Nothing contained in this article shall apply to the keeping or storage of gasoline or kerosene in amounts not exceeding 20 gallons in five-gallon approved cans.
A. 
Authority of Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees may authorize tanks for the storage of gasoline, petroleum or shale oil or the liquid products thereof, or of coal tar or any volatile, flammable liquid of an explosive nature to be placed above ground upon such conditions as the Board of Trustees may require.
B. 
Application, fee for permit. Application for a permit pursuant to this section shall be made in writing to the Village Clerk, shall contain such information as shall be required by the Board of Trustees and shall be accompanied by a fee of $15, to be paid to the Clerk. Such permits shall be issued by the Clerk only upon a resolution of the Board of Trustees approving same.
Flammable liquids shall be drawn from tanks by pumps so constructed as to prevent leaking or splashing, with control apparatus and piping so arranged as to allow control of the amount of discharge and to prevent leakage or discharge inside a building by any failure of the system.
A. 
Type, foundation. All gasoline gauging or vending devices shall be of approved type and substantially secured to a concrete or masonry foundation suitably located and of proper design and dimensions to normally prevent any portion of a motor vehicle colliding with the device.
B. 
Maintaining continuous pressure. Systems wherein continuous pressure is maintained on a gasoline storage tank, in connection with gasoline gauging or vending device, shall be prohibited.
C. 
Coin or automatic operation. No gasoline gauging or vending device shall be allowed under this article that by any mechanical or other method allows gasoline to be dispensed from the gauging or vending device, as the result of the operator inserting a coin or coins, token, slug or any other method to cause such gauging or vending device to operate mechanically or otherwise and to dispense gasoline from such gauging or vending device.
[Amended 10-5-1982 by L.L. No. 5-1982]
A. 
Gasoline self-service dispensing units shall only be permitted at outdoor, above-grade locations.
B. 
A trained attendant shall be on duty at the control panel whenever the station is open for business and shall observe, supervise and control dispensing operations.
C. 
Smoking shall be prohibited in the dispensing area. Signs reading "No Smoking -- Stop Your Motor" shall be conspicuously posted at the dispensing island, in clear view of the motorist.
D. 
Dispensing operations shall not be permitted until the engine of the vehicle being serviced is shut off.
E. 
Only portable containers listed by a nationally recognized testing laboratory shall be filled by gasoline dispensing units.
F. 
Emergency power control switches shall be clearly identified and shall be capable of disconnecting power to all dispensing units. They shall be located at least 20 feet from the nearest dispenser, but not more than 50 feet from the most remote dispenser. The attendant shall be in a location whereby all dispensing units are clearly visible.
G. 
Only dispensing nozzles of the self-closing type shall be permitted for self-service dispensing devices. There shall be no latch-open device on any self-service dispensing nozzle.
H. 
Plans for the installation of self-service gasoline dispensing installations shall be submitted to the Building Department for approval prior to commencement of installation.
I. 
Dispensing devices that are in compliance with standards set by the Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., or Factory Mutual Engineering Division, shall be deemed acceptable.
J. 
The number and type of fire extinguishers shall be provided as indicated on plans submitted to the Building Department as required by Subsection H above and located in the vicinity of the emergency controls.
K. 
An approved audible intercommunication system shall be required between the attendant and the dispensing area and shall be maintained in proper operating condition.
L. 
A self-service gasoline dispensing station shall not be used to repair, service, lubricate, oil, maintain or perform any other service necessary for the operation of motor vehicles.
The provisions of this article shall not apply to oil burner installations.