Garages shall conform to all other applicable requirements of this code, as well as the following provisions.
No person shall use any building, shed or enclosure as a place of business for the purpose of servicing or repairing any motor vehicle therein without a permit.
No flammable liquid with a flash point below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit (100º F.) shall be used in any garage for washing parts or removing grease or dirt, unless in a special closed machine approved for the purpose or in a separate well-ventilated room enclosed by walls having a fire-resistance rating of not less than two (2) hours with openings therein protected by approved fire doors or fire windows and with no opening from such room or to any upper or lower story.
A. 
The fuel tanks of motor vehicles shall be filled directly through hoses from approved pumps attached to approved portable tanks or drawing from underground storage tanks. Storage and handling of flammable liquids shall conform to Article V. No transfer of gasoline in any garage shall be made in any open container.
B. 
Garage floors shall drain to oil separators or traps discharging to a sewer. Contents of oil separators or traps of floor drainage systems shall be collected at sufficiently frequent intervals and removed from the premises to prevent oil from being carried into the sewers. Self-closing metal cans shall be used for all oily waste oils or oily waste.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
GARAGE
The building or that part thereof in which there shall be housed or kept one (1) or more self-propelled vehicles or automobiles, containing flammable liquid for fuel or power.
For the purposes of this chapter, garages are classed as follows: Class A, private garages; Class B, tenant garages; and Class C, public garages.
A. 
Class A. A private garage is one in which there shall be housed or kept not more than four (4) self-propelled vehicles or automobiles, belonging to the owners, lessees or tenants of the property or any part thereof on which the same are situated. The following regulations shall govern the maintenance of all private garages:
(1) 
Gasoline in excess of one (1) gallon, exclusive of that in the tanks of the vehicles in storage, shall not be kept in a private garage unless confined in a tank or tanks placed not less than two (2) feet beneath the surface of the ground, as hereinafter provided in § 35-43D of this chapter.
(2) 
A private garage may be occupied as a dwelling by the owner or his employee or tenant or by the owner and one (1) other tenant, provided that not more than two (2) stories above the garage are occupied or used for living apartments, which apartments shall be separated by fire-retarding walls, floors and ceilings not pierced except by one (1) opening, protected by a fireproof, self-closing door. If there is not an entrance to the living apartment direct from the street without passing through the garage, a fire escape or other secondary means of escape must be provided for each story above the garage.
(3) 
Where a private garage is annexed to or contained in a private dwelling, the living quarters shall be separated from the private garage by fire-retarding walls, floors and ceilings, not pierced except by one (1) interior opening which shall be protected by a fireproof self-closing door.
(4) 
No permit shall be required for the maintenance of a private garage, but the same shall be subject to inspection by the Fire Chief.
B. 
Class B. A tenant garage is one operated for the use of the tenants of an apartment or lodging house, which garage provides a space or area to house or keep not more than sufficient automobiles to accommodate the tenants of such apartment or lodging house.
(1) 
All tenant garages hereafter erected shall be of strictly fireproof construction as to all rooms and compartments where motor vehicles with gasoline in their fuel tanks are stored. Where the ground floor area of a garage exceeds five thousand (5,000) square feet and is located below grade level, it shall be subdivided by means of walls of fireproof construction at least eight (8) inches thick, unpierced except for one (1) opening and protected with automatic self-closing fire doors on each side of the opening; provided, however, that no subdivision shall exceed five thousand (5,000) square feet in area.
(2) 
Any such garage located below grade level shall be ventilated by windows opening directly onto the street or a court, by skylights in the roof or by other approved means of mechanical exhaust ventilation approved by the Fire Chief. All windows nearer than ten (10) feet to adjoining buildings must be of wire glass set in standard metal frames and sash, arranged so as to be automatically self-closing in case of fire.
(3) 
Gasoline in excess of that in the supply tanks of vehicles in storage or lubricating oil in commercial quantities shall not be kept, stored or sold in any tenant garage.
(4) 
There shall be no pit in any floor and no artificial light other than incandescent or fluorescent electric light.
(5) 
Smoking shall not be permitted in any tenant garage, and in every such garage signs to that effect shall be prominently displayed in three (3) or more places. Such signs shall have the words NO SMOKING in red letters at least four (4) inches high on white background, also the words BY ORDER OF THE FIRE CHIEF in black letters at least one (1) inch high.
(6) 
No gasoline or other volatile or flammable liquid shall be allowed to run upon the floor or to fall or to pass into the drainage system of the premises. Each floor of the garage shall be equipped with self-closing metal cans, and all flammable waste and materials shall be kept therein until removed from the building.
(7) 
On each floor of every such garage, there shall be two (2) or more approved chemical fire extinguishers, and four (4) or more pails of sand shall be kept conveniently located for use in extinguishing fire. Such garages shall be kept clean.
(8) 
No stove, forge, torch, boiler or other furnace, flame or open fire shall be permitted or used in any such garage unless separated from the garage by fireproof material with an entrance from such space leading to the outer air.
(9) 
No tenant garage shall be maintained or used as such until an annual permit therefor has been granted by the Fire Chief and the requirements herein contained and hereinbefore specified complied with.
A public garage is any garage not included in the classes above specified. The following regulations shall govern the maintenance and operation of all such garages:
A. 
No public garages hereafter erected shall be located or maintained within fifty (50) feet of any private or multifamily dwelling, school, place of assemblage or place of detention. No public garage hereafter erected shall be permitted in any building occupied for dwelling purposes. In all public garages hereafter erected, all tanks, filling lines and pumps used for gasoline, oil or volatile flammable liquids must be located at least fifty (50) feet from the adjoining property lines.
B. 
There shall be no artificial light other than incandescent or fluorescent electric light.
C. 
All storage of gasoline shall be in underground tanks; provided, however, that there may be in each garage one (1) or more approved portable wheeled tanks, each of a capacity not exceeding sixty (60) gallons, to be used for transferring such liquid from the storage tank. The number of these wheeled tanks shall be fixed for each garage by the Fire Chief. The reservoirs of motor vehicles shall be filled directly through hose from pumps attached to such portable tanks or by hose coupled by permanent filling stations connected with the main storage tanks. No transfer of gasoline in any garage shall be made in any open container. Hose for use in connection with the filling station or with the portable tank shall be of such design and material as to prevent leakage.
D. 
The top of each storage tank shall be at least two (2) feet below the surface of the ground and may be permitted underneath the building if buried at least two (2) feet below the lowest floor. Buried tanks shall be set on a firm foundation of cement concrete at least six (6) inches thick and shall be surrounded by soft earth or sand, well tamped into place or encased in concrete. A tank may have a test well, provided that it extends to near the bottom of the tank, and its top shall be hermetically sealed and locked except when necessarily opened. When a tank is located underneath a building, its test well shall extend above the source of supply.
E. 
All drawing-off pipes terminating inside of any building shall have valves at the discharge ends.
F. 
The end of the filling pipe for every underground storage tank shall be carried to an approved location outside of any building, but not within five (5) feet of any entrance door or cellar opening and shall be kept locked except during filling operations. This filling pipe shall be closed by a screw cap. A thirty-by-thirty-mesh or equivalent brass screen strainer shall be placed in the supply end of the filling pipe.
G. 
Each tank used for the storage of volatile oil shall have a vent pipe at least one and one-fourth (1 1/4) inches in diameter, which shall run from the tank to the outer air at least five (5) feet above the roof and five (5) feet from the nearest window and shall be well braced in position. It shall be capped with a double gooseneck with a screen of twenty-mesh brass wire gauge placed immediately below the gooseneck. No tank hereinafter installed for the storage of gasoline or any other volatile oils in the Village of Pelham shall exceed two thousand (2,000) gallons' (U.S.) capacity for a single tank, and not more than six thousand (6,000) gallons' (U.S.) capacity shall be stored in a single location.
[Amended 11-18-1986 by L.L. No. 5-1986]
H. 
Liquids shall be drawn from tanks by pumps so constructed as to prevent leakage or waste splashing, or by some other system approved by the Fire Chief, with controlling apparatus and piping so arranged as to allow control of the amount of discharge and to prevent leakage or discharge inside the building by any derangement of the system. When inside of a building, the pump or other drawing-off device shall be located on the grade floor, preferably near an entrance or other well-ventilated place.
I. 
Smoking shall not be permitted in any public garage, and in every such garage signs to that effect shall be prominently displayed in three (3) or more places. Such signs shall have the words NO SMOKING in red letters at least four (4) inches high on white background, also the words BY ORDER OF THE FIRE CHIEF in black letters at least one (1) inch high.
J. 
No gasoline or other volatile or flammable liquid shall be allowed to run upon the floor or to fall or to pass into the drainage system of the premises. Each floor of a garage shall be equipped with self-closing metal cans, and all flammable waste and materials shall be kept therein until removed from the building.
K. 
On each floor of every such garage there shall be two (2) or more approved chemical fire extinguishers, and four (4) or more pails of sand shall be kept conveniently located for use in extinguishing fire. Such garages shall be kept clean.
L. 
No stove, forge, torch, boiler or other furnace, flame or open fire shall be permitted or used in any such garage unless separated from the garage by fireproof material with an entrance from such space leading to the outer air.
A. 
No public garage or wayside gasoline and oil filling station shall be maintained or used as such until an annual permit therefor has been granted by the Fire Chief and the requirements herein contained and herein specified complied with.
B. 
No business of a wayside gasoline and oil filling station, unless equipped and in operation at the time of the adoption of this chapter, shall hereafter be conducted unless all tanks, filling lines and pumps used for gasoline, oil or volatile flammable liquids are located at least fifty (50) feet from any building except that as may be approved by the Fire Chief and used in connection with the business of said wayside gasoline or oil filling station, and the regulations on the subject of public garages herein contained shall apply so far as possible thereto.
C. 
No greasing pit or deck of a wayside gasoline and oil filling station shall be enclosed unless the wall and ceiling of such enclosure shall be constructed of incombustible materials, and such enclosures shall be provided with such ventilation as may be approved by the Fire Chief. No wall of any such enclosure shall be closer than fifteen (15) feet to any other building unless such wall of such adjacent building is of fireproof construction.
A. 
No person shall maintain or operate a motor vehicle repair shop without an annual permit, provided that such permit not be required of a person holding a garage or roadside gasoline permit for the same premises.
B. 
No person shall store or keep for sale in a motor vehicle repair shop any volatile flammable oil, except in the manner and subject to the conditions prescribed by the Fire Chief.
C. 
No coal- or oil-burning stove or open flame shall be used in a motor vehicle repair shop for heating purposes unless separated from the shop by fire-retarding walls, floors and partitions with an entrance outside of the building.
D. 
No motor, motorcycle or any part thereof shall be cleaned inside the premises of such shop by the use of gasoline.