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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I PAGE
Bureau of Fire Prevention and General
Provisions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
CHAPTER II
Explosives . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .. . ... . . . 9
CHAPTER III
Pyrotechnics and Small Arms Ammunition .. .. . . 11
CHAPTER IV
Nitro-Cellulose Motion Picture Films . . . . . . . . 12
CHAPTER V
Pyroxylin Plastic . . . . .. .. . .... .. . . . .. . . .. . . . 14
CHAPTER VI
Photographic and X-Ray Nitro-Cellulose Film 16
CHAPTER VII
Calcium Carbide and Acetylene .. . . . . .. . ... . . . 17
CHAPTER VIII
Compressed and Liquefied Gases other than
Acetylene . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 1s
CHAPTER IX
Flammable Liquids .. . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. .. ... .. 25
CHAPTER X
The Application of Flammable Finishes . .. . . . . 40
OHAPTER XI
Sale and Use of Dry Cleaning Liquids .. . . . . . . 43
CHAPTER XII
Prevention of Dust Explosions .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
CHAPTER XIII
Hazardous Chemicals .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 49
CHAPTER XIV
Combustible Fibres . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 52
CHAPTER XV
Refrigeration . . . . . . . . ... . . . .. . . . .. . . . . . .. . . . 53
CHAPTER XVI PAGE
Matches .... ... ... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . 57
CHAPTER XVII
Garages . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . ... . .. . . .. . . . . . .. 58
CHAPTER XVIII
Automobile Wrecking and Junk Yards .. . . . . . . 60
CHAPTER XIX
Automobile Tire Rebuilding Plants . . . . . . . . . 61
CHAPTER XX
Woodworking Plants . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
CHAPTER XXI
Incinerators .. . . . . . .. . . . . . ... . . . . .. .. . . ... 63
CHAPTER XXII
Places of Indoor Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 64
CHAPTER XXIII
Places of Outdoor Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
CHAPTER XXIV
FireExits ....... . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. ... 74
CHAPTER XXV
Fire Extinguishing Equipment .. . . . ... . . . ... 75
CHAPTER XXVI
Gas Appliances and Connections . . . .. ... .... 78
CHAPTER XXIII
Miscellaneous . . ... . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. 80
CHAPTER XXVIII
Penalties for Violation . . ... ... .. .. . . . . .. . 86
ORDINANCE NO. 2470
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BUREAU OF
FIRE PREVENTION IN THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS; PROVIDING
OFFICERS THEREFOR, AND DEFINING THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES; DE-
FINING TERMS; PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS FOR FIRE PREVENTION
AND PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY IN CONNECTION WITH
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND PROCESSES; PRESCRIBING A FINE NOT
EXCEEDING TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00) FOR THE VIOLATION
THEREOF AND THAT EACH DAY SAID VIOLATION CONTINUES SHALL
CONSTITUTE A SEPARATE OFFENSE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN
CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING.
AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the public health, safety and property is not adequately pro—
tected by the provisions of existing ordinances relating to the prevention
of fire; and,
WHEREAS, it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
safety, health and property that a Bureau of Fire Prevention be established,
and further provision be immediately enacted relating to fire prevention,
all of which constitute an emergency; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS:
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CHAPTER I
BUREAU OF FIRE PREVENTION AND
GENERAL PROVISIONS
101. - A Bureau of Fire Prevention in the Fire Department of the .City
of Fort Worth, Texas, is hereby established, which shall be operated under
the supervision of the Chief of the Fire Department.
The Chief of the Fire Department shall designate an officer (or member)
of the Fire Department as Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, who shall
hold this office at the pleasure of the Chief of the Fire Department.
The Chief of the Fire Department may detail such other members of the
Fire Department as inspectors as shall from time to time be necessary. The
Chief of the Fire Department may also recommend to the City Manager the em-
ployment of technical inspectors, qualified by training and experience, to
inspect various special fire hazards. When such technical inspectors have
been authorized, they shall be selected through competitive examination de-
signed to determine their fitness for the position. The Chief of the Fire
Department, with the assistance of the Building Commissioner of the City of
Fort Worth, shall prepare the questions and tests for such examination, and
shall deliver them to the Director of Personnel of the City of Fort Worth,
who shall conduct the examination of applicants. The Director of Personnel
shall certify to the Chief of the Fire Department a list of the names of
all applicants who made a passing grade; and the Chief shall make his ap-
pointment from the three top-ranking applicants, subject to the approval
of the City Manager and the regulations of policy governing employment of
personnel. The examination shall be open to members and non-members of the
Fire Department.
102. - It shall be the duty of the officers of the Bureau of Fire Pre-
vention to enforce all laws and ordinances covering the following:
(a) The prevention of fires
(b) The storage and use of explosives and flammables
(c) The installation and maintenance of automatic and other
private fire alarm systems and fire extinguishing equipment
(d) The maintenance and regulatioh of fire escapes
(e) The means and adequacy of exit in case of fire, from factories,
schools, hotels, lodging houses, asylums, hospitals, churches, halls,
theatres, amphitheatres, and all other places in which numbers of persons
work, live or congregate, from time to time, for any purpose
(f) The investigation of the cause, origin and circumstances of fires
They shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as
are set forth in other sections of this ordinance, and as may be conferred
and imposed from time to time by law.
103. - The Chief of the Fire Department, the Chief of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention or any member of the Fire Prevention Bureau, may at all rea-
sonable hours enter any building or premises within the corporate limits of
the City of Fort Worth for the purpose of making any inspection or investi-
gation which under the provisions of this ordinance he or they may deem neces-
sary to be made.
104. - The Chief of the Fire Department, Chief of the Bureau of Fire
Prevention or an Inspector specially designated thereto shall inspect, as
often as may be necessary, all specially hazardous manufacturing processes,
storages or installations of gases, chemicals, oils, explosives and flammable
materials, all interior fire alarm and automatic sprinkler systems, and
such other hazards or appliances as the Chief of the Fire Department shall
designate, and shall make orders as may be necessary for the enforcement of
the laws and ordinances governing the same and for safeguarding of life and
property from fire.
105. - It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire Department
to inspect, or cause to be inspected by the Bureau of Fire Prevention,
or by the Fire Department officers and members, as often as may be
necessary, all buildings and premises except the interiors of private
dwellings, for- the purpose of ascertaining and causing to be corrected
any conditions liable to cause fire, or any violations of the pro-
visions or intent of any ordinance of the city affecting the fire
hazard.
Whenever any Inspector, as defined above, shall find in any
building or upon any premises, combustible or explosive matter or
dangerous accumulafi ons of wastepaper, boxes, shavings, or any
highly inflammable materials, and which is so situated as to en-
danger life or property; or shall find obstructions to or on fire
escapes, stairs, passageways, doors or windows, liable to interefere
with the operations of the Fire Department or egress of occupants
in case of fire, he shall order the same to be removed or remedied.
106. - It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire Depart-
ment to inspect, or cause to be inspected by the Bureau of Fire
Prevention, or by the Fire Department officers or members, each
place.of assembly at least monthly and at such times, including
time of accupancy and use, as to insure compliance with all laws,
regulations and orders dealing with overcrowding, use of decorations,
maintenance of exit ways, collapse of revolving doors, and maintenance
of fire appliances in such places of assembly. Where conditions are
found to be unsatisfactory, written orders for immediate correction
shall be given.
107. - The Chief of the Fire Departments, Chief of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention or an inspector upon the complaint of any person or
whenever he or they shall deem it necessary shall inspect all buildings
and premises within their jurisdiction. Whenever any of said officers
shall find any building or other structure which, for want of repairs,
lack of sufficient fire escapes, automatic or other fire alarm apparatus
or fire extinguishing equipment or by reason of age or delapidated con-
dition, or from any other cause, is especially liable to fire, and which
is so situated as to endanger other property of the occupants thereof,
and whenever such officer shall find in any building combustible or
explosive matter or flammable conditions dangerous to the safety of
such building or the occupants thereof he or they shall order such
dangerous conditions or materials to be removed or remedied.
109. - The service of such orders as mentioned in Sections 104,
105, 106 and 107 may be made upon the occupant of the premises to whom
it is directed, either by delivering a copy of same to such occupant
personally or by delivering the same to and leaving it with any person
in charge of the premises, or in case no such person is found upon the
premises, by affixing a copy thereof in a conspicuous place on the
door to the entrance of the said premises. Whenever it may be nec-
essary to serve such an order upon the owner of premises such order
may be served either by delivering to and leaving with the said person
a copy of the said order, or, if such owner is absent from the juris-
diction of the officer making the order, by mailing such copy to the
owner's last known post office address.
Any such order shall forthwith be complied with by the owner or
occupant of such premises or building. If such order is made by the
Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention or one of the Inspectors, such
owner or occupant may within twenty-four hours appeal to the Chief
of the Fire Department, who shall, within five days, review such order
and file his decision thereon, and unless by his authority the order
is revoked or modified, it shall remain in full force and be complied
with within the time fixed in said order or decision of the Chief of
the Fire Department.
After the expiration of the time fixed in said order for decision
of the Chief of the Fire Department, until such order or decision
has been complied with, it shall be unlawful for any person to use,
occupy or to remain in any building or structure mentioned in said
order or decision.
109. - The Bureau of Fire Prevention shall investigate the
cause,origin and circumstances of every fire occurring in the city
by which property has been destroyed or damaged and, so far as
possible, shall determine whether the fire is the result of care-
lessness or design. Such investigation shall be begun immediately
upon the oocurance of such a fire by the Inspector in whose dis-
trict the fire occurs, and if it appears to the officer making such
an investigation, that such fire is of suspicious origin, the Chief
of the Fire Department shall be immediately notified of the facts;
he shall take charge immediatelyof the physical evidence, shall
notify the proper authorities designated by law to pursue the
investigation of such matters, and shall further co-operate with the
authorities in the collection of evidence and in the prosecution
of the case. Every fire shall be reported in writing to the Bureau
of Fire Prevention within two days after the oocurance of the same,
by the officer in whose jurisdiction such a fire has occurred. Such
report shall be in such form as shall be prescribed by the Chief of
the Fire Department, and shall contain a statement of all facts re-
lating to the cause, origin and circumstances of such fire, and ex-
tent of the damage thereof, and the insurance upon such property, and
such other information as may be required.
110. - The City Attorney, or one of his assistants, upon request
of the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, shall assist the
Inspectors in the investigation of any fire, which, in their opinion,
is of suspicious origin.
111. - The Chief of the Fire Department or the Chief of the
Bureau of Fire Prevention, whenever in hie opinion further investigation
is necessary, shall take, or cause to be taken, testimony on oath or
affirmation of all persons supposed to be cognizant of any facts or
to have means of knowledge in relation to the matter as to which an
examination, as herein required to be made, and shall cause the same
to be reduced to writing; and if he shall be of the opinion that there
is evidence sufficient to charge any person with the crim of Arson,
or with the attempt to commit the crime of Arson, or with conspiracy
to defraud, or criminal conduct in connection with such fire, he shall
cause such person to be lawfully arrested and charged with such offenses,
or either of them, and shall furnish to the proper prosecuting attorp.ey
all such evidence, together with the name of witnesses and all of the
information obtained by him, including a copy of all pertinent and
material testimony in the case. Such officer shall have the power to
summon witnesses before him to testify in relation to any matter which
is'by the provisions of this ordinance a subject of inquiry and in-
vestigation, and may require the production of any book, paper or
document pertinent thereto; and such officer is hereby authorized and
empowered to administer oaths and affirmation to any person appearing
as witness before him.
112. - Any witness who refuses to be sworn or who refuses to
appear to testify, or who disobeys any lawful order of the Chief of
the Fire Department or the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention,
or who fails or refuses to produce any book, paper or document
touching any matter under investigation, or who is guilty of any con-
temptous conduct during any of the proceedings of the officer in the
manner of s&id investigation or inquiry, after being summoned to give
testimony in relation to any matter under investigation, as aforesaid,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and it shall be the duty of such
officer to cause any such offense to be prosecuted and any person con-
victed of such misdemeanor shall be fined in any sum not exceeding Two
Hundred Dollars ($200.00)
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113. - All investigations held by or under the direction of the
Chief of the Fire Department or the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Pre-
vention, may, at his discretion, be private, and persons other than
those required to be present may be excluded from the place where
such investigation is held, and the witnesses may be kept separate
and apart from each other and not allowed to communicate with each
other until they have been examined. That all processes shall be
served by the Chief of Police or any police officer, or any officer
designated by the Chief of the Fire Department.
114. - The Chief of the Fire Department shall keep, in the office
of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, a record of all fires and of all the
facts concerning the same, including statistics as to the extent of
such fires and the damage caused thereby, and whether such losses were
covered by insurance, and if so, in what amount. Such record shall be
made daily from the reports made by the Inspectors under the provision
of this ordinance. All such records shall be public.
115. - The annual report of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall
be made on or before the lat. day of March and transmitted to the City
Council; it shall contain all proceedings under this ordinance, with
such statistics as the Chief of the Fire Department may wish to include
therein;
116. - Nothing contained in this ordinance shall be construed as
applying to the transportation of any article or thing shipped in con-
formity with the regulations prescribed by the Interstate Commerce
Commission, nor as applying to the military or naval forces of the
United States.
117. - The word "person" wherever used in this ordinance shall be
construed to include person, persons, firm or corporation.
119. - "Approved" when applied to materials, type of construction
and appliances refers to approval by the Chief of the Bureau of Fire
Prevention as a result of investigations and tests conducted by him
or by reason of accepted principles or tests by the National Board of
Fire Underwriters or the Underwriter's Laboratories, Inc., or the
National Bureau of Standards.
119. - A permit is written authority of the Bureau of Fire Pre-
vention, issued pursuant to this ordinance, to have, keep, store, use,
manufacture, sell, handle and transport explosives, flammable materials
and rubbish, as hereinafter defined, and to construct, operate or maintain
establishments hereinafter specified.
120. - Whenever the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall reject or
refuse to grant a permit, or when it is claimed that provisions of this
ordinance or any ordinances relating thereto do not apply, or when it
is claimed that the true intent and meaning of this ordinance or any
regulations have been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, and the
permit applied for having been refused by the Bureau of Fire Prevention
then the person may appeal from the decision of the Bureau of Fire
Prevention, in writing, as outlined in Section. 108.
121. - In determining the flash point of flammable liquids, the
Tag Closed Tester (standardized by the National Bureau of Standards)
shall be authorative in case of dispute. All tests shall be made in
accordance with the methods of tests as adopted by the American Society
for Testing Materials.
122. - The Building Inspector, the Chief of the Fire Department
and the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall act as a Committee
on determination, and specify any new materials, processes, or
occupancies, and trades which.shall require permits, in addition to
those now enumerated in this ordinance. The Chief of the Bureau of
of Fire Prevention shall post such list in a conspicuous place in his
office and shall also maintain in his office details and desdriptive
drawings showing approved and acceptable methods of storing, handling,
or protecting such materials as shall be deemed as requiring a permit.
123. - The intent of this ordinance is to safeguard and restrict
the storage, handling and use of dangerous and hazardous materials to
a reasonable degree with respect to injury to persons and destruction
of property. Installation, construction and safeguards shall be pro-
vided in a standard modern and approved manner. Compliance with
Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters shall be prima
facie evidence of such approved manner. The Chief of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention shall maintain a public file of the Standards of the
National Board of Fire Underwriters, which shall be deemed as advisory
requirements to this ordinance insofar as they can be applied to each
particular installation for which a permit is required.
124. - The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall have power
to modify any of the provisions of this ordinance upon application in
writing by the owner or lessee, or his duly authorized agent, when
there are practical difficulties in the way of carrying out the strict
letter of this ordinance, provided that the spirit of this ordinance
shall be observed, public safety secured, and substantial justice done.
The particulars of such modification when granted or allowed and the
decision of the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention thereon shall
be entered upon the records of the department and a signed copy shall
be furnished the applicant.
125. - Before permits may be issued, the Chief of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention, or his assistants, shall inspect and approve the
receptacles, vehicles, buildings or storage places to be used.
126. - All applications for permits required by this ordinance
shall be made to the Bureau of Fire Prevention in such form and
detail as it shall prescribe.
127. - (a) Every permit granted by the Bureau of Fire Prevention
under the provisions of this ordinance shall be for such period as the
Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention may determine, not to exceed one
year. Such permit must at all times be kept on the premises designated
therein, and shall at all times be subject to inspection by any officer
of the fire or police department.
(b) One permit only shall be required by retail establish-
ments dealing in, or manufacturing plants using, two or more flammable
combustible or explosive materials to be kept in the establishment at
any one time.
129. - Permits and Licenses required by this ordinance are for:-
Transportation, Storage and use of Explosives .. . . . Sec. ?o/
Blasting .. . �
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Sale of Small ArmsAmmunition �
.. . ... 3 al,
Handling, Use or Display of Nitrocellulose Film .. . o/
Storage of Nitrocellulose Film ..... . .. . .. . . .... ...
Oy
Storing and Handling of Pyroxylin Plastic over 100lbs. 0Z
Manufacture of Pyroxylin Plastic Articles .. ... . ... sow
Calcium Carbide exceeding 100 lbs. .. .. . . .. . . . . . ... 701
Acetylene Generators exceeding 5 lb. capacity .. .., 7 0/
Compressed and Liquified Gases . . . .... . . . . . ... If0z
Storage and Handling Class I Liquids .. . . .. .. . . . ... 9 0
Storage and Handling Class II Liquids . . . . . ... . . .. . 90
Storage and Handling Class III Liquids .. .. . . . .. ... y 0
Garages . �
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. . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. .. . 17 o/
Retail Dealer in Flammable Liquids .. . ........ ..... 0G
Oil Refinery . . . . . ... . . . . . .. . y yi
Painting, Including SprayingandDipping .. . . . . . .. . 1002.)
Paint and Oil Dealer .. . .. . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .906
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Jobber in Flammable Liquids ............................... Sec. 906
Manufacturing and Using Flammable Liquids ................0 906
Dry Cleaning .............................................. 1104
Refrigeration in Excess of 20 lbs. Refrigerant ............ 1501
Systems ................................................... 1501
Matches in Excess of 60 Matchmans Gross ..................• 1601
Automobile Wrecking and Junk Yard ......................... 1801
Automobile Tire Rebuilding Plant .......................... 1901
Tents .... .... ... 2309
License Required of Fire Extinguisher Salesmen ............ 2506
31.3rage of Packing Cases ...•.............................. 2707
129. - (a) It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Fire Department
and/or the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention to aegairs superintendents,
principals and teachers of public, private and parochial schools and educa-
tional institutions to have one class or room and one assembly fire drill
each month and to keep all doors and exits unlocked during school hours.
Persons in charge of such public, private and parochial and educational in-
stitutions shall file written reports with the Chief of the Fire Department
and/or Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention at the end of each month or
part thereof, that such school is in session, giving the time and date of
each drill held during the month.
130. - Egress from buildings; gongs, bells or whistles; lights or
signs. - Where deemed necessary by the Chief of the Fire Department and/or
Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, doors leading from schools, factories,
workshops, asylums, department stores, hotels, rooming houses, or any public
buildings now existing or which may hereafter exist and be operated, shall
open outward and remain unlocked during working hours or during occupancy
by persons in said premises, and the owners, proprietors or persons in charge
of said premises shall install either gongs, bells or whistles and exit lights
and/or signs within sight and/or hearing of all employees or occupants, so
that, in case of fire, panic, or fire drill, all said employees or occupants
must immediately leave the building upon the sounding of a fire alarm, in
accordance with instructions issued by the Chief of the Fire Department and/
or Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
131. - Fire doors and shutters. - All fire doors or fire stop shutters
designed, constructed and installed for the purpose of retarding fire in the
City of Fort Worth shall at all times be kept shut or closed. No hooks, stops,
pegs or other devices shall be allowed on such fire doors or shutters, that
will interfere in any manner with their automatic operating in case of fire.
132. - References. - In general, the handling, storage and use of the
flammable materials, explosives and other special hazards specifically men-
tioned in this ordinance shall be in accordance with good standard practice.
Compliance with the regulations of the National Board of Fire Underwriters
listed below shall be construed to constitute good standard practice.
(1) - In factories making articles of pyroxylin plastic, the
storage, handling and use shall be in accordance with the National Board of
Fire Underwriter's Pamphlet #42, dated December, 1940, and known as Standards
of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the Storage, Handling and Use
of Pyroxylin Plastic in factories making articles therefrom as recommended
by the National Fire Protkction Association.
(2) - Warehouse and wholesale jobbing and Retail stores shall
store and handle pyroxylin plastic in accordance with the National Board
of Fire Underwriters Phamplet # 43, dated July, 1940 and known as Standards
of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for Storage and Handling of
Pyroxylin Plastic in Warehouses and Wholesale Jobbing and Retail Stcms
as recommended by the National Fire Protection Association.
(3) - All photographic and x-ray nito-cellulose films shall be
stored and handled in accordance with the National Board of Fire Under-
writers Phamplet # 41, dated July 15, 1930 and known as Regulations of
the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the Storage and Handling of
Photographic and X-Ray Nitrocellulose Films as recommended by the National
Fire Protection Association,
(4) - Installation and operation of Acetylene Equipment for
Lighting, Heating and Cooking shall be in accordance with the National
Board of Fire Underwriters Phamplet # 50, dated March 1, 1930 and known
as Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the Installation
and Operation of Acetylene Equipment for Lighting, Heating and Cooking.
(5) -Installation and Operation of Gas Systems for welding and
cutting shall be in accordance with the Standards of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters for the Installation and Operation of Gas Systems for
welding and cutting as recommended by the National Fire Protection Associatior
(6)- Domestic type oil burning equipment used for heating and
cooking shall be installed and maintained in accordance with the National
Board of Fire Underwriters Phamplet # 310, dated November 15, 1937,
and known as Regulations of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for
the Installation, Maintenance and Use of Small Heating and Cooking
Appliances (Kerosene and Fuel Oil) as recommended by the National Fire
Protection Association.
(7) - Containers for Storing and Handling Flammable Liquids shall
be constructed, installed and maintained in accn rdance with the National
Board of Fire Underwriters Phamplet # 30, dated October, 1941 and known as
Btandards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the Installation
of Containers for Storing and Handling Flammable Liomids.
(S) - Oil burning equipment for installation in furnaces and
boilers used for heating dwellings and for various commercial occupancies
shall be installed and maintained in accordance with the National Board
of Fire Underwriters Phamplet # 31, dated April, 1941, known as Standards
of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the Installation of Gil
Burning Equipment as recommended by the National Fire Protection Association.
(9) - Dip tanks containing flammable liquids shall be constructed
and installed in accordance with the National Board of Fire Underwriters
Phamplet # 34, dated May, 1941 and known as the Standards of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters for Dip Tanks containing flammable liquids
including Hardening and Tempering Tanks Flow Coat work as recommended
by the National Fire Protection Association.
(10) - The design, installation and construction of Japanning
amd emameling drying ovens shall be in accordance with the National
Board of Fire Underwriters Phamplet # 86 and known as Standards of the
National Board of Fire Underwriters for ovens for Japan, Enamel and other
Flammable Finishes as recommended by the National Fire Protection Associatior.
(11) - Dry Cleaning and Dry Dyeing Plants shall be in accordance
with the National Board of Fire Underwriters Phamplet # 32, dated
February, 1944'and known as the Standards of the National Board of Fire
Underwriters for Safeguarding Dry Cleaning and Dry Dyeing Plants as
recommended by the National Fire Protection Association.
(12) - Starch Factories, Terminal Grain Elevators, Fb ur and Feed
Mills shall be constructed and operated and equipment shall be installed
in accordance with the National Board of Fire Underwriters Phamplet #61,
dated March, 1940 and known as the Standards of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters for the prevention of Dust Explosions in Starch
Factories, Terminal Grain Elevators, Flour and Feed Mills as recommended
by the National Fire Protection Association.
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(13) — The Storage and Handling of Combustible Filres shall be
in accordance with the National Board of Fire Underwriters Phamplet #44,
dated September 1941 and known as the Standa4ds of the National Board
of Fire Underwriters for the Storage and Handling of the Combustible
Fibres as recommended by the National Fire Protection Association.
(14) - Installation and Design of Mechanical Refrigeration
Systems shall be in accordance with the American Standard Safety Code
for Mechanical Refrigeration dated April 20, 1939 and approved by the
American Standard's Association.
(15) - Construction and Protection of Garage shall be in
accordance with the National Board of Fire Underwriters Phamplet # 88,
dated October 1932 and known as Recommended Good Practice Requirements
of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the Construction and
Protection of Garages as recommended by the National Fire Protection
Association.
(16) - Any person, firm or corporation constructing an incin-
erator or furnace to be used for such purposes shall do so in accordance
with the National Board of Fire Underwriters Phamplet # 92, dated 1938
and known as Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for
Incinerators.
(17) - Gas appliances shall be installed and connections made
in accordance with the National Board of Fire Underwriters Phamplet
# 54, dated September 1, 1943 and known as Standards of the National
Board of Fire Underwrtters for the Installation, Maintalance and Use
of Piping, Appliances and Fittings for City Gas as recommended by the
National Fire Protection Association,
CHAPTER II.
1XPLOSIVES
201. -.7The term "explosive" or "explosives" whenever used in this
ordinance shall be held to mean and include any chemical compound or
mechanical mixture, that is commonly used, or intended for the pur-
pose of producing an explosion, that contains any oxidizing and com-
bustible units, or other ingredients, in such proportion, quantities
or packing that an ignition by fire, by friction, or concussion, by
precussion, or by detonator of any part of the compound or mixture
may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the
resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects
on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb.
202. - Nothing in this part shall be held to mean and include
any small arms ammunition or signal rockets, or devices or compositions
used to obtain visible or audible pyrotechnic effects, which are
covered in Chapter III, nor to include explosives in the forms pre-
scribed in the official United States Pharmacopeia.
203. - It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture any
explosives, except that any explosives may be manufactured inthe lab-
oratories in colleges and similar institutions for the purpose of in-
vestigation and instruction.
204. - It shall be unlawful for any person to transport or carry
any explosive in or upon any public oonveyeance which is carrying
passengers for hire.
205. - It shall be unlawful for any person to have, keep, use,
store or transport any explosives, except under permit therefor.
206. - It shall be unlawful for any person to have, keep, store,
sell, offer for sale, give away, use, transport or manufacture any
of the following explosives in any quantity; Liquid nitroglycerine;
high explosives containing over 60 per cent of nitroglycerine (except
gelatin dynamite); high explosives having an unsatisfactory absorbent
or one that permits leakage of nitroglycerine under any conditions
liable to exist during transportation or storage; nitrocellulose in
a dry and uncompressed condition, in quantity greater than ten (10)
pounds in one edterior package; fulminate of mercury in bulk in a
dry condition; and fulminate of all other metals in any condition,
except as a component of manufactured articles not hereinafter for-
bidden; or explosives containing an ammonium salt and a chlorate.
207. - Every vehicle while carrying explosives shall havepainted
on its front, sides and back, in easily legible letters at least four
inches high, in contrasting colors, the word "EXPLOSIVES", or in lieu
thereof shall display, in such manner that it will be visible from all
directions, a red flag with the word "DANGER" printed, stamped or
sewn thereon in white letters. Such flag shall be at least twenty-
four inches square, and the letters thereof shall be at least six inches
high.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any person in charge of a
vehicle containing such explosive to smoke in or upon such vehicle,
to drive the vehicle while intoxicated, to drive the vehicle or to
conduct himself in a careless or reckless manner, to load or unload
such vehicle in a careless manner or while smoking or intoxicated.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to place or carry
in the bed or body, or cause to be placed or carried in the bed or
body of any vehicle containing such explosives, any metal tool or
other piece of metal, or any matches.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person t o place or carry
or cause to be placed or carried, in any vehicle containing explosives,
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any exploders, detonators, blasting caps or other similar explosive
material.
(d) The permit for transporting explosives shall designate
the time when, and may designate the route whereon the same may be
transported.
208. - All explosives must `be stored in a magazine complying with
the requirements of this ordinance, unless such explosives are being
transported or used as prescribed and authorized by this ordinance;
and an accurate record showing the disposition of each container or
package of explosives stored, transported or used shall be kept, such
record to be subject to inspection by the Bureau of Fire Prevention
at all times.
209. - (a) All magazines in which permissible explosives are
had, kept or stored, must be located at distances from neighboring
buildings, highways and railroads in conformity with the American
Quantity and Distance Table. Provided that on portable magazine
containing not more than fifty (50) pounds of explosives may be
allowed if placed on wheels and located not more than ten feet from,
on the same floor with and directly opposite to the entrance on the
floor nearest the street level, and one portable magsLlne containing
not more than five thousand blasting caps, may be allowed if placed
on wheels and located on the floor nearest the street level.
(b) Blasting caps or detonators of any kind shall not be
kept in the same magazine with other explosives.
(o) All magednes must be kept locked except when being
inspected or when explosives are being placed therein or being removed
therefrom.
(d) All magazines or places where explosives are stored
must be kept clean and free from grit, rubbish and empty packages.
(e) Magw.ines shall be made of fireproof material or wood
covered with sheet iron and shall be conspicuously marked "MAGAZINE-
EXPLOSIVES."
210. - Blasting:- No person shall blast or carry on any blasting
operations without first having obtained a permit from the Bureau of
Fire Prevention. The applicant for such permit must file a bond with
the Building Commissioner of the City of Fort Worth, which is deemed
adequate in each case and which bond shall become available in the
payment of any damage arising from the neglect of the contractor or
his agents or employees. No permit shall be issued unless a bond com-
plying with the Building Code has been obtained.
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CHAPTER III
PYROTECHNICS AND SUALL ARMS AMMUNITION
301. - Pyrotechnics whenever used in-this ordinance shall be held
to mean any sparkler, squib, rocket, firecracker, roman candle, signal
lights, railroad track torpedo, flashlight composition, fireworks or
other devices or composition used to obtain visible or audible pyro-
technic display, and shall include fire ballons, that is ballmns of a
type which have burning material of any kind attached thereto.
302. - No person shall have, keep, store, use, manufacture, sell,
handle or transport any pyrotechti.cs; provided, however,
(a) That nothing in this ordinance shall be held to apply
to the possession or use of signaling devices for current daily con-
sumption by railroads, vessels and others requiring them.
(b) That nothing in this ordinance shall be held to apply
to the possession, sale or use of normal stocks of flashlight com-
positions by photographers or dealers in photographic supplies.
303. - Small arms ammunition whenever used in this ordinance
shall be held to mean any shotgun, rifle, pistol or revolver cart-
ridges.
304. - No person shall manufacture within the limits of the city
any small arms ammunition. This shall not be construed as prohibiting
the hand-loading of small arms ammunition for private use and not for
resale.
305. - No person shall store for sale, sell or offer for sale
any small arms ammunition without a permit.
CHAPTER IV
NITRO-CF,LLULOSL MOTION PICTURE FILM
401. - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to sell any toy or miniature motion picture machine containing nitro- ,
cellulose motion picture film, or to sell, lease or otherwise dispose
of any nitro-cellulose motion picture films to any person not having
a permit to handle, use or display such film.
402. - A permit shall be required for the storage of nitro-cellulose
motion picture film in quantities greater than five reels, or aggregating
more than 25 pounds in weight. No permit shall be issued for any building
unless the rooms in which film is handled or stored are protected by
automatic sprinklers; provided that this does not include projection
booths covered in Section 405.
403. - Storage. - Nitro-cellulose motion picture film in other than
the original shipping cases conforming to Interstate Commerce Commission
regulations, in amounts in excess of 25 pounds but not in excess of 1000
pounds shall be kept in approved cabinets if not in vaults; amounts in
excess of 1000 pounds shall be kept in vaults,
404. - Film Cabinets and Vaults. - (a) Cabinets shall be of approved
construction and shall not have a capacity in excess of 375 pounds of film.
(b) Cabinets having a Oapacity of over 50 pounds of film shall
be provided with a vent from each compartment to the outside of the
building. The vent shall have a minimum effective sectional area of 14
square inches per 100 pounds of film capacity.
(c) Cabinets holding over 75 pounds of film shall be provided
with at least one automaticsprinkler; provided that a cabinet constructed
so that each roll is in a separate compartment and will burn out without
communicating fire to film in any other compartment, need not be provided
with an automatic sprinkler.
(d) Film vaults shall be constructed, vented and sprinklered
in accordance with the requirements for standard film vaults and in a
manner satisfactory to the Bureau of Fire Pregention.
405. - Every motion picture machine using inflammable films together
with all electrical devices used in connection therewith and all such
film present in the motion picture theatre or the place of public assemblage
shall be enclosed in a booth large enough to permit the operator to work
freely on either side or in back of the machine and shall not be less than
7 feet high. Not less than 48 square feet of floor area shall be provided
for one machine with an additional 24 square feet for each additional
machine. The booth shall be constructed entirely of incombustible materials
as provided by the Fort .:orth Building Code.
(a) Each booth shall be provided with at least two entrance
or escape doors, each of which shall be not less than 2 feet by 6 feet in
size and so located as to be remote from one another as practical. These
doors shall be of incombustible material and shall be arranged so as to
close automatically and shall be kept closed at all times wen not being
used for egress or ingress.
(b) Two orifices or openings for each picture machirs may be
provided; one for the operator's view shall be not larger than 200 square
inches, and the other thru which the picture is projected shall be not
larger than 120 square inches . here separate stereopticon, spot or flood
light machines are installed in the same booth with picture machines, not
more than one opening for each machine shall be provided for both the oper-
ator's view and for the projection of the light, but two or more machines
may be operated through the same openings; such openings shall be as small
as practicable and shall be capable of being protected by approved automatic
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shutters. Each opening shall be provided with a gravity shutter of
approved fireproof material. Each shutter shall have a fusible link
above it, and there shall also be one located over each upper pro-
jector magazine which, upon operating will close all the shutters.
There shall also be provided suitable means for manually closing all
shutters simultaneously from a point near the door. Shutters on
openings not in use shall be kept closed.
(c) All shelves, furniture and fixtures within the booth
shall be constructed of incombustible material, and no combustible
material of any sort whatever shall be permitted or allowed to kks
be within such booth, except the films used in the operation of the
machine, and film cmment.
(d) Ventilation shall be provided by one or more mechani-
cal exhaust systems which shall draw air from each arc lamp housing
and from one or more points near the ceiling. Systems shall exhaust
to outdoors either directly or through a non-combustible flue used
for no other purpose,
yxhaust capacity shall be not less than 15 nor more than
0 cubic feet per minute for each arc lamp plus a minimum of 200
cubic feet per minute for the room itself.
Exhaust ducts shall be of non-combustible material, and shall
either be kept 1 inch from combustible material or covered with J inch
of non-combustible heat insulating material.
(e) An approved film cabinet shall be provided in pro-
jection booths where the amount of film exceeds 40 pounds (8000
feet of 35 mm, film). All film not being used shall be kept in the
cabinet or in Interstate Commerce Commission shipping containers, but
not over 40 pounds of film shall be permitted to remain in the shipping
containers.
(f) In motion picture theatres where shows are continuous
for a period of more than three hours, and where only one operator
is on duty at one time, the booth shall have a water closet and lavatory.
CHAPTER V
PYROXYLIN PLASTID
501. - The term "Pyroxylin Plastic" as used in this ordinance
shall be held to mean and included any plastic substance, material
or compound, other than nitrocellulose film as provided for in the
film storage regulations, having soluble cotton or similar nitro-
cellulose as a base, including celluloid, fiberloid, pyralin, viscoloid,
zylonite and similar products, materials and compounds by whatever
name known, when in the form of blocks, slabs, sheets, tubes or fab-
ricated shapes.
502. - All retailers, jobbers and wholesalers storing or handling
more than 100 pounds of pyroxylin plastic shall obtain a permit; a
permit shall also be required for the manufacture of articles of pyr-
oxylin plastic, which shall include the use of pyroxylin plastic in
the manufacture or assembling of other articles,
503. - All display of pyroxylin plastic articles in stores shall
be in show cases or show windoww except as permitted below,
(a) Articles may be placed on tables but no table shall
be over 3 feet wide and 10 feet long, and tables shall be spaced at
least 3 feet apart, where articles are displayed on counters, they
shall be arranged in like manner.
(b) Spaces underneath tables shall be kept free of storage
of any kind and of accumulations of paper, refuse and other combustible
material.
(c) Sales or display tables shall be so located that in the
event of fire at that table, the table will not interfere with free
exit from the room, in at least one direction.
(d) Electric or gas mantle light shall not be directly
above any pyroxylin plastic material, unless provided with a suitable
guard to prevent heated particles falling.
504. - All new and existing buildings shall have all parts of
the building used for the manufacture or storage of aticles of pyro-
xylin plastic equipped with an approved system of automatic sprinklers.
505. - All raw pyroxylin plastic- material in factory buildings
shall be kept as follows:
(a) Where raw materials in excess of 25 pounds is received
in any building or fire area, an approved vented cabinet or vented and
sprinklered vault shall be provided for the storage of the material.
(b) Not more than 1,000 pounds of'raw material may be stored
in cabinets in any one workroom, but not more than 500 pounds in any one
cabinet, nor more than 250 pounds in one compartment
(c) All raw material in excess of that permitted above
must be kept in vented vaults not exceeding 1500 cubic feet capacity and
with one automatic sprinkler head to each 125 cubic feet of total
vault space and with construction and venting in conformity with
standard practice for such use and satisfactory to the Bureau of Fire
Prevention,
506. - In factories manufacturing articles of pyroxylin plastics
such sprinklere.d and vented cabinets, vaults or storage rooms shall
be provided a& mar be necessary to prevent the accumulations in work
rooms, of raw stock, stock in process or finished articles. Such
cabinets, vaults or rooms shall be of such size, number, arrangement
and location as We.Cj�fied by the Bureau of Fire Prevention,
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507. - In the work rooms of pyroxylin plastic factories, operators
shall not be stationed closer together than 3 feet, and the amount
of materials per operator shall not exceed one-half day's supply and
shall be limited to the capacity of three tote-boxes including material
awaiting removal or use.
509- - All waste materials such as shavings, chips, turnings,
sawdust, edgings and trimmings shall be kept under water in a metal
receptable until removed from the premises.
509. - No pyroxylin plastic shall be stored within 2 feet of steam
pipes, radiators, chimneys, etc. Smoking is hereby prohibited in any
establishment storing or handling groxylin plastic and prominent "No
Smoking" signs shall be posted. Fire extinguishers, fire pails and other
fire protection equipment deemed necessary by the Bureau of Fire Prevention
shall be 'provided.
CHAPTER VI
PHOTOGRAPHIC AND X-RAY NITRC4CELLULOSE FILM
601. - In hospitals and similar institutions, doctor's offices
and x-ray laboratories, all unexposed nitrocellulose photographic and
x-ray film, unless in unopened I.C.C. shipping containers, shall be
stored in cabinets or vaults, as outlined below; all exposed nitro-
cellulose photographic and x-ray film shall be kept in outside storage
houses, except that not more than 500 pounds may be kept in approved
cabinets within the building, constructed as outlined below.
602. - In portrait and commercial studios, all exposed nitro-
cellulose photographic and x-ray film shall be stored in cabinets,
vaults or outside storage houses, as outlined below; storage of un-
exposed film in excess of 50 cubic feet,, unless in unopened I.C.C.
shipping containers, shall be in a room equipped with automatic
sprinklers.
603. - Cabinets.
(a) Cabinets shall be of approved insulated construction and
shall not exceed 10 cubic feet capacity.
(b) Cabinets shall be equipped with at least one automatic
sprinkler in each compartment unless specifically approved for use
without automatic sprinklers.
(c) Each cabinet shall be provided with a vent to the
outside of the building. The vent shall be so constructed or pro-
tected by a substantial metal grid as to prevent stoppage of vent
in case of combustion or decomposition of film contents. For-t a
cabinet having 10 cubic feet inside volume the vent area shall be
not less than 56 square inches. For smaller cabinets the vent area
shall be proportional except that no cabinets shall have a vent area
of less than 14 square inches.
(d) Vent flues inside the building shall be of a con-
struction equivalent to No. 19 U1:S. Gauge metal covered with one inch
of heat insulating material.
604. - Vaults and Outisde Storage Houses.
Vaults and outside Storage houses shall be sprinklered
and vented and in strict accordance with the standard requirements
for vaults or for outside storage house, and satisfactory to the
Bureau of Fire Prevention; provided, however, that outside storage
houses which are not within 100 feet of any other building are not
required to have automatic sprinkler protection.
605. - All wiring and electrical equipment in rooms or vaults
where film is stored shall conform to the National Electrical Code;
only incandescent electric lights shall be permitted and in vaults
these shall be protected by wire guards, vapor-proof globes or both.
Portable or extension cords shall not be used in any storage vault.
606. - Smoking shall be prohibited in rooms where film is stored
or in developing or similar work rooms. Conspicuous "No Smoking" signs
shall be posted in prominent places.
607. - No film shall be stored within 2 feet of steam pipes,
radiators, chimneys or other sources of heat.
605. - Fire pails or extinguishers shall be provided as required
by the Bureau,of Fire Prevention.
CHAPTER VI I
CALCIUM CARBIDE AND ACETYLENE
701. - No person shall store or keep calcium carbide in excess of
one hundred pounds, nor operate an acetylene generator having a car-
bide capacity exceeding five pounds, without a permit. Acetylene
generators shall be of approved type.
702. - Calcium carbide in excess of 600 pounds but not in excess
of 5,000 pounds, may be stored in separate room or compartment inside
a one-story building containing other occupancy, provided that such
room or compartment is separated by a fire resistive partition from
other parts of the building, and without cellar or basement underneath
such carbide storage section. This room or compartment may also be
used for storage of fuel gas cylinders. Adequate ventilation shall be
provided.
703. - Not to exceed 5,000 pounds of calcium carbide may also be
stored within an inside generator room or compartment of construction
as above mentioned when such generator room or compartment is located
in a one-story building without cellar or basement underneath the
generator section. Such generator room or compartment may also be used
for the storage of fuel gas cylinders.
704. - Calcium carbide in excess of 5,000 pounds shall be stored
above ground in one-story buildings without cellar or basement, and
msed for nol other purpose, except the storage of flel gas cylinders,
or an outside generator house.
Location of such storage buildings shall be outside con-
gested mercantile and manufacturing districts.
Construction used shall be such as to ensure a dry,
water-proof building. Adequate ventilation shall be provided.
If storage building is of incombustible construction, it
may adjoin other one-story buildings if separated therefrom by un-
pierced fire walls. If detached less than 10 feet from such building
or buildings, there shall be no opening in any of the mutually ex-
posing sides of such buildings within said distance.
If the storage building is of combustible construction,
it shall not be within twenty (20) feet of any other one- or two-
story building, nor within thirty (30) feet of any other building
exceeding two stories.
705. - Stationary generators shall be installed either in an
outdoor, underground pit, or in a well ventilated fire-resistive
outbuilding, the size of which shall not exceed that required to
allow free operation of the apparatus and the storage of the necessary
carbide; provided that such generators may be installed inside buildings
if within a well ventilated, fire-resistive enclosure either a one-
stpry building or on the top floor of a multi-storied building.
706. - Portable generators shall not be used inside buildings
except in rooms of total volume at least 35 times the nominal _
aggregate gas-generating capacity of the unit or units used therein.
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CHAPTER VIII
COMPRESSED AND LIQUEFIED GASES
OTHER THAN ACETYLENE
801. - Application. - The provisions of this Chapter apply to the
use, storage and handling of compressed or liquefied petroleum or other
flammable gases except acetylene.
(b) This ordinance shall be construed to be supplemental
to the laws of the State of Texas and of the regulations of the
Railroad Commission of the State of Texas applying to Liquefied
Petroleum Gases as now or hereafter existent or promulgated in con-
formity with the laws of the State.
902. - Permit for liquefied petroleum tank trucks: application
therefor. - Any person desiring -to haul or transport any Liquefied
Petroleum Gas or operate any vehicle or equipment for hauling or
transporting such gases upon or over any premises or upon any public
way within the corporate limits of the city shall before doing so,
make application for a permit therefor at the office of the Chief of
the Bureau of Fire Prevention. A separate application shall be made
for each vehicle to be used for hauling or transporting Liquefied
Petroleum Gases. The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall
check each application and the proposed vehicle and container. If
found to be in conformity with this ordinance the Chief of the Bureau
of Fire Prevention shall cause a permit to be issued for each approved
vehicle. Said permits shall be valid for the period of one (1) year.
It shall be the duty of each applicant after the one (1) year period
has expired to renew each application annually and obtain new permits
each year. The application blanks to be filled out shall contain the
following information to;dwit:
(a) Name and address of applicant.
(b) Location of premises where vehicle will be kept over-
night or when not in use.
(c) Description and maximum quantities of Liquefied Pet-
roleum Gases to be stored or retained on each such
vehicle, as determined by the maximum water gallon
capacity of the respective vehicle.
(d) Description of the type vehicle to be used for hauling
Liquefied Petroleum Gases, including license and
motor number.
(e) Pressure at which safety relief Al.ve is set to dis-
charge.
(f) Such other information as may be required by the Chief
of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
In addition to the above, a copy of the information re-
quired to be submitted to the Railroad Commission shall be filed with
the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention within ten (10) days after
the vehicle is placed in operation.
503. - Odorizing Gases. - All compressed or liquefied gases shall
be effectively odorized by an approved agent of such charagter as to
postively indicate the presence of gas down to concentrations in air
of not over one-fifth the lower limit of flammability.
904. - Construction of Containers. -
(a) Containers for compressed or liquefied gases shall be
off.
construed in accordance with the Unfired Pressure Vessel Code (except
U2 to U10 and U19) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers or
shall comply with the regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission.
All containers shall bear a marking indicating that they have been
suitably tested.
(b) Containers shall be designed for a working pressure not
less than the vapor pressure of the stored product at 100 degrees F.
No container shall have a shell or head thickness less than 3/16 inch.
(c) Containers other than those conforming to the Interstate
Commerce Commission Regulations shall be marked with the design working
pressure in pounds per square inch, and no material of greater vapor
pressure at 100 degrees F. than the design working pressure shall be
placed or kept therein.
(d) No liquid storage container shall exceed 30,000 gallons
water capacity.
90% - Tanks and storage. - (a) All tanks, containers and appurt-
enant equipment installed for use within the corporate limits of the
city for the purpose of providing Liquefied Petroleum Gas for industrial,
commercialaand domestic uses shall be designed, constructed, equipped
and installed in a manner as required by the laws of the State of Texas
and all special regulations of the Railroad Commission as now or here-
after promulgated in conformity with the laws of the State. Such con-
tainers shall be equipped with suitable excess flow valves, necessary
pressure regulator and shall be suitably protected against corrosion.
(b) Tanks, containers and first-stage regulating equipment
for Liquefied Petroleum Gases shall not be installed or used within the
corporate limits of the city except upon compliance with the require-
ments set out in the table below for minimum distance that shall be
maintained between said containers and enclosed structures of property
lines.
M INIULM HORIZONTAL DISTANCE FROM ANY ENCLOSLD STRUCTURE OR
PROPERTY LINE TO TANKS OR CONTAINERS
Approved ,Approved Approved
Interstate 0 to 500 501 to 1000
Commerce Water Gallon Water Gallon
Commission Capacity Capacity
Containers Containers Containers
Fire Limits No. 1 1 ft. Not permitted Not permitted
Fire Limits No. 2 1 ft. 25 ft. 50 ft.
Other Ardas 1 ft. 10 ft. 25 ft.
Containers shall not be placed closer than twenty-five (25)
feet from basements or other structures which extend to below ground
level.
(c) Containers larger than one thousand (1,000) water gallon
capacity shall not be erected, installed or used unless a special per-
mit, authorized by resolution of the City Council has been issued by
the Buil3i.ng Inspector with the approval of the Chief of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention after careful investigation of the proposed install-
ation considering possible hazards to life and contiguous property.
(d) Tanks and containers shall not be placed in service
or filled upon the premises of the ultimate user, or when placed
underground, tanks shall not be covered over, until the work of
installation has been inspected by the Building Inspector and the
workapproved and a label of such approval attached or affixed there-
on by the Building Inspector, nor shall such containers be refilled
thereafter unless they bear such a label of approval dated not more
than five (5) years prior to the time of said refilling, provided,
however, that where Interstate Commerce Commission bottles are used
the empty bottles may be replaced by full bottles if the system bears
such a label of approval. The Building Inspector is hereby authorized
safeeattachtth y existing elnofalation and if found to be reasonably
approval dating from the date the
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container was installed and approved by the Building Inspector. Con-
tainers which have not been approved shall not be labeled.
(e) Underground tanks shall be emptied before being dug up
or uncovered and shall be filled once with water before they are moved
or worked on and this work shall not be done by persons other than those
authorized by license.
(f) Adjustments, changes or alterations in the accessories,
devices, regulators and safety devices of Liquefied Petroleum Gas
Containers shall not be made except by persons licensed to do such work.
(g) No Liquefied Petroleum Gas sahll be stored or retained
inside of any structure within the city except that Interstate Commerce
Commission approved containers in sizes of sixteen (16) pounda of gas
or less may be used inside of buildings by obtaining written permission
from the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention and Interstate Commerce
Commission containers in sizes of one hundred (100) pounds of gas or less
may be used for outting metals when used inside buildings and under
conditions approved by the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
906. - Installation of containers. - (a) Containers installed
above-ground shall be properly supported with anchorage which will
permit thermal expansion. Structural metal supports shall be properly
fire-proofed except that unprotected structural steel supports resting
on concrete pads or footings may be used under either of the following
conditions.
(1) The container has a water capacity of not over 600
gallons and the distance from its bottom to the ground
does not exceed 24 inches.
(2) The container is in an isolated location and the dis-
tance from its bottom to the ground does not exceed
5 feet-.
(b) Containers buried underground shall be so placed that the
top of container is below the established frost line and in no case
less than 2 feet below the surface. Where necessary to prevent floating
containers shall be securely anchored or weighted. They shall be coated
with a suitable protective material to prevent corrosion.
(c) Containers once installed underground shall not be re-
installed above-ground or underground unless they successfully with-
stand a hydrostatic retest of one and one-half times the design working
pressure, and show no evidence of detrimental corrosion.
507. - Valves and Accessories. - (a) Valves, regulating, gauging
and other necessary equipment shall be protected against tempering and
mechanical damage in an approved manner.
(b) All connections to containers, except gauge connections
and safety relief connections, shall be provided with approved shut-
off valves close to the container.
(c) Valves in the assembly of systems using two or more
cylinders or drums shall so be arranged that the change of cylinders
or drums may be made without shutting down the system.
(d) when cylinders or drums are not in use, outlet valves
shall be kept tightly closed even though cylinders may be considered
empty.
(e) Approved gauging devices shall be employed on all storage
containers other than cylinders and drums.
909. - Dikes. - The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, where
the slope of the ground or other local conditions would permit above
ground containers, in case of rupture or overflow, to endanger adjacent
property, shall require such container to be surrounded by a dikeof
such capacity as ma be considered necessary but not more than the
capacity of the con ainer.
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909. - Pipes, Pipe Fittings.. - Piping, pipe fittings, appliances
and other equipment designed or intended for the distribution and
utilization of Liquefied Petroleum Gases for domestic and small commercial
use shall not be installed, repaired, extended or altered except that
it be made to comply with the following requirements:
(a) All piping, appliances and equipement shall be installed-
in full compliance with the ordinances of the city regulating install-
ations for natural gas except where otherwise specifically required
by this ordinance and by the regulations of the Railroad Commission. A
master cut-off valve painted red shall be readily accessible to firemen
in case of fire.
(b) Liquefied Petroleum Gas at pressures in excess of one
(1) pound per square inch shall not be permitted inside buildings without
specific approval of the Building Inspector and the Chief of the Bureau
of Fire Prevention.
(c) Piping shall be wrought iron, steel, brass, or copper
pipe; or approved seamless copper, brass or other approved non-ferrous
tubing. All piping for conveying gas or liquid shall be suitable for
a safe working pressure of not less than 125 pounds. All piping for
conveying gas or liquid shall be tested and proven free from leaks at
not less than normal operating pressure.
(d) In any system in which compressed gas in liquid form
without pressure reduction enters the building only heavy walled seam-
less brass or copper tubing shall be used, with an internal diameter
not greater than 3/32-inch, and a wall thickness not less than 3/64-
inch provided that this requirement shall not apply to commercial gas
plants, bulk station where cylinders, drums or tank trucks are filled,
nor to industrial vaporizer buildings.
(e) Joints in wrought iron and steel piping shall be of'
welded construction, or shall be made with fittings capable of with-
standing a pressure of at least 125 pounds persquare inch for pressures
of 125 pounds per square inch or less; extra heavy fittings shall be
used for pressures exceeding 125 pounds per square inch. Cast-iron
fittings shall not be used. Joints on brass or copper pipe, or approved
seamless copper, brass or other approved non-ferrous tubing shall be by
means of approved fittings.
(f) Piping shall be run as directly as practicable; pro-
vision shall be made for expansion, contraction, jarring and vibration
and for settling of container. At points where piping passes through
outside walls below ground level, suitable provision shall be made to
insure substantial gas tightness.
(g) Piping outside buildings shall be protected against
mechanical injury. Underground piping shall be buried below the
established frostline.
(h) when an existing natural gas piping system is to used
for Liquefied Petroleum Gases all piping of the existing system shall
be removed, checked and reinstalled in the manner described for new
Liquefied Petroleum Gas installations.
(i) All appliances used with Liquefied Petroleum Gases shall
be adapted for use with the particular mixture of Liquefied Petroleum
Gases normally supplied to the piping systems. Automatic appliances
having a pilot light shall have an approved automatic safety cut-off.
(j) Floor furnaces shall not be permitted on Liquefied Pet-
roleum Gas Systems.
(k) Liquefied Petroleum Gas piping, appliances and equipment
shall not be permitted in basements or pits or in any other low place
where such gas can collect to form a dangerous flammable mixture.
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(1) Houses having continuous foundations shall have suitable
vents from under such house if Liquefied Petroleum Gas piping is in-
stalled under said house.
(m) Rubber or leather including rubber hose shall not be used
where in any manner exposed to the solvent action of Liquefied Petroleum
Gases.
810. - Filling Connections. - (a) The filling pipe inlet terminal
shall not be located inside a building. It shall be protected in a
substantial manner against mechanical injury and tampering by unauthorized
persons. Filling pipe inlet terminals on containers other than those
conforming to Interstate Commerce Commission Regulations shall be located
not less than 10 feet from any building and where practicable not less than
5 feet from any driveway and shall be kept locked when not in use.
(b) All containers, other than those complying. with the Inter-
state Commerce Commission Regulations shall have all canections, except
relief connections, equipped with approved automatic excess flow valves,
provided, however, that fill connections shall be equipped with approved
back-pressure check valves, to prevent discharge of contents in case
connections are broken. These excess flow and bank-pressure check valves
shall be located inside of the container or at a point outside where the
line enters the containers; in the latter case, installation shall be
made in such a manner that any undue strain beyond the excess flow or
back-pressure valve will not cause breakage between the container and
such valve. Gauging devices which do not involve the flow of liquid or
which are so constructed that outward flow of container contents shall
not exceed that passed by a No. 54 drill size deed not be equipped with
excess flow valves.
811. - Safety Devices. - (a) Every container other than those
complying with Interstate Commerce Commission Regulations and every
vaporizer other than those of less than one quart total capacity not
heated by artificial means and those arranged so the liquid therein
can pass back to the originating container at all times without
hindrance, shall be provided with approved safety relief valves which
cannot be shut off by stop valves. Relief valve discharge shall start
at a pressure not more than 125 per cent of the designed working pressure.
Safety relief valves shall have a free discharge area not less than as
specified in the Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for
the Design, Installation and Construction of Containers and Pertinent
Equipment for the Storage and Handling of Liquefied Petroleum Gases.
(b) The discharge from safety reliefs shall be outside of
buildings and not less than 5 feet away from any opening in any building
which is below the level of such discharge.
912. - Vaporizing and Housin . - (a) In domestic installations
no liquid or gas shall be led into the building at a pressure exceeding
20 pounds gauge. The initial pressure reducing device shall be in-
stalled outside of building, except in the case of a vaporizing house.
(b) The vaporizer shall be located outside of buildings except
those buildings devoted exclusively to gas manufacturing and distribution
operations, but may be located in a house or shed of fireproof construction,
well ventilated from points near the floor and roof; provided that on
systems utilizing vaporization supplied without artificial means, vapor-
izers may be installed in buildings, if such vaporizers are of not more
than one quart capacity and are located close to point at which pipe
to vaporizer enters building.
(c) Where a device is employed for premixing the gas with air,
such device shall be provided with means for automatically shutting off
the gas mixing device before a combustible mixture is generated, except
where combustible mixtures are desired and generated in which case
flame arrestors shall be installed.
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513. - Electrical Installations and Open Flames. - (a) In the
immediate vicinity of storage containers, in vaporizer or pump houses,
in cylinder filling plants, in gas plants, and similar locations where
liquefied gases are in liquid form in large quantities, all electrical
installations shall be in strict accordance with the requirements of
the National Electrical Code for Class I hazardous locations.
(b) No artificial light involving flames or sparks, shall
be used in the vicinity of container charging operations. Approved
explosion-proof flashlights may be employed.
814. - Filling Densities. - The total amount of liquefied gas,
by weight, shall be limited to the following percentages of the weight
of the water capacity of the container, depending upon the specific
gravity at 60 degrees Fahrenheit of the liquids; For 0,400 specific
gravity, 32 per cent for aboveground and 35 per cent for underground;
for 0,500 specific gravity, 41 per cent for aboveground and 45 per cent
for mnderground; for 0.600 specific gravity, 53 per cent for aboveground
and 56 per cent for underground, and for intermediate or higher specific
gravities, corresponding percentages, but in no case shall the amount of
liquid be such as to fill the container at a temperature of 130 degrees
Fahrenheit for aboveground and 105 degrees Fahrenheit for underground..
515. - Transfer of Liquid. - All transfer of liquid or gases shall
be by approved piping or hose, tested to 5 times the designed working
pressure. All connections shall be free from leaks.
916. - Permit for li uefied p2troleum. gas tank trucks. - (a) All
containers for hauling or transporting Liquefied Petroleum Gases upon
or over any premises or upon any public way within the corporate limits
of the city shall be designed, constructed and operated in a manner as
required by the laws of the State of Texas and all special regulations
of the Railroad Commission as now or hereafter promulgated in conformity
with the laws of the State.
(b) All vehicles, tanks or containers for transporting
Liquefied Petroleum Gases shall be kept in good condition at all times
and if found in use when in a hazardous condition or in need of repair,
said use and condition shall constitute prima facie evidence of a
violation of this ordinance.
(c) Vehicles for hauling or transporting Liquefied Petroleum
Gases shall not be driven into the area bounded by the following streets;
(Refer to the Butane Ordinance) nor shall such vehicle be parked or left
overnight upon any public street or public way of the city.
(d) Vehicles for hauling or transporting Liquefied Petroleum
Gases shall not be used or driven within the corporate limits of the
city unless a label of approval has been attached or affixed thereon by
the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, except that vehicles operating
under license or jurisdiction of the Interstate Commerce Commission may
be driven through the city without first securing a permit, but said
vehicles shall not distribute or discharge any gas within the city unless
a permit is obtained.
817. - Tank Trucks and Trailers 00onstruction) - Tank trucks and
trailers shall be constructed as described in Secion 804.
Piping, safety devices, filling and �the loading and unloading
of tank trucks and trailers shall be as specified'fpr containers.
Pumps of suitable design and properly protected may be
mounted upon trucks and trailers and may be driven by the truck motor
power take-off or other suitable means. The pumps, except constant
speed centrifugal pumps, shall be equipped with suitable pressure actuated
by-pass valves permitting flow from pump discharge to pump suction when
the pump discharge pressure rises above a predetermined point.
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Every tank truck and trailer shall be provided with properly
attached steel bumpers or chassis extension at the rear which shall be
so arranged as to adequately protect the tank, piping, valves and
fittings in case of colli sion.
Railroad cars and trucks and trailers transporting Liquefied
Petroleum Gases in bulk shall not be loaded orunloaded within the
corporate limits of the city except at locations and with equipment
approved by resolution of the City Council upon recommendations of the
Building Inspector and the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
CHAPTER IX
FLAMMABLE LIQUIDS
901. - Application to New and Existing Installations Etc. - The
provisions of this Chapter apply to all new plants, stores, equipments
and installations; and, except as otherwise specified, to existing
plants, stores, equipments, and installations which constitute a distinct
hazard to adjoining property, in so far as the intent of the sections
can be reasonably fulfilled.
902. - Classification of Flammable Liquids. - For the purpose of
this ordinance, flammable liquids are divided into three classes,
according to the flash point, as follows:
Class I. Liquids with flash point below 25 degrees Fahrenheit
(-4 degrees Centigrade) closed cup tester.
Class II. Liquids with flash point above that for Class I
and below 70 degrees Fahrenheit (21 degrees Centigrade)
closed cup tester.
Class III. Liquids with flash point above that for Class II
and below 200 degrees Fahrenheit (93.3 degrees Centrigrade)
closed cup tester.
Representative examples of the classes of flammable liquids
are:
Class I Class II Class III
Ether Alcohol Kerosene
Gasoline Amyl Acetate Amyl Alcohol
Naptha Toluol Turpentine
Benzol Ethyl Acetate Fuel Oil
Collodion Methyl Acetate
Acetone
903. - Manufactured Liquid Commodities Included, - Any manufactured
liquid or fluid commodity, such as paint, varnish, dryer, cleaning
solution and polishing liquid which contains flammable liquids shall
be considered a flammable liquid and shall be classified by Section 902
according to the flash point of the mixture.
904. - Permits Required. - Except as specified in Section 905, a
permit (which shall be for one or more of the following subdivisions)
shall be obtained.
(a) For the storage or handling of a total quantity of
Class I liquids in excess of oxie gallon in any dwelling, apartment
house or tenement, and in excess of five gallons in any other building,
and in excess of ten gallons outside of any building,
(b) For the storage- or handling of a total quantity of
Class II liquids in excess of five gallons in any dwelling, apartment
house or tenement, and in excess of ten gallons in any other building,
and in excess of twenty-five gallons outside of any building.
(c) For the storage or handling of a total quantity of
Class III liquids in excess of twenty-five gallons inside any building,
and in excess of fifty-five gallons outside of any building.
905. - Owner or Agent May Use Certain Flammable Liquids Without Permit.
Unless a storage of quantities in excess of those given in Section 90 is
to be maintained for at least thirty (30) days, nothing in this ordinance
shall require an owner or occupant or his agent to obtain a permit for
the use of, nor does it prohibit the use by him, of paints, oils, varnishes
and similar flammable fixtures.
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906. - Permits for Different Occupations. - All permits shall state
the nature of the business of the applicant, the maximum quantity of
each class of liquid to be kept, and the location of the storage. Permits
shall be listed as follows:
Garage Permit (with or without storage)
Storage Permit
Retail Dealer's Permit
Painter's Permit, including Spray Painting
Paint and Oil Dealer's Permit
Jobber's Permit
Manufacturer's Permit
Dry Cleaner's Permit
907. - Inspection Required Before Covering Installation. - Before
any installation is covered from sight, a notification in writing shall
be given the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, who shall, within
49 hours after the receipt of such notification, inspect the installation
and give his written approval or disapproval. .Upon failure of the Chief
of the Bureau of Fire Prevention to inspect within the specified time,
the installation may be covered but shall be subject to inspection by
the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention at the expense of the City.
909. - Hazardous Heatin and Lighting Appliances May be Prohibited.-
The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Frevention may prohibit the ube of any
type, kind or make of heating or lighting appliances using flammable
liquids which has not been tested by him or some competent authority and
found to be properly safeguarded, or which is not installed so as to
provide reasonable protection against life or propert*.
909. - Class I and II Liquids Prohibited in Places of Public AssemblyT
No Class I nor Class II liquids shall be kept or stored in any sHhool-
house, religous, amusement or other building used for public assemblage,
except in laboratories for experimental purposes.
910. - Storage of Class I and II Liquids Near Exits, Etc. - .Except
in sealed containers, no Class I or Class II liquids may be stored
within 10 feet of any stairway, elevator or exit except when in a space
separated from the stairway, elevator or exit by a fire-resistive
partition.
911. - Two Exits Reouired in Stores and Jobber's Plants. - In all
stores and in all jobber s and manufacturing plants n which flammable
liquids are stored, at least two exits shall be provided, one of which
shall be remote from the point of storage.
$12. - Handling Li-mited in Buildings Occupied by Families. - TUe
mixing, storing or handling of flammable liquids of Class I and Class
II in open containers is prohibited in any store in any building housing
more than two families or in a frame building housing more than one
family, provided that this shall not apply to drug stores where flammable
liquids are used in making and compounding medicines and prescriptions.
913. - Storage Li.nitad in Frame and Ot3er Buildings Not so Used
Prior to Effective Date of Eaactment of this Ordinance. - The storage
Moi f lamm ble liou- s inside buildings except in "buildings so used
ski be as given under the following sub-
sectio Prov"ed that in a special storage room or fire-resistive
building, conforming to requirements given in Section 915, the storage
of Class I liquids shall be in accordance with Section 916 and the
quantity of ClassII and III liquids shall be unlimited.
(a) Within the limits given in Section Zg:Z .
In frame buildings:
Classes I and II prohibited.
Class III. Maximum limit of any tank or container
60 gallons, except as permitted in Section.
In other than frame buildings:
Class I. In sealed containers or safety cans of
not more than 1 gallon capacity, and not exceeding
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a total of 10 gallons.
Class II. In sealed containers or safety cans of not
more than 5 gallons capacity and in barrells, drums
or tanks of not more than 60 gallons capacity (Total
quantity stored in this manner unlimited.)
Class III. In sealed containers of not more than 5
gallons capacity, in barrells and drums and in tanks
not exceeding 120 gallons capacity, except as per-
mitted in Section Q6 0 (total quantity stored in
this manner unlimited,
(b) Outside the limits given in Section �L
In Frame Buildings:
Class I. In sealed containers or safety cans of not
more than 1 gallon capacity, and not exceeding a tdal
of 10 gallons.
Class II. In sealed containers of not more than 5
gallons capacity and in barrels, drums or tanks not
exceeding 60 gallons capacit (total quantity stored
in this manner is unlimited.
Class III. In sealed containers not exceeding 5 gallons
capacity, in barrels and drums and in tanks not ex-
ceeding 120 gallons capacity, except as permitted in
Section (total quantity stored in this manner
unlimite
In Other than Frame Buildings:
Class I. Not exceeding 50 gallons in sealed containers
or safety cans of not more than 1 gallon capacity,
Class II. In sealed containers or safety cans of not
more than 5 gallons capacity, in drums and barrels and
in tanks not exceeding 120 gallons capacity (total
quantity stored in this manner unlimited.)
Class III. In sealed containers, drums and barrels and
in tanks not exceeding 240 gallons capacity, except
as permitted in Section (total quantity stored
in this manner unlimited
914. - Storage Restrictions for Buildings Used for Storage on
Effective Date of Lnactment of this Ordinance. - In -buildings now used for
storage of flammable liquids, the storage, except in special rooms as
given in Section 915) shall not exceed double the quantity specified in
Section 913. (Capacity of Individual tanks or containers may be double
that specified in Section 913.)
915. - Special Storagge Rooms or Buildings. - Special rooms or
buildings for storage of flammable liquids and the handling and use
of flammable liquids shall, where called for by other sections of this
ordinance, be constructed as follows; provided, however, that when in
the opinion of the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention the extent
of the hazard formed is more than moderate, based upon a consideration
of the quantity and nature of flammable liquids involved and the extent
of mixing operation together with the character of construction, of
the building in which the proposed storage and mixing operations are to
be located, and of exposed building, construction affording a greater
degree of protection shall be required. Walls shall have a fire-
resistive rating of not less than one hour; they shall be contifluous
from floor to ceiling and shall be securely anchored. Ceilings shall
be of construction equivalent to not less than 3/4-inch of gypsum plaster
on metal lath. Floors if of wood shall be protected with not less than
2 inches of concrete. Door openings to other room@ or buildings shall
be provided with non-combustible sills raised six (6) inches. Such
openings shall be protected by standard fire doors of approved automatic
or self-closing type. Where other portions of the building or other
properties are exposed, windows shall be protected in a standard manner.
Shelving shall be non-combustible.
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916. - Storage of Class I Liquids.- Except where kept in sealed
containers, Class I liquids shall be kept in storage tanks underground
or outside the building and no discharge system shall have outlet in-
side building unless in a special room in accordance with Section 915.
Safety cans of not over 10 gallons capacity may be used in any part
of building except that if of over one gallon capacity, they shall be
kept and used in special rooms in accordance with Section 915. In
garages and manufacturing plants, the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Pre-
vention may permit the storage of Class I liquids in approved portable
whe6led tanks, where the nature of the business requires such storage
and the discharge therefrom.
917. - Storage of Class II Liquids. - No container containing
Class II liquids of over 5 gallons capacity, may be used to fill
other containers and appliances unless outside the building or in a
special room in accordance with Section 915, and all drawing, except
from safety cans, shall, where the nature of the liquid permits, be
as provided for in Section 9 P/ AND _IJ24.. At service stations the
dispensing of alcohol and other-flammable anti-freeze solutions from
drums shall be done outside the building, using pump or gravity dis-
charge. Air Pressure discharge shall not be used.
919. - Exposed Windows Must have Wired Glass. - Any building, other
than a frame building, within the limits given in Section W, contain-
ing more than 500 gallons of flammable liquids in other than sealed
containers, shall have all windows in side and rear walls and above
the first floor on street fronts, exposed by other buildings within fifty
feet, provided with wired glass in metallic sash and frame.
919. - New Manufacturing Plants. - Any manufacturing plant estab-
lished after date of enactment of this ordinate in a building in which
persons are employed above the second story, shall have all rooms,
in which Class I and II liquids are mixed or stored in receptacles
permitting the escape of vapor, constructed in accordance with Section
915.
920. - Existing, Manufacturing Plants. - In existing manufacturing
plants, where persons are employed above the second floor, all elevator,
stair and other wells or vertical openings communicating to rooms in
which Class I and II liquids are mixed or stored in receptacles per-
mitting escape of vapor, shall be enclosed and provided with self-
closing fire doors or trap doors with heat releasing devices arranged
to close doors automatically in case of fire.
921. - Manufacturing Plants Prohibited in Buildings Occupied as
Dwellings. -!b yanufacturing plant shall be so located in any building
used as a dwelling for more than one family unless all Cass I liquids
are kept in safety cans, not exceeding one quart in capacity, or ib
outside storage tanks as given in Section ,L with no discharge
inside the building.
922. - Kettles Vats, Etc. - Kettles, vats, saturators and other
vessels used in manufacturing processes, and containing more than 5
gallons of flammable liquids, shall not be located within 5 feet of
combustible material nor within 5 feet of any exit, unless two or
more exits are provided, and all combustible floor, thereunder within
a radius of 10 feet shall be protected with non-combustible coverings.
All kettles and other open vessels shall be provided with substantial
covers arranged to close automatically in case of fire or which can
be easily and readily placed in position, or shall be provided with
an adequate automatic extinguishing device.
923. - Ventilation, - Rooms in which Class I and II liquids are
used in open vats, pans or other vessels, or in which Class I, II and
III liquids are heated or otherwise treated in such manner as to
produce flammable vapor, shall be well ventilated. Where natural
ventilation is not sufficient the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention
may require forced ventilation with a vent opening of at least 20 square
inches in the wall at the floor level near each open receptacle con-
taining such liquids, or each heating device from which vapors may
escape and opposite to any door or other air inlet. Such openings shall
be covered with 2 x 2 mesh No. 16 galvanized wire web and shall be kept
clear of all obstructions. From each vent opening a flue, of at least
20 square inches area and of non-combustible materials, built into
the wall or floor or securely fastened thereto and so arranged as not
to be subject to mechanical injury, shall conduit to and through a
sparklers exhaust fan, to be run continuously and which shall be of
sufficient size to change the air in the room completely every five
minutes. All discharge outlets of vent pipes shall be provided with
12 x 12 mesh or equivalent non-corrodible wire screen and shall be
located so that they will not expose surrounding property and shall be
acceptable to the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention. Any other
equivalent system of ventilation may be used when approved by the Chief
of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
924. - Extinguisher Required. - Where flammable liquids are kept,
used or handled a quantity of loose non-combustible absorbents, such
as dry sand or ashes, toghether with pails or scoops; and chemical
extinguishers or other extinguishing devices or materials shall be
provided in such quantities as may be directed by the Chief of the
Bureau of Fire Prevention. Every marketing station, wholesale storage,
port terminal, and other property where flammable liquids are stored in
quantities in aboveground tanks, shall, as a minimum requirement, be
provided with portable foam fire extinguishing equipment.
925• - Storage of Barrels and Drums Limited. - Within the limits
given in Section , barrels and drums containing Class I, II or III
liquids stored ou side any building shall not be piled upon each other
nor stored in a passageway or beneath any window and no open lights shall
be permitted in any such storage yard.
926. - Drums and Barrels Must Be Kept Closed. - Drums and barrels
for flammable liquids shall have caps, plugs and bungs replaced immedi-
ately after package is emptied.
927. -- Smoking Prohibited. - •In all rooms or parts of buildings which
contain flammable liquids in open containers or in which the vapors from
flammable liquids are present, or in which flammable liquids are used
in any manufacturing process, the carrying of matches is prohibited and
smoking shall be a misdemeanor. Suitable "No Smoking" signs shall be
displayed.
928. - Lighting Shall be by Electricity. - Flammable liquids shall
not be drawn nor handled in the presence of open flame or fire, but may
be drawn and handled when lighting is by incandescent electric lamps
installed in compliance with the "National Electric Code. "
9$9• - Flammable Liquid for Cleaning, Floor Oil or Dressing. - It
shall be unlawful for any person to use or cause to used any flammable liquic
with a flash point below 110 Fahrenheit for floor oil, floor dressing or
for the purpose of cleaning any floor, walls, ceiling or fixtures within
any structure in the City of Fort Worth.
930. - Types of Pumps; location within Building. - (a) All pumps
used in the City of Fort Worth for the drawing and dispensing of gasoline
or other Class I, II or III liquids of less than 112 degrees Fahrenheit
f laEh point, must be of a type and design approved by the Underwriter's
Laboratories, Inc., and must be labeled accordingly.
(b) The servicing of any Class I, II or III liquids of less
than 112 degrees Fahrenheith flash point at service stations, garages or
other locations employing pumps or discharge devices from which the public
is se4ved, shall at all times be under the direct charge of the owner or
his competent attendant. The use of automatic or self-serving pumps or
devices, by means of which the public, either child or adult, may draw
Class I, II and III liquids into automobile tanks or other velsels is
deemed to be hazardous practice in violations of the intent of this
ordinance and all such automatic or self-servicing pumps or devices be
prohibited.
(c) It shall be unlawful to install or use a visible type
pump inside any building in the City of Fort Worth.
STORAGE TANKS
951. - Storage must be Outside Buildings. - (a) Except as other-
wise permitted in this ordinance, the storage of flammable liquids shall
be outside buildings, in underground tanks or aboveground tanks; except
that the storage in tanks aboveground and outside buildings is prohibited
within the Number 1 and Number 2 fire limits as established in the
Building Code of the City of Fort Worth provided that for existing tanks
within such limits, which are properly safeguarded and do not involve
a hazard to other property, a permit shall be granted.
(b) No tank shall be installed having a capacity greater
than TWO THOUSAND (2000) gallons without a special permit therefor
issued by the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention and authorized by
resolution of the Governing Body, which resolution and permit shall
specify the material of which such tanks shall be constructed, and the
manner of installation.
952. - Underground Storage Limited. - Tanks buried underground
shall have the top of the tank not less than 2 feet below the surface
of the ground and below the level of any piping to which the tanks may
be connected, except that, in lieu of the 2-foot cover, tanks may be
buried under 12 inches of earth and a cover of reinforced concrete at
least 5 inches in thickness provided, which shall extend at least one
foot beyond the outline of the tank in all directions; concrete cover-to
be placed on a firm, well-tamped earth foundation. Where necessary to
prevent floating, tanks shall be securely anchored or weighted. Where
a tank cannot be entirely buried, it shall be covered over with earth
to a depth of at least 2 feet with a slope on all sides not steeper than
1i feet horizontal to 1 foot vertical. The limit of storage permitted
shall depend upon the location of tank with respect to the building to
be supplied and adjacent buildings as follows:
MAXIMUM CAPACITY OF TANKS FOR UidDER-
GROUND STORAGE
Location Classes I and II Class III
If top of tank is lower and Class III Above 1000
than all floors, basements, Under 1000 F. Flashpoint
cellars or pits of all F. Flashpoint
buildings.
(a) Within a radius of 50 ft. Unlimited Unlimited
�b' Withn a radius of 4O ft. 50,000 gallons 500,000 gallons
cWithin a radius of 30 ft. 20,000 gallons 200,000 gallons
d Within a radius of 25 ft. 15,000 gallons 150,000 gallons
e Within a radius of 20 ft. 5,000 gallons 100,000 gallons
f Within a radius of 10 ft. 2,000 gallons 75,000 gallons
(g If within 10 ft. of any
building and the top of
tank is above the lowest
floor, basement, cellar
or pit of the building. 550 gallons 50,000 gallons
(h) Tank located beneath a building shall be below all portions of that
building and is limited in capacity only in respect to other buildings
as given under a. to g.
953. - Capacity and Location of Aboveground Tanks. - (a) The location
of a tank with respect to distance from tank shell to line of adjoining
property or nearest building shall depend upon the construction, contents,
equipment, and greatest dimension (diameter, length, or height) of the
tank and shall be in accord with the following provisions:
Group A Tanks. - Any all-steel, gas-tight tank constructed in
compliance with these or equivalent standards and equipped
either with (1) an approved permanently attached extinguishing
system or (2) an approved floating roof, which is to be used
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only for the storage of refined petroleum products or other
flammable liquids not subject to boil-over, shall be so loc-
ated that the distance between shell of tank and property line
or nearest building shall be not less than the greatest dim-
ension (diameter, length or height) of the tank, except that
such distance need not exceed 120 feet.
Group B. Tanks. - Any all-steel, gas-tight tank constructed in
compliance with these or equivalent standards but not equipped
with, (1) an approved permanently attached extinguishing system
or (2) an approved floating roof, which is to be used only for
the storage of refined petroleum products or other flammable
liquids not subject to boil-over, shall be so located that
the distance between shell of tank and property line or nearest
building shall be not less than li times the greatest dimension
(diameter, length or height) of the tank except that such dis-
tance need not exceed 175 feet.
Group C. Tanks. - Any all-steel, gas-tight tank constructed in
compliance with these or equivalent standards and equipped
either with (1) an approved permanently attached extinguishing
system or (2) an approved floating roof, which is to be used
for the storage of crude petroleum or other flammable liquid
subject to boil-over, shall be so located that the distance
between shell of tank and property line or nearest building shall
be not less than twice the greatest dimension (diameter, length
or height) of the tank except that such distance shall be not less
than 20 feet and need not exceed 175 feet.
Group D. Tanks. - Any all-steel, gas-tight tank constructed in
compliance with these or equivalent standards and not equipped
either with (1) an approved permanently attached extinguishing
system or (2) an approved floating roof, which is to be used
for the storage of crude petroleum or other flammable liquids
subject to boil-over, shall so be located that the distance
between the shell of tank and property line or nearest building
shall be not less than three times the greatest dimension (diameter,
length, or height) of the tank except that such distance shall
be not less than 20 feet and need not exceed 350 feet.
(b) The minimum distance between shells of any two all-steel, gas-
tight tanks shall be not less than one-half the greatest dimension (diameter,
length or height) of smaller tank except that such distance shall be not
less than 3 feet, and for tanks of 18,000 gallons or less the distance need
not exceed 3 feet.
954. - Openings in Aboveground Tanks. - Each aboveground tank, inside
or outside buildings, over 1,000 gallons in capacity shall have vent opedngs
excepting emergency relief openings, provided with approved flame arresters.
The covers for manholes, handholes and gauge holes shall be made tight fitting
(a) No form of emergency relief construction shall be required
on vertical tanks with cone roa$ having a slope of less than 2J inches in
12 inches where the strength of the joint between the roof and the shell
is no greater than that of the weakest vertical joint in the shell.
(b) Svery other aboveground tank used for the storage of Class
I, II or III liquids shall have some form of relief for preventing the
development of excessive internal pressure in case- of exposure fire
surrounding the tank. This may take the form of either a weak seam in the
top or at the joint between the top and the shell of the tam or manhole
covers kept closed by weight only, or some other form of emergency relief
construction.
(c) In tanks where entire dependence for relief is placed upon
some form of emergency relief construction other than a weak seam, it shall
have a capacity as prescribed by the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention,
who shall give consideration to the design and construction of the tank
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as it affects the pressure which the tank may safely withstand, as
indicated in the table below. Except for tanks specially constructed
to withstand higher pressures, the emergency relief area for vertical
tanks shall be as given for an allowable pressure of 3 inches of
water, and for horizontal tanks shall be as given for an allowable
pressure of 1 pound per square inch.
EMERGENCY RELIEF OF EXCESSIVE INTERNAL PRESSURES
IN ABOVEGROUND TANKS
Minimum Approximate diameter of free circular opedng
Emergency (unobstructed by valve discs, etc. ) required
Relief to discharge petroleum vapors at the given
Capacity rates for the following allowable internal
Capacity of Required pressures.
Tank Cubic Feet 3 inches 1 lb. per 5 lb. per 25 lb. pe
Gallons Per Hours of water sq. in. sq. in. sq. in.
(Bases upon an orifice coefficient of 0.7 and
vapor specific gravity of 2.5)
1,000 16,000 4 It 2- " 1 " 1 '+
4,000 44,000 6- " 3- +' 2' +' 1- "
18,000 88,000 9 " 5 +, jj " 2 "
25,000 105,000 10- " 6 " 4r " 2- "
56,000 160,000 12- " 7 " 5 '+ 3 '+
100,000 230,000 15 " �- " 6 " 4
�, _ „ +,
222,000 330,000 l8- " 10 " 7 z " 44-- "
475,000 95,000 20 " 11- " 7- +' 5 "
735,000 10,000 20 " 11 " 7- 5- "
Unlimited 410,000 20 " 11- " 7- " 5 "
955. - Aboveground Tanks Labeled. - Aboveground tanks for Class
I and II liquids shall have painted conspicuously on their sides in
letters at least 4 inches high, the wording "F rn BLE-KEEP FIRE, AWAY."
956. - Material of Underground Tanks. - Tanks shall be constructed
of galvanized steel, open hearth steel or wrought iron of a thiclmess
not less than specified in Table 3. For liquids heavier than 35C', A.P.I.
tanks may be constructed of concrete in accordance with the Standards
of the National Board of fire Underwriters.
TABLE 3 - UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANKS
Minimum Thickness of Material
Capacity Gauge Pounds Per
(Gallons) (U.S. -Standard) Square Foot
1 to 285 16 2.50
296 to 560 14 125
561 to 1,100 12 �-375
1,101 to 4,000 7 7.50
4,001 to 12,000 1/4-inch 10.00
12,001 to 20,000 5/16-inch 12.50
20,001 to 30,000 3/9-inch 15.00
Tanks of steel or wrought iron thinner than No. 7 gauge shall be gal-
vanized. For Class III liquids, if adequate internal bracing is pro-
vided tanks from 121,000 to 30,000 gallons capacity may be built of
steel plate j - inch thick. With the approval of the Chief of the
Bureau of Fire Prevention, tanks of copper or other suitable material
may be used if after the necessary handling incident to installation
they are equivalent in strength, rigidily, durability and tightness to
the steel or iron tanks described above.
957. - Material of Aboveground Tanks. - Tanks (including tops) shall
be constructed throughout of open hearth steel or of wrought iron of a
thickness in accordance with the following requirements. For liquids
of 350 A.P.I. or heavier, tanks may be constructed of concrete in
accordance with Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters.
(a) HORIZONTAL OR VERTICAL TANKS NOT OVER 1,100 GALLONS CAPACITY
Capacit 'Kinimum Thickness
(Gallons of Material
1 to 60 18 gauge (U.S. STD. )
61 to 350 16 11 n
351 to 560 14 n
561 to 1000 12 it
(b) HORIZONTAL TANKS OVER 1,100 GALLONS CAPACITY.
Tanks having a diameter of not over 6 feet shall be made
of at least 3/16-inch steel. Tanks having a diameter of
over 6 feet and less than 11-i feet shall be made of at
least J-inch steel.
(c) VERTICAL TANKS OVER 1,100 GALLONS CAPACITY.
anks of this class shall be of such ma erial and so
constructed asto have a factor of safety of at least 2.5.
The minimum thickness of shell or bottom shall be 3/16-
inch. The minimum thickness of roof shall be 1/9-inoh.
The thickness of plates shall be in accordance with the
fallowing formula:
t - 2.604xHxDx F
T x Z
Where,
t = thickness of plate in inches
H = height of tank in feet above the bottom of
the ring under consideration
D = diameter of the tank in feet
F = factor of safety (taken as 2.5)
T = tensile strength of plate in pounds per sq. ii
E = efficiency of vertical joint in ring under
consideration
The tensile strength of the steel shall be taken as 55,000
pounds per sq. in, and the shearing strength of rivets
shall be taken as �40,000 pounds per sq. in. Roofs or
tops of tanks shall have no unprotected openings. Roo 33
or tops shall be firmly and permanently joined to the
tank and all joints shall be riveted and caulked, brazed,
welded or made tight by other process satisfactory to the
Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention. With the approval
of the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, tanks of
copper or other suitable material or tanks of a special
tested design may be used if after the necessary handling
incident to installation, they are equivalent in strength,
rigidity, durability and tightness to the steel or iron
tanks described above.
959• - Construction of Tanks. - (a) Tanks shall be riveted, wAded
or brazed, and shall be soldered, caulked or otherwise made tight in a
mechanical and workmanlike manner, and if to be used with a pressure
discharge system shall safely sustain a hydrostatic test at least
double the pressure to which tank may be subjected. Tanks shall be
covered with asphaltum or other non-rusting paint or,coating. All pipe
connections shall be made through flanges or metal reinformements
securely riveted, welded or bolted to the tank and shall be madethorou -h-
ly tight. All cpenings shall be gas tight, except breather vent, which
shall be protected by flame arresters as provided in Section 954.
-(b) Where tanks are to be of welded construction, the Chief
of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall require evidence of the integrity
and responsibility of the firm or individual doing the work, the degree
to which welders are qualified and the character of supervision main-
tained while welding is in process,
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(c) Tanks for storage of flammable liquids under a pressure
in excess of 15 pounds per square inch (gage) shall be constructed and
protected with safety relief devices, in accordance with the Unfired
Pressure Vetsel Code of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
959. - Foundations; Dikes. - (a) In each case the bearingcapacity
of the ground shall determine the type of foundation to be employed.
Where there is any doubt the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention may
require borings in order to ascertain the subsurface formation as a
means of determining whether the proposed foundation is suited to ground
conditions on the site. Tanks more than one foot above the ground
shall have foundations and supports of masonry or protected steel,
except that wooden cushions may be used; no combustible material shall
be permitted under or within ten feet of any above ground outside storage
tank.
(b) All tanks containing crude oil or other liquids which
have a tendency to boil over, and all tanks exceeding 50,000 gallons
(1,200) barrels capacity shall be adequately and properly diked having
capacity not less than equal in volume to that of the tank or tanks
surrounded; minimum height of earth dikes to be 3 feet and of masonry
dikes 30 inches.
(c) Tanks of less than 50,000 gallons (1,200 barrels)
capacity shall, when deemed necessary by the Chief of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention, on account of proximity to streams, character of top-
ography or nearness to buildings of high value, be diked or the entire
yard provided with a curb or retaining wall or other suitable means
taken to prevent the discharge of liquids on to other property in case
of a rupture in tank or piping.
(d) Dikes or walls required by the preceeding paragraph
(b) and (c) shall be of earth or masonry so constructed as to afford
adequate protection. When dikes surround tanks containing crude oil,
they shall have in addition to the above capacity, suitable coping or
deflector projecting inward properly constructed to minimize the effect
of a "boil-over" wave. Dikes surrounding crude oil tanks shall be not
less than 50 feet from the shell of the tank or tanks surrounded.
(e) The height of the dike and the distance from the inner
surface of the dike to the shell of the tank or tanks surrounded shall
be such as to assure the scouring action of the winds required to pre-
vent the accumulation of combustible vapors within the dike, but in no
case shall the height of the dike exceed 6 feet. Masonry dikes with
angular walls shall be provided with expansion joints constructed of
single sheet non-corrosion metal. Where reinforced concrete is used,
the steel reinforcing member shall be interconnected.
(f) The capacity of dikes required by this Section shall be
properly maintained. Earthen dikes shall have a flat section at the
top and shall have a slope consistent with the angle of repose of the
materials of which they are constructed.
960. - Stationary Tanks in Buildings; - Insulation of Tanks; Per-
missible Quantities. - Tanks in buildings shall be constructed and
installed as follows:
(a) Tanks for Class II and III liquids of 180 gallons or less
capacity, shall be of steel or of tin plate, suitable for the purpose,
with all joints locked, double ueamed or riveted and also soldered or
made tight by some equally satisfactory method; material shall be of not
less than No. 16 gauge U.S. Standard. Original barrels or drums may be
used until contents are drawn if substantially placed to prevent tipping
or rolling, with pump inserted through a close fitting connection in side
or head.
ti
M Tanks for Class II and III liquids of 191 to 275 gallons
capacity shall be constructed of not less than No. 14 U.S. gage steel
or wrought iron; larger tanks shall be constructed in accordance with
the requirements of Section 956.
(c) Tanks shall be located below the level of any piping
to which they may be connected, or if this is impracticable, arrangements
satisfactory to the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall be made.
(d) Tanks shall be set on a firm foundation and those exceeding
2,500 gallons capacity shall be supported independently of the floor
construction.
(e) Tanks for Class III liquids used in connection with oil
burning equipment shall not exceed 275 gallons individual capacity or
550 gallons aggregate capacity (in one building), unless installed in an
enclosure constructed as follows:
The enclosure shall be at least 6 inches larger on all
sides than the tank. The walls of the enclosure shall be constructed of
reinforced concrete at least 6 inches thick or of masonry at least 9
inches thick, and shall be bonded to the floor and carried to a height
not less than 1 foot above the tank. The space between the tank and
the enclosure shall be completely filled with sand or well-tamped earth
up to the top of the enclosure. The top of the enclosure shall be of
reinforced concrete at least 5 inches thick or of equivalent construction,
except where the floor or other consturction immediately above the tank
is of fire-resistive construction and capable of safely withstanding a
load of 150 pounds per square foot. Instead of an enclosure as above
described, the tank may be encased in reinforced concrete not less than
6 inches in thickness, applied directly to the tank so as to completely
eliminate any air space.
PIPING AND OTHER APPURTENANCES
971. - No Connections to Drains. - All connections from tank to any
house or sub-surface drainage system shall be so arranged as to prevent
the flow of flammable liquid to any such system or the leakage of any
flammable gases from such liquids, or approved flammable liquids coll-
ectors shall be provided in such connection.
972. - Venting of Tanks. - An open galvanized iron vent pipe arranged
for proper draining, or an automatically operated vent, shall be provided
for every tank which may contain flammable vapor. The lower end of the
vent pipe shall not extend through the bp into the tank for a distance
of more than one inch. Vent openings, except those on underground fuel
oil tanks, shall be provided with approved flame arresters. Vent
openings and vent pipes shall be of sufficient size to prevent abnormal
pressure in the tank during filling and except automatically operated
vents, shall be not smaller than 1-� inch pipe size. Arresters shall be
accessible for examination and repair. Vent pipes shall be provided with
weatherproof hoods and terminate outside of building not less than two
feet, measured horizontally and vertically, from any window or other
building opening. If tight connection is made in filling line and
filling is by gravity, the vent pipe shall extend to a point at least
one foot above the level of the top of the highest reservoir from
which the tank may be "filled, otherwise, it shall be not less than 12
feet above the top of the fill pipe. Where a power pump is used in
filling storage tanks and a tight connection is made to the fill pipe,
the vent shall be not smaller than the fill pipe. The vent pipe from
two or more tanks may be connected to one upright with the connection
not less than one foot above the level of the top of the highest reservoir
from which the tanks may be• filled.
973. - Valve in Drawing-Off Pipes. - All drawing-off pipes term-
inating inside any building shall have valves at the discharge end;
when delivery is by gravity, there shall be a second calve located
at a suitable point in the line for use in an emergency.
974. - Valve Near Tank if Aboveground.- Where tanks are aboveground
there shall be a valve located near the tank in each pipe. In case two
or more tanks are cross-connected there shall be a valve near each tank
in each oress -connection.
975• - Pumps. - Pumps delievering to or taking supply from aboveground
storage tanks shall be provided with valves on both suction and discharge
of pump, and in delivering-to tanks a check valve to prevent flow of liquid
from tank to pump. Electric motors, unless of approved explosion-proof
type, and internal combustion engines shall not be placed beneath tanks
or elsewhere within the line of-e.por travel.
976• - Piping, - Piping used for flammable liquids shall be standard
weight, wrought iron, steel or brass pipe or approved brass or copper
tubing; for working pressures in excess of 100 pounds per square inch
extra heavy fittings shall be used. No pipe or tubing less than one-
quarter inch internal diameter shall be used. Outside piping shall be
protected against mechanical injury when within 5 feet of ground level.
Inside piping shall be rigidly supported.
977• - Leaky Piping. - Defective and leaking piping shall be made
tight immediately or replaced.
97$. - Pi es for Class I and II Liquids in Rooms Containing Open
Flames. - Piping carrying Class I and II liquids, unless without joints
or connections, shall not extend through any room which contains any,
open light or fire.
979. - Filling Pipe. - The end of the filling pipe for underground
storage tanks for Class I and II liquids shall be carried to an approved
location outside any building, but not within 5 feet of any entrance door,
or cellar opening; this filling pipe shall be closed by a screw cap.
980. - Deliveries to Storage Tanks. - Deliveries of flammable liquids
of Class I and 11, where practicable, shall be made directly to the storage
tank through the filling pipe by weans of a hose or pipe between the
filling pipe and barrel, tank wagon or tank car from which such liquid
is being drawn.
991. - Pump required, - Except as permitted in Section 983, flammable
liquids shall be drawn from tanks by pumps so constructed as to prevent
leaking or splashing, or by some other system approved by the Chief of the
Bureau of Fire Prevention, with controlling apparatus and piping so
arranged as to allow control of the amount of discharge and prevent leakage
or discharge inside the building by any derangement of the system. When
inside a building, the pump or other drawing-off device for Class I or II
liquids shall be located on or above the grade floor, preferably near an
entrance or other well-ventilated place.
982. - No Gravity Feed Permitted. - Except as permitted in Section
983, no tanks, drums or other containers inside a building, or discharging
inside a building, shall be provided with a faucet or other bottom-drawing
device which will permit the gravity flow of liquids inside the building.
Pipes shall' notterminate at any point lower than the level of source of
supply.
983. - Exceptions to Sections 981 and 982. - The Chief of the
Bureau of Fire Prevention may permit the storage and gravity flow of
flammable liquids in connection with domestic oil burning equipment
in refineries, and in manufacturing and jobbing plants where the nature
of the manufacturing process requires sufh storage and flow, and also
the storage and gravity flow of commodities of Classes II and III in
stores, plants and establishments, where the nature of the liquid will
not permit pumping; provided that the contents of tanks holding Class I
liquid shall be sufficient only for one day's operation and shch storage
shall be in a room in accordance with Section 915.
984. - Fuel Oil Equipments. - An approved domestic type oil burner
may be supplied by gravity from two connected inside or outside storage
tanks, provided neither tank exceed 275 gallons capacity and they are
connected to the fuel line by an approved 3-way valve. Gravity feed to
approved burners installed in stoves and ranges is permitted subject
to the following provisions:
(a) That no gravity tank exceed a capacity of six gallons.
(b) That no glass bottle or metal tank of the vacuum feed
type have a capacity in excess of 3 gallons, and that not more than
two such bottles or tanks be connected to a single heating unit.
(c) That metal tanks as referred to in Section 984 above
be substantially constructed and specifically approved for the purpose
intended.
(d) That such systems be provided with suitable auto-
matic safeguards to prevent flooding of the burner.
(e) That such gravity or vacuum tanks be located not less
than two feet from the device in which the burner is installed, provided
the temperature rise of the oil supply at this distance is not excessive
when the burner is operated at full capacity. That supply tanks be
securely attached to non-combustible supports rigidly fastened to the
floor or wall in such a manner as to minimize the possibility of mechanical
injury due to accidental contact, jarring or vibration; and that such
supply tanks be provided with means for determining the oil level which
will not involve the possibility of leakage of oil.
985• - Use of Flammable Liquids in Fire Zone Number One. - It shall
be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation in the City of Fort Worth
to use or cause to be used for burning, heating, cooking or illuminating
purposes in any lamp, stove, range or oven, any crude, petroleum, gasoline,
naptha, benzine, kerosene or coal oil having a flash point of less than
112 degrees within Fire Zone No. 1 as outlined elsewhere in this ordianance.
996. - Exemption from Preceding Article. - The provisions of Section
985 shall not apply to gasoline torches and fire pots used by artisans and
mechanics in the regular course of their business or occupations, nor
to the use of gasoline for fuel purposes in motorcycels, automobiles,
tractors and other self-propelled vehicles.
997. - Relief Valves for Pumps, for Engines and Fuel Oil Equipments. -
In systems using; pumps to supply auxilarly tanks or headers, which feed
internal combustion engines or fuel oil burners, provision shall be made
to return surplus oil to the supply tank; any valve installed in the line
shall be of pressure relief type.
988. - Tank Trucks. - (a) All trucks sued for the transportation of
flammable liquids in bulk quantity exceeding 100 gallons shall be inspected
by the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, and unless certified by him
as to their compliance with this ordinance they shall not be operated on
the streets of the City of Fort Worth; provided that this certification
shall not be required for trucks bearing the license or approval of the
State Highway Department; or to trucks transporting flammable liquids in
drums, cans and other containers of less than 60 gallons individual capacity.
(b) No truck transporting flammable liquids in bulk shall be
left unattended on any street, highway, avenue or alley. Provided that
this will not prevent a driver from the necessary absence from the truck
in connection with the delivery of his load, except during actual dis-
charge of the liquid when some responsible person must be present at the
vehicle; nor shall it include stops for meals doming the day or at night
if the street is well lighted at point of parking.
(c) Trucks containing flammable liquids may be parked in open
parking lots or on private property. They shall not be parked or garaged
in buildings other than those specifically approved for such storage by the
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Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
(d) Tanks shall be constructed of open hearth or blue
annealed steel, or other suitable material of a strength equivalent
to the following table:
Aggregate Shell Minimum Thickness of Steel, U.S.
Capacity Standard Head
(Gallons)
Up to 600 14 gauge 14 gauge if bilged, otherwise 12 gaug
600 to 1200 12 gauge 12 gauge if bilged, otherwise 10 gaug
Over 1200 10 gauge S gauge
Tanks exceeding 1200 gallons in capacity, may be constructed with 12 gauge
shells and 10 gauge heads provided they are sub-divided into compartments
of 600 gallons or less and are mounted on chassis ecuipped with low
pressure balloon ties. Shell and head joints shall be welded, riveted and
welded, brazed or riveted and brazed, riveted and caulked, or made tight
by some equally satisfactory process.
(e) Each compartment of the completed tank shall be tested
and proven tight at 5 pounds minimum pressure. Fill openings shall be
4 inches minimum diameter. Tanks in excess of 600 gallons capacity shall
be sub-divided into compartments, none of which shall exceed 600 gallons
capacity.
(f) Each tank compartment shall be provided with a suitable
operating vent, and in addition thereto venting facilities of such
size and capacity as will prevent rupture of the tank from such internal
pressures as may be created by exposure fires.
(g) All draw-off valves or faucets shall have discharge end
threaded or otherwise so designed as to permit of tight connection
with hose extending to fill-pipe.
(h) Every tank truck shall be provided with properly
attached rear steel bumpers. The rear bumpers or chassis extension
shall be so arranged as to adequately protect the draw-off valve or
faucets in case of collision. Every compartment of a gravity discharge
truck tank shall be equipped with a reliable and efficient shut-off
valve located inside the shell of the tank in the compartment outlet,
and except during delivery operations such valves shall be automatically
kept closed, or shall be so interlocked with delivery operation that
it will be itechanically closed when delivery operations are completed.
(i) The operating mechanism of such valves shall be pro-
vided with a seoondary control, remote from the tank filling parts
and discharge faucets for use in event of accidents or fire during
delivery operations, and such control mechanism shall be provided with
a fusible section which will cause valves to close automatically in case
of fire.
(j) In every case there shall be provided between the shut-
off valve seat and discharge faucet,a shear section which will break
under strain and leave the shut-off valve seat intact. Tanks, chassis,
axles and springs shall be metallically connected. Tank trucks shall
be equipped with drag chEdns long enough to reach the ground. During the
filling operation metallic contact shall be maintained between the fill
pipe and the tank truck. The foregoing provisions shall also apply to
the construction and operation of trailers and semi-trailers. All
trailers shall be firmly and securely attached to the towing vehicle by
means of suitable draw-bars; supplemented by safety chains. Every
trailer shall be equipped with a reliable system of brakes with
reliable provisions for operation from the driver's seat of the vehicle
drawing it.
(k) Every trailer shall be provided with side lights and
a tail light. Every tank truck and trailer shall be equipped with at
least one approved hand fire extinguisher of a type suitable for
extinguishing oil fires.
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(1) No tank truck, empty or otherwise, used for the trans-
portation of flammable liquids, shall be admitted inside of any building
for the purpose of being repaired unless such building is used exclusively
for the repairing of such vehicles, and such tank, truck or vehicle shall
be removed from said building immediately upon completion of repairs, and
in no instance shall gasoline tanks on such vehicles be cleaned nearer than
25 feet to any open flame. If any loaded tank trgok is found to leaking,
it shall be removed at once from the streets, emptied of its contents, and
the leak repaired before the truck is put into service again.
(m) No repair work of any kind necessitating the use of a blow
torch or other open flame shall be performed upon a tank truck until the
tank thereon is first thoroughly cleaned and then completely filled with
water and such tank shall be kept filled with water during the progress
of repairs, except that, when rep§irs to the tank itself are necessary,
the water may be drawn off for that purpose.
(n) No tank truck shall be left or stored, either loaded or
unloaded, overnight in the city limits unless off the street and 25 feet
from any building, unless such storage is approved by the Chief of the
Bureau of Fire Prevention or Building Inspector.
989. - mokin� by Tank Truck Drivers and Helpers. - Smoking by truck
drivers or their helpers shall not be permitted while driving their trucks
on the road, while making deliveries, during filling of tanks or trucks,
or while making repairs either on or off oil company's property.
990. - Containers Painted Distinctive Colors. - Portable containers
for Class I and II liquids shall be painted red entire container or
conspicuous band or stripe) and be conspicuously lettered in black,
"DANGEROUS-KEEP LIGHTS AND FIRE, AWAY". It shall be a misdemeanor to
keep or place the above mentioned liquids in containers for any other
liquids or substances than those specified or fail to keep their exterior
clean so that coloring and lettering are easily distinguishable.
991. - Refineries. - No permits shall be granted for the establish-
ment of a new plant or an addition to a plant for refining or re-refining,
distilling or condensing petroleum and natural gas within the limits of
the City until after a survey has been made by the Chief of the Bureau
of Fire Prevention and an investigation made of all hazardous conditions
connected therewith. If there are no schools, churches, hospitals or
public halls within 300 feet, and no other buildings than those of the
plant within 150 feet of the proposed distilling or condensing plant,
and other conditions are consistent with the spirit and intent of this
ordinance, the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall grant a permit
for the location desired; provided, also that a guarantee to maintain an
open space 150 feet on all sides shall be given by the applicant.
may.
CHAPTER X
THE APPLICATION OF FLAMMABLE FINISHES
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
1001. - Definition. - The term "finishing shop" shall mean a
building or part thereof used for the application of flammable finishes
by means of spraying or dipping.
1002. - Permits. - A permit shall be required for any finishing
shop using more than 1 gallon of material on any working day, or storing
in connection with the use thereof, more than 5 gallons of flammable
finish.
1003. - Location. - Finishing shops in buildings of wooden con-
struction or in buildings used in whole or in part for human habitation
or in connection with stores shall be suitably out off by fire partitions
or fire walls from other portions of the building and shall be equipped
with an automatic sprinkler system.
1004. - Storage of Flammable Finishes in Finishing Shops. - The
storage of flammable finishes inside of finishing shops shall be res-
tricted as follows:
(a) Not to exceed 20 gallons, with no container exceeding
1 gallon in capacity, may be stored on a substantial shelf at least
4 feet above the floor and with suitable guard strips to prevent con-
tainers from falling.
(b) Not over 50 gallons with no container exceeding 5 gallons
capacity may be stored in a cabinet, entirely enclosed and made of
suitably stiffened sheet iron of at least 18 U.B. gauge in thickness,and
double walled with 1 inch air space or equivalent construction. Doors
shall be of construction equivalent to the walls of the cabinets, be
provided with 3-point lock, fit closely, and be kept closed when not in
use. Door sills shall be raised at least 2 inches above the bottom of
the cabinet.
(c) Quantities in excess of those given under (a) and (b)
shall be in suitable storage and mixing rooms as specified in Section 915.
1005. - Mixing. - (a) Mixing operations shall be carried on only
in storage rooms as outlined in Section 915 or in special mixing rooms
of equivalent construction; provided that containers of a total capacity
not exceeding 2 gallons may be opened and their contents mixed in the
finishing room, during such times as the ventilating system is in operation.
(b) Receptacles containing flammable finishes shall be keat
tightly covered.
1006. - Containers. - (a) All containers of flammable finishes shall
be of metal suitably constructed to prevent leakage; I.C.C. containers
shall be acceptable for storage.
(b) Containers used as part of the spraying outfit shall
be of metal, except that glass containers not exceeding 1 pint capacity,
also containers with glass inner linings of not more than 1 gallon
capacity (protected with a metal hdder or guard permanently fixed around
the container) may be used.
1007. - Ventilation. - (a) Unless suitable ventilated spray booths
are used for all finishing operations, finishing rooms shall be contin-
uously ventilated during operation. Ventilation shall be such as to
effect at least one complete change of air every three minutes.
(b) Exhaust outlets in finishing rooms shall be located
not over 5 feet above the floor and shall discharge directly outside of
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building. Stacks and ducts shall be of substantial construction with
joints riveted and soldered or otherwise madetight. They shall extend
as directly as possible to the outside air and prefereably not through
other rooms, and be so arranged that the discharge of vapor and residue
or fire therefrom will not endanger property. They shall not be con-
nected to other ventilating or collecting systems.
1009. - Lighting and Electrical Equipment. - Artificial lighting
shall be by electricity only. All electrical wiring and equipment in
finishing shops shall be in accord with the National Electrical Code,
rules for Hazardous Locations. Where spraying is done in properly
arranged spray booths, portions of the room more than 20 feet away from
a booth need not be considered Hazardous Locations under the National
Electrical Code unless such portions are so classified as the result
of other operations. In the area within 20 feet of properly arranged
spray booths the National Electrical Code rules for Hazardous Location
may be modified to allow motors of the tdally enclosed types or of the
open induction type having no brushes, make or break contacts,
collectors or other arcing or sparklin€ pasts, and to allow lamps of
the enclosed vapor-tight type.
1009. - Housekeeping. -(alYinishin:g shops shall be kept free
from all unnecessary combustible materials and refuse.
(b) Floors of finishing shops, drain boards and the
interior of spray booths shall be thoroughly cleaned at least once a
day and all fans, ducts, side walls and ceilings shall be kept as clean
as may be practicable at all times. In cleaning, care shall be taken
to use implements which will not create sparks. Wherever practicable
surfaces to oe cleaned shall be sprayed or otherwise wet down with
water before e.leahing. Sweepings or deposits from spray booths or rooms,
ducts or stacks shall be immediately removed from the building and safely
disposed.of. -
(c) Metal waste cans with self-closing covers shall be
provided for all waste and rags which have come in contact with paints,
varnishes, and other finishing compounds.
1010. - Open Flames and Heating,. - No open flame shall be per-
mitted in storage or m_xin€, rooms, storage cabinets, finishing rooms,
or spray booths. For heating purposes, indirect systems only, such
as steam, hot air or hot water shall be used.
1011. - Grounding. - All metal spray booths, dip tanks, bake ovens,
mixers, filters, pumps, motors and shafting shall be electrically
grounded in an effective manner.
1012. - Fire Extinguishing Equipment. - The Chief of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention shall require the installation of portable fire
extinguishers or other fire extinguishing appliances as may be deemed
necessary in finishing rooms, or near storage cabinets and spray booths.
1013. - Smoking. - Smoking shall be prohibited in any room used
for the storage of flammable finishes and in any finishing room. Suit-
able "NO SMOKING" signs shall be prominently displayed.
SPRAYING
1014. - (a) All spraying shall be performed in a spray room or
spray booth as specified below or its equivalent.
(b) If spraying is performed in a room not provided with
spray booths as herein provided, such spray room shall be separated
from the remainder of the building by partitions of fire-resistive con-
struction equivalent to incombustible wall-board on wooden studding,
cement or gypsum plaster on metal lath on wooden studding or wooden
studding covered on both sides with sheet iron. Doors in openings in
spray room partition shall be equal in fire resistance to partition and
shall be of the self-closing type or so installed as to close auto--
matically in case of fire.
(c) Spray booths shall be of metal or other non-combustible
material and of ample site to accommodate the object to be sprayed.
(d) Spray booths shall be provided with exhaust systems of
sufficient capacity to adequaiely remove vapors or residues. Supply
of air entering the room where the spray booths are located shall be
substantially equivalent to the exhaust capacity provided. Each spray
booth shall have an independent stack or vent, except that not more
than 3 booths each with less than 6 square feet frontal area may
connect to one stack. They shall be properly supported and shall
have at least a 6 inch clearance where passing through wooden floors,
roofs, partitions or in close proximity to them or other combustible
material.
(e) Ventilating fans in spray rooms and booths shall be kept
in continuous operation whiie spraying is being carried on and shall
not be stopped until all flammable vapors have been removed.
(f) Pails or receptacles shall not exceed 10 gallons capacity
for gravity feed to spray guns and shall be kept covered with tight
fitting non-combustible covers. Only wire cables or those containing
stranded wire cores shall be used to suspend gravity-feed pails.
Pails or receptacles cont&ining flammable finishes shall be
returned to the storage cabinet or storage room at the close of each day.
(g) No portable lamps shall be used inside spray booths or
rooms. Lamps shall be prohibited inside spray booths and ducts and
in any location where there is possibility of the spray coming into
direct contact with the lamp or fixture. Electric motors shall not be
placed inside booths or ducts.
(h) Motor vehicles shall not be moved by their own power
while in the finishing room. Electric storage batteries shall be re-
moved.
DIP TANKS
1015. - Dip tanks having an area in excess of 10 square feet shall
be provided with approved covers arranged to close automatically in
case of fire and also arranged so that they can be closed manually.
Smaller dip tanks shall be provided with suitable covers or with
asbestos blankets which can be placed over the tanks. If dip tanks are
protected by an approved automatic fire extinguisher system employing
a fire retardant chemical or gas or water spray the covers specified
above may be omitted.
JAPANNING AND ENAMELING
1016. - Japanning and enameling drying ovens shall not be placed
in contact with wood floors or other combustible material. Heating
of ovens shall be done by steam coils, indirect hot air circulation
through oven to outside, indirect hot oil circulating pipes, indirect
gas burners or electricity. Open flames or fires shall not be in
communication with the compartments where goods are being treated.
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CHAPTER XI
SALE AND USm OF DRY CLEANING LIQUIDS
1101. - Definitions. - (a) Dry cleaning liquids are defined as any
liquids, other than water, used for the removal of dirt, grease, paint
or other stains from wearing apparel, textiles, fabricb, furs, rugs and
similar articles.
(b) Dry cleaning liquids shall be divided into three classes:
(1) High hazard dry cleaning fluids; flammable liquids
having a flash point below 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Typical
of this class are gasoline, benzene and naptha.
(2) Low-hazard dry cleaning liquids; flammable liquids
Navin@ a flash point of 100 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
Typical of this class are stoddart solvent and various
petroleum products classed as to fire hazard with kerosene
paraffin oil, or between paraffin oil and kerosene.
(3) Nonflammable dry cleaning liquids: Liquids which are
strictly nonflammable or are classed as nonflammable at
ordinary temperatures. Typical of this class are carbon
tetraohloride and trichlorethylene. (See section 1102 for
provisions applisable.)
(c) Dry cleaning shall include immersion or agitation in dry
cleaning liquids, also brushing or scouring with such liquids and the pro-
cess of dyeing in a solution of dye colors in such liquids.
(d) Spotting iB the local application of dry cleaning liquid
to spots of dirt, grease, paints or stains, on wearing apparel, textiles,
fabrics, rugs, furs and similar articles.
1102. - Dry Cleaning with Nonflammable Dry Cleaning Li uid .-f Dry
cleaning opera ions employing only nonflammable dry cleaning liquids shall
be subject to the requirement for permits in Section 1104 (a), but shall
be exempt from all other provisions of the Chapter.
1103. - Sale of High Hazard Dry Cleaning Liquids Restricted. - (a) No
person shall sell any high hazard dry oleaning liquid in other than sealed
containers of not more than 16 fluid ounces capacity without a permit therefor.
tb) The sale for dry cleaning purposes of high hazard dry
cleaning liquid in quantities exceeding 16 fluid ounces, to other than
those holding a permit for dry cleaning is prohibited ; provided that this
does not prohibit the sale to jobuers and others licensed to Selland
distribute such liquids.
1104. - Dry Cleaning Permits. - (a) Nd person shall perform any dry
cleaning whether of a commercial or private nature, using more than one
quart of high hazard dry cleaning fluid (liquid) or more than one gallon
of low hazard dry cleaning liquid or nonflammable dry cleaning liquid, whit-
out a permit therefor.
(b) No permit shall be granted for any dry cleaning operation
employing high hazard or low hazard dry cleaning liquids except in a plant
conforming to the reouiremants thereinafter given.
1105. - SAottin . - High hazard dry cleaning liquids shall not be used
for spotting unless kept in and applied from approved safety cans. In any mom
not conforming to the provisions of this ordinance for dry cleaning with high
hazard dry cleaning liquids the use of high hazard dry cleaning liquids for
spotting shall be limited to one quart.
1106. - Buildings in 'Nhich Dry Cleaning is Done with High Hazard Dr
Cleaning Liquids. - a Dry cleaning with high hazard dry cleaning 1 quids
shall not be done in buildings closer than ten feet to the line of adjoining
property, except that walls of the dry cleaning building which are of brick
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not less than 12 inches thick or equivalent and without openings may be
located on the property line, but in no case shall more than two sides
have blank walls.
(b) Height shall be not over one-story, without attic, con-
cealed roof space, basement or pits.
(c) Walls shall be of standard brick or equivalent construction.
Wall finish shall be either plain or plastered without furring. Division
walls between this and other buildings shall be blank. Wired glass for
windows shall be in sash so hung that they will readily swing out in case
of an explosion. Such sash shall not be secured. Glass area in walls
shall be so located as to vent the force of any explosion in the direction
or directions of least exposure.
(d) Two exits shall be provided remote from each other and
leading directly to the outside of the building. Doors shall be approved
fire doors.
(e) Floor shall not be below grade and shall be free from pits,
wells and pockets. The wearing surface shall be of incombustible material.
(f) Roof shall be flat, of fireproof construction. If, due
to local oonditions, it is desireable to vent possible explosions upward,
the roof shall be of light construction of incombustible material.
(g) Skylights shall be provided. They shall be constructed
of metal frame and sash and be provided with wired glass. The sash shall
be of the pivot type, and so hung as to readily swing out in case of an
explosion.
1107 - Buildings in I;hich Dry Cleaning is Done with Low Hazard Dry
Cleaning Liquids Only. - a Dry cleaning operations using only low
hazard dry cleaning liquids shall not be carried on in buildings of
frame construction or of residential occupancy. Except as provided in
paragraph (c) of this section, such dry cleaning operations shall not be
carried on in a building with other occupancy unless separated therefrom
by partions having a fire resistance rating of not less than one hour
without openings, and by ceilings of not less than j inch gypsum plaster
on metal lath or its equivalent.
(b) Rooms used as above shall not have floors below grade or
with pits, wells or pockets; the floors shall be of noncombustible con-
struotion or covered with noncombustible material. Such rooms shall
not be located above another story other than a basement; if over a
basement, the floor shall be tight against passage of liquids or vapors
to the basement.
(c) W4ere all drying is done in drying tumblers approved
by Underwriter's Laboratories, Inc., or where washing and drying are
accomplished in a closed system approved by the ,Underwriter's Laboratories,
Inc. , the partitions separating such dry cleaning plant from other
occupancies. may have door openings therein if protected by approved
self-closing fire doors, and where a hazard in not thereby created, the
Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention may permit the omission of such
partitions if automatic sprinkler protection is provided.
1109. - Drying Rooms. - Rooms in which articles are hung up to dry
after cleaning shall be separated from dry cleaning rooms by partition
having a fire resistance rating of not less than two hours if high hazard
cleaning liquids are used, and not less than one hour if low hazard dry
cleaning liquids are used. Entrances to drying rooms shall be provided
with approved, self-closing fire doors. Ventilation of drying room
shall conform to the requirements for ventilation of dry cleaning rooms
and the provisions for fire extinguishing equipment shall be complied with.
If the drying rooms is in a separate building, it shall conform in con-
struction and equipment to all requirements for dry cleaning buildings.
1109. - Mechanical Ventilation. - (a) A mechanical system of
ventilation of sufficient capacity to insure complete and continuous
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change of air in dry cleaning rooms once every three minuies shall be
installed and shall be provided with means for remote control.
(b) The blades and spiders of all exhaust fans shall be of
non-ferrous material or the casing shall consist of or be lined with such
material.
1110. - Electrical Equipment.n (a) In rooms where dry cleaning is
done with high hazard dry cleaning liquids all electrical equipment shall
be installed in accordance with the National Electrical Code requirements
for hazardous locations.
(b) In rooms where dry cleaning is done with low hazard dry
cleaning liquids all electrical equipment within six feet of the floor
shall be installed in accordance with the National Electrical Code require-
ments for hazardous locations, unless drying is done in drying tumblers
approved by the Underwriter's Laboratories, Inc., or washing and drying
are accomplished in a closed system approved by Underwriter's Laboratories,
Inc.
1111. - Heating_Equipment. - (a) Heating shall be by steam or hot
water only. Steam and hot water pipes and radiators for heating and drying
purposes shall be at least one inch from all woodwork and shall be pro-
tected by substantial metal screens arranged so as to prevent combustible
goods or materials from coming in contact with such pipes and radiators.
(b) Boilers shall be located in a detached building or in a
boiler room cut off from the dry cleaning room by a partition havini a
fire resistance rating of not less than two hours with openings protected
by approved self-closing fire doors and having sills raised at least six
inches above the dry cleaning room floor, provided that where high hazard
dry cleaning liquids are used such separating partition shall be a standard
brick wall or equivalent and shall be without openings.
1112. - Storage Tanks. - All storage tanks for dry cleaning liquids
shall be underground, installed and equipped in accordance with Chapter IX
of this ordinance, except that inside (aboveground) storage tanks may be
used for low hazard dry cleaning liquids provided the aggregate quantity
of such liquid in the storage tanks and throughout the system does not
exceed 550 gallons, and the individual capacity of any tank does not exceed
275 gallons.
1113. - Handling of Dry Cleaning Liquids. - (a) The handling of
liquids from and to the various machines shall be through closed circuits
of piping. Pumps of positive displacement type shall have a by-pass and
relief valve.
(b) Gauge glasses and look boxes ar windows, the breakage of
which would permit the escape of liquids, shall be of a type not readily
damaged by heat and shall be reliably protected against mechanical injury.
(c) A separate suction and discharge connection shall be pro-
vided to the pump for removal of sludge from the treating and settling tanks.
The suction pipe shall be carried to the tank bottom, and the discharge
connection to an approved spparator.
(d) All piping shall be tested to a pressure of at least fifty
pounds and proven tight and otherwise protected against mechanical injury.
1114. - Washing Machines. - (a) Each washing machine shall be pro-
vided with an over-flow pipe one size larger than the size of the supply
line to the machine. Such over-flow pipe shall be connected to the shell
of the washer so that the top of the over-flow is below the bottom of the
bearings; it shall be without shut-off valves and shall be arranged to
discharge to suitable tank.
(b) Washing machines shall be provided with liquid-tight doors
of the outside case hinge type, arranged to be self-closing or to close
automatically in case of fire.
(c) Individual button and lint traps shall be provided for
each washer and a master strainer shall be installed in the main waste line.
1115. - Clarifying 9guf went. - (a) Clarifiers, stills, condensers
and treating tanks shall be of a type which will not expose the liquid
during any part of the process of reclamation. Steam or hot water only
shall be used for heating. Stills and condensers shall be liquid and gas
tight and provided with safety valves discharging to the outside air.
(b) Each still and other container for high hazard dry cleaning
liquid shall be provided with an automatic heat actuated emergency drain
connection of ample capacity to discharge entire contents to underground
storage tanks within a period of five minutes.
lllb. - Drying Tumblers and. Cabinets. - (a) Drying tumblers and
cabinetss_Pell be vapor-tight and, unless of a type approved by Under-
writer's Laboratories, Inc., shall be provided with self-closing explosion
hatches having an area equal to at least 10 per cent of the total area of
the cylinders, excluding the ends. Hatches shall be arranged to open away
from the operator.
(b) Drying tumblers shall be provided with a steam jet, for
steaming during the drying process.
(c) Drying tumblers and cabinets shall be ventilated to the
outside air by means of properly constructed pipes and ducts connected to
an exhaust fan of sufficient capacity to remove all dust, vapors or fibres
generated by the process. Such discharge pipes shall be carried to a
height of not less than six feet above the roof. Discharge pipes shall
not terminate within ten feet measured horizontally from any door, window
or frame wall or any adjoining or adjacent building. The fan shall be
properly housed and kept in operation while the drying tumbler is in use.
1117. - Extractors. - (a) Extractor baskets shall have a rim of
non-ferrous metal and shall be well balanced.
(b) Extractors shall be provided with a cover of non-ferrous
metal or brass screen held in a substantial frame.
(c) Extractors shall be provided with a drain pipe not less
than lJ inches in diameter connected direct to storage tanks or to the
washer through an approved extractor pump with connections fitted with
proper gate valves.
(d) Brakes, if used, shall be so designed as to prevent the
striking of sparks or developing excessive heat.
1118. - Scouring, Brushinw and Scrubbing. - (a) All scouring and
brushing and scrubbing operations shall be carried on in the dry cleaning
room or in a separate room conforming to all the requirements for dry
cleaning rooms.
(b) Scouring and brushing tables shall have a liquid-tight
top with a curb on all sides not less than one inch high. The top of
the table shall 'be so pitched as to ensure thorough draining to a 1f inch
drain connection with liquid seal trap direct to a storage tank. Metal
tops where used shall be liquid-tight, and permanently and effectively
grounded. The table shall be secured to the floor or wall.
(e) Scouring and brushing tables and scrub ing tubs shall be
so located as to ensure trough and effective disposal of vapors through
the ventilating system.
(d) Scrubbing tubs shall be secured to the floor and shall
be provided with permanent lJ inch trapped drains to storage tanks; the
total amount of solvent used in such open containers shall not exceed
3 gallons.
1119. - Fire Extinguishing Equipment. - (a) Approved extinguishing
devices of a type suitable for use on oil fires shall be provided. These
may be hand extinguishers and, if necessary, wheeled extinguishers, de-
pending upon the size of the plant. In no case shall there be less than
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one foam type extinguisher of the 2j gallon size at each entrance.
(b) Where high hazard dry cleaning liquid is used each dry
cleaning room, and where either high hazard or low hazard dry cleaning
liquid is used,- each drying room and each washing machine and each
drying tumbld.r or cabinet shall be eouipped with an approved extinguisher
system employing a fire retarding chemical or gas or steam. Supply pipes
shall be of sufficient capacity to completely fill the room or space in
less than one minute. Suitable operating valves shall be located outside
the protected room. Such systems shall be continually available while
the plant is in operation.
1120. - Eoui meet to be Securely Fastened and Irlectrically Grounded.All machinery and containers shall be rigidly fastened to a substantial
foundation or to the floor and shall be electrically grounded. All revolving
parts of machinery shall be grounded through the end of the shaft in addition
to grounding the shell of the container. In dgy cleaning rooms where high
hazard cleaning liquids are used, all pulleys and belting in the dry cleaning
room shall have grounded collectors or other suitable devices for the removal
of static electricity.
CHAPTER XII
PREVENTION OF DUST EXPLOSIONS
1201. - The Bureau of Fire Prevention is hereby authorized to
prohibit further operation in any grain elevator, flour, starch or
feed mill or plant pulverizing cocoa, sugar, spices, coal or other
material producing flammable dusts where:
(a) elevator legs, spouts, hoppers and other conveyors are
not dust tight.
(b) Accumulations of dust are permitted in the interior of
the building and a suitable dust removal system is not maintained.
(c) Open flame or spark producing equipment is permitted in
rooms containing dusty atmospheres.
(d) Pneumatic or magnetic separators are not maintained ahead
of all grinding or pulverizing machines.
(e) Operation is not under competent supervision.
(f) Machinery and parts of the crushing, drying, pulverizing
and conveying systems are not adqquately grounded.
(g) It shall hereafter be unlawful to operate any grain
elevator, unless�such grain elevator, etc. be in compliance with
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CHAPTER %III
HAZARDOUS CH IU ICALS
1301. - The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall be em-
powered to restrict the storage, handling and sale of chemicals and
chemical compounds which are of a corrosive or poisonous nature,or
which materially increase the fire hazard. Where kept in containers
or packages usual to the retail trade, no general restriction shall
apply other than shelving shall be substantial and storage shall be
neat and orderly.
1302. - Acid Storage. - (a) Not mcr e than 1 carboy of nitric,
muriatic or sulphuric acid, nor the like acids, shall be kept stored
in the City of Fort Worth unless the same be stored and kept in a
fireproof acid room of one hour fire resistive construction as defined
in the Building Code. The floor of the said acid room shall be of
concrete and a sump shall be constructed at the lowest point of the
acid room floor, capable of containing at least two carboys of acid.
There shall be a sill constructed of brick or concrete rising not less
than nine (9) inches from the floor. On the outside of all walls or
doors of the acid room there shall be signs reading: "ACID STORAGE" in
letters not less than three (3) inches in height. All acid rooms shall
be vented to the outside air.
(b) All acids mentioned in this article may be stored out-
side the walls of any building in an open lot or yard, provided that
such lot or yard be inclosed with a tight and secure fence of wire
mesh, with signs attached thereto designating that acid is being stored
in the enclosure. Letters for such signs shall be not less than three
(3) inches in height.
1303. - Separation May be Required.-3 The Chief of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention may require the separation, or isolation of any
chermcal which is of a nature which in combination with other chemical
or with organic matter may bring about a fire or explosion or may
liberate a hazardous or poisonous gas.
1304. - Exception. - This article shall not apply to the manufacture
of acid in the process of manufacturing such acid; provided, however,
that the Chief of the Fire Department and/or Chief of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention may specify such regulations as he may deem necessary
for the safety of life and property.
1305 - Definition. - The terms "fumigation" and 'hxtermination
by fumigation are hereby defined to mean the use of hydrocyanic acid
gas, cyanogen, chloropicrin, methyl bromide, or any other poisonous,
noxious or dangerous gases or fumes which are liable to affedt human
beings by causing sickness or death, for the extermination of insects,
vermin, rats or other pests in any place of domestic habitation, hotel,
apartment hotel, apartment building, ienement building, store office,
hospital, asylum, home, rooming house, place of public assembly, or
any other building or place.
1306. - Duties of Fumigator. - It shall be the duty of any person
intending to generate or release hydrocyanic acid gas, or other dangerous
gases or fumes for fumigation purposes, before starting such generation
or release of said gases, to file written notice with the Inspection
Division of the Health Department, the Police Department and the Fire
Department of the City of Fort Worth at least twenty-four (24) hours
before beginning such fumigation. Such notice shall state the following
particulars.
(a) The location of the building or place to be fumigated.
(b) The type of fumigation to be used, including the kind of
gas or fumes.
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1307. - Inspection to be Made by Fumigator.- When hydrocyanic acid
gas, or other dangerous gases or fumes are to used for fumigation, the
person undertaking such fumigation shall personally inspect the premises
before beginning the fumigation and shall serve notice over his sig-
nature upon all responsible occupants of each room or apartment within
the danger area, stating the danger of the process and the precautions
to be observed, designating the rooms or apartments which must be vacated
and indicating the time when the gas is to be generated of liberated. The
.form of this notice shall be approved by the Director of Public Health
of the City of Fort north.
1309. - Fumigator to Lock all Means of Entrance. - Before fumigation
the person fumigating shall personally inspect all rooms and apartments
ordered vacated under Section 1307 and shall see that such rooms are
unoccupied by persons or domestic animals, after which all doors to
said rooms, excepting on a exit door to the rooms or apartments to basgadsed
shall be securely locked and sealed. In addition such windows or wall
openings as might possibly be used to gain entrance shall be sealed and
shall be locked or barred in such a way as to prevent entrance. Immediateiry
upon generating or liberating the gas, the door through which the fumigator
leaves shall be securely looked and sealed, and all keys obtainable at
all the rooms or apartments ordered vacated shall be retained by the
fumigator until all danger is passed.
1309. - Sims to be Posted. - Prior to beginning fumigation, suitable
warning signs shall be posted on all entrances or doors to the premises
to be fumigated, as follows:
"DANGER"
FUMIGATED WITH POISON GAS
KEEP AWAY
BY ORDER 0
THE; DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC HEALTH
OF THE CITY OF FORT WORTH
(Name, address and telephone number of Fumigator)
Such signs shall be not less than 24 inches by 1$ inches, and shall be
printed in red ink on white cardboard or metal white background, The
letters in the word "DANGER" shall be at least two inches high, and all
others, except the egnature of the fumigator at least three-fourths of an
inch high. At night, and in such places where the natural light between
sunrise and sunset is dim, such scenes shall be illtminated so as to
make the reading matter thereon plainly legible.
1310. - Guards to be Poded. - Whenever hydrocyanic acid gas and
other dangerous gases and fumes are used for fumigation, a sufficient
number of guards shall be kept at the entrance to the building or place
to be fumigated, in order to prevent any person from entering such
building or place while the gas remains therein, such guards shall re-
main on duty until after the building or place is opened for airing,
and until the gas has been completely dispelled from such building .or
place. The fumigator shall be responsible for reopening suhh building
or place after the fumigation, and shall be responsible for seeing
that such building or place is safe for human habitAtion before allowing
persons to re-enter.
1311. - Necessary and Reasonable Precautions to be Taken. - All
persons fumigating or engaged in extermination by fumigation shall take
all necessary and reasonable precautions and safeguards in connection
with such fumigation as shall be necessary to protect all persons who
might be affected by such fumigation.
1312. - Penalty for Violation. - Any person violating any of the
provisions of this Chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
shall be punished by a fine in any amount not exceeding 10q.00 foi
each offense and eachday that such violation continues s all constitute
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1313. - Poisonous Gas Storage - Room Required. - hydrocyanic acid
gas, cyanogen, c lorop Grin, methyl bromide, or any other poisonous,
noxious or dangerous gases, chemicals or fumes, which when released are
liable to cause sickness or death shall not be kept stored within the
City of Fort North unless the same be kept stored in a fireproof room
of four hour fire resistive construction as defined by the Building
Code. The floor shall be of concrete and there shall be a sill con-
structed of concrete rising at least nine inches from the floor. On
the outside of all walls and doors there shall be signs reading "Poisonous
Gas Storage" in letters not less than four inches high. All such rooms
shall be vent$d to outside air. Doors shall bemain locked at all times,
except when actually transferring such gases and chemicals.
1314. - Requirements for Vehicles Transporting Dangerous Chemicals. -
Vehicles transporting dangerous gases or chemicals shall comply with the
following minimum requirements:
(a) Any vehicle transporting dangerous gases or chemicals shall
be placarded on the front end, both sides and rear with the words
"DANGi�ROUS CHEMICALS" in white letters at least 3 inches in height.
(b) All vehicles when used for the transporting of dangerous
chemcials shall be inspected to determine that: That brakes and steering
mechanism are in effective working condition; the electric wiring is well
insulated and firmly secured; and in general, the vehicle is in proper
condition for safe transportation of dangerous chemicals.
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CHAPTER XIV
COMBUSTIBLE FIBRES
1401. - The term combustible fibres shall include cotton, sisal,
henequen, ixtle, jute, hemp, tow, cocoa fibre, oakum, baled waste,
kapok, hay, straw, Spanish moss and excelsior.
1402. - Loose fibres (not in suitable bales or packages) , whether
housed or in the open, shall not be stored within 100 feet of any
building except as hereinafter specified.
1403. - Not to exceed 100 cubic feet of loose combustible fibre
may be kept in any building provided storage is in a metal-lined wooden
bin, equipped with a self-closing metal-lined cover.
1404. - Quantities exceeding 100 cubic feet of loose combustible
fibre, but not exceeding 500 cubic feet, may be stored in rooms or
compartments having floor, walls and ceiling constructed of material
possessing sufficient fire resistance to withstand a standard one-hour
fire test. Opening into such rooms or compartments shall be cut off
from other parts of the building by approved fire doors.
1405. - Quantities exceeding 500 cubic feet of loose combustible
fibre may be stored in approved vaults, constructed as follows:
(a) Storage vaults shall preferably be located outside of
buildings. If located inside, safety vents to outside air shall be
provided.
(b) Walls, floors and ceilings shall be constructed of brick
or other approved non-combustible material. Roofs of outside vaults
shall likewise be of non-combustible material but may be so constructed
as to readily give way in case of an internal explosion.
(c) Openings, if any, between vault and main building shall
be protected on each side of the wall by an approved fire door. Wall
openings in outside vaults exposing other property (not sufficiently
detached to be considered tut off) shall be protected by approved fire
doors or equivalent.
(d) Vaults located within buildings and exceeding 1000 cubic
feet storage capacity shall be protected by approved automatic sprinklers,
if possible. Where such priotectfon is not available, steam jets or inert
gas systems approved for fire extinguishing purposes shall be installed.
1406. - Not to exceed 2500 cubic feet of loose fibre may be stored
in detached "loose house" suitably located, with openings properly pro-
tected against entrance of sparks._ The "loose house" shall be used for
no other purpose.
1407. - Blocks or piles of baled fibre shall be separated from
adjacent storage by aisles not less than 5 feet wide; or by flash fire
barriers consisting of continuous sheets of non-combustible material
extending from floor to a height of at least one foot above the highest
point of piles and projecting at least one foot beyond the sides of the
pile.
1408. - Sisal and other fibres in bales bound with combustible tie
ropes, also jute and other fibres liable to swell when wet, shall be
stored to allow for expansion to the extent of 20 per cent of their bulk
In any direction without endangering building walls, ceilings or columns.
Not less than 3 feet clearance shall be maintaned between sprinkler pipes
and tops of piles. Not less than 3 feet clearance shall be left between
walls and sides of piles, except that if storage compartment is not more
than 30 feet in width, one foot clearance at side walls will be sufficient,
provided a center aisle not less than 5 feet wide is maintained.
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CHAPTER XV
REFRIGERATION
1501. - (a) No installation of a refrigeration unit or system con-
taining in excess of 20 pounds of refrigerant shall be made until a per-
mit has been obtained from the Bureau of Fire Prevention,except that no
permit shall be required for non-condensing refrigerating systems using
air as a refrigerant.
(b) Systems requiring a permit and containing any refrigerant
which is harmful to health and the vapors of which are not readily apparent
through odor or irritating effect shall have added ti such refrigerant a
suitable leak detecting agent which will give warning before dangerous
concentrations are reached. This restriction shall not apply to systems
employing carbon dioxide.
(c) For the purpose of this ordinance a "toxic" refrigerant
is one falling in Underwriter's Laboratories, Inc. toxicity classification
Groups 1 to 4 inclusive. The following refrigerants are toxic as thus
defined, or are flammable or both toxic and flammable.
Ammonia Methyl Bromide
Butane Methyl Chloride
Dichlorethylene Methyl Formate
Ethane Propane
Ethyl Bromide Sulphur Dioxide
Ethyl Chloride
1502. - Except in plants used exclusivemly for ice making, refrig-
eration or cold storage no system containing over 100 pounds of toxic
or flammable refrigerant shall be installed unless ti conforms to the
following provisions:
(a) Refrigeration shall be by the indirect method, except
that direct refrigeration will be permitted in rooms, vaults or other
spaces used for storage only, or in connection with a manufacturing
process located on the ground floor only and with adoquate exit facilities.
No brine circulating system employing a brine having a flash point below
1600 F. shall be permitted in any location in which an indirect system
only is permissable.
(b) Each compressor shall be in a special machinery room
with suitable exit to the outside. Adequate means for ventilation shallbe
provided by a door or window opening to the outside or a mechanical system
of ventilation shall be provided.
(c) Remote control shall be providedsuch that all machinery
can be shut down without entering the machinery room.
(d) Suitable mask shall be provided, which shall be kept
in operative condition in an easily accessible case or cabinet immediately
outside the machinery room.
(e) All doorways between the machinery room and other parts of
the building shall be normally closed and shall be tight fitting. No
other openings between the machinery room and other parts of the building
shall be permitted.
(f) No open flame or spark producing device shall be permitted
in any refrigerating machinery room with a system containing a flammable
refrigerant.
1503. - (a) No system containing over 1000 pounds of butane, ethane,
propane or other refrigerant having a flash point below 250 F. shall be
permitted within No. I Fire Zone.
(b) No system of the intermittent absorption type containing
over 1000 pounds of refrigeratLth shall be permitted, and no system of the
intermittent absorption type containing over 100 pounds of refrigerant shall
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be permitted unless the heating medium is low pressure steam.
(c) Coils carrying refrigerants which are flammable or which
are toxic as defined in Section 1501 (c), shall not be placed in air dins
or other air circulating passages of air cooling systems. Brine or
water cooled by such refrigerants may be sprayed into such air passages
or may be circulated through coils located in such passages, but no such
brine shall contain any flammable constituent.
(d) The suction valve, the main discharge valve, and liquid
or expansion valve, and all other valves vital to the control of the
refrigerating liquid or fumes, shall be painted and kept painted with white
paint, so that such vital valves shall be readily designated for control
purposes by members of the Fire Department, or any other person desiring
to shut down such plant for purpose of controlling escaping liquid or
fumes. The main electrical control switch shall also be designated
and made conspicuous by white paint, and labeled with letters not less
than one and one-half 11*) inches in height, for emergency use by persons
desiring to shut down any plant.
1504. - (a) All refrigerant piping, tubing and fittings shall be
of a material suitable for the refrigerant employed.
((b) Standard wall thickness pipe may be used where a test
pressure of )00 pounds or less is required; where the test pressure is
in excess of 300 pounds extra heavy pipe shall be used. If flanged fittings
are used they shall be of the recessed gasket type. Piping shall be
zz* rigidly secured in place.
(c) Approved seamless metal tubing of copper or other material
suitable for the refrigerant may be used for refrigerant lines in systems
containing not over 100 pounds of refrigerant.
(d) Elevator, dumbwaiter or other shafts containing moving
objects shall not be used for outlet or jurction boxes, nor for tubing or
piping carrying refrigerant.
(e) Systems of more than 20 pounds capacity, or systems
supplying two or more evaporators, and using seamless metal tubing for
refrigerant lines, shall have all such tubing, except between the com-
pressor and the nearest riser box or manifold, installed in iron pipe
or other metal enclosure, with suitable metal outlet boxes for manifolds
and for all valves except those at the evaporators. Flexible metal
enclosures may be used at bends or at terminals if not exceeding 6 feet
in length and rigidly fastened to connecting pipe and/or valve boxes.
Each run of pipe shall be sealed or plugged at each junction box inlet
with a material not affected by moisture or the temperature of the line.
All joints shall be accessible and shall be of sweated types, except that
flared joints may be used for tubing not more than 5/9 inch in diameter
and where the required test pressure does not exceed 180 pounds. Enclosures
shall be rigidly secured to the walls or other support. Tubing shall be
independently supported in such a manner as to prevent excessive vibration
and strains at joints and connections. Valves, service connections and
joints in tubing shall be rigidly secured in suitable metal boxes at
accessible points.
1505. - No system shall be placed in operation until the complete
installation has been tested by the installer in the presence of the
authority enforcking this code. A certificate of approval shall be posted
on the premises where the system is installed. Tests shall include a
vacuum test of the complete piping system, preferably with the evaporators
installed, but valves thereon may be closed to prevent withdrawal of the
refrigerant; under this test a vacuum of 20 inches of mercury shall be
placed upon the system and shall be held for a period of 20 minutes, with
no detectable drop, after the pump has been stopped. After the vacuum
test, the system of piping shall be tested by application of the pressure
indicated in the table following.
Test Pressures
High Side Part Low Side Part
Refrigerant Used Lbs. per sq. in. Lbs, per sq. in.
Carbon Dioxide 1,500 750
Ammonia 300 150
Methyl chloride 150 90
Sulphur dioxide 135 50
Iso-Butane 130 50
Butane 75 35
Ethyl chloride 50 25
Methylene chloride 15 15
Monofluorotrichloromethane(Fll) 30 30
Dichlorodifluoromethane (F12) 235 1 5
Trichlorotrifuloroethane (F113) 30 30
Dichloromonofluoromethane F21 70 30
DichlorothetraflueroethanX11 1 75 30
1506. - In systems exceeding 20 pounds capacity, the compressor, if
not located in a machinery room, shall not be located under stairways or
near dumb waiter or elevator shafts; shall be located as nearly beneath.
the riser as practicable; shall preferably not be in a room containing
storage or combustible material; shall in any case be located in an
accessible part of the building with adequate lighting facility provided;
and shallbe protected against mechanical i*ry by a non-combustible parti-
tion, or by heavy metal netting secured to two by four-inch wooden studding
or to metal posts.
1507. - Shut-off valves shall be installed at each service outlet
in pressure and return lines, and in each riser or manifold connection
at or near the compressor. These valves shall be fitted with a hand
wheel or other means of ready operation as an integral part thereof,
Valves in service connections shall be located outside of refrigerating
unit and at such distance above the floor as will provide ready access-
ibility. Evaporators which may be removed as a unit shall have valves
permitting the removal of the evaporator with valves attached.
1509. - Service Connections. - (a) Not more than a single tenant
shall be supplied from an outlet box on a main riser. Such outlet box
shall be located within the premises of the tenant served and so arranged
as to be accessible at all times.
(b) No outlet or junction box shall be permitted in any hall-
way, stairway or vertical shaft not out off at each story.
-(c) Every refrigerator shall be rigidly secured in place.
1509. - Every system containing over 20 pounds of refrigerant which
operates above atmospheric pressure, and every water cooled system con-
taining over 12 pounds of ref rigeratt and capable of producing a pressure
in excess of the test pressure shall be provided with a pressure limiting
device.
1510. - Each system containing over 100 pounds of refrigerant shall
have compressor or generator protected LDy a pressure-relief valve con-
nected into the high pressure side between the main stop-valve and the
compressor or generator to relieve excessive pressure into the low pressure
side of the system or to the atmosphere. Where discharge is to the low
pressure side, a relief valve shall be provided on the low pressure side
of the system.
1511. - No stop-valve shall be located between a pressure relief
device, or pressure limiting device and the part of the system pro-
tected thereby, unless two pressure relief devices of required size are
used, and so arranged that only one pressure relief device can be out
off for repair purposes at any one time.
1512. - Systems exceeding 20 pounds capacity shall have a pressure
relief device on shell type apparatus, such as liquid separators, liquid
receivers, condensers, evaporators and absorbers, which can be shut off
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by stop valves.
1513. - :very system containing more than 100 pounds of refrigerant
shall be provided with a hand-operated relief for discharging the refrig-
erant in case of fire, either to the atmosphere or to a suitable body
of water. For systems containing irritant or flammable refrigerant,
the discharge to the atmosphere shall be through a proper diffuser above
the roof of buildings within 50 feet. The hand-Operated relief valve
shall be located outside the machinery room, or shall be capable of
operation from the outside.
1514. - A rupture member may be substituted for the relief valve
in carbon dioxide systems operating below atmospheric pressure.
CHAPTER XVI
MATCHES
1601. - No person shall manufacture, transport store or sell
matches exceeding in aggregate 60 matchman's gross 44,400 matches
each gross) without securing a permit from the Chief of the Bureau
of Fire Prevention.
1602. - Application for permit shall be made in writing and shall
set forth in detail, location of proposed storage or place of sale,
or method of transportation; character of building construction,
location of storage or place of sale within the building, kind of matches
involved and type of containers. If, after an inspection of the premises,
the provisions of this ordinance are found to have been complied with,
permit shall be issued.
1603. - Wholesale Storage. - At wholesale establishments and
wherever matches exceeding the quantity specified in Section 1601 are
stored, shipping containers containing matches shall be arranged in
piles not exceeding 10 feet in height with aisles at least 4 feet wide.
1604. - Where other materials or commodities are stored on the
same floor with matches, a corner and/or other portion of the room
shall be devoted to match storage exclusively, and a clear space of
not less than 4 feet maintained between match storage and such other
materials or commodoties.
1605. - No matches shall be stored within 10 feet of any open
elevator shaft, elevator shaft opening, open stairway or other vertical
opening.
1606. - Where shipping containers containing matches are opened,
the contents of such broken containers shall be removed and stored in
metal or metal lined bins eauipped with spring self-closing metal or
metal lined covers.
1607. - Storage by Retailers. - Where matches are sold at retail
original sealed packages may be stored on shelves. When such packages
are broken, individual boxes shall be stored in metal. or metal lined bins
as described in Section 1606 above.
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CHAPTER %VII
GARAGES
1701. - Permit Required. - No persons shall use any building, shed
or enclosure for the purpose of servicing or repaing any motor vehicle
therein, nor use any room or space having a floor area exceeding 1200
sq. feet in any building, shed or enclosure for storing, housing or
keeping any motor vehicles containing flammable liquid in the fuel tanks
thereof, without a permit from the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
1702. - Repair Work. - Carbon and lead burning, welding and other
processes involving direct application of flame shall not be carried on
in any garage housing more than twenty automobiles on any floor unless
the garage is equipped with an automatic sprinkler system, or such pro-
cessas are carried on in a room enclosed by walls having a fire resistance
rating of not less thantwo hours, with openings therein protected by
approved fire doors or fire windows, and with no opening from such room
to any upper story. No repairs of any kind shall be made in any basement
or sub-basement garage.
1703. - Cleaning with Flammable Liquids. - No flammable liquids
with a flash point below ICOw 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 room enclosed by walls having
a fire resistance rating of not less than two hours, with openings therein
protected by approved fire doors or fire windows, and with no opening from
such room to any upper or lower story.
1704. - Handling of Gasoline and Oils. - The reservoirs of motor
vehicles shall be filled directly through hose from pumps attached to
approved portable tanks or drawing from underground storage tanks. No
transfer of gasoline in any garage shall be made in any open container.
There shall be no facilites for gasoline handling or filling In any base-
ment or sub-basement.--garage and no such filling or handling operations
shall be carried on therein. No gasoline or other volatile flammable
liquid shall be allowed to run upon the floor or to fall or pass into the
drainage system of the premises. Self-closing metal cans shall be used
for all oily waste or wasted oils. Contents of oil separators or traps
of floor draining systems shall be collected at frequent intervals and re-
moved from the premises.
1705. - Precautions. - (a) No waste oil such as crankcase drainings
shall be kept in cans or drums above ground longer than one day, and such
oil must either be removed from the premises each day or drained into an
approved underground tank.
(b) No oils, gasoline or other flammable liquids or compounds
shall be kept or stored in any closets or lockers. All closets or lockers
shall be so constructed and maintained as to permit read$r inspection at
all times.
(c) No tank truck, empty or otherwise, used for the trans-
portation of flammable liquids, shall be admitted inside of any building
for the purpose of being repaired udess such building is used exclusively
for the repairing of such vehicles, and such tank, truck or vehicle shall
be removed from said building immediately upon completion of repairs,
and in no instance shall gasoline tanks on such vehicles be cleaned nearer
than twenty-five (25) feet to any open flame. If any loaded tank.i"sf°lound
to be leaking, it shall be removed at once from the streets, emptied of its
contents, and the leak repaired before the truck is put into service. again.
(d) No repair work of any kind necessitating the use of a
blow torch or other open flame shall be performed upon a tank truck until
the tank thereon is firstthoroughly cleaned and them completely filled
with water and such tank shall be kept filled with water during the progresi
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of repairs, except that, when repairs to the tank itself are necessary,
the water may be drawn off for that purpose.
(e) All electric motors or devices capable of emitting an
exposed spark shall be located at least 4 feet above the floor.
(f) No portion of the occupancies mentioned in this section
shall be used for storage or keeping of goods, merchandise or any
flammable material, except the necessary automobile parts, accessories
and supplies.
(g) No smoking or carrying of any burning materials shall
be . llowed in any occupancy mentioned in this article, and notices in
letters not less than 4 inches in height shall be conspicuously posted
as required by the Chief of the Fire Department and/or Chief of the
Bureau of Fire Prevention. This applies to owners, employees and patrons.
(h) It shall be unlawful for any employee, attendant or
patron in any occupancy mentioned in this Section, to smoke or handle
any burning material of any nature while servicing any automobile or
vehicle with gasoline, whether such servicing is done inside of any
building or upon the sidewalk or curb area.
(i) All occupancies mentioned in this article shall be kept
clean at all times and Lhe floor free from oily waste, rags. All repair
pits shall be thoroughly cleaned at least once a day or oftener if
necessary. All floor or pit sweepings shall be removed from the building
as soon as sweeping has been accomplished, or placed in metal containers
approved for oil, rags , waste and rubbish.
(3) The use of sawdust for absorbing oils or gasoline is
strictly prohibited. Retal drip cans shall be provided for wooden floors.
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CHAPTER XVIII
AUTOMOBILE WRECKING AND JUNK YARDS
1501. - Permit Required. - A permit shall be obtained from the
Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention for the establishment and
maintenance of an automobile wrecking yard or a junk yard, and no
such yard shall be located as to seriously expose adjoining or ad-
jacent }properties.
1802. - Regulations. - No automobile or any part thereof shall
be burned for wrecking or salvage purposes in or on any premises
occupied as a wrecking yard.
(b) Proper fire extinguishing appliances as set forth
in this title shall be provided.
(c) No automobile or any part thereof shall be stored
for sale purposes on any street or sidewalk, or portion thereof in
such manner as may interefere with the operations of the Fire Department.
(d) No old discarded automobiles, or part thereof, shall
be piled or stacked in any manner as to exceed 6 feet in height, or 625
square feet in floor or lot area. An aisle of at least 4 feet shall be
maintained at all times between piles or stacks of old automobiles or
parts thereof, in such a manner as to allow free aceess on the part of
the Fire Department.
(e) Nothing but automobile dismantling shall be carried
on in any automobile wrecking yard or establishment, and if repairs
are made to any automobile or other self-propelled vehicle, such repairs
shall be made in a building meeting all the requirements of a public
automobile garage or automobile repair shop, and in keeping with the
regulations for such occupancy.
(f) All gasoline shall be drained from the gasoline res-
ervoirs of all automobiles, or other self-propelled vehicles stored or
kept on the premises, unless such automobiles or vehicles are in such
state of repair as to enable them to be removed from the premises under
their own power.
1803. - Junk Yards. - Building Construction and Height, - At junk
yards, Where large quantities of waste paper, rags anther combustible
materials are handled and stored, the process shall be carried on in an
building of other than wood frame construction. Height shall be not over
one-story, unless building is of fireproof construction. One-story
buildings shall be provided with skylights in the roof as may be required
by the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention to provided adequate venti-
lation in case of fire. Vertical openings shall be properly enclosed
and window openings shall be protected by metal frames and sash glazed
with wired glass. When building is within 20 feet of a property line
or another building, packing rooms shall be separated from storage rooms
by a fire partition or wall. Every storage building with an area. of
�000 sq. ft. or over shall be completely protected by an approved system
of automatic sprinklers.
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CHAPTER XIX
AUTOMOBILE TIRZ REBUILDING PI,AWTS
1901. - Permit Required. - A permit shall be required for any tire
retreading or rebuilding plant.
1902. - Tire retreading shops shall have all floor openings, such
as• stair and elevator shafts, enclosed in a standard manner, and with
exposed windows protected by wired glass in metal sash and frames.
1903- - Requirements for Recapping Plant. - (a) The buffing operation
shall be kept in a room that is separated from the rest of the plant by
a one-hour fire restricting wall, and must be equipt with an automatic fire
door,
(b) The cementing room shall be separated in a like manner.
The door leading to this room must be an automatic fire door.
(c) Solvents and cement shall be kept in a vault having
walls of masonry at least 8 inches thick and provided with a fire door.
(d) The boilers used in this work need not be enclosed.
(e) The buffing and cementing rooms shall be mechanically
ventilated to carry off dangerous vapors.
(f) The buffing and cementing rooms shall have a plastered
ceiling ar be provided with a sprinkler system.
(g) The entire space devoted to this part of the business
shall be separated from the rest of the building by a brick fire wall.
Windows in this wall should be bricked up.
(h) Fire doors shall be provided for the openings which
give access from one portion of the building to another.
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CHAPTER XX
WOODWORKING PLANTS
2001. - ,Disposal system for sawdust and shavings. - bawmills,
planing mills and other woodworking plants shall be equipped with
refuse removal systems which will collect and remove sawdust and
shavings as produced; or suitable metal or metal-lined bins, pro-
vided with normally closed covers or automatically closing covers,
shall be installed at or near such machines, and shavings and sawdust
shall be swept. up and deposited in such bins at sufficiently frequent
intervals as to keep the premises clean. Blower and exhaust systems
shall comply with the Standards of the National Board of Fire Under-
writers for the installation of Blower and Exhaust Syptems for Dust,
Stock and Vapor Removal.
2002. - Removal. - Waste Wood-., - Provisions shall be made for the
removal from the building of slabs and other waste piece of wood, either
as produced or at the close of each working day.
2003. - Burning Prohibited. - Exceptions. - The burning of shavings,
sawdust and refuse material shall be permitted only under boilers, in
furnaces or in properly constructed incinerators or refuse burners;
All stacks shall be provided with suitable spark arresters. At boilers
or other points where sawdust or shavings are used as feel a masonry or
concrete storage bin, with raised sill, shall be provided.
2004. - Fire Fighting Equipment Required. - Fire fighting equip-
ment, either chemical extinguishers or small hose supplied from a suit-
able water system, shall be provided near any machine producing shavings
or sawdust.
CHAPTER XXI
INCINl BRATORS
2101. - Burning of Trash. - It shall be unlawful for any person or
persons, firm or corporation, to burn rubbish, trash, waste, leaves,
grass, lumber or any other combustible materials in or on any street or
alley, or on any lot i.thin one hundred feet of any building in the City
of Fort Worth; provided that such materials may be burned in containers
that have been approved by the Chief of the Fire Department and/or Chief
of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
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CHAPTER XXII
PLACES OF INDOOR ASSEMBLY
2201. - Application. - (a) All places of assembly as defined in
paragraph (b) of this section shall comply with the provisions of this
ordinance. In the application of this ordinance to existing places of
assembly the enforcing official may modify such of its provisions as
would require structural changes if in his opinion adequate safety may
be obtained otherwise and provided that a permanent record is kept of
such modifications and the reason therefor.
(b) "Place of assembly" as used in this Chapter shall
mean a room or space in which provision is made for the seating of
persons for religious, recreational, educational, political, social
or amusement purposes or for the consumption of food or drink. For
the purpose of this definition such room or space shall include any
occupied connecting room or space in the same story, or in a story
or stories above or below, when entrance is common to the rooms or
spaces.
(c) A permit shall be obtained by the owner or operator of
any place of assembly. Such permit •shall be issued for one year from
date of issuance and shall be revokable for cause. Application for
permit shall be made to the Chief of the Fire Department who may require
building plans, showing type of consturction, exits, aisles and seating
arrangements and details of decorations, and no permit shall be issued
until the provisions of this ordinance have been complied with. In
addition, the Chief of the Fire Department shall obtain the approval
of the Health, Police, Building Commissioner and other departments having
jurisdiction as to compliance with any laws or ordinances applying to
the specific occupancy of the place of assembly.
(d) Before the permit is issued by the, Chief of the Fire
Department, the applicant shall present an approved certificate of
occupancy issued by the Building Commissioner.
2202. - Decorative Materials. - (a) All combustible decorative
material, including curtains, acoustical materials, atreamers, cloth,
cotton batting, straw, vines, leaves, trees and moss, but not in-
cluding floor coverings, shall be rendered flameproof; provided that
this shall clot be required of materials exceeding one sixteenth inch
in thickness applied directly and adhering to a noncombustible base.
Such flameproof ing, unless certified by Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc.,
or other laboratories of recognized standing as being of a permanent
nature, shall be tested by the Fire Department each six months and the
treatment renewed if necessary.
(b) The use of imitation leather (or other material) con-
sisting of or coated with pyroxylin base is prohibited.
(c) Decorative materials in all places of public assembly
shall be constructed of incombustible materials and shall be a proved
by the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
2203. - Seats.T (a) In places of assembly in which seats in rows
are provided, except in churches and other places for religious assembly,
stadium and reviewing stands, individual seats shall be provided for the
persons congregating therein.
(b) The width of seat allotted for each person shall be
not less that twenty inches.
(c) Seats in ro ws, whether fixed or movable, shall,
except in boxes or loges not exceeding sixty square feet in area, be not
less than thirty inches apart from back to back measured in a horizontal
direction.
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(d) When individual fixed seats are provided or required no seat shall
have more than six seats intervening between it and an aisle; provided that if
the seatings are fixed chairs with self-raising seats so spaced that when
the seats are raised there is an unobstructed space of not less than lg inches
horizontal projection between the rows of seats, and doorways leading directly
to exit corridors are provided not more than 5 feat apart along the sides of
the auditorium, the number of seats in a row shall not be limited.
(e) In places of assembly used regularly for theatrical, operatic or
similar performances, or for the display of motion pictures, seats, except in
boxes or loges not exceeding dixty feet in area, shall be fixed and shall be
separated by arms.
(f) In boxes or loges not exceeding sixty square feet in area, and
in other locations where loose chairs are permitted, not more than one chair
shall be provided for each six square feet of floor space.
2204. - Aisles. - For each room or space used with chairs alone or with
tables and chairs, the arrangement shall be such as will provide for ready
access by aisles to each exit doorway. Aisles leading directly to exit door-
ways shall have not less than 36 inches clear width xhall not be obstructed
by chairs, tables or other objects.
2205. - Exits Defined. - (a) "�'xit way" means the exit doorway or doorways
or such doorways togeth�er with connecting hallways, passageways or stairways,
through which persons may pass safely from the place of assembly to a street
or to an open space which provides safe access to a street. Exit ways from
any room may lead through other rooms of the same tenancy.
(b) "Exit doorway" means the doorway or other opening"through which
persons may pass in using an exit way.
2206. - Basis for Determining Exits. - The basis of exit requirements
shall be one person to each 15 square feet of gross area occupied, not including
store Looms. When application is made for a permit in which the number of
persons to be accomodated, either in any given room or space or in the gross
area of the place of assembly, is greater than this basis, the exit requirements
shall be based upon this greater number. There the existing exit facilities
for any room or space are not sufficient on the above basis of one person to
fifteen square feet, the number of persons admitted shall be reduced in pro-
portion to the exits existing. Where the place of assembly is largely occupied
by chair and tables, no greater number of chairs shall be permitted than that
for which exits have been provided. Chairs shall include stools or other
seating arraggements.
2207. - Exit Doorways. - (a) Every room, gallery, balcony, tier or
other space shall have at least two exit doorways. The exit doorways shall
be so located that no point in the room or space is more than 100 feet distant
from an exit doorway, measured along the line of travel.
(b) The aggregate clear width of doorways serving as required exits
shall be not less that at the rate of 22 inches for every 100 persons to be
accomodated. No exit doorway shall have a clear width of less than 44 inches,
corresponding to a nominal 49 incn door, except that doorways , having a clear
width of at least 30 inches may be accepted in existing places of public assembI
(c) Exit doorways shall be located with proper regard to safety of
the occupants and ease of exit. The size and shape of the room or space, the
accessibility of streets and open spaces, the ability to use horizontal exits
and the desirability of good separation of exit doorways shall be considered.
2209. - Exit Ways. - Every room, gallery, balcony, tier or other space
shall have at least two exit ways, and where the capacity is more than 600 per-
sons at least three exit wgcys, and where the capacity is more than 1000 persons
at least four exit ways. Such required exit ways may use communicating hall-
ways, corridors or passageways, and exit ways from two or more separate places
of assembly may use common interior stairways, but the required exit ways for
any one place of assembly shall not use a common interior stairway.
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2209. - Exit Doors. - (a) All exit doors in rooms and all exit
doors in ;xi ways from places of assembly shall be hung to swing in
the direction of exit travel, but this requirement shall not be construed
to prohibit doors swinging both inwards and outwards.
(b) Revolving doors shall not be used in required exit
ways except under one or more of the following conditions:
(1) Where the place of assembly is in a building of
fireproof construction, with no hangings, draperies,
or decorations of cloth or paper, other than flame-
proofed curtains.
(2) Where the place of assembly and the remainder of the
building are protected by an automatic sprinkler sys-
tem.
(3) Where the place of refuge is provided for all
occupants of the place of assembly in portions of
the building between the exit doors of the place of
assembly and the revolving doors, and there is an
exit door of the swinging type adjacent to each re-
volving door. Such place of refuge may consist of
hallways, stairways, or areas separated fromthe
place of assembly by fire walls or fire partitions.
(c) Revolving doors shall be used in exit ways only at points
of egress from the first story above grade.
(d) All revolving doors in exit ways shall be of an approved
type which will collapse under pressure, and only the width of one leaf
shall be considered in figuring exit requirements. Employees shall be in-
structed in the method of collapsing revolving doors, and the doors shall
be tested by collapsing at least once a month.
(e) During the period of occupancy, no exit door shall be
locked, bolted, or otherwise fastened so that the door cannot be opened
from the inside by the use of the ordinary door knob or by pressure on the
door or on a panic release device. In a place of assembly with a permitted
capacity in excess of 500, and elsewhere where deemed nedessary, the exit
doors shall be provided with approved panic bar release device.
(f) Revolving doors shall not be considered as exits in
compiling exit space as required for the apacity of the building.
2210. - MArking of Exits. - Required exit doorways shall be plainly
marked by approved illuminated signs bearing in red the word "E%IT" in
letters at least 4 inches high. Each sign shall be provided with two
separate electric light globes, each on separate circuits, one circuit
being- separated from any other circuit in the building. All signs shall
be illuminated during any time that the building is occupied.
(b) Directional signs, as required, shall be placed on walls
or otherwise displayed in conspicuous locations to direct occupants to exits.
2211. - LiRhtin of Exits. - (a) Required exit ways shall be kept
adequately lighted at all times that the place of assembly served thereby
is occupied.
(b) The artificial lighting of the room and of exit ways there-
from shall be by electricity so arranged and supplied that interruption
of supply to any lighting branch circuit will not result in extinguishment
of all the lights in the room or all the lights along any exit way.
2212. - Use of Exits. - No part of a stairway, whether interior or
exterior, nor of a fire tower, nor of a hallway, corridor, vestibule,
balconey, or bridge leading to a stairway or exit of any kind, shall j,-
be used in any way that will obstruct its use as an exit or that Will
present a hazard of fire.
2213. - Stairways. - (a) Construction. - Where a place of assembly
is located above the second story above grade interior exit stairways
shall continue to the roof; provided that in case of roofs having a
pitch exceeding one in four, such stairways shall not extend through
the roof but shall be connected by a communicating hailways in the top
story. r,xcept in existing buildings, required interior exit stairways
from a place of assembly shall be constructed of non-combustible materials
throughout. All stairways shall have solid risers securely fastened in
place. When treads or landings are of slate, marble, stone or composition,
they shall be suitably supported for their entire length and width. Treads
and landings shall be constructed and maintained in a manner to prevent
persons from blipping thereon.
(b) Enclosures for Stairways. - Every interior stairway
constituting part of an exit way from a place of assembly shall be
enclosed with partitions having a fire resistance rating of not less than
two hours, provided that in existing buildings the enclosures shall have
a fire resistance rating of not less than one hours.
(c) Width of Stairways and Connecting Passageways. - The
aggregate width of exit stairways in any story shall be not less than at
the rate of twenty-two inches for every one hundred persons to be accommodated
by such stairways. The minimum width shall be 36 inches. The hallway
or corridor connecting a stairway with the exit doors leading to the street,
or to a court or open space communicating with a street, shall have a clear
width of not less than the aggregate required widths of stairways served
thereby.
(d) Treads and Risers. - Risers shall not exceed seven and
three-quarter inches in height, and treads, exclusive of nosing, shall be
not less than nine and one-half inches wide. Treads and risers shall be
of uniform width and height in any one story. The use of winders is pro-
hibited in required stairways.
(e) Ramps used as required exit ways shall have a gradient
not exceeding one foot in ten.
(f) No place of assembly shall be allowed above the second
floor in any wood frame building. Where the place of assembly is on the
second floor of a wood frame building at least one-half the required exit
capacity shall be provided by exterior stairways, or stairways separated
from the first floor by fire partitions and extending direct to the street.
(g) All exterior stairways shall be constructed bf non-com-
bustible material, except that wooden construction may be permitted on
existing buildings occupied by places of assembly on the second floor
where the stairways extend at right angles to the building wall, or there
are no openings below or within ten feet of the stairway.
2214. - Fire A liances. - (a) The Chief of the Fire Department shall
survey, or cause to be surveyed, each place of assembly and shall designate
suitable fire appliances in and near boiler rooms, kitchens, storage rooms
and other occupied areas where such appliances are deemed to be needed.
Such fire appliances may consist of automatic alarm systems, automatic
sprinklers, standpipe and hose, or portable extinguishers.
(b) All fire appliances shall be kept in working condition;
all extinguishers and hose and similar appliances shall be visible and
handy at all times. It shall be the duty of the owner and the occupant
of each building, or part of a building occupied as a place of assembly
to properly train sufficient regular employees in the use of fire appliances
that such appliances can be quickly put in operation.
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2215. - Inspection by Fire Department. - The Chief of the Fire
Department shall inspect, or cause to be inspected, each place of
assembly. Such inspection shall be at least monthly and at such times,
including time of occupancy and use, as to assure compliance with these
regulations and such orders as may be issued in connection with the
maintenance of aisle space, the prevention of overcrowding, the use of
decorations, the maintenance of exits, collapse of revolving doors, and
the maintenance of fire appliances. Where conditions are unsatisfactory
written orders for immediate correction shall be given.
2216. - Placard Indicating Capacity. - A placard indicating the
capacity of any room in number of occupants, other than employees, shall
be displayed in a prominent place in the room. Such placard shall be
properly attested by the Chief of the Fire Department. Any persons in
excess of this capacity shall hot be provided for through the introduction
of additional seats or chairs.
CHAPTER XX III
PLACES OF OUTDOOR ASSpSMBLY
2301. - Capacity. - (a) The capacity of any structure or enclosure
for outdoor assembly shall be the number of fixed seats plus an allowance
of one person for each 12 square feet of floor or ground area designated
or used as standing space or for movalle seats. A dirt nce of 18 inches
along any undivided bench or platform shall contitute one seat in com-
puting capacity. The floor area of stairways, ramps, aisles, passageways
or spaces within such structures or enclosures need for access or cir-
culation shall not be considered in computing the capacity of a place
of outdoor assembly, and shall not be used for seats or for standing room.
(b) The number of persons admitted to any place of out-
door assembly shall not exceed the capacity as computed in accordance
with the provisions of this section.
2302. - Accessibility to Public Ways. - All places of outdoor
assembly shall have ample and unrestricted access to public ways of
approach from at least two points, remote from each other, at all tize s.
An available open space approved as an area of refuge may be used in lieu
of one means of access to a public way.
2303. - Grandstands. - Location. - No grandstand shall be erected
on the roof of any building or structure unless such building or structure
is of adequate strength to support such additional loads.
2304. - Aisles. - (a) Aisles in grandstand shall have a clear width
of not less than 44 inches except that where not to exceed 60 seats are
to be servedby an aisle its width may be not less than 30 inches. Steps
shall not be placed in aisles to overcome differences in level unless the
gradient shall exceed one foot rise in 10 feet of run. Steps in aisles
shall have risers of not more than 7-3/4 inches in height and treads shall
be not less than 9 inches wide, exclusive of their overhand or nosing.
The tread and risers shall be so proportioned that the sum of two risers
and a tread exclusive of its projecting edge, is not less than 24 nor
more than 26 inches. The risers of steps in aisles, where practicable,
shall be uniform in height for any floor or tier and steps shall extend
the full width of the aisle.
(b) There shall be not•more than 20 transverse rows of seats
unless cross aisles at least 44 inches wide are provided between groups
of not more than 20 rows.
(c) The line of travel to the nearest exit by any aisle
shall be not greater than 150 feet.
2305. - SeatinE. - (a) Grandstands shall be provided with aisles
so that rows of seats between aisles shall have not more than 16 seats.
Rows of seats opening on to an aisle at one end only shall have not more
than 8 seats.
(b) The horizontal distance back to back of seats shall
be not less than 30 inches for seats having back rests or not less than
22 inches for bleacher type seats. Where the same level is used for both
seats and footrests these levels shall be not less than 22 inches in
width. There shall be a space of not less than 12 inches between the
back of each seat and the front of the seat immediately behind it. All
measurements shall be taken between plumb lines.
(c) The width of seats and footboards in grandstands shall
each be not less than inches. Where the same level is not used for
both seat foundation an footreste, ifootrests independent of seats shall
be provided.
(d) Bleacher type seats and footrest of grandstand$ shall
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be securely supported in such manner that they cannot be displaced inadvert-
ently. Footrests which are lapped shall be provided with some positive means
to prevent displacement of one pieee on the other. The end overhand of foot-
rests and seats shall not exceed 6 inches.
(e) Individual seats or chairs shall be permitted only if firmly
secured in rows in an approved manner, except that seats if not more than
16 in number and on level floors within railed-in enclosures, such as boxes,
need not be fastened.
(f) The space under the seats of grandstands of combustible con-
struction shall not be used except for protective purposes while the structure
is occupied by the public and such space shall be kept clear of paper and
other extraneous flammable materials.
2306. - Railings or Guards. - Railings or guards not less than '42 inches
high above the aisle surface or platform tread whichever is adjacent, shall
be provided along those portions of the backs and ends of all grandstands
where the seats are more than four feet above the ground. Where the front
footrest of any grandstand is more than two feet above the ground, railings
or guards not less than 33 inches high above such front footrests shall be
provided. Openings between the top railing or guard and walkway surface
below, if more than 18 inches in height, shall be not more than 11 inches wide,
Railings or guards shall be capable of sustaining a vertical load of 100 pounds
per lineal foot and a horizontal thrust of 50 pounds per lineal foot. When
grandstand are used adjacent to a wall or fence, railings or guards may be
omitted from those portions where such wall or fence affords equivalent
safeguard.
2307. - Sectional Benches. - 'Oectional benches shall conform to the re-
quirements for grandstands in the matter of seat size, seat spacing, loads,
seating arrangement, width of aisles and exits.
2305. - Movable Seating. - Movable seating shall not be used in permanent
or temporary grandstands except as provided in 2305 (e), but may be used in
places of outdoor assembly when placed upon the ground, or upon the level
floor of a structure which shall be enclosed, railed or otherwise safeguarded.
The arrangement of such movalle seating shall conform to 2305, Seating and
2304, Aisles.
2309. - Tents. - Location. - (a) No tent or tents shall be erected to
cover more than 75 per cent of the premises; nor shall any tent be erected
closer than 10 feet to other structures except as hereinafter provided. Stake
lines of adjacent tents shall be sufficiently distant from each other to pro-
vide an area to be used as a means of emergency egress.
(b) Concession or other tents not occupied by the public need no�
be separated from each other and may be erected less than 10 feet from other
structures only if the administrative official deems such closer spacing safe
from hazard to the public.
(c) Tents each not exceeding 1200 square feet in area located on
fair grounds or similar open spaces need not be separated from each other pro-
vided such safety precautions are taken as are approved by the administrative
official.
(d) No tent shall be erected without a written permit from the
Building Inspector and the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
(e) No tent shall be erected and used to house any manufacturing
concern, retail establishment or warehouse.
2310. - Flame Resistance. - (a) All tents occupied for assembly or
in which animals are stabled, or tents located within that portion of the
premises used by the public, and all tents in places of outdoor assembly
in or about which any devices using fuels are operated, and all netting,
decorative material and tarpaulins used in connection therewith, shall
meet the requirements for resistance to fire prescribed in the Federal
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Specification for Fire, hater and Weather Resistent Cotton Duck, CCC-D--746,
when tested new, or renewed.
(b) The administrative official may accept as evidence that
the tents (walls, tops and combustible decorations) have proper flame
resistance, the approval of a laboratory of recognized standing as being
effective for the period for which license has been granted or the
administrative official shall make field tests in accordance with methods
recommended by the National Fire Protection Association phamplet "Flame-
proofing of Textiles." (or see N.F.P.A. Proceedings 1940, p. 407j such
tests shall be applied to the tent top or wall or a test lab attached
thereto so as to be exposed to wear and weather the same as the tent top.
The administrative official may accept the results of a test or tests made
by one or more other administrative officials or a recognized testing
laboratory.
2311. - Structural Requirements. - (a) All supporting members shall
be of sufficient size and strength to support the structure.
(b) Tents shall be adecuately guyed, supported and braced to
withstand a wind pressure or suction of bO pounds per square foot. The
poles, guys, stays, stakes, fastenings, etc. , shall be of sufficient
strength and attached so as to resist wind pressure of 20 pounds per square
foot of projected area, of the tent.
2312. - Fire Hazards. - (a) Tents shall conform to the general
reeuir"ents of 2317 and to the following special requirements.
(b) The ground enclosed by any tent used in connection with
a place of outdoor assembly and for a reasonably distance but not less
than 10 feet outside of such structure or structures shall be cleared
of all flammable material or vegetation which will carry fire. This
work shall be accomplished to the satisfaction of the administrative
official prior to the erection of such structure or structures. The
premises shall be kept free from such flammable materials during the period
for which the premises are used by the public.
(c) No hay, straw, shavings or similar combustible materials
other than that necessary for the current feeding and care of amimals
shall be permitted within any tent used for public assembly except that
sawdust or shavings may be used if kept damp.
(d) No smoking, fireworks or unapproved open flame of any kind
shall be permitted in any tent while occupied by the public. "No Smoking"
signs shall be conspicuously posted in any tent open to the public.
(e) Tents shall not be used for the display of motion pictures
unless safety film is used.
2313. - Aisles and Passageways., (a) Within any structure used as a
place of outdoor assembly where there is not a direct access to exits,
safe and continuous aisles, cross aisles, passageways, spaces or corridors
leading directly to every exit and so arranged as to be conveniently
accessible to every occupant, shall be maintained at all times on all
floors, tiers or balconies of such structures. The aggregate width of
such aisles, passageways, spaces or corridors leading to any exit shall
be at least equal to the recuired width of the exit. Where several passage-
ways or spaces lead to an exit each shall have a width suitable for the
travel width it may be called on to accommodate, but not less than 36 inches
in any case. Aisles and cross aisles in grandstand shall conform to the
requirements of 2303, Grandstands.
(b) Within any tent aisles and cross aisles from grandstands
or other seating arrangements that do not lead directly to an exit shall
discharge into an unobstructed space leading directly to one or morxits
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and so arranged as to be conveniently accessible to every occupant, and
such space shall have a clear width of not less than the required width
of the exit to which it leads but in no case less than 5 feet.
2314. — Egress. - (a) Every structure used as a place of outdoor
assembly, and every story, balcony or tier thereof considered separately,
shall be provided with at least two exits as remote from each other as
practicable and direct to the outside. Iffhere the capadity of such
structure or part thereof exceeds 600 there shall be at least three, and
if the capacity exceeds 1000 there shall be at least four exits. The line
of travel to an exit shall be not greater than 150 feet.
(b) The aggregate clear width of exit doorways, spaces,
stairways, ramps and passageways serving as required exits from structures
used as places of outdoor assembly shall be computed on the Basis of
capacity at a rate of not less than one u riiz of 22 inches width for each
100 persons to be accomodated. Required exit doorways and passageways
shall be not less than 36 inches wide; required stairways, ramps and
spaces shall be not less than 44 inches wide. Doors serving as exits
from stairways, ramps and passages shall be of the same number of units
of width as the exitways served, except that the net width of such door-
ways may be of two inches less width for each unit of the exitway.
Escalators may be considered the equivalent of stairways in computing exit
capacity.
(c) A fenced place of outdoor assembly shall have at least
two exits from the enclosure. If more than 6000 persons are to be served
by such exits there shall be at least three, and if xsl more than 9000
persons there shall be at least four exits. If the enclosure has an easily
accessible open space or spaces which provide refuge, the aggregate clear
width of exits shall be not less than half the width as computed by 2314
(b); otherwise, the exits shall be computed in accordance with 2314 (b).
Exits shall be distributed as uniformly as practicable for exit purposes.
(d) Where required exits from places of outdoor assembly
do not discharge directly to a street or open space leading to a street,
unobstructed lanes dot less than 20 feet in width shall be maintained
from such exits to the street at all times while such places of outdoor
assembly are occupied by the public.
2315. - Unobstructed Means of Egress. - No aisle, passageway, stair,
door or other way of ingress or egress in any place of outdoor assembly
shall be obstructed in any manner while such place of outdoor assembly
is occupied by the public. No tent stake, guy wire, or guy rope shall be
permitted in any aisle or other way of ingress or egress, nor shall any
guy wire or guy rope cross any aisle or other way of ingress or egress at
a height of less than 7 feet. Tent stakes adjacent to any way of ingress
or egress to any tent open to the public shall be railed off, capped or
covered in such manner as not to present a hazard to the public.
2316. - Nxit Lighting and Signs. - (a) Exits, and aisles and passage-
ways leading to them, in structures used as places of outdoor assembly
shall be kept adequately lighted at all times when such structures are
occupied by the public. Artificial light shall be provided whenever
natural light is inadequate.
(b) Exit doorways in structures used as places of outdoor
assembly shall be adequately indicated; and in strucutres having a capacity
of 200 persons or more there shall be placed over each doorway or opening
to be used for egress a sign with the word EXIT in plainly legible letters
not less than 4 inches high and with the principal strokesof such letters
not less than inch in width.
(c) Exit signs shall be adequately illuminated by a reliable
light source at all times when the structure is occupied by the public.
(d) where necessary, suitable directional signs shall be
displayed in a conspicuous location to indicate the proper direction of
egress.
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2317. --Electrical Installations. - (a) Except as otherwise pro-
vided by law, ordinance or regulation, electrical installations shall
conform to the requirements of the National Electric Code, as approved
by the American Standards Association.
(b) The electrical system shall be installed, maintained
and operated in accordance with the Electrical Code of the City of Fort
Worth.
(c) The electrical system and equipment shall be isolated
from the public by proper elevation or. guarding, and all electric fuses
and switches shall be enclosed in approved enclosures. CaUes on the ground
in areas traversed by the public shall be placed in trenches or protected
by approved covers.
2319. - Storage and Handling of Flammable Liquids and Gases. -
Storage and handling of flammable liquids or gases shall be in accordance
with recognized safe practices. Compliance with the standards of the
National Fire Protection Association shall be considered as evidence of
safe practice. No storage or handling of flammable liquids or gases shall
be permitted at any location at which it would jeopardize egress fromtthe
structure. Refueling of equipment with Class I or Class II liquids shall
be permitted only with safety containers of approved type.
2319. - Police and Fire Detail. - Police and fire details if deemed
necessary in any place of outdoor assembly, shall be determined by the
administrative official.
2320. - Fire Extinguishing Equipment. - (a) Fire extinguishing
equipment shall be furnished by the person operating, conducting or pro-
moting any place of outdoor assembly in such amount and in such locations
as may be directed by the administrative official. Such fire extinguishing
equipment shall be maintained in good working order and shall be operated
by employees of such place of outdoor assembly who shall be properly
trained for the purpose, and who shall be required to exhibit their skill
on order of the administrative official. This equipment shall be main-
tained in such locations as may be directed by the administrative official,
who may also direct the installation of additional such fire extinguishing
equipment if he deems it essential.
(b) One or more methods of fire alarm and emergency
communication shall be arranged by agreement between the owner and the
administrative official.
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CHAPUR XXIV
FIRE EXITS
2401. - No person shall at any time place an encumbrance of any kind
whatsoever before or upon any fire escape, balcony or ladder intended for
a means of escape from fire. It shall be the duty of every member of the
police and fire departments who shall discover any fire escapes encumbered
in any manner to forthwith report to the Bureau of Fire Prevention and
the said Bureau shall immediately notify the owner and the tenant to re-
move such encumbrance.
2402. - It shall be unlawful for any person to place, store or keep,
or permit to be placed, stored or kept under or at the bottom of any
stairway, inside or outside, elevator or other shaft in any building, any
combustible or flammable materials, fluids or compounds, nor shall any
such combustible or flammable materials be placed or stored or kept in
any place where ignition or burning would obstruct orrender hazardous,
egress from a building.
2403. - No obstruction shall be permitted in hallways of tenement
houses or apartment houses.
2404. - All doors, aisles and passageways within and leading into
or out of places of assembly shall be kept free from easels, signs,
standards, campstools, chairs, sodas, benches and any other article that
if might obstruct or delay the exit of the audience, gongregation or assemblage
during the entire time during which any show, performance, service, exhib-
ition, lecture, concert, ball or other assemblage may be held. Clear
passage from all exits and on sidewalks must at all times be maintained
outside of all places of assembly. No aisle, passageway or stairway in
any store shall be obstructed with tables, show cases, or other obstruction
during hours said store is open to the public. It shall be the duty of
the Chief of the Police Department to render assistance in the enforcement
' of the provisions of this part and to direct and-require police officers
to enter all places of assembly for such purposes.
2405. - Marking of Exits. - (a) In rooms accomodating more than
seventy-five persons, required exit doorways, other than those normally
used for entrance, shall be plainly marked by approved exit signs,
sufficiently illuminated when the floor area is occupied, to be readily
i distinguished.
(b) Directional signs, as required, shall be placed on walls
or otherwise displayed in conspicuous locations ato direct occupants to
exits.
2406. - Lighting of Exits. - (a) Required exit ways shall be kept
adequately lighted at all times that the building served thereby is occupied.
` (b) In any room the artificial lighting of the room and of
exit ways therefrom shall be by electricity so arranged and supplied that
interruption of supply to any one lighting branch circuit will not result
in extinguishment of all the lights in the room or all the lights along
any exit way. FIRE ESCAPES
2407. - This paragraph shall be the same as and in compliance with
the Provisions of the Texas Fire Escape Law.
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GHAPTER XXV
FIRE EXTINGUISHING EQUIPMENT
2501. - All basements, cellars and sub-cellars exceeding 2000 square
feet in area within enclosing masonry walls, and used for the storage,
sale, manufacture or handling of materials indicated in Section 2502,
shall be equipped with a standard wet pipe system of automatic sprinklers
and with supply from city water mains or other suitable source of supply.
Where adequate heat is not provided, such systems may be omitted in in
the opinion of the Chief of the Fire Prevention Bureau, concurred in by
the Chief of the Fire Department, the hazard is not severe, provided that
such places shall be equipped with a suitable dry sprinkler system with
a fire department connection on the buildin[ front, or with suitable
cellar flooding, holes properly distributed in the first floor of the
building, or with an approved standpipe system, with fire department
connection on the street and control devices so located and arranged that
streams from nozzles on the standpipe can be controlled from the outside
of the building, and also that all such places shall be provided with an
approved automatic heat-actuated alarm system connected to an outgoing
gong or to the central station of a supervising company.
2502. - Basements, cellars and sub-cellars requiring the above
protection are those in connection with: Rag, paper or junk storage;
shipping, receiving or storage of furniture, dry goods, toys and other
articles involving quantities of excelsior, moss, paper and like materials;
manufacture of articles containing or involving highly combustible materials;
storage of dangerous chemicals, acids or flammable liquids.
2503. - The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall survey each
mercantile and manufacturing establishment, each school, each place of
assembly, each hospital or place of detention, and each apartment house
or tenement building and shall designate suitable fire appliances in or
near boiler rooms, kitchens of restaurants, clubs and like establishments,
storage rooms involving considerable amount of combustible material, rooms
in which hazardous manufacturing processes are involved, garage sections,
and other places of a generally hazardous nature. Such appliances may con-
sist of automatic alarm systems, automatic sprinklers, standpipe and hose,
fixed, wheeled or portable chemical extinguishers of a type suitable for the
probable cl&9 s of fire, or suitable asbestos blankets, manual or automatic
covers or the introduction of an inert gas. In specially hazardous pro-
cesses or excessive storage appliances of more than one type may be re-
quired or special systems installed.
2504. - Failure to install or provide the equipment ordered by the
Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention, and to maintain it in operative
condition at all times, shall be considered a violation punishable as
indicated hereinafter in this ordinance. Repaated disregard of such
orders shall constitute sufficient basis for the revoking of any permit held.
2505 - Fire Fighting equipment Required in Various Occupancies. -
(a) The following regulations shall be conformed to in the respective
occupancies:
1. Apartment House, Hotel, Hospitals, One (1) 2j gallon extinguisher
Rooming and Lodging Houses. for each one hundrfd (100)lineal
feet in each main hall on each
floor, with minimum of one (1)
such extinguisher to each floor.
2. Wholesale and Retail Mercantile One (1) 2j gallon extinguisher
Istablishments located in build- per two thousand (2000) square
ings in which higher floors are feet of floor area-or fraction
occupied by a factory, hospital, thereof.
school, rooming house or place
of public assemblage.
3. Factories and Manufacturing Es- One (1) 2J gallon extinguisher
tablishments using combustible per two thousand (2000) square
or inflammable materials. feet of floor area or fraction
thereof.
4. Garages, Public One (1) 21 gallon extinguisher
per two thousand (2000) square
feet of floor area or fraction
thereof.
5. Storage areas used for storage One (1) approved extinguisher
of flammable liquids and com- per each two thousand (2000) squar(
bustible materials. feet of floor area or fraction t
thereof.
6. Kitchens of restaurants, clubs, Two (2) one quart carbontetrchlo-
and like establishments. ride extinguishers or their equiv-
alent for each two thousand (2000)
square feet of floor area or
fraction thereof.
7. Parking Areas, Wrecking Yards, a. One (1) 2J gallong foam type
Service Stations. extinguisher or its equivalent.
b. "No Smoking" and "Stop your
Motor" signs.
B. Public Halls used for assemb- Two (2) 2' gallon. extinguishers
lage, except when located on or equivalent.
ground floor.
9. Educational Institutions, Public One (1) 2J gallon. extinguisher
Schools, Private Schools, Paro- each one hundred (100) linear
chial Schools. feet in each hall.
10. Theatre, Motion Picture Houses, a. One (1) 2J gallon extinguisher
Portion of buildings used for per two thousand (2000) feet of
public theatrical purposes. floor area or fraction thereof,
figuring galleries, auditorium and
basement separately, and in
addition, one (1) gallong
extinguisher on each side of stage
b. Two (2) 2J gallon extinguishers
in basement or dressing room area.
c. One (1) gallon extinguisher at
entrance of furnace room.
d. One (1) eighteen (18) foot
plaster hook on eadh side of stage
e. One (1) 2J gallon extin uisher
for every two hundred (200� square
feet of floor area or fraction j
thereof in projection booth.
11. Tank Trucks One (1) 1-quart carbon tetrachlo-
ride extinguisher or its equivalen
(b) All extinguishers must be of a correct approved type for the
several classes of hazards according to the National Board of Fire Under-
writers' ratings, to-wit: Class A, B, C and D.
(c) All extinguishers must be kept in a serviceable condition at all
times. Soda, acid and foam type extinguishers shall be recharged at least
once each year and the date of such recharge placed on the attached tag.
(d) All fire-fighting equipment shall be located in an accessible and
conspicuous place approved by the Chief of the Fire Department and/or Chief
of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
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(e) The foregoing provisions shall not apply where there is a
sprinkler system or where equivalent protective devices exist.
(f) Whenever referred to in this article "Extinguisher" shall
mean an approved type extinguisher of 2j gallon capacity or its
equivalent.
(g) In buildings five (5) stories or higher in height, the con-
tractor shall erect standpipe connections which shall be carried up
with the building and shall never be less than two (20 stories below
the working floor on the building.
2506. - Fire Extinguisher Salesman. - License Required. - It shall
be unlawful for any person acting for himself or as an agent or represent-
ative, to engage in the business of buying, selling, offering for sale,
consigning to be sold, trading, bartering or otherwise dealing in new
or second hand fire extinguishers, within the corporate limits of the
City of Fort Worth, without first having obtained a license therefor.
Such licensee to have passed any examination of fitness the Chief of the
Fire Department and/or Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention., may Are-
s tribe.
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CHAPTER ZXVI
GAS APPLIANCES AND CONNECTIONS
2601. - Shut-off valves on all Gas Service Pipe. - An outside valve
shall be installed on every gas service pipe regardless of size that
supplies large stores or factories, or places of public assembly such as
churches, theatres, motion picture theatres, schools and hospitals, and
on every service pipe 2J inches or larger in diameter.
26021 - Shut-off valves to be Tagged. - Shut-off cocks and valves
shall be placed in suitable stop or valve boxes, manholes or vaults,
the covers of which shall bear the name of the company to which it belongs
and the valves if necessary tagged to properly identify their purpose.
2603. - Gas Burners Protection. - All gas burners shall be placed
at least 3 feet below any woodwork or ceiling attached to wooden beams,
unless the same is properly protected by a shield, in which case the
distance shall be not less than 18 inches.
2604. - Gas Bracket Protection. - No gas bracket on any lath and
plaster partition or woodwork shall be less than 6 inches in length
measured from the burner to the plaster surface or woodwork.
2605. - Metal Connections for Gas Appliances. - All gas fired
appliances, including portable heaters, hot plates, ranges, ovens and
water heaters of any type used for heating and/or cooking in factories,
asylums, theatres, department stores, workshops, churches, schools (public
or parochial) or any building used for commercial occupancy, shall be
connected to gas piping with approved, flexible tubing as specified below
may be used provided there is a shut-off at the gas line connection.
2606. - It shall be unlawful for any person to use, sell, expose
or offer for sale, or to install or fix, any tubular connection of fabric
intended for any illuminating gas fixtures, stove, heater or lamp, or
other gas appliances, unless such tube connection, hose or similar device
shall be approved by the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention in
accordance with the following specifications:
(a) Gas tubing shall be made up in suitable lengths with end
pieces securely attached by the manufacturer.
(b) All gas tubing must be made up of a. strong gas-tight
metal core with rubber packing and covered with a layer of good quality
rubber or other suitable gas-tight material and a braided cloth covering.
Such layers or covering or rubber to be put on over the metal core in
such a way that it will of itself forma gas-tight wall.
(c) Each length of tubing shall be labelled by the man-
ufacturer with a tag attached to the tubing or a marking on the end
piece, or both. The inscription shall state the manufacturer's name,
the length of the tubing or any other information pertinent to the public
use of this piece of tubing.
(d) Rubber end pieces must be of good quality, must be at
least 2 inches long, corrugated inside, and have an outside wall thickness
of at least 5/32 inch at the gas appliance end and must be so attached
as to stand a pull equal to lifting a weight of 50 pounds.
2607. - All gas stoves or gas plates shall be placed on iron stands
at least 6 inches above combustible supports unless the burners are at
least 5 inches above the base with ,metal guard plates below the burners.
2608. - Gas burners installed in low pressure steam boilers or hot
water boilers or furnaces, used for heating buildings, shall be provided
with thermostatic pilot light so constructed and adjusted that no gas can
flow through the main burner unless the pilot light is burning, or with
some other similar type of safety device serving this same end. The
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operation of the safety device which shuts off the main gas supply, shall
not depend on the closing of an electric circuit.
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CHAPTER XXVII
MISCELLANEOUS
2701. - Combustible waste matters in buildings in Fire Zone No. 1-
No persons shall be permitted to place or let remain in any box or
barrel or otherwise in any building, basement, street, alleyway or yard
within Fire Limit No. 1, longer than six hours, any loose straw, hay,
paper, empty boxes, barrels, crates or other combustible refuse in such
quantity as to become dangerous, and all owners or occupants of buildings
or basements within said limit are hereby required to permit any officer
or member of the Fire Department, designated by the Chief of the Fire
Department and/or Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention to authorize
such inspections.
2702. - Permittinq weeds, Grass, Brush, etc. , to remain on Lots.-
It shall hereafter be unlawful for any person or his agent, owning, renting
or having under his or their control, any lot or premises whether vacant
or improved, to suffer or permit any down timber,brush, old logs, or
decaying vegetable matter or any such lot or premises so that any such weeds
or grass or other matter herein stated may by reason of fire endanger any
adjoining property or that may be reasonably calculated to communicate fire
to any adjacent premises.
2703. - Notice to Remove 'Reeds Grass Brush etc.. - Whenever in
the opinion of the Chief of the Fire Department and/or Chief of the Bureau
of Fire Prevention any debris, grass, weeds or brush or other plant growth
upon any property in the City of Fort Worth constitutes a fire menance, he
shall notify the owner, agent, occupant or person having control of such
property, to remove within a specified time such debris, grass, weeds,
brush or other plant growth.
27C4. - Burning of Uncut Grass or Weeds. - It shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation within the corporate limits of the City
of Fort Worth, to burn or cause to be burned any grass or weeds on any
private, or public property within the City.
2705. - Vacating Tenants to Clean Premises. - Whenever any person now
occupying or using or hereafter occupying or using any building or premises
in the City of Fort Worth as a place of business or as a residence or for
any other purpose, whether such person be the owner, lessee or tenant,
or in any other manner occupyinE the same, shall remove from and vacate
such building or premises, then it shall be the duty of such person so
vacating or removing from such building or premises to immediately remove
therefrom all loose paper, rubbish, trash and waste matter of every kind
and character, and to place the building so vacated and the premises
adjacent thereto or used in connection therewith in a clean condition.
Should the Chief of the Fire Department and/or Chief of the Bureau of Fire
Prevention be unable to locate the lash known occupant or vacating tenant,
then the owner or agent or person in charge of the vacated building or
premises shall immediately, upon written notice from the said Chief of the
Fire Department and/or Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention remove or
cause to be removed therefrom, said rubbish, trash and waste matter.
2706. - Closing of Vacant Buildings. - Whenever any unoccupied building
or structure in the City of Fort Worth is not properly secured or closed,
the Chief of the Fire Department and/or Chief of the Bureau of Fire Preven-
tion shall notify the owner or person having control of such premises to
forthwith secure or close the same, so as to prevent unauthorized persons
from gaining access thereto, and the person so receiving said notice, may
appeal, in writing, from the order of the said Chief of the Fire Department
and/or Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention to the City Manager, who
shall determine the appeal.
2707. - Storage of Empty Containers, - The storage of empty packing
cases, boxes, barrels or other similar combustible containers is forbidden
wilhout a permit except in the opens Provided, however, that no permit
shall be required for the storage within a manufacturing or other estab-
lishment of sufficient packing cases, boxes, barrels, or other similar
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containers to properly carry on its operations, but such storage shall
be orderly and not so located as to endanger exit from the building.
Storage in the open of packing cases, boxes, barrels or other similar
combustible containers shall not be more than twenty feet in height,
and shall be at least fifty feetfrom the nearest building. All such
storage shall be in a compact and orderly manner.
2705. - Flammable Decorations Prohibited. - Cotton batting, straw,
dry vines, leaves, trees, celluloid or other highly flammable materials
shall not be used for decoration purposes in show windows or stores without
a permit, provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be held
to prohibit the display of saleable goods permitted and offered for sale
in the store. Electric light bulbs in stores or public halls shall not
be decorated with paper or other combustible materials unless such
materials shall first have been rendered flameproof.
2709. - Open Flame Prohibited, - No person shall take into any
building, barn, vessel, boat or any other place where highly flammable,
combustible or explosive material is kept, an open flame unless such
light or flame shall be well secured in a glass glove, wire mesh cage or
similar approved device.
2710. - Smoking Unlawful Under Certain Conditions. - (a) It shall
be unlawful for any person to smoke, carry or have al ghted pipe, cigar,
cigarette or anything which is likely to produce a fire, or to light or
strike a match in or an any building, structure or premises in whbh cotton,
lumber, gasoline, petroleum products and other volatiles, explosives,
chemicals, paint or any inflammable or combustible cbth, liquids or
materials are kept, stored, processed, manufactured, displayed or used
where there is conspicuously posted on or in such building, structure or
premises, a sign: "NO SMOKING" by order of Chief of the Bureau of Fire
Prevention." The words "NO SMOKING" shall be in letters at least four (4)
inches in vertical length, and the balance of such signs shall be in
letters at least one-half inch in vertical length, all of which shall
be in legible words, and upon cardboard, metal or cloth. The said signs
shall be not less than 6 inches by 16 inches in size. Two or more of such
signs shall be in each room,, or portion of the building or premises which
is separated from other portions, and *here the Chief of the Bureau of
Fire Prevention, or an inspector serving under him shall have found that
a fire hazard would exist unless such notices are posted and complied with.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention and his
assistants to notify the owner or person in charge of such building,
structure or premises, to post such notices whenever it comes to his
attention that a condition exJsts which shall cause a fire hazard if such
notices be not posted and complied with. It shall be unlawful for any
person in charge of such building, structure or premises to fail to post
such sign within three (3) days aftdr having received notice to do so.
(b) Smoking may be permitted in any such building, structure
or premises in any room or rooms designated for smoking purposes, and
which room or rooms have been inspected and approved for smoking purposes
by the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention of the City of Fort Worth or
his assistants.
2711. - Disposal of Burning materials. - It shall be unlawful for
any person to throw or drop or cause to be thrown or dropped, any lighted
match, cigar, cigarette, burning tobacco, or other burning material in
such manner that such material may possibly fall upon any combustible
substance of any nature.
2712. - Disposal of Ashes. - No person shall deposit ashes,
smouldering coal or embers, greasy or oily substances or other matters
liable to create spontaneous ignition within ten feet of any wooden or
plastered wall, partition, fence, floor, sidewalk, hay, lumber, shavings,
rubbish or other combustible materials, except in metallic or other non-
comoustible receptacles. Such receptacles, unless resting on a non-
combustible floor or on the ground fmffi outside the building, must be kept
at least two feet away from any combustible wall or partition,
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2713. - Chimney and Smokebtadke. - Construction. - All chimneys,
smokestacks or similar devices fox conveying smoke or hot gases to
the outer air and the stoves, furnaces, fire boxes or boilers to which
they are connected shall be constructed and maintained in such a
manner as not to endanger adjacent property, and in accordance with
the Building Code.
2714. - Smoke Pi es and Spark Arrestors 'Thereon. - Any person or
persons operating a stove, oven or barbecue pit, ei her portable,
temporary or permanent, shall have same equipped with a smoke pipe, or
vent extending not less than three (3) feet above the roof, tent or
canopy, and must have said smoke pipe or vent equipped with an approved
spark arrestor.
2715. - Open Flame Hating Apparatus Near Combustible or Inflammables. -
No heating apparatus with an opefi` ame and no artificial lighting system
other than incandescent electric lights shall be used in any warehouse for
the storage of rags, excelsior, hair or other flammable or combustible
material; nor in any shop or factory used for the manufacture, repair or
renovating of mattress or bedding; nor in any establishment for the up-
holstery of furniture.
2716. - Trapdoors and Slaftways to be Marked. - All trapdoors,
except those which are automatic in their operation, in any factory,
building or buildings used for storage shall be closed at the completion
of the-business of each day. Every outside window in a building used for
manufacutirng purposes or for storage which opens directly on any hoistway
or other vertical means of communication between two or more floors in
such building, shall be plainly marked with the word".shaftway" in red letters
at least six inches high on a white background, such warring sign to be
so placed as to be easily discernible from the outside of the bui]ding.
Every door or window opening on such shaftway from the interior of the
building, unless the construction of the partition surrounding the shaftway
is of such distinctive nature as to make its purpose evident at a glance,
shall be similarly marked with the warning word "Shaftway" so placed as to
be easily Visible to any one approaching theshaftway from the interior
of the building.
2717. - Removal of Debris or Partially Burned Building After Fire. ,-
(a) The owner or person having under his control Or in his possession
upon any premises in the City of Fort Worth, any hay, straw, bales of
wool, cotton, paper or other substances which have been rendered useless
or unmerchantable by reason of any fire on such premises, or any debris
resulting from such fire, must remove the same from such premises within
forty-eight (49) hours after notice to do so has been served by the Chief
of the Fire Department and/or Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
(b) Whenever any building or other structure in the City of
Fort Worth is partially burned, the owner thereof, or the person in charge
or control thereof, shall within ten days after notice from the Chief of
the Fire Department and/or Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention and/or
Building Inspector so to do, remove all refuse, debris, charred and partiall;
burned lumber and material from the ground; and if said building or other
structure shall be burned to such an extent that it is rendered incapable
of being repaired, as required by this, or any other ordinance, the owner
of the property upon which same is located, or person in charge or control
thereof, shall, within ten days after notice from the Chief of the Fire
Department and/or Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention and/or Building
Inspector so to do, remove all of the remaining portion of the building
or structure, from the ground.
(c) The Chief of the Fire Department and/or Chief of the
Bureau of Fire Prevention and/or Building Inspector may extend the ten-
day period of removal of such burned or partially burned buildings, when
the insurance adjustment, if any, is still pending.
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2718. - Regulation of Storage of Inflammable Substances. - No
tenement house, apartment house, hotel, lodging house, rooming house,
hall, theatre, or place of amusement or public assembly, nor any part
thereof, nor the lot on which such building is situated, shall be used
as a place of storage, keeping or handling of any explosive, inflammable
oils, hay, straw, excelsior paper stock, feather, rags or acids or any
other inflammable substances. This article shall not apply to Drug
Stores (retail wherein explosives and inflammable oils or acids are kept
and stored in small quantities for medicinal purposes. )
2719. - Hay or Straw Stacks Must be Protected.-f No person shall -
in the City of Fort Worth, have, put or keep any straw or hay in stacks
or piles without having the same enclosed or secured so as to protect
it from flying sparks of fire.
2720. - Lights in Livery Stables or Barns. = No owner or occupant
of a livery stable or .o her stable or building in the City of Fort
Worth used for the purpose of housing stock, shall, by himself or those
in his employ, use therein or in any place containing hay, straw or
other combustible matter, any artificial light other than regular electric
lights or electric lanterns.
2721. - Combustible Lam Shades. - It shall be unlawful for any
person in the City of Fort Worth to attach to any electric light globe
or other lamp or light in such manner as to come in direct contact with
said electric globe, lamp or light, paper, cloth or other m mbustible
material.
2722. - Carrying Burning Coal or Firebrands Through the Streets. -
No person in the City of Fort Worth shall carry or cause to be cars ied,
in any street, alley or other thoroughfare, any burning coal or fire-
brands, unless the same be shut up in a covered vessel.
2723. - Building Fires on Pavement. - It shall be unlawful for any
person, within the City of Fort Worth, to build a fire upon the surface
of a paved street, curb or gutter.
2724. - Use of Torches or Open Flame for Thawing Out Pipes or
Burning Off Paint.T It shall be unlawful to use any torch, open flame
or other flame-producing device for the purpose of thawing out any pipe
in or under any house, building or structure or for removing paint from
any building.
2725. - Cleaning Chimneys and Burning Flues. - The owner or occupant
of any house, shop or other building. in the Oity of Fort Worth shall
wause the flues or chimneys thereof to be swept or burnt out as often as
may be requisite to keep them clean. In case of burning out a flue, it
shall be done in the daytime, and when rain is falling or when the roof
of the building is covered with snow or very damp. If any persons shall
suffer the flues of a house occupied by him to be burnt at any other time
than herein expressed, he shall be liabel to the penalties hereafter
described.
2726. - Containers for Combustible Material. - All receptacles for
excelsior, waste paper, rags or other substance liable to spontaneous
ignition or combustion, or otherwise to cause fire must be made of non-
combustible material, and must have non--combustible covers, and if
portable must have a clear air space of not less than six inches below the
bottom.
2727. - Inflammable Substances. - No person shall boil any pitch,
resin, turpentine, varnish or other inflammable substance in the City
of Fort Worth, unless the same be done in an open space. At least ten
feet distant from any building or to other property that might be injured
thereby, or in a fire-proof building, excerpt that the Chief of the Fire
Department and/or Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention may grant special
permits for the heating of roofing materials where it is not expedient
to comply with thisprovision.
be maintains Catch Pans for Sidewalk Gratin scotch here shall at q11 times
pan, said oa c pan
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to extend not less than four (4) inches past and beyond all sides of
the grating or gratings, said catch pan to be regularly cleaned and
kept free from all accumulations of dirt and refuse.
2729. - Sidewalk Dea�ts. - All sidewalk deadlights shall be
kept in good re air, and broken deadlights shall be replaced within
twenty-four (24� hours after notice has been served to make necessary
repairs.
2730. - Lumber Storage. - No persons, firm or corporation shall,
within the limits of the amity of Fort Worth, place, pile or cause to
be placed or piled, any lumber or timber to a greater height than
twenty-five (25) feet, measured in all cases from the line of the
sidewalk or adjoining ground level, to the highest point of the lumber
or timber piles. Any old lumber stored or kept upon, or in, any premises
in the City of Fort Worth other than a lumber yard, mill yard or premises
in which buildings are under construction, must be piled in a neat and
orderly pi manner, free from ruboish or other waste material, in piles
not to exceed six (6) feet in height.
2731. - Manner of Storing, Goods and Merchandise. - It shall be un-
lawful for the owner, tenant or proprietor of any store or building in
which any goods, wares or merchandise of any kind are stored or per-
mitted to remain, to store, place or permit same to remain within such
buildings, in any story thereof, so as to prevent and obstruct free
and convenient access in case of fire, into said building, or any story
thereof, from any door, window or other opening leading from said building,
or any story thereof into any street or alley or to the outside of said
building. All merchandise shall be stored at least 19 inches below the
ceiling of any room and at least 12 inches below any sprinkler pipe.
2732. - Opeings.in Buildings. - It shall be the duty of the owner,
proprietor or tenant of any building to maintain and keep not less than
one opening on each street side or frontage of -building and in each story
thereof for each fifty (50) feet of frontage, and to keep the same
free and unobstructed, so that the Fire Department may, in case of 'fire,
have ingress into said building, and in each story thereof. That the
size of such openings shall be not less than 30 inches wide and 49 inches
high. That said openings shall be marked with red painted circles if, and
when, in the opinion of the Chief of the Fire Department and/or Chief of
the Bureau of Fire Prevention, said marks are deemed necessary .for
identification purposes.
2733 - Obstruction to Means of Egress. - No obstruction of any kind
that would hinder or block access or egress lof occupants or persons, or
would interfere with the operation of the Fire Department, shall be per-
mitted on any fire escape, or in any hallway, passageway, stairway, window,
doorway, alley or driveway in or on any premises in the City of Fort .Worth.
2734. - Emergency Elevators. - In every building in the City of
Fort Worth that is equipped with one or more elevators, exceeding three
stories in height, at least one elevator shall be kept in readiness for
immediate use of the Fire Department, during all hours of the day and
night, including Sundays and holidays,, and said elevator must be designated
by a sign reading "EMERGENCY" and shall remain at the first floor level
at all times when building is not open for business.
2735. - Obstruction of Basement Pipe Inlets. - No goods, wares or
merchandise, or any other obstruction of any kind or description shall
be stored or placed near or under any basement pipe inlet in such a
manner as to interefere with the proper operation of any circulating
nozzle or other device used through such basement pipe inlet by the
Fire Department, in case of fire.
2736. - Fire Doors and Shutters. - All fire doors or fire stop
shutters designed, constructed and installed for the purpose of retarding
fire, in the City of Fort Worth, shall at all times be kept shut or closed,
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unless the same is provided with proper fusible links or other device
which will cause such door or shutter to close automatically in case
of fire. No hooks, stops, pegs or other devices shall be allowed on
such fire doors or shutters, that will interfere in any manner with
their automatic operating in case of fire.
2737• - storage of Combustibles Near Furnace Room. - No combustible
material shall be stored within ten feet of any furnace room door.
2739. - Furnishing Samples of Flammable Liquids. - Any person having
in his possession or offering for sale in the City of Fort 6orth any Class
I, II and III flammable liquids shall furnish a sample of same whenever
requested to do so by the Chief of the Fire Department and/or Ohief of
the Bureau of Fire Prevention for the purpose of testing.
2339. - Tampering with Fire Alarm Signal Boxes* Kegs; Interference
with System. - No, person or persons shall open any of the signal boxes
connected with the fire alarm telegraph system of the City of Fort Forth
for the purpose of giving a b1se alarm, or pull the hooks therein except
in case of fire or tamper, meddle or interfere in any way with said boxes,
or any part thereof, by cutting, breaking, injuring or defacing the same,
or interfere in any way whatsoever with the machinery, apparatus, line,
wire, poles or brackets, or in fact, anything connected with any part of
said fire alarmtelegraph system. No person entrusted with a key to the
signal boxesshall make or cause to be made an impression of said key
except by written consent bf the City Manager and Chief of the Fire Depart-
ment. No person shall make or use any false key, release key, or any key
not regularly issued, by the proper city authorities. No person, persons
or corporations shall string wires over or above said fire alarm telegraph
system, or attach wires to the poles of said system without the written
consent of the City Manager by order of the City Council.
2740. - False Fire Alarm. - I f any person shall falsely or
maliciously, by any means whatsoever, give an alarm, of fire when there
is no fire, such person shall be fined not more than one hundred ($100.00)
dollars.
2741. - Obstruction of Fire Plugs. - It shall hereafter be unlawful
for any person, corporation or association of persons to obstruct in
whole or in part, or cause to be obstructed in whole or in part, with or
by any box car, flat car, lumber, boxes, merchandise or any material,
stuff or other substance of any kind, character or description, any fire
plug within the limits of the City of Fort Worth.
2742. - Same - Corporations. - In case of any corporation or
association, it shall be the duty of the president, secretary, gf)neral
manager and local agent of such corporation or association to see that
no fire plub within the city of Fort Worth is obstructed by anything
which is the property of or under the control of such corporation or
association, and such persons shall be responsible for any violation
of this article arising out of the act-of such corporation, association
or its agents or employees.
2743. - Blocking Street, Alley or Sidewalk. - Permit Required. -
It shall be unlawful for any person either for himself or as an agent
or representative of another to erect any scaffold, barricade or
construction tunnel, which blocks or partially blocks any part of a
street, alleyway or sidewalk without first notifying the fire alarm
operators of the Signal Alarm Division.
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CHAPTER XXVIII
PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION
2901. - Any person, firm, or corporation who violates any of the
provisions of this ordinance, or fails to comply therewith, or who shall
violate or fail to comply with any order or regulation made thereunder,
or who shall buildin violation of any statement of or plans submitted
or approved thereunder, or any certificate or permit issued thereunder
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be
punished by fine not exceeding Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). zvery
day during which a violation continues will be a separate offense. In
case of a violation of any of the terms or provisions of this ordinance
by any corporation, the offl cers or agents actively in charge of such
business, or the person actually performing the work for the corporation,
shall be responsible for the work herein provided for .
2902. - Validity. - In the event any part, section, subsection,
paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this ordinance shall be
declared or adjudged invalid, such adjudication shall not in any manner
affect any other parts, sections, subsections, paragraphs, sentences,
clauses, phrases or words of this ordinance, but all the rest hereof
shall be in full force and effect just as though the part, section, sub-
section, paragraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word so declared or
adjudged invalid was not originally a part hereof.
2503. - Conflicting Ordinances Repealed.. - All ordinances and parts
of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
2804. - Date of Effect. - This ordinance shall take effedt and be in
force from and after its passage, and publication as provided by law.