2004-75 AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 44 - FIRE PREVENTION AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS CONTROL

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numbers on the placard. The placard for the outside of the facility shall be thirty (30) inches square, constructed of a weather resistant material, mounted square on point in a location approved by the Fire Department. Smaller placards may be required by the Fire Department inside the facility to mark special hazards. Placards shall not be removed or moved without the permission of the Fire Department. Permission shall be requested from the Fire Department to remove placards from any facility that no longer contains hazardous materials. 8. HAZARDOUS USE OF COMBUSTIBLES. No person, firm, corporation or other entity shall keep, store, transport, transfer, sell, deliver or use within the corporate limits of the City of Decatur, any petroleum product, gasoline, volatile oils, or other volatile combustibles or compounds in such a manner or under such circumstances as to jeopardize life or property, or in violation of any provisions of City Code, Fire Prevention Code or State of Illinois Rules and Regulations for Flammable or Combustible Liquids. 9. TANK VEHICLES. The driver or operator or attendant of any tank vehicle, whenever transferring flammable or combustible liquids to or from such vehicle, shall remain outside the same and in constant attendance thereat at all times during such operation. No-person shall carry or possess any ignited, smoking, smoldering or flammable substance in the vicinity of such operation or expose the same to open flame, during the course thereof. Tanks of delivering vehicles and of storage tanks or marketing or servicing stations shall be so equipped as tor permit the same to be connected in such a manner as to prevent the escape of liquid other than into the tanks being filled. No delivery or tr_ansfer of Class I _or II flammable liquid into the tanks of _ marketing or service stations shall be made except through such a connection as required hereby. During the making and breaking of connections, the motors of delivering vehicles shall be shut down. .