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<br />DIVISION 12i REFINERIES, CHER'ICAL FLANTS,°AND DISTILLERIES <br />Sec. 16.80 Prerequisites to issuance of permi~L•.r'nr reconstruction <br />or operation. <br />~tJo permit shall be issued for the construction or operation <br />of a chemical plant, distillery, refinery or plan storing or <br />handlinp• crude petroleum until approval has been given for the <br />operation with respect to topography, nearness to places of assembly <br />residential or mercantile occupancy, and adequacy of water supply <br />for fire control. <br />(a) A minimum of ene hundred (100).feet separation sh~:ll <br />be maint?.ined from any builr?~ng not a part of such <br />refinery or chemical plant unless appro:a3 in writing <br />by the fire marshal. <br />(b) A minimum of three hundred (300) feet from any insti- <br />tution or place of assemblage. <br />(c) .4o building .;r apparatus in which flammable va5ors may <br />be accumulated or discharged shall be erected within <br />(1) One hundred (100) feet of any oil yell, tank, <br />boiler, o en flame or other permanent source of <br />ii;nition, except internal combustion engines used <br />in connection in~ith compressors, pumps or other <br />equipment necessary for process, <br />(2) Fifty ($O) feet of any public sC~~eet, alley, <br />or property line. <br />Sec. 16.81 Storae~e of flammable or combustible liquids to be <br />in either aboveground or under~.round tanks. <br />Flammable liquids shall be stored in tanks under;round in <br />accordance ~:~ith Division 3 of this article. Combustible liquids <br />shall be stored in tanks either aboveground or u~~derground in accord- <br />ance with Division 2 or 3 of this article. <br />Sec. 16.$2 Location of tanks. <br />Tanks for the storage of flammable or combustible liquids in <br />tank farms and in locations other than process areas shall be lo- <br />cated in accordance v:ith Division 2 of this article. <br />(233) <br />