§ 96.46. ABOVEGROUND INSTALLATIONS.

All above-ground tank installations shall be of a capacity of six hundred (600) gallons or less and shall be in the form of skid tanks. Tanks exceeding six hundred (600) gallons capacity shall be installed underground. Above-ground storage tanks in excess of six hundred (600) gallons capacity now in use shall not be replaced with aboveground tanks but only with underground tanks. However, a tank exceeding six hundred (600) gallons in capacity may be placed aboveground if it is a fire-resistant protected tank listed and tested in accordance with UL 2085, Standard for Protected Aboveground Tanks for Flammable and Combustible Liquids and adequately screened from view.

(Code 1980, § 11-27(7); Ord. No. 63-81, passed 9/22/81; Am. Ord. No. 20-98, passed 6/2/98; Ord. No. 09-09, § 4, passed 2/17/09)

Cross reference

Penalty, § 96.99.