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An Ordinance amending section 2 of ordinance "?o.800, entitled
"An Ordinance rogulat.ini� the keopinr, and storing of crude petroleum
and its products within the limits of thecity of Port. Townsend,
Washington",and ropouling said section 2.
'The.City Council of the City of Port Townsend do ordain as fol-
low$:
Sec. 1. That section two of ordinance No. 600, entitled "An
Ordinance regulating. the keeping and storing of crude petroleum and
its.products within thn limits of the City of Port Townsend,
Washington", he and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sac. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or
corporation to keep or store crude petroleum or any of its products
, in quantities exceeding one hundred gallons, unless such petroleum
'and. its products be icopt and stored in metal tanks located so as to
leave a clear space of not less than one hundred feet between such.
tank or tanks and any combustible property, other than tanks for
the storage of petroleum or any of its products and so located as to
be at laast_sevanty-five Poet from high water ma of tide water or.
from the shore line of fresh water bodies, and be surrounod by an
embankment or bulkhead capable of retaining one and one-third times
the contents of such tank or tanks, which said embankment or bulkhead
shall have no openings and shall be constructed of non-combustible
material and in good workmanlike manner and of such height and
thickness as, will reasonably answer the purpose for which it is
built accordini� to the judr•ment of the council granting the permit:
Provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the storage
of fuel oil in connection with fool oil bud ng plants
Sec. 2. That section two of said ordinance No. 800 be and the
same is hereby ropealed.
Sec. 3. This ordinance shall be published once in the Daily
Leader and tak/ne� �effect and be in force from and after five days after
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