5944 Crude Petroleum Regulation1
ORDINANCE NUMBER 5944
(Published in the Salina Journal r,t ('-'V (,?'-. -,1955}
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AN ORDINANCE, regulating the business of/crude Petroleum within the City of Salina, Kansas,
and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
WHEREAS, the production of crude petroleum is deemed to be inherently dangerous; and
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WHEREAS, it is deemed advisable to provide for additional regulations to be prescribed re-
lating thereto; and
SO, NOW, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIOkTERS OF THE CITY OF SALINA, KANSAS:
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Section 1. TANK BATTERIES. That all crude petroleum storage facilities shall be
designed and completed so that all hatches and openings in the top of, on or about the tanks,j_..
OM recurely Locked at all times. The locks shall be adoptable to opening only by key.
Section 2. MIP JACKS AND MOTORS. That all pump jacks and motors shall be sec-
urely and permanently fenced bya six-foot chain link fence, topped by three (3) strands of
barbed wire. That ani gate installed for operative use shall be designed of like or eq-
uivalent rreterial and shall be securely locked at all times and _:.d,._table to opening only
by key.
Section 3. PROHIBITION. That production of crude petroleum from, sub -surface with-
in the City of Salina, Kansas, except after strict compliance, as a condition precedent with
the requisites of Sections 1 and 2 thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Seect`�011 4. PENALTY. That any person violating any provisions of this ordinance
or an;,, person failing to strictly comply with its requisites, shall be deemed to be guilty
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of a public offense and fined not less that: $50.00 and not more than *500.00. Each day
of violation is hereby declared to be a separate offense.
Section 5. Thatthis ordinance shall be in full force and effect sixty (60) days
from and after its adoption and publication in the official city paper.
Attest:
City Clerk
Introduced: March B, 1955
Adopted: March 15, 1955