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b. No garage shall ever be kept or allowed within fifty feet of any building or place used for a school, hotel, or public building used as a place of assemblage or detention. Miscellaneous. - a. No person except by express direction of a municipal officer in an emergency shall place or allow to be placed in any sewer, any inflammable liquid. b. No person may smoke or strike any match or cause any spark within fifty feet of any place where inflammable liquids are being dispensed or used in open containers, or stored or kept for sale; nor shall any stove or open flame be permitted in any such room or place. c. No person shall use Class I or Class II inflammable liquids in starting or feeding any fire except in heating devices designed to use such liquids as fuel. d. Fuel supply of inflammable liquids to stationary internal combustion engines shall be by pumpage from tanks, and not by any system of gravity -flow. e. Whenever any inflammable liquid shall have escaped from any tank, by leakage or overflow or in any other manner, it shall be the duty of the owner and of the occupant and of the person in charge of the premises to notify the fire marshal and the chief of the fire department at once of such fact, in order that pre- caution may be taken to minimize the resulting fire hazard. Inspection. - The Fire Marshal shall inspect all installations of tanks and other equipment designed to handle inflammable liquids before the same are placed in operation and no person shall use any installation or cover or cause any such installation to be covered from view before the same has been inspected. The Fire Marshal shall also make a monthly inspection of all premises which are under permit to store, dispense, or use inflammable liquids, and require compliance with the terms of this article by written orders which shall state the time in each case within which such compliance must be made. Time for Compliance. - All installations which do not conform to the requirements of this article shall be made to do so within ninety (90) days after this ordinance becomes effective. The Fire Marshal shall report to the Council at the end of such ninety (90) day period all persons who have failed to comply herewith and the location of said non -complying installations and the Council will take such steps as seem necessary to secure compliance herewith. Sale and Storage of Gasoline: General. - No person shall sell, offer for sale, deal in, keep, or handle any motor gasoline, kerosene, furnace oil, or lubricating oil as defined in the 1929 Session Laws of Minnesota, Chapter 425, as amended or as same may be amended or replaced from time to tirne, contrary to the provisions of said Chapter. Violations - Penalties. - Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in an amount not to exceed $300.00 or imprisoned for not to exceed 90 days, or both. Each day that any violation is continued shall constitute a separate offense and punishable as such. Effective Date. - This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and publication according to law.