2006 New York Code - Limited Storage Permit.

 
    §  27-4055  Limited  storage  permit. a. Permits may be issued for the
  storage of petroleum and shale oil, and the liquid products thereof, and
  of coal tar, in a manner satisfactory to the commissioner, in  buildings
  or  premises  other  than  storage plants, approved tank trucks or other
  vehicles, or approved buried tank systems, in quantities not  to  exceed
  the following:
    1.  Volatile  flammable  oils  five hundred fifty gallons, except that
  such oils may be stored in larger quantities in fire department approved
  tank trucks or other vehicles, pending deliveries,  in  outdoor  spaces,
  when  permitted  by  the  zoning resolution, when provided with portable
  fire fighting appliances as the commissioner may direct, or,  when  such
  trucks  or  other  vehicles  are  equipped with battery cutoff switches,
  within fully sprinklered buildings complying with the building code  and
  the zoning resolution of the city of New York.
    2.  Other  oils  that  do  not emit a flammable vapor at a temperature
  below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit, when tested in  a  Tagliabue  open
  cup  tester--one thousand one hundred gallons, except that such oils may
  be stored in larger quantities in fire department approved  tank  trucks
  or  other  vehicles,  pending  deliveries,  in  outdoor spaces or within
  buildings complying with the zoning resolution and  the  building  code,
  when provided with the following minimum fire protection:
    i.  In  outdoor  spaces  portable  fire  fighting  appliances  as  the
  commissioner may direct.
    ii.  Within  buildings  portable  fire  fighting  appliances  as   the
  commissioner   may   direct,  battery  cutoff  switches,  and  sprinkler
  protection as required by the building code, except  that  for  existing
  buildings  lawfully occupied as a garage prior to the sixth of December,
  nineteen hundred sixty-eight, sprinkler protection shall be provided for
  storage of over forty-five  thousand  (45,000)  gallons,  and  sprinkler
  protection,  or  smoke  detection  or  thermostatic  alarm  system  with
  connection to central office, shall be provided for storage  of  between
  twenty-two  thousand  five  hundred  (22,500)  and  forty-five  thousand
  (45,000) gallons, all in accord with subdivision (a) of section  27-243,
  subdivisions  (a)  and  (b)  of  section 27-455, subchapter seventeen of
  chapter one of this title and reference standard RS 17-3  of  the  code.
  For  storage  of  less  than  twenty-two  thousand five hundred (22,500)
  gallons--portable fire fighting  appliances,  as  the  commissioner  may
  direct,  shall  be  provided,  in accord with subdivision (c) of section
  27-455 of this title of the code. A permit shall be required for storage
  of product pending delivery except when such storage is on the site  of,
  or in the immediate proximity of, a bulk oil storage plant.
    b.  Restrictions. No permit shall be issued for the storage or sale of
  volatile flammable oil in any building:
    1. Where the building does not comply with  the  requirements  of  the
  building  code  regulating high hazard occupancies for buildings erected
  after the sixth day of December, nineteen hundred sixty-eight; or  where
  a  building  or  building  section  erected  prior  thereto is not fully
  equipped with an approved  automatic  sprinkler  system;  or  where  the
  building  is  occupied as a multiple dwelling, dwelling, school, theatre
  or other place of public amusement or assembly; except  that  group  one
  public  garages, as defined and classified in the building code shall be
  permitted. The commissioner may issue a permit for the storage  and  use
  of  such  volatile  flammable  oil  in  buildings  occupied  as schools,
  colleges, universities, hospitals and/or related facilities,  when  such
  oil  is  required  for educational, instructional, clinical, diagnostic,
  research or testing purposes. Such use and  storage  shall  be  in  such
  amounts and under such conditions as the commissioner shall prescribe;
    2. Where explosives are stored or kept for sale or use;


    3.  Where dry goods or other material of a highly flammable nature are
  manufactured, stored or kept for sale;
    4.  Where the portion of the building occupied or used for the storage
  of  volatile  flammable  oil  is  lighted  by  any  means   other   than
  electricity;
    5.  Upon  any floor above the ground floor of a building, except in an
  approved safety can in quantities of five gallons or less  and  for  use
  only.