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been obtained from the Board of Trustees of the City of Santa Aha, California. Section 6. Regulating the construction ani use of buildings occupied as garages, clothes cleaning establishments ~nd the storsge and use of g~oline in connection therewith. Definitions and miscellaneous provisions: The following terms shall have the following meaning in this Ordinance to-wit: (~)"Chief of fire department" means chief of the fi~e department of the City of Santa Rna, California, or any one of his assistants. (b) "Approved" means approved by the chief of the fire department. (c) "Gasoline" means any product or any hydro-carbon liquid that will flash or emit an inflammable vapor below the temperature of one hundred and ten (110) degrees Fahrenheit. (d) An "automobile" is any motor vehicle using gasoline or distillate for generating motive power. (e) A "public garage" is a building where motor vehicles are kept or stored or where a cherge is made for use or storage of automobiles. (f) A "private garage, is a building where an automobile or automobiles ~re kept for private use only and not rented nor hired out to the public nor any charge made for keeping the s~ne. (g) "Private Gareges" where more than two automobiles are kept or stored shall be subject to the same requirements as specified for public garages. (h) A "Gara~e" shall include both a public ~nd private garage. (i) "Clothes cleaning establishment~" shall mean any building or premises where more than one (1) quart of gasoline is kept to be used for cleaning or renovating any clothing or articles of wearing apparal or fabric of any kind including dye works and tailor shops. (k) "Standard test" means will not flash or emit an inflammable vapor below one hundred ~nd ten (llO) degrees Fahrenheit, the fire chief shall determine the flashing point. - (i) The provisions of this Ordinance shall ap~ly to buildings now existing as well as any hereafter constructed. Section ~. Garages, filling stations, clothes cleaning establish- merits. (a) Permits. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corpo- ration hereafter to conduct or maintain any garage, filling station, or clothes cleaning establishment w~thout first obtaining a permit therefor from the Board of Trustees of the application for a permit shall be of the permittee and the loc~tion City of Santa Aha, California. The in writing and shall specify the name of the premises to be u~ed a~ an automobile garage, filling station, or clothes cleaning establishment, ~:d the amount of gasoline that may be stored in said premises. No gasoline shall be kept or stored in or about any garage, filling station or clothes cleaning establishment, except as authorized ~ such permit and provided for in this Ordinance. (b) Protection. 1. There shall be in every public garage and clothes cleaning establishment one chemical fire extiinguisherm of not less than three gallons each where the floo~ space is less than One thouse, nd square feet, and one additional chemical flre extinguisher for each additlonal 1000 square $. Every public at least two hundred pounds feet of floor space or fraction thereof. garage shall also have on hand at all times of clean sand w~th one hand scoop ~n each barrel or box of sand to be pla~ed in different parts of main floor and repair shop, if any, such sand when saturated with ell or gasoline shall be removed from the building. The use of sawdust for absorbing oils in any garage shall be prohibited,~except for sweeping only).