[Adopted 6-11-1975 by L.L. No. 8-1975 (Art. III of Ch. 55 of the 1970 Code)]
The Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village
of Port Jefferson, being cognizant of the hazards presented by the
spillage or leakage of waste oil and other petroleum products, and
further being cognizant of the importance of protecting and preserving
natural resources, hereby deems it necessary and essential to regulate
and control the handling, storage and disposition of waste oil and
other petroleum products.
As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A metal container with a screw cap or other device for closing
which prevents liquid or gases from escaping from the container.
A metal barrel, having a capacity not in excess of 55 gallons,
with a screw cap or other device for closing which prevents liquid
or gases from escaping from the drum.
A device or apparatus which is connected or attached to a
drain for the purpose of preventing oil or other petroleum products
from flowing into a sewer, disposal system or the ground.
Any product, such as gasoline, fuel, oil and kerosene, which
is derived from petroleum.
Any location where the business of mechanical maintenance
work, repair or replacement of parts on engines or mechanisms using
petroleum products is carried on, regardless of whether the engine
or mechanism on which the work is being performed is designed for
automotive, marine, home garden and lawn or other use.
Any location or property where flammable or combustible liquids
used as motor or engine fuels are stored and dispensed from fixed
equipment into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles and where services
for the changing of motor oil may be provided.
A below-ground or aboveground tank approved, both with regard
to construction and location, by the Fire Inspector of the Village
of Port Jefferson.
Any oil which has been drained or removed, either before
or after having served its primary purpose, from the reservoir wherein
it was contained during the performance of its primary purpose.
It shall be unlawful for any person to drain
any waste oil or other petroleum product from a motor vehicle, machine,
conveyance or equipment unless it is deposited, either directly or
indirectly, into a container, drum or storage tank as defined above.
It shall also be unlawful for any person to permit, sanction or condone
any condition which allows any such oil or petroleum product to leak,
drain or spill on any ground, pavement or roadway or to discharge
or seep into any sewer, leaching pool, stream, lake, well or other
body of water. This section shall not be construed to render unlawful
a condition wherein no more than a few drops of oil drip from the
underside of a car, truck or other machine in any one day but shall
be construed to prohibit spillage or leakage from such cars, trucks
or other machines.
The owner or operator of any service station
or repair shop shall provide and install oil separators or traps to
prevent waste oil and petroleum product spillage from flowing into
any sewage disposal system, leaching pool, stream, lake, well, other
body of water or into the ground. Contents of oil separators or traps
of floor drainage systems shall be collected at sufficiently frequent
intervals to prevent oil from flowing into any of the above-mentioned
places. Oils or petroleum products recovered from the oil separator
or trap shall be removed and disposed of or stored as hereafter required.
A.
Waste oil, used petroleum products or spillage of
petroleum products and oil or other petroleum products removed from
oil separators or traps shall be stored in either: approved storage
tanks or metal drums or containers.
B.
Waste oil, used petroleum products or spillage of
petroleum products and oil or other petroleum products removed from
oil separators or traps shall be disposed of in the following manner:
(1)
If stored in a metal drum or container, such materials
shall be either transferred to an approved below-ground or aboveground
storage tank or removed from the limits of the Village of Port Jefferson
at sufficiently frequent intervals so that the amount stored in such
metal drums or containers does not exceed 550 gallons at any time
if the property on which such metal drums or containers are stored
is a service station, repair shop or other commercial area or 20 gallons
at any time if the property on which such metal drums or containers
are stored is a residence. These limits may be modified, either up
or down, by the Fire Inspector if he deems such modification necessary
or advisable.
(2)
If stored in an approved storage tank, such materials
shall be pumped from such tank into a tank truck and removed from
the limits of the Village of Port Jefferson.
[Amended 6-11-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992; 1-5-2015 by L.L. No. 1-2015]
Any person who violates this article or fails to comply with any of its requirements shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalties provided in § 1-2 of the Code of the Village of Port Jefferson.
