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Page 5 Ordinance No. 73- 25 (3) These provisions do not require installation of automatic sprinkler protection for gasoline or oil storage tanks. The use of quenching oils, heating oils, or other oils at elevated temperatures. (b) Coating and drying processes and any associated kilns, driers, or tenter framers, such as in the manufacture of oil cloth, rubber-coated or water-proofed fabrics, artificial leather, patent leather, and linoleum, where fire may occur from sparks, over-heating, or spon- taneous heating. (c) The manufacture, storage, or use of highly combustible solid materials, or chemicals, such as nitro-cellulose (including film), pyrosylin, explosives, munitions, matches, fireworks, flares, and signal lights. (d) Processes using or producing combustible dusts, such as pulverizing and grinding as in starch works; graaLn handling as in grain elevators; and flour and cereal handling as in grist mills. Processes handling or exposing readily-combustible materials, such as woodworking; cleaning and picking textile fibres; garnetting; upholstering; waste handling; mattress and batting making and picking. (e) Storage, where the nature, quantity, or piling of com- bustible materials may make fire difficult to control, such as in high piled storage of rags, waste paper, fibres such as cotton, jute, hemp, etc., and crated or boxed goods. Sec. '8. Council declares thss to be an emergency ordinance necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, such emergency arising out of the necessity to provide for the automatic extinguishment of fire in buildings which because of their size, con- struction or occupancy constitute a burden on the fire fighting facilities of the Fire Department, without undue delay, in order to correct a situation now deemed undesirable; wherefore this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor. Passed this lg,~ day of Tune ~ 1973. £F~ ATTFiST