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282 OIL INSPECTION


or use, any of the illuminating oils specified in this Article, nor shall any person sell or offer for sale for illuminating purposes, oils which shall omit a combustible vapor at a temperature of less than one hundred (100) degrees Fahrenheit, according to the test herein described.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a penalty not to exceed five hundred (500) dollars fine, or imprisonment in the State Penitentiary not exceeding one year, or both such fine and imprisonment.

§ 18. CONTAINERS. PENALTY.] It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to keep for sale or use, or to sell any gasoline or petroleum products of less than one hundred (100) degrees Fahrenheit, flash test, in any barrel, cask, package, can or receptacle, unless the same is painted red, or to keep for sale or use or to sell any petroleum, illuminating oils, in any barrel, cask, package, can or container if the same is painted red, provided, however, that in the case of gasoline, benzine or naptha being sold in bottles for cleaning and similar purpose, it shall be deemed sufficient if the contents are so designated by red label securely pasted or attached thereto, bearing the words "Gasoline," "Benzine," "Naptha," as the case may be; provided, however, that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any barrel, cask, or other receptacle, the capacity of which is over sixty gallons. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty- five (25) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail of not to exceed sixty (60) days or both.

§19. PENALTY.] Whoever shall use, sell or cause to be sold unlawfully for illuminating purposes, any of the illuminating oils specified in this Article, which are below one hundred (100) degrees Fahrenheit, flash test, as tested by the official test as herein described, shall be liable to any person purchasing such oils or to any person injured thereby for any damage to any person or property arising from the explosion thereof.

§ 20. REMOVED FROM OFFICE IN CERTAIN CASES.] It shall be the duty of the Governor whenever he shall find that the State Inspector of Oils is guilty of refusal or neglect to discharge any of the duties enjoined upon him by this Article, to promptly remove him from office. It shall be the duty of the State Inspector of Oils to promptly remove from office any of his deputies who shall prove to be unfaithful or dishonest in the discharge of his duties.

§ 21. PORTS OF ENTRY DESIGNATED. How.] The State Inspector of Oils is authorized to designate as ports of entry, points where public necessity requires inspections should be made; but in no case shall any place be designated as a port of entry unless there shall have been received at such place at least one thousand barrels during the preceding year.

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