Section 170.160  Care and Attendance

a)         No motor vehicle shall be serviced with Class I, II, or III fuel until motor and ignition have been shut off.  In cases of recreational and similar vehicles or any vehicles designed to contain equipment or appliances utilizing pilot lights, arcing motors or similar devices, all such devices shall be shut off (in addition to motors and ignitions) before servicing the vehicle.

b)         No smoking shall be permitted in the dispensing and vehicle service areas at any time.

c)         No open lights or flames shall be permitted about premises except in heating devices within station building.

d)         Premises shall be kept neat and clean, and free from rubbish or trash.

e)         Cleaning of station floors, or premises with gasoline, naphtha, or other liquids of Classes I, and II shall not be permitted.

f)          Accurate daily inventory records shall be maintained and reconciled on all liquid fuel storage tanks for indication of possible leakage from tanks or piping.  The records shall be kept at the premises, available for inspection by the Office of the State Fire Marshal and local authority, and shall include, as a minimum, records showing by product, daily reconciliation between sales, use, receipts, and inventory on hand.  If there is more than one system consisting of a tank(s) serving separate pump(s) or dispenser(s) for any product, the reconciliation shall be maintained separately for each tank system.  The inventory records required by these rules shall be kept for three years.

g)         When dispensing liquids into motor vehicle fuel tanks, dispenser nozzles shall be either manually held open or may be held open by a latch-open device which is an integral part of the listed nozzle assembly.

h)         Temporary, portable or removeable hold-open devices including, but not limited to, plastic hooks, wires, wood blocks, gas caps and similar devices shall not be used on dispenser nozzles.  No person firm or corporation shall market, expose for sale, sell or distribute by any means whatsoever, in the State of Illinois, any temporary, portable or readily removable device designed or intended to be used for the purpose of holding open flammable or combustible liquid dispensing nozzles during dispensing operations at service stations.

(Source:  Amended at 9 Ill. Reg. 9514, effective October 1, 1985)