75-57-15 - Minimum storage facilities within the state required of certain distributors of liquefied petroleum gas; enforcement.
§ 75-57-15. Minimum storage facilities within the state required of certain distributors of liquefied petroleum gas; enforcement.
(1) Before any person, firm or corporation shall enter the liquefied petroleum gas business as a distributor of liquefied petroleum gas, who plans to make retail or wholesale tank truck deliveries to consumer, and before a permit may be granted as required by Section 75-57-49, such person, firm or corporation shall locate, within the State of Mississippi, a propane storage container of not less than fourteen thousand (14,000) water gallons capacity and an aggregate total of propane storage containers of not less than thirty thousand (30,000) water gallons capacity for each such permit granted; and provided further, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to a liquefied petroleum gas distributor operating retail service stations who does not operate a delivery tank truck to ultimate consumer. Storage containers used in connection with industrial, agricultural, manufacturing, processing or commercial enterprises will not necessarily meet the requirements of this section.
(2) All storage facilities shall meet the Insurance Commissioner's approval, and he or she is hereby vested with the sole and exclusive power and authority to administer and enforce the provisions of this section.
(3) Nothing in this section shall affect a permit granted to a person, firm or corporation before July 1, 1991.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 5104-05.7; Laws, 1960, ch. 166, §§ 1-3; Laws, 1980, ch. 416, § 4; Laws, 1980, ch. 561, § 30; Laws, 1982, ch. 408, § 6; Laws, 1991, ch. 442, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 1991.