Logan, UT Fire Regulations: Propane Storage (2026)

Section 8.04.020 sits in Article II of Chapter 8.04, the Fire Prevention Code, under the heading on storage of flammable or combustible liquids in outside aboveground tanks. Subsection E sets the local limits that chapter 38 of the International Fire Code leaves to the city for liquefied petroleum gas. The residential rule is flat: no liquid petroleum gas shall be stored in aboveground storage tanks in residential areas. The LPG subsection prints no exception. Compare subsection B, which lets aboveground vaulted or double walled tanks stand in a residential area only for emergency backup fuel for public utility equipment, and only for flammable or combustible liquids.

The zoning district decides which rule applies. Under subsection A, industrial, commercial and residential areas are the areas zoned industrial, residential and/or commercial under the Logan City zoning ordinances. Title 17, the Land Development Code that holds those districts, is not part of the code text this page was built from. In commercial or industrial districts an aboveground LPG tank is allowed only if the container and its distance from the building comply with the standards and conditions in the International Fire Code, and only after application for and permit from the Chief of the Fire Department. Section 8.04.010 adopts the 2012 edition of that code, so that edition supplies the container and distance standards.

If the chief disapproves an application or refuses a permit, section 8.04.070 lets the applicant appeal to the mayor within thirty (30) days from the date of the decision. The same section family treats compressed natural gas differently: section 8.04.030 bars it from residential areas unless the Fire Chief gives written approval after application and issues a written permit.

The text speaks of aboveground storage tanks. It does not mention small portable cylinders and does not say whether they fall inside or outside the ban.