Lubbock, TX Fire Regulations: Propane Storage (2026)
Key Facts
- Standard adopted
- 16 TAC ch. 9, TX Railroad Commission
- Enforcement
- City of Lubbock Fire Marshal's Office
- Conflict rule
- Article 10.06 controls over other city code
- Adopted by
- Ordinance 2017-O0059
- Local numeric limits
- None printed; state rules govern
Summary
Lubbock doesn't write its own propane tank size limits; it adopts the Texas Railroad Commission's Liquefied Petroleum Gas Safety Rules wholesale under Article 10.06 and lets the fire marshal's office enforce them. Any conflict between another part of the city code and this LP-gas article is resolved in the LP-gas article's favor.
§ 10.06.001. Adoption of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Safety Rules. The city hereby adopts the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Safety Rules previously adopted by the Texas Railroad Commission as set forth in title 16 of the Texas Administrative Code, chapter 9, including any and all future amendments thereto. The rules hereby adopted are on file in the fire marshal's office and city secretary's office all such copies shall be opened to public inspection during business hours of the offices where they are maintained. ... § 10.06.002. Enforcement. The code hereby adopted shall be enforced by the City of Lubbock Fire Marshal's Office. ... § 10.06.004. Conflict with city codes. In the event of conflict between any ordinance, order, rule, or code adopted by the city and this article, this article shall control.
Full Breakdown
06, added by Ordinance 2017-O0059, is short but explicit about deferring to the state on propane. 001 adopts "the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Safety Rules previously adopted by the Texas Railroad Commission as set forth in title 16 of the Texas Administrative Code, chapter 9, including any and all future amendments thereto," and keeps a copy on file at the fire marshal's office and city secretary's office for public inspection during business hours. 002 hands enforcement to the City of Lubbock Fire Marshal's Office. 005 bars city staff from adopting or enforcing any rule, regulation, practice or standard that conflicts with it.
Because container capacity and placement limits live inside the Railroad Commission's chapter 9 rules rather than in the Lubbock code itself, a Lubbock property owner installing a residential propane tank is bound by the state's tank-size, setback and installation standards, with the city fire marshal handling local inspection and enforcement rather than the city writing separate numeric limits. 006(11)(D), reinforcing that LP-gas equipment citywide is judged against the state and NFPA standard rather than a home-grown Lubbock limit.
Violations & Fines
Article 10.06 sets no fine schedule of its own, so a violation of the adopted LP-Gas Safety Rules falls under the code's general penalty, § 1.01.004: a municipal-court fine set to match the penalty for the same or a similar state offense, with each day of noncompliance treated as a separate violation. The fire marshal's office, per § 10.06.002, is the enforcing authority and can order correction of an unsafe LP-gas installation found during inspection.
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