Schenectady, NY Fire Regulations: Propane Storage (2026)

Chapter 167, § 167-35F, Liquefied Petroleum Gas, sits inside the Fuel Gas article of the City's Housing Standards. Subsection (1) is an outright prohibition: undiluted liquefied petroleum gas in liquid form shall not be stored in buildings, and it also may not be conveyed through piping equipment and systems inside buildings. Subsection (2) adds that LP gas cannot be vaporized using devices with an open flame or an open electrical coil, closing off a common workaround for warming a tank faster. The remaining subsections regulate how outdoor container systems must be built: where two or more containers are installed, the connections must let one be swapped out without shutting off gas flow to connected equipment; containers themselves must be designed, stored and located so they don't endanger the served premises or neighboring property; the system needs safety devices to relieve excess pressure with the discharge routed to a safe location; and every system must have at least one accessible shutoff, located outside the building, kept in good operating condition.

Read together, the section makes clear that liquid-phase LP gas storage belongs outside the structure entirely, with the container, its shutoff and its pressure-relief hardware all sited and maintained so a leak or overpressure event can't become a fire spreading into the building itself.