Waynesville, MO Fire Regulations: Propane Storage (2026)

Section 650.210 of the Waynesville Municipal Code, adopted by Ordinance 2408 on March 20, 2020, governs liquid propane storage citywide. The installation, maintenance and operation of any LP gas tank must conform to NFPA 58, the national Liquefied Petroleum Gas Code. Once the City's natural gas service reaches a construction site, new residences, remodeled buildings, public buildings and commercial businesses may not install or continue using propane tanks at all; the ordinance is written to push new hookups onto the municipal gas system. Properties already relying on propane when the ordinance passed can keep doing so, but only up to a 500-gallon storage capacity.

Anyone who needs to exceed that cap must get sign-off from the City Administrator and the Mayor or the Utility Committee before adding capacity. The City Council can also grant a site-specific exception where no gas line reaches the property and extending one is not economically feasible; that exception automatically expires the moment the property sells or within six months once City gas service becomes available and is actually extended. Any tank the City allows must meet the propane company's own installation specifications, be built so flooding cannot compromise the tank, and pass inspection by the City Building Official.

Property owners who keep metered or non-metered propane for domestic use inside the City also pay the 1% city sales tax on those propane purchases under Section 615.270. Pre-existing tanks that were already out of compliance when the ordinance took effect get evaluated case by case by City staff rather than an automatic shutoff.