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(22,022.)

        

An ordinance to revise the Building
Code of the City 0! St. Louis, being Ar-
ticle Four, Chapter One (‘1' the Municipal
Code, by repealing Sections Thirty—eight
to Two Hundred and Fitty- three, inclu-
sive, or said article, and enacting in lieu
thereof a new ordinance governing the
construction and erection, reconstruction,
alteration, repair, remodeling, changing.
moving, removal and securing of build-
ings in said city, and providing_ for the
safety of buildings when so erected; also '
regulating the use of and providing for
the safety of the public in theatres, opera
houses and other buildings devoted to pub-
lic amusement. ,‘

 

Be it Ordained by the Municipal As-
sembly of the City of St. Louis, as fol-
lows:

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Section One. Sections thirty-eight to two
hundred and fifty-three, inclusive, of the
Municipal Code, are hereby repealed, and
it is hereby enacted that the construction,
erection, repairing and altering, or re-
moval, of buildings in the City/of St.
Louis shall hereafter be in conformity
with this ordinance. Provided, that noth-
ing in this ordinance shall be construed to
prevent the completion of any building
operations for which permits shall be in
force at the time of the approval of this
ordinance, in accordance with the terms A .
of the ordinance in force at the time of f ' i
the issuance of. such permit

 

Section Two. Permit Required—No .
_work, except minor repairs, shall de done , (42
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'the City of St I6uis without afpermit
-from the Commissioners of- Public! Build- g.
'ings. Before proceeding with the erection,

> enlargement, alteration, repair or 'remov- ’

.al of any building in the city, a permit for

such erection, enlargement, alteration, re-

pair or removal shall first be obtained by

the owner or his agent- from the Commis— ‘_
sion'e'r of Public Buildings,, and it shall be'
unlawful to proceed with the erection, en-
largement, alteration repair or removal 4

of buildings or of any structural part -
thereof 'or of any structure which is to "
be' used for the support, shelter or enclos— '
, ure of persons, animals or chattels Within‘«
the\ city, unless such permit shall first have
‘been obtained~ from the Commissioner of
Public Buildings. . .

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Section Three. No Building to “Be Ah
..--I teréd Without Examination By,the Com- g1
_ missioner.—No"-building already erected. f
,n or hereafter to be erected in the City or
‘ ' St. Louis, shall be enlarged, raised, al-
‘ tered,- or built upon iri’ such manner that
were, such building wholly built or con—
structed after the passage of this ordi- "
nance, it would be in yioiation or any of
the provisions of this ordinance. And be- ~‘
fore any building, in any part 01 bald _\
city, shall be enlarged, raised} altered: 7“
built upon or moved, the same shall first
.v be examined by the Commissioner of Pub;
' "- .‘li‘c Buildings, or his assistants, to ascer- 4
‘ tain ‘if the building or buildings are in 3. ~
safe and good condition ,to be enlarged, --.
raised, altered or built upon, and no such
buildings as aforesaid shall be enlarged,
raised altered or built upon until after
such examination has been made, as pro- 7 ‘ ~ .,
vided in this ordinance. and the fee for
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Section Four. Alterations to Conform to
Ordinances—No wall, structure, building.
part or parts thereof, shall hereafter be
built, constructed, altered or repaired, ex—
cept in conformity with the provisions or
this ordinance.

Section Five. ReconstructiOn of Build-
ings Damaged By Fire—In any case when
any building is, hereafter, damaged by
fire to an extent exceeding fifty per cent
of the amount required to newly erect a
similar building on the identical site, if
such building is repaired or rebuilt, the
requirements of this ordinance shall be
conformed to in every particular, pre-
cisely as required for new buildings.

Section Six. Penalty for Constructing Or
Altering Without Permit.——Every person
who, as owner, agent, lessee, builder,
architect, .mechanqic or contractori shall
commence any building in the City of St.
Louis, or do or cause to be done any work
on the same, or build the same. or shall
proceed to alter, enlarge. repair, or re-
move any building, or who shall enclose
any open shed, or pavilion now built, or
hereafter to be built, without having first
procured a permit from the Commissioner
of Public Buildings authorizing the same.
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
and upon conviction shall be fined not less
than five dollars, nor more than five hun-
dred dollars for each offense.

Section Seven. Form of Application.—
Applications for permits shall be made in
writing, signed and sworn to by the owner
or his agent, and shall state clearly and
fully the work contemplated to be done.
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u n form or - limits to h ,
amass by the CommisSioner‘ 'o‘f. ~Public
ldings, and such applications shall re-
; ,, :n on file in the building department.»

The~ Commissioner of. Public Buildings
gutsy require \that said application shell
contain, or be accom’panied with a‘ state’-
ment 'im writing, ,sworn to before a. no-

  

-\,.-residence of the owner, or of the owners
ot» the ground and structure, building or
shed, ‘upon which it is proposed to do any
Work, or, it the work is proposed to be
done or executed by any other person than
the owner or owners of the ground, then
the Commissioner of Public Buildings
”,gn/aly require a statement in writing.
"sworn 9 to as aforesaid, giving the full
name and residence of such person or per-
. sons so acting as agent, lessee, or in any
‘ representative capacity, and that he or
they are duly authorized to perform said
5‘;work.

Section Eight. Filing of Plans and Speci~
\. fications.—-True copies of so much or said
plans and- specifications as may be re-
quired, in the opinion of the Commissioner
“of Public Buildings, to illustrate the feat-
uregr'or construction and equipment of the
building referred to in this ordinance.

Public Buildings, and shall remain on file
in his office until the completion or. occu-
'pation of said building, after which such
‘ plans and specifications shall be returned
by the Commissioner of Public Buildings
to the parties by whom they have been
deposited with him, upon the demand of
* said person or persons. It. shall not Be’ ob-
ligatory upon the Commissioner 0"! Public
~Buildings to retain such plans and speci-

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5e 'ssued'.it0r,the ‘

‘tary public, giving the full name _ and-_

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flcations in his custody for more than three
months after the completion or or occu-
pation or any building.

All plans presented for examination or
filing must be drawn on tracing cloth, or
other material equally durable, to scale in
India or other indelible ink, or may be
drawings reproduced by the sun print, or
other process. The building line must be
indicated on the foundation plan, and the
plan of each floor and all necessary eleva-
tions and sectional drawings to fully and
clearly represent the character and con—
struction of the proposed work must be
furnished, together with a plat of the lot
upon which any building is to be built or
altered, showing its proposed location on
the lot, and the location or all other
buildings then upon the lot. Such plat
shall be drawn to a scale, and shall have
written thereon the principal dimensions
of the lot and buildings, and their loca-
tion. No plans will be considered nor ac-
cepted unless accompanied by specifica-
tions sumcient to enable the Commission-
er of Public Buildings to obtain full and
complete information as to the character
of the work to be done. and the time to
be occupied in doing it. Such specifica-
tions and plans must be in duplicate and
shall agree in every respect, and shall
state block and lot number where the
house is to be erected, and contain the name
and address of the owner, architect and
builder.

Section Nine. Approval of Plans and
Specifications—It the matters mentioned
in any application for a. permit, or if the
plans and specifications accompanying
and illustrating the same indicate to the
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the work to be done is not in all respects
in accordance with the provisions of this
ordinance, he shall refuse to issue a per-
mit until such applications and plans and
specifications shall have been made to
conform »in every respect to the require-
ments of this ordinance, and when such
applications and plans and specifications
conform to this ordinance the Commis-
sioner of Public Buildings shall issue a
permit, and shall file said application,
and shall apply to the plans and specifi-
cations an official stamp, which shall im—
ply that the plans and specifications to
whch the same have been applied comply
with the terms of this ordinance. The one
set of plans and specifications so stamped
shall then be returned to such applicant.

Sect-ion T'en. Alterations of Plans—It
shall be unlawful to erase, materially
alter. or modify any lines, figures, or col-
oring, contained upon plans and specifica-
tions( stamped by the Commissioner of
Public Buildings, or filed with him for
reference. If during the progress of the
execution of such work, .it is desired to
materially deviate in any manner affect-
ing the construction or other essentials
of the building, from the terms of appli—
cation. plans, or specifications, notice of
such intention to materially alter or de-
viate shall be filed in Writing with the
Commissioner of Public Buildings, and
his written assent must first be obtained
before such alterations or deviations may
be made.

Section Eleven. Revocation of Permits——
If work upon any building shall be con-
ducted in violation or any of the provis-
ions of this ordinance, either as to occu-

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pation of sidewalk or street, or the use
or application or material or workman-
ship, or deviation from the approved
plans and specifications, or if any false
statement, in any material point, be con-
tained in, or accompanied with the appli-
cation upon which any permit has been
issued. it shall be the duty of the Com-
missioner of Public Buildings to revoke
the permit for the building operations.
And it shall be unlawful, after the revo-
cation of such permit, for any person.
firm, or corporation, to proceed with such
buildings operations until such permit
shall first have been reinstated or reis-
sued by the Commissioner oi‘. Public
Buildings. Before a. permit, revoked for
the cause, or causes before mentioned,
can be lawfully reissued or reinstated.
the entire building and building site must
first be put into condition corresponding
with the terms of this ordinance, and any‘
work or material applied to the same in
violation of the terms of this ordinance
shall be removed from said building. Any
person. firm or corporation violating any
provision of this section shall, upon con-
viction, be subject to the penalties pro-
vided in section six of this ordinance. A
permit reinstated, or reissued, shall be
reissued, or reinstated, without cost to
the owner, unless the cost of said build-
ing has been found to be materially in-
creased over the amount stated in the
application, in which case the .fees shall
be prorated, as provided in section four-
teen of this ordinance.

Section Twelve. Expiration of Permits.—
If after a permit for the erection, en-
largement, alteration, repair or removal
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,. d'at ‘ thereof, or if such perations When
n gun. are not- completed within the time"
ed in the said permit for the duration
thereof, then said permit shall be void, and
before such operations can be begun
’or-completed, a new permit shall be pro-'-
cured by the owner or his agent, 'andtees
as herein fixed for the original permit shall
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,Section. Thirteen. Extension of Permits.
—dIf it shall be found that the time called
or in any permit for building operations
hall expire before the said building or
buildings can be completed, the Commis-
sioner of Public Buildings shall have the
power to extend the time called for in
said permit, without extra cost or charge
therefor, if it shall seem to him proper
to do so, from evidence he may obtain in
regard to same, from the owner or architect,
thereof or from the contractor for such
building operations.

 

Section Fourteen. Cost of Permits. -The
fee to be paid for a permit for the rerec-
tiOn or alteration of buildings shall be,
"onedollar. if the estimated 'cost of said

building or buildings, or alterationhshall

be less than one thousand dollars; and
for every additional one thousand dollars
of cost, or fraction thereof, the further
sum of fifty cents shall be paid. If it
should appear to the Commissioner of.

'Public Buildings, during the erection of
f‘ any building or buildings for which a per-
mit. has been issued, that the cost of'said
-building' is in excess of the amount stated
in- -the- original application. the Commis-
sioner of Public Buildings shall have the

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right to re-estimate the cost of any such
building or buildings, and require the
ogner of said building or buildings to pay
an additional fee, so that the fee paid
shall conform to the entire cost of said
building or buildings, as provided for in
this section. The fee to be paid for a per-
mit to remove a building shall be on‘e
dollar if the building cover twenty-five
hundred square feet or less of area, and
the further sum of fifty cents shall be
paid for every additional twenty-five hun-
dred square feet of area or part thereof.
The fee to be paid for a permit to erect
signs, as provided in section ‘bighty-one
of this ordinance, shall be at the rate of
one dollar for every twenty-five square
feet of area of such sign, or portion there-
of. Each such permit shall state there-
on the number and size of signs permitted
thereby, and the street and number of
the premises whereon they are to be
placed. The fee to be paid for a permit
to erect bill boards, shall be at the rate.
of one dollar for every five lineal feet
thereof, and each such permit shall state
thereon the length of bill boards permit-
ted thereby, and the street and num-
ber of the premises whereon they are to be
erected, and their distance from the line
of the street. The fee to be paid for a
permit to erect or install any heating or
power apparatus, as required in sections
one hundred and nine and one hundred
and ten, shall be one dollar for every such
apparatus.

Section Fifteen. Inspection Fees—The
fee to be paid for each inspection, as pro-
vided in sections sixteen, seventeen, one
hundred and ten and one hundred and
eleven of this ordinance, shall be one dol-

    
   

  

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anul for any person or persons to pro-'
eed with any operation provided for in
said section’s before such inspections have: ,
een made and the fee for the same has
been paid.

        
   

Section Sixteen. 0t Inspection—No
,building, partition or structure 'shall be
covered in/by lathing, plastering; sheath—
.ing-‘or father-wise, until the ,Connnissioner
of ,Public Buildings hals, by examination,
[ascertained that the said building, parti-_.
, tion or structure has been built in ac-
“cordance with the provisions of this ordi-
nance. It shall be the duty of the owner,
or his duly authorized agent, or the build-
er. to notify the Commislsioner of Public '1
Buildings, in writing, whenever/any/buildu "
*' ing is ready for inspection. ,And no build-

‘ ing, partition or structure, shall be cov-

eredv in by lathing, plastering, sheathing ,

or otherwise, until such inspection, is made, ' (a.
and the Commissioner of Public Buildings
has issued a certificate to the effect that
, '.the said building, partition or structure
,g has been built in compliance with the
' requirements of this ordinance, and the
Ice for said inspection has been paid.

as provided in section fifteen of this
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Section Seventeen. Alterations in Build--

ings.—Before proceeding ‘to raise, enlarge. -
alter, build upon, move or tear down any .
existing structure or. building in the City A
of St. Louis, the person or persons pro- ‘3
.\ ' posing to raise,- enlarge, alter, build upon.
.- move or" tear down any such structure or :
building shall make application in writing "
to the Commissioner of Public Buildings '
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building. The fee to be paid for such in-
spection shall be as provided in section
fifteen of this ordinance. Alterations in
buildings which do not involve any change
in their structural parts or of their stair-
ways elevators, fire escapes or other means
of communication or ingress or egress may
be made without such inspection and the
payment of said fee.

Sectio'n Eighteen. Board of Appeals.—
There shall be in the City of St. Louis a
board to be called the Board of Appeals.
from the rulings of the Commissioner of
Public Buildings, which board shall
consist of three ’members to be ap-
pointed as follows: One inspector of
the St. Louis Fire Prevention Bu-
reau, who shall be appointed by the
Mayor, with the approval of a ma-
jority of the Council, and who shall
hold his office for three yeans from the
date of his appointment. One architect,
who shall be appointed by the Mayor,
with the approval of a majority of the
Council, and who shall hold his ofiice for
two years from the date of his appoint-
ment. One master builder, who shall be
appointed by the Mayor, with the approv-
al of a majority of the Council, and who
shall hold his office for one year from
the date of his appointment. The terms
of the several members of said board shall
be three years each after the expiration
of the first term. Any member of said
board may be removed by the Mayor or
Council for malfeasance. incapacity or neg-
lect of duty. Said board shall meet the
second and fourth Mondays of each month
to consider such matters as may be
brought before them. Special meetings
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Public Buildings, with the approval of
the Mayor. Each member of said board
shall be paid by the City a compensation
of ten dollars for each meeting. The
reasonable .expenses for said board, in-
cluding clerical assistance, shall be paid
by the City of St. Louis.

Section Nineteen. "Appeal From the De-
cision of the Commissioner of Public
Buildings—Any applicant for a permit
from the Commissioner of Public Build-
ings required by this ordinance, whose ap-
plication has been refused, or revoked; or
any person who has been ordered by the
Commissioner of Public Buildings to in-
cur any expense, may, within fifteen days
after being notified of such refusal, or
order, appeal from the decision of the
Commissioner of Public Buildings, by giv-
ing the Commissioner of Public Buildings
notice in writing that he does so appeal;
said notice shall be accompanied by a cer-
tificate that said applicant has paid into
the City Treasury the sum of five dollars.
to be retained by the citY: provided, how-
ever, n-o appeal to the board shall be
legal in case of unsafe structures and
condemnations, as provided hereafter in
section one hundred and seventy—five of
’this ordinance. Any person, the value of
whose property may be affected by work
to be done under any permit granted by
the Commissioner of Public Buildings,
may, within three days after the issuing
of such permit, appeal by giving to. the
Commissioner of Public Buildings notice
in writing that he does so appeal, and
payment of the fee as afOresald. All
cases in which appeals have been taken
as above provided, shall be referred to
the Board of Appeals, and said board
shall, after hearing. direct the Commis—

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sioner of Public Buildings to issue his
permit under such conditions, it any, as
they may require, or to withhold the
same.

Section Twenty. Right to Enter Prem-
ises—Any member of the Board of Ap-
peals and any officer of the building de-
partment may, so far as may be neces-
sary for the performance or his duties,
enter any building or premises in the City
of St. Louis.

Section Twenty-one. Definitions of
Terms Used—In this ordinance the fol—
lowing terms shall have the meanings re-
spectively here assigned to them: “Com.
of Pub. Bldgs.” shall-mean- the Commis—
sioner of Public Buildings of the City of
St. Louis. “Repairs” shall mean the re—
newal or restoration to its original con-
dition, of any part of a building which
may have become wholly or partly un-
sound or dilapidated or unfit for the pur-
pose for which it was created and which
renewal may be necessary to maintain
the integrity of the building. But' the
terms shall not be construed to permit
the converting of a building, in whole or
in part, into a new one, or the creating
of new conditions, except in accordance
with the provisions of this ordinance.
“Minor repairs” shall be taken to mean
insignificant repairs not affecting the
structural parts of the building, and cost-
ing less than one hundred dollars. “A1-
terations” shall be taken to mean a
change in or addition to a building. “Ml-
nor alterations” shall be taken to mean
slight alterations not aifecting the struc-
tural parts, arrangement, or occupancy,
of a. building, and costing less than one
hundred dollars. "Building" shall be taken

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port, shelter or enclosure of persons, ani-

“--‘eaeh. portion of such building, so separat-
1 ed, shall be deemed. a separate building.
“Build-mg ’01 the first-class" shall be taken
to mean a. building of fireproof con-
struction throughout, the structural parts
of thich' are wholly of brick, stone,
tile, concrete, iron or steel, or other
equally substantial and incombustible ma-
terials. “Building of the second-class"
shall be/taken to mean a building of mill
or slow combustion construction wherein
all floors and roofs are constructed of
heavy dressed timber, exposed beams,
girders, and planking and supported upon
masonry; walls, or on wooden or fire-
proofed iron or ”steel columns. "Building
or the third-clatss,” shall be taken to
mean any building not of the first or sec-
\ond— classes; the external and party or di-
vision walls of which are wholly of brick.
stone, concrete or othe’i‘ equally sub-
,.1“ stantial and incombustible materials.
C “Building of the fourth-class" shall be
3 taken to mean any building not of the

shall be taken to mean not only non-in-
flammable, but fire-resisting and non-
heat conducting. “Cellar" or “basement"
shall be taken to mean the lower story of
‘a building, when wholly or partly below
* \ ground. “Story" shall ‘be taken to mean
tlkat portion of a building included be-
tween the surface of any floor and the
, surface of the next floor above it, or if
"‘ there be no floor above it, then the space
‘J-T ~ between such floor and the ceiling next
-_ above it. "Attic” shall be taken to mean

any unfinished space immediately below
the roof of a building, or an upper room

 

 

to mean any structure built for the sup--

;mals or chattels; and when separated by;
division 'walls, without openings, then-

first, second or third classes. “Fireproof”.

 
   

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Grime) :Vs‘hali: be e_ ’ {1 'san fthe. as
tabiis'hed » sidewalk legel‘sat‘ the building
"line 0: any street. .30 :if "the building b
->.’not built on the building line of a; street,.
' .then the exposed surface of the ear-thali-
joining any wall shall be taken to be .thm
gradeufor that wall. «“Buildlng line" ‘sh ‘
be: taken to mean the established boun
dary line between \ private property ‘ami!
. any public highway. .. “Height, of a build
ing” shall be taken to mean the Veiiti.
distance between the highest part; '017 the
roof and the highest point of the gnade.
' "Foundation" shall be taken to mean that 9'
portion of a, building below ground and in
'tontact with the earth. ‘Party wall" shall
"-be taken vto mean a. masonry wall used 9!: '
built to be used for .the common separa-
tion or support of adjoining buildings ~ 91'.
_ rseparate owners. “Division wall” shall be‘
=taken to mean a. masonry wall entirely
‘dividing or separating one building from
another. '“Partition wall” shall be taken
to mean any interior wall of masonry.
“External wall” shall .be taken to mean /
' every outer vertical enclosure of a build-f ‘,
ing other than, a party wall. "Curtaln‘r
wall’” sha be taken to mean an enclos-,
ing wall built and supported between ,
’columns or piers, and on girders orgother ‘
supports, and sustaining no weight” but its
own. “Skeleton building” shall be taken
to mean a building of the first-class, the» ,
walls, floors and other parts of which are,
supported upon and carried by a metal
framework. "Slow combustion construc-
tion" or “mill construction” shall be taken
to mean buildings of the second-class
‘ as herein defined. “Dwelling" shall be
'taken to mean any building wherein the
second' story and all stories above it are 1
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1: persons are; accommodated x
sleeping" apartments, and includes
boarding houses and apartment
houses Where cooking is not done in the
several apartments and where there are
more than five bedrooms for hire. “Tene-
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is occupied by more than two families-
living independently_ of each other, and
doing their cooking upon the premises. or
2" ,by‘ more than one family above the first
story, so living and cooking. ‘Theater”
shall 'be taken to mean a building, or por-_
tion of a .building, wherein it is made
a. business to carry on the presentation of
dramatic, operatic, or other ~ perform-
, ances, or shows, for the entertainment of
“ spectators and having a permanent stage
for such performance: whereon rare" em-
ployed scenery and other movable ap-~
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Section Twenty-two. First-Class Bulld-
_, ings.—-A first-class building shall be con—
- structed wholly of non-inflammable ma.-
.terials, with walls, floors and roofs con-
structed of emasonry or concr te: or of
iron or steel frame work, filled between
i_.~-and around with masonry, concrete, terra
cotta. or other durable non-inflammable
and fire—resisting materials. All columns,
- . ,girders, beams, struts and all structural
members shall be protected with fireproof
materials, so put on and held in place as
to effectually protect such members from‘
the effect of fire, corrosion or a rasiom
All exterior columns and all _gir ers or
I'other framing, supporting more than one
story of masonry, shall be protected by
a thickness at any point of at least eight

     

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inches of fire-proof material. All struc:

tural meni'ben‘s of buildings of this class
which may be subjected’ to unusual re-
sponsibility shall be especially protecteed
and flre-proofed in such a manner as to
eflectually protect nsuch members and
their loads from risk of accident by fire
or otherwise. til columns other than
those above mentioned shall be protected
by fire-proofing not less than three
inches in thickness at any point. Floor
and roof beams and other- framing shall
be protected by fire—proofing not less than
two inches in thickness. In buildings of
the first-class wood shall only be used for
the wearing surface of floors, and the
necessary sleepers for their attachment,
for windows and door-frames, sashes,
‘doors and finish around them, hand rails
and treads for stairs, and wainscoting ex-
'cept where specially prohibited by this
ordinance. There shall be no woodwork
of any kind built into masonry walls.
Rough frames and nailing blocks of wood
may be permissible to be built into non-
bearing partitions of fire-proof materials.
There shall be no air spaces between the
top of any floor construction and the
floor boarding, or below any wooden stair
tread, or behnd any woodwork, .but all
such spaces shall be solidly filled with
concrete, or plaster, or other fire-proof ma-
terials.

Section Twenty—three. What Buildings
Shall Be First-Class.—Every building here-
after erected and to be used as a school
building, hospital building, asylum or
sanitarium, having more than two stories
above the basement; and every build-
ing hereafter erected to be used as a lodg—
ing house or tenement house or office
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‘haiiht'above'w-th, base ,
gry , building hereafter erected »to be“
used» as a theater, seating one hundredMOr
more persons, and having seats for. spec-1‘
‘ tators above the main ’floor‘ thereof. shall
be a. building of the first-class. Every
i building /hereafter converted or enlarged
“for use as a school. hospital, asylum,
sanitarium, hotel, lodging house, tenement
house, ofl‘lce building. or theater, shall
comply with the provisions of this ordi-
nance. relating to such buildings, Every
‘ building hereafter erected, altered ‘or en-
"larged to a height greater than ninety
_ feet-above grade, fshall be a building of
, . the first-class, and shall comply in its con-_
.. struction with ails-the provisions of this
ondinance relating to buildings of the first-
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Section Twenty-four. Second-Class Build-
- ing.—-Second-class buildings shall have
‘walls and partitions 'of masonry or
concrete of the thickness required by
section forty-six. Walls at every floor
-_’ level -shall have masonry corbels or off-
sets of not less than four ,inches’upon
which the floor planking, shall rest. Iron
or steel columns, girders, beams or other
.- structural parts shall be fire-prooted in
the same \manner as is required in sec-

“ ~ first-class. There shall be no hollow
wooden partition or any -'Ifi)110W on can-
cealed spaces in any wooden construction.

* But whenever wood \shall be used, it shall
be solid; and it shall not be permissible
im any second-class 'building to so plaster.

or sheath, or cover in with any ma-

:w terials, as to leave any hollow space be-

hind the same. All planking and all wood-

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dressed; and all exposed corners shall
be chamtered or rounded. Wooden coi-
umns shall be bored the full length on
their axes with one and one-half inch
holes; and transversely at top and bot-
tom with one—half inch holes; the least
dimensions of wooden columns. beams or
girders shall not be less than eight inches.
All columns and girders shall rest upon
iron plates of sufficient size and thick-
ness to receive the loads from such col-
umns and girders, and properly distribute
the same to the supporting columns or
masonry below, so as not to exceed the
allowable strains for the various materials.
as given in section one hundred and
thirty-eight of this ordinance. Floors and
roofs shall be of dressed and tongued
planking not less than two and five-
eighths inches thick. This planking shall
constitute the under floor, upon wmch
shall be! laid a. top floor of tongued and
grooved material and crossing the under
floor at an angle of not less than forty-
flve degrees. There shall be laid between
the under floor and top floor, a flrestop
of approved fireproof materials, which
shall not be inferior to a double thick—
ness of two-ply asbestos paper, well turned
up around all walls and columns. There
shall be provided approved water out—
lets for all floors, so distributed as to
provide one outlet for every two thous-
and square feet of floor area. These out-
lets shall be set two inches below the floor
level and be arranged to convey water
to the outside of such building. Win-
dows shall be provided with fire shutters
or be otherwise made fire-resisting, as pr_o-
vided in section one hundred and one of
this ordinance. Every building exceeding
two stories in height and having an un-
divided floor area exceeding seven thou-

    
    

    

 

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buiidiug exceeding ‘seventy-five feet in
, height; -when not- -require‘d b’y this ordf-
nance to be a bu lding of the first-class,
shall be a building of the second-class.
:But nothing in this section or in the. pre-
ceding section shall be so construed as to
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ordinance.

Section Twenty- five. Third- Class Build-
ings —'rThird- class buildings shall not have
a. height exceeding seventy- -five feet; nor
an undivided floor; area exceeding seven
thousand five hundred feet square, when
more than two stories in height. The

of joist construction, and partitions may
be of studs and _plaster. or wood, 'ex-
cept Where ,required by this ordinance
. to be of masonry or fire-proof materials.
3- IThe roofs of such buildings shall be cov-
' ' ered with slate, tile, metal, gravel, or
Lother equally non-inflammable materials.
All buildings hereafter erected, enlarges)
or altered within the fire limits as de<
scribed in section twenty-Six of this ‘ordi-
inance, shall, when not buildings of the first
' or second-classes be buildings of the third-
class. But nothing in this section shall be
‘construed 'to prevent the erection within
the fire limits of such buildings as are pro-
vided for in sections twenty-seven and
twenty—eight. o -

Section Twenty-six. Fourth-Class Build-

ings Not Permitted Within the Fire

j Limits—4N0 fourth-class building shall
‘ 7 hereafter be built within the district
known as the ”fire limits," as herein—
after defined, except such buildings as
are provided for in sections twenty-seven

every“

provided in section twenty-eight of this

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and twenty-eight of this ordinance.’ The r
7 fire limits shall consist of a. district bound-
ed ”by a. ‘line one‘ hundred and fifty feet
beyond the following described boundary:
Beginning at a point on the Mississippi
River where the north line of. Adelaide
avenue extended eastwardly meets said
river, thence westwardly along said ex-
tended north line and said north line of
Adelaide avenue to North Broadway,
thence northwardly along the east line
North Broadway to Carrie avenue,
thence ‘westwardly along the north line
of Carrie avenue to Newsted avenue.
thence southwardly along the west line
of Newstead avenue to Natural Bridge
Road, thence westwardly along the north
line of Natural Bridge Road to Kings-
highway, thence southwardly along the
west line of Kingshighway to Easton ave-
'nue, thence westwardly along the north
line of Easton avenue to the city limits,
thence southwardly with the cfly limits
to a point where the North line of Forest
Park extended westwardly intersects the
city limits, thence eastwardly along said
north line of Forest Park extended west-
wardly and said- north line of said park
to the west line of Kingshighway, thence
south along the west line of Kingshigh-
way to Arsenal street, thence eastwardly
along the south line of Arsenal street
to M‘organford Road, thence south along
the south line of Arsenal street to Mor-
ganford Road, thence south along the west
line of Morganford Road to Meramec
street, thence east along the south line
of Meramec street to Grand avenue,
thence south along the west line of
Grand avenue and its extension to Lough-
borough avenue, thence east along the
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east line of Eighth street to Marceau
street, thence east along the north line
of Marceau street to the Mississippi
River, except that said fire limits :shall
not extend beyond those portions of-
Loughborough avenue, Eighth street, and
Marceau street, here named as bounding
said district.

Section Twenty—seven. Iron-Clad Build-
ings—In cases Where no permanent foun-
dation for a substantial building exists,
and an iron-clad building will not prove
hazardous to surrounding property, a per-
mit may be granted for the erection of
such building within the fire limits, in
accordance with the provisions of this
section. No such building shall exceed
seventy—five hundred square feet in area
nor exceed twenty-five feet in height, nor
exceed one story in height. It shall not
be permissible for any such building,
When exceeding one thousand square feet
in area, to have any wooden flooring, un—
less laid on sleepers embedded in the
earth or in concrete so that there shall
be no open space beneath such floor.
Each piece of the wooden framework of
such buildings when exceeding three hun-
dred square feet in area, shall be en-
cased on all sides with sheet metal of a
thickness not less than number twenty—
four gauge; and the roofs and lnclosed
sides of such buildings shall be covered
with corrugated sheet metal of a thick-
ness not less than number twenty-four
gauge, attached directly to the frame-
work without the use of wooden sheath-
ing of any kind. No such building shall
be placed nearer to the line of any ground
of any other owner than five feet; nor
nearer to another building than ten feet,
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wall ot'the standard thickness, as re-
quired by sections forty-six and fifty-six
of this ordinance. Nor shall these spaces
ever be less than one foot for every eight
thousand cubic feet of size of such build-
ing, between it and the line of an ad-
joining owner, nor less than one foot
for every four thousand cubic feet of
size of such building, between it and an-
other building, unless separated there-
from by brick walls as aforesaid.

Section Twenty-eight. Frame Buildings
Inside of the Fire Limits.-—Frame build-
ings inside of the fire limts as estab-
lished in section tv\venty-six of this ordi-
nance, shall have roofs of gravel, slate,
tile, metal or other equally incombus-
tible materials, and shall not be built
nearer than three feet to the line of any
ground of another owner, nor nearer than
six feet to any other building, unless sep-
arated therefrom by a brick wall of the
standard thickness required in sections
forty-six and fifty—six, nor nearer than
ten feet to the line of any street. nor
on the front half of any lot, and shall
not exceed three hundred square feet in
area, nor twelve feet in height, and no
such building as is permissible in this and
the preceding section shall be lathed or
plastered or lined so as to constitute a
habitation, or to be used for a dwelling:
provided, that where a frame building
may be so placed as to not be nearer
than seventy-five feet to the line of any
ground of another owner, nor nearer than
seventy-five feet to any other building,
nor nearer than seventy-five feet to the
line of any street, it may then be per-
missible to build any such frame building
within the fire limits as is permitted in
section twenty-nine of this ordinance;

   
   
 
  
  
 
 
   
   
   
    
   
   
   
   
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
    
  
   
 
  

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this; section contained shall e
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provided they are erected on or adjacent

to 'Vthe river front or railroad tracks,

isolated lecalities,
dltions as the

Buildings may prescribe,

tion,
prevent

lumber and other

provisions of this

height,

slate, tile,

the

in»

and under such con-
Commissioner of Public

including loca-

provided that nothing in this sec-' ‘
construction
. lumber sheds in lumber yards to protect
material
And, provided further, that it shall
(be permissible to erect open shelters with-
-. in the fire limits, in accordance with the
section.
“shelters shall not exceed twenty feet in
and shall be roofed with gravel,
metal or other equally incom-

of
carried in. /

Such open

bustible materials, and shall be open for at

sides,

.least one third of their height on all
unless closed with brick walls of

the thickness prescribed in sections forty-—
this ordinance. No
such open shelter or shed shall exceed

six and fifty-six of

ten thousand square
shall

feet

in area, nor

any such shelter be built nearer

than three feet to the line of any ground

of another owner,

nor nearer than three'
feet to -another building,

and this dis-

tance shall be never less than one foot
for every four hundred
area of such shed. unless separated from

such other owner,

square feet of

or other building, by

brick\walls of the thickness provided in
sections forty-six and fifty-six.

Section ' Twenty-nine.
, Fourth-Class

the City of St.

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Buildings of the
Permissible Outside of the
'Fire Limits—No fourth-class building in
Louis shall exceed four
hundred thousand cubic feet in size, nor

_ '=construed~ . -
or prevent. the erection of
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‘ forty feet in height, nor shall any fourth-r
class building be placed nearer to _the
line of the ground of another than three
feet unless separated therefrom by a
brick wall of the standard thickness re-_
quired by sections forty-six and fifty;
six, and this distance shall never be less
than one foot for every ten thousand
cubic feet of size of such building. Nor
shall any fourth-class building be built
in any block nearer than seventy-live feet
to the line of any street where there are
fronting upon either side of such street
along said block six or more buildings
of the first. second or third class, unless
the written consent of a majority of own-
ers of property fronting upon both sides
of said street along such block, be filed
in the office of the Commissioner of Pubn
in: Buildings. No fourth-clays dwellings,
tenements or stores shall be built in‘ a
continuous row, except there be brick
division walls of- the thickness required"
in sections forty-six and fifty-six, sep-
arating such buildings and extending
through the roofs as provided in section
sixty-two. -

Section Thirty. Quality of Materials.—
All materials are to be of such quality
for the purpose for which they are to be
used as to insure in the judgment of
the Commissioner of Public Buildings,
ample safety and security to life, limb
and neighboring property. Building ma-
terials are to conform to legal, trade,
and manufacturers’ standards, and to be
subject to the approval of the Commis- ,
sioner of Public Buildings, who may re-
quire tests to be made by the architect.
engineer, builder or owner to determine
the strength of the structural materials
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‘.g, and ‘may ’require certified oop-
.’-‘T.I.“esults of tests «made elsewhere. v
from the architect, engineer; builder, own-v ' -
e'rfi. or other interested parties. » _ m.

        
    
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
     
    
   
  
   
     
   

 

¢ Section Thirty-one. Height of Buildings.
‘- ——No building or other structure hereafter
erected, except it be ,a spire, tower ' or
smoke stack, shall be of a. height ex- "
ceeding.one hundred and fifty feet, and '
if such building front on a street sixty
'~ 'feet or sless in width, then such building ..
shall not exceed two and one-half times ‘ \U

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" 1fajthe width of such street.

3' Sectiion Thirtyfiwo. Excavations—All

- iexcavations shall be so protected by the - .
person causing same to be made that the. ‘—
adjoining soil shall_ not cave in by reason ‘,
of its own weight, or by reason 'of any “ f
load that may rest upon‘ it. ,

Section Thirty-three. Depth of_ Exca- . ‘
vations.——The legal depth for excavations \‘
to the bottoms of footings shall be nine
feet for dwellings, and fifteen feet for . . _.
:“ all other buildings—to be measured from ,_ i.

the curb level on the party line. Whenever

‘ an excavation shall be carried to a greater

depth than the legal depth above given.

it shall be the duty of the person making ,

or causing such excavation to be made to ‘ ‘

preserve any» contiguous legal wall or ‘

walls from injury; and sustain, protect
and underpin the same at his own cost
‘ and expense, so that said wall or walls
.shail be and remain practically gas safe
as before such excavation was com-
menced. He shall give timely written
’notice to adjoining property owners of
a 1 his intention to do so, and adjoining
' property owners shall permit the occu-,
. \pancy of their ground and any buildings.

  

the legal depth above give‘n, the owner\
1 or owners of such adjoining or contigu-
ous wall or walla/«shall preserve their‘
.walls from injury, and so sustain, pro- _
tect and underpin t e same at their own
cost and expense, that the _said wall or.-
walls shall be and remain as safe as he-
fore such excavation was commenced, '

and said owner or owners ot'adjoinin'g or“! _.

'contiguOus wall or walls, shall be permit-
ted to enter upon the premises where such\
excavation is being made for that purpose
' when necessary.

Section Thirty-four. Ground Test—The
Commissioner or Public Buildings may ’re-
quire any applicant for a permit to as-'
certain. by boring or other test. the na
. ture of the ground upon which he pro-

poses to build. The soil to be tested shall

be bored to a. depth of not less than ten

-feet belew the bottom of the lowest foot-

ing. in as many placq‘s as may be neces-

sary, 'to discover its composition and con-'

ditlon. The Commissioner of Public rBuild-r , ,-

ings may require tests to be made on 7
the bottoms ef excavations for tootings~
and foundations, to determine the actual’
load necessary to produce settlement, and
the amount of load imposed thereon shall
be based upon data thus derived, but in
no case shall the load exceed three tons
per square foot.

Section Thirty-five. Leads to be Carried”;0
by the Soil.-——/l‘he load carried by the soil
shall he the total dead load, and an aver-
age live load of not less than ten pounds
per square foot of all the .floor area of
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area,. where such building is used' for
mercantile purposes; and an average live
load of not less than forty pounds per
'.square foot of all the floor area, where
such building is used as a warehouse.
Good, sol',id natural clay shall be deemed'
.to safely sustain a load of three tons to
the superficial foot. The area of footing
courses shall .be sufficient to meet this re-
quirement. ‘

  

Section Thirty-six. Piling—When the
nature M the ground requires that build-
s ings shall be supported on piles, the num-
gi' ber, diameter, ‘bearing and spacing of‘
- such piles shall be suflicient to support
the superstructure imposed. All piles
shall be capped with concrete having a
firm bearing on the piles. Such concrete
to be made as provided in section forty-
two of this ordinance. All piles shall be
“51 driven and the tops cut off on a level to
insure constant moisture in all parts of the
piles.
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‘ Section Thirty-seven. Foundations.—
Every building or the first, second and
third- -class,' and every building of the
fourth- class of more than one story in
height, shall have foundations of stone,
brick or concrete, which shall extend not
less than two feet six inches below the
adjoining exposed surface of the earth,
and shall have suitable footings and rest
on solid ground, or on benched and leveled
rock, or upon piles. Foundation walls of
‘stone shall not be less than six inches
. 'thicker than the walls next above them.
grew'to a-depth of ten feet below grade, and
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or part thereof, they shall be increased
six inches in thickness; No stone foun—
dations supporting a threesstory building
—shall be less than twenty-one inches in
thickness. All stone walls twenty-four

inches or less in thickness shall have at“

least one header extending through the
wall in every three feet in height from
the bottom of the wall. and in every four
feet in length, and if over twenty-four
inches in thickness shall have one header
for every six superficial feet on both sides
of the wall, and running into the wall
at least two feet. All headers shall be
at least eighteen inches in width _an'd
consist of good flat stone. No stone shall
be laid in such walls in any other posi-
tion than on its natural bed. Foundation
walls of brick or concrete shall not be
less than four inches thicker than the
walls next above them, to a depth of
eight feet below grade, and for every
additional five feet in depth, or part thjre-
of, they shall be increased four inches in
thickness. ~-

Section Thirty-eight. Ground dampness.
7—In all cases where the nature of the
soil is damp or contains water, suitable
provisions shall be made to carry off all
such dampness or moisture, by means of
drain tiles, laid outside of the walls, or
inside of the walls, or both outside and in-
side, such drain tiles to be connected with
a. catch basin or other suitable device.
3nd thence discharged into the house

ram.

Section Thirty-nine. Retaining Walls—-
Retaining walls shall not be less than
thirty inches thick at the bottom for a
height of twelve feet, and for every ad—
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bisection forty-three of this ordinance,
and shall be well grouted in against the
earth ,.bank, "or pointed on the outside at
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vSection Forty. Footings.—Footings shall \ ' ,L
be of stone or concrete, or both, or step- ' ‘ ,
ped-up brick work, of sufficient thickness L
and area‘ to safely bear the weight 21%
> to be imposed thereon. If footings be or 7:
'concrete, the concrete shall not be less - ;
than eight inches thick under walls, and ‘ "
not less than twelve inches thick under ' ' ¥
piers, columns and posts; it of stone, the’? "
stone shall not be less than six inches\
in thickness under walls, and at least
twelve inches wider than the bottom width
,of said walls; if .under piers, ,columns or
...‘pd_sts, such footing shall not be less than
‘ height inches in thickness and at least .
~,-’ twelve inches wider on all sides than.
the bottom Width'of said piers, columns " ;
or posts. All footing stones shall- be ;
well bedded and laid crosswise, edge to V "
edge. If stepped-up footings oi! brick are
used in place 0: stone 'above the concrete,
the steps or offsets, if laid in single
courses shall not exceed one and one-half
~, inches, or if laid in double courses, then
each shall not exceed three inches, start-
"« ing with the brick work, covering the
entire width of the concreteN so as to
properly distribute' the‘ load imposed‘
thereon. If steel or iron rails or beams
»‘are used as parts of foundations, they
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well rammed to fill all cavities. The
beams or rails must be entirely developed
in concrete and the exposed external sur-
faces of such concrete shall be coated
with cement mortar.‘

Section Forty-one. Materials for Walls.
——«The walls of every building other than
buildings of the fourth-class (see sections
twenty-one, twenty-seven, twenty-eight
and twenty-nine) shall be constructed of
stone, brick. iron or other hard. incom-
bustible materials, and the several com-
ponent parts of such buildings shall be
as hereinafter provided.

Section Forty-two. Concrete—In all
buildings of the first, second and third
class hereafter erected, where concrete
is used for Walls or foundations, the con-
crete shall be composed of Portland ce-
ment, clean, sharp, river sand. and lime-
stone, or other equally good stone mac-
adam. The stone shall be crushed or
broken into small pieces, the largest of
which shall pass freely through a ring
two inches in diameter. The proportions
of cement, sand and macadam shall be
as follows: One part cement to not more
than three parts of sand, and not more
than' five parts of macadam, mixed in
such manner that the materials shall be
auniform mass. All concrete shall be
used at once. and before it has become
set or hard.

Section Forty-three. Quality of Mor-
tars—In all buildings of the first and
second-class hereafter erected, the mor-
tar used in the foundations and walls be-
low the level of the first floor, shall not be
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sand, thoroughly mixed dry so as to be
of one uniform color and to have the
proper amount of water added to make
a smooth working mortar and used while
fresh. From the first floor level to the
top of the building, for all buildings of the
first and second-class, the mortar used
shall not be inferior to a mortar com-
posed ot one part natural cement to three
parts of sand, mixed and used as describ-
ed above, or a. mortar composed of equal
parts of Portland cement mortar, as first
above described, and lime mortar, thor-
oughly mixed and used While fresh. In
building; of the third—class hereafter
erected more than three stories in height
above the basement, the mortar shall not
be inferior to that herein required for
buildings of the first and second-class.
In buildings of the third—class hereafter
erected more than three stories in height
above the basement, the mortar shall not
be inferior to that herein required for
buildings of the first and second-class.
In buildings of the third-class hereafter
erected three stories or less in height

' above the basement, and in foundations for

buildings of the fourth-class, the mortar
used shall not be inferior to a. mortar
made from fresh burned lime. well slaked
and mixed with clean‘ sharp sand. All
mortars shall be made with such materials
and such proportions of sand as will so-
cure thorough adhesion to the materials with
which they are to be used; and it shall be
unlawful to use mortars not so made, or to
use mortars inferiOr to those herein de-
scribed.

Section Forty-four. Quality of ‘Brick
Work and Bond.-——The bricks used in all
buildings of the first and second-class
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as "strictly hard and red" bricks. The
bricks used in all buildings of the third-
class, exceeding three stories in height,
shall not be inferior to “ordinary hard
and red" bricks. The bricks used in all
other buildings shall not be inferior to
"merchantable" bricks. The bricks used
in the foundations of all buildings shall
not be inferior to “straight hard" bricks.
All walls of brick shall be thoroughly
bonded and tied and solidly built; all
joints not covered in shall be struck:
Every ‘sixth course at least, of a brick
wall shall be a heading or bonding course,
except where walls are faced with face
brick, in which case every sixth course
shall be bonded with bond brick, Flemish
headers, or with a metal bond satisfac—
tory to the Commissioner of Public Build-
ings. '

Section Forty-five. Wetting Bricks.—
Bricks when laid in warm weather shall be
wettcd. when laid in cold weather shall
be thoroughly dry and protected from the
elements.

Section Forty-six. Thickness of Biqck
Walls—The minimum allowable thickness
for brick external and division bearing
walls, for buildings of the first, second
and third classes. except for dwellings,
lodging houses and tenement houses (see
section sixty—three) shall be, for the two
top stories, thirteen inches, for the next
two stories below, eighteen inches; and
for each succeeding‘two stories of. increased
height, the Walls shall be four' inches
thicker than the two stories next
above them. Party walls and division
walls 01' any length in building for mer-
cantile or manufacturing purposes shall
be four inches thicker in all stories than

   
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
   
  
 
   

‘ ing one hundred and ten teetrin length, for

, buildings more than one Story in height,
hall be made four inches thicker than
the minimum thickness first given above.
unless there be intersecting walls 0! equal
theight, or so buttresses extending to
’the top of the wall, and having a pro.
jection beyond such wall of not less than
nine inches, with a sectional area of not
'less than three hundred square inches, for
each eighteen lineal feet of such wall.

Section Forty-seven. Walls of Build-
“ ings Supporting Trusses—The walls of
churches. theaters, foundries, machine
shops, armoriés, markets, assembly rooms,
halls and buildings of like character shall
not be less in thickness-than the thick-
ness prescribed in preceding section, with
such piers or buttresses in addition as
may be necessary to make such building
* safe and substantial within the terms and
provisions or this ordinance.
ection Forty-eight. Increased Thick-

ne oi! Bearing Walls. with Openings.—
If any horizontal section through any part
of any bearing wall in any building other
than a) skeleton building. shows more
than fifty per centum area of flues or
openings, the laid wall shall be increased
four inches in thickness for every ten
_ per centum or fraction thereof of fine or
.‘fl opening area in excess of fifty per cen-
‘ .tum. In any wall the same amount of

materials may be used in piers or but-

tresses having the same sectional area as
k - would be required for a solid wall.

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Section Forty-nine. Recesses and
Chases.—Recesses for stairways and ele-
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cellar walls or any building, but in no
case shall the walls be or less thickness
than the walls of the third story, unless
reinforced by additional piers or iron
columns and girders, securely anchored
to the walls on each side. No chase for
water or other pipes shall be made in
any pier. and in no wall more than one-
half of its thickness. No horizontal chase
or slot shall be permissible in any wall,
except the wall be reinforced in such a.
manner as to fully compensate for any
reduction of. its strength by reason of
such chase or slot. Recesses tor alcoves
and similar purposes shall not be deeper
than half the thickness of the wall, and
in no case shall there be less than nine
inches of brick work at the back of such
recesses, provided that such recesses shall
not be more than eight feet wide, and
shall be arched over and not carried up
higher than a point eighteen inches be-
low the bottom or the beams of the floor
next above. The aggregate area of re—
cesses in any wall shall not exceed one-
fourth of the Whole area of the face of
the wall on any story, nor shall any such
recess be made within a distance of six
feet from any other one in the same
wall.

Section Fifty. Walls Wlth Air Spaces
and Hollow Bricks—Brick walls with an
air space may be erected under this or-
dinance, but the amount of material in
said wall shall be the same as required
for a standard wall of the same height
built solid, and no such walls shall be
built unless the parts of the same are con-
nected by proper ties of brick or iron
placed not over twenty-tour inches apart.
horizontally and vertically, throughout
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side four inches of standard walls may
be built of hard burned hollow clay or
porous terra. cotta bricks of the dimen-
sions of the ordinary bricks, properly tied
and bonded.

Section Fifty-one. Restrictions on Use
of Timber in Walls. No wooden blocks
or timbers shall be built into any ma-
sonry walls of any buildings of the second
and third-class, except finish blocks and
lintels, but no wood lintels shall ex—
ceed seven feet in length. It shall not be
lawful to build into any wall any
continuous horizontal timber, or to erect,
construct, alter or build any wall upon
wooden girders, rafters or lintels, or to
support any such wall by any‘ wooden
support whatever; but all such supports
shall be of iron, brick or stone, and of
sufficient size and strength to support the
superstructure.

Section Fifty—two, Non-bearing Walls
May be of Reduced Thickness—Non-
bearing walls may be four inches less in
thickness than the minimum thickness
provided in section forty-six, provided,
however, that no wall be less than thir—
teen inches thick, except as hereinafter
specified.

Section Fifty-three. Thickness of Curtain
Walls M‘ay Be Reduced—Curtain walls
may be less in thickness than the mini—
mum thickness (see section forty—six of
this ordinance) for walls of buildings of
the first, second and third class, but no
curtain walls shall be less than thirteen
inches thick. .

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built of brick or stone having an area .
of less than nine square feet at the
base, and suppnrting any truss. beam or
girder, arch column or lintel spanning an
opening over ten feet, or supporting a
wall. shall be capped with an iron plate
of sufficient strength and size to safely
distribute the load on such pier. Brick
piers shall be built of hard well-burnt
brick. Brick or stone piers 1shall be laid
in cement mortar, as provided in section
forty-three hereof. Isolated brick or stone
piers shall not exceed in height eight times
their least dimension.

Section Fifty—five. Heights of Stories.—
The maximum heights of stories for brick
walls of the thickness given in section
forty-six shall not exceed for the first story,
eighteen feet, for the second story, fifteen
feet; for the top story, fifteen
feet; for intermediate stories fourteen
feet; where —story heights exceed the
heights above given, the walls so increased
in height shall be four inches thicker than
the minimum thickness given in section
forty-six. for every ten feet of increased
height or part thereof.

Section Fifty-six. Brick walls for One-
Story Buildings—Brick walls for one-
story buildings may be built nine incheh in
thickness where such walls do not ex-
ceed fifteen feet in height. nor fifty
feet in length, but no wall supporting
girders shall be less than thirteen inches
thick.

Section Fifty-seven. Stone Ashlar, Ter-
ra Cotta. and Metal Facings.-—Any brick
wall may be faced with stone ashlarh—
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, thickness of brick work and ashlar shall

be at least four inches greater than the
standard thickness of walls. (See section
forty—six of this ordinance.) Stone ash-
lar shall be substantially anchored to the
brick backing at least every two feet
in height and four feet in length. Terra
cotta facing’s on brick walls or piers
may be used without any increased thick-
ness of walls, provided all such facings
be backed up solid with brick or con-
crete, the brick or concrete to fill all the
hollow spaces in the terra cotta in such a
manner that the same shall be thoroughly
incorporated with the wall. Where met-
al facings are used on brick walls no extra
thickness of brick work shall be re-
quired.

Section Fifty-eight. Existing Party
Walls May Be Used—Walls heretofore
built for or used as party walls whose
thickness at the time of their erection was
in accordance with the requirements of
the then existing ordinance. but which may
not be in accordance with the require—
ments of this ordinance, may be used if in
good condition. for the ordinary uses of
party walls. provided the height of same be
not increased.

S’ection Fifty-nine. Height May Be In-
creased—In case it is desired to increase
the height of existing walls, which walls
are less in thickness than the standard re-
quired under this ordinance (see sec-
tion forty-six), the same shall be done
by a lining of brick worklto form a com-
bined thickness with the old wall of not
less than four inches more than the thick-
ness required for a standard wall cor-
responding With the total heights of the
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said lining shall be supported on proper
foundations. However, no lining shall be
less than nine inches in thickness, and
all linings shall be laid up in cement
mortar and thoroughly anchored to the
old brick walls with suitable wrought iron
anchors placed two feet apart and prop-
erly imbedded into the old walls in rows
alternating vertically and horizontally
with each other. The old walls must first
be cleaned of plaster or other coatings.
In place of a brick lining as above, a
skeleton steel or iron frame may be erected
against said old wall and be properly
anchored to same. The strength of said
steel or iron frame and its foundations
shall be the same as called for in build-
ings of skeleton steel construction for
walls of similar height, and such steel
or iron frame shall be fireproofed as pro-
vided» in this ordinance. Where the brick
walls of dwellings, erected before the pass-
age of this ordinance, are found up-
on inspection by the Commissioner of
Public Buildings, to be sound and in good
condition, and to be capable of sustaining
safely an additional story, he may,
at his discretion, issue a permit for the
erection of such additional story of brick
work, even though the walls of the ex—
isting building be of less thickness than
that required by this ordinance.

Section Sixty. Walls not to be Car-
ried Up in Advance of Others—No wall
or walls of any building, other than a
skeleton building, shall be carried up in
advance of any other wall of said build-
ing, except in the following manner: In
all cases where one or more walls are car-
ried up in advance 01: other walls of
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anchor such walls every four feet in
their height by wrought iron tie anchors,
not less than one and one—half inches by
three—eighths of an [inch in size, and four
feet long. All piers shall be anchored to
beams or girders on the level of each
tier.

Section Sixty-one. Walls and Beams to
Be Braced.——The walls and beams of every
building, during the erection or altera-
tion thereof, shall be strongly braced from
the beams of every story, and when neces-
sary shall also be braced from the outside,
until the building is inclosed. The row
tier of beams shall be safely anchored to the
beams of the story below until the building
is inclosed.

Section Sixty-two. Parapet Fire Walls
and Copings.—In mercantile or manufac-
turing buildings, all division or party walls
shall be carried thirty inches above the
roof covering as a fire wall and shall
be not less than thirteen inches thick
above roofs and shall be coped and cov-
ered with stone, well-burnt terra cotta
or cast iron; division and party walls
for all other buildings excepting resi-
dences, shall be carried up to a height
of not less than eighteen inches above
the roof covering at any point, and for
residences not less than twelve inches at
any point, and shall be coped as required
above.

Section Sixty-three. Brick \Valls for
Dwellings, Lodging and Tenement Houses.
—~The minimum thickness of brick exter-
nal and division bearing walls, for dwell-
ings, lodging houses and tenement houses.
shall be for the three top stories, thir-
teen inches; for the next tw0 stories be-

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low, eighteen inches; and for each suc-
ceeding two stories of increased height
the walls shall be four inches thicker
than the two stories next above them.
Walls exceeding eighty feet in length for
such buildings shall be made'of the thick—
ness given in section forty—six.

Section Sixty-four. Slated Walls and
Gables—In dwellings, lodging houses and
tenement houses, when required or per.-
mitted by this ordinance to be buildings
of the third—class, andua. portion of a
story is omitted, or roofed at a lower?
level than another part, and Where there
are no masonry walls at or below the
line of such division, then it may be per
missible to enclose’ such parts with wood-
en studs or sheathing, covered on the
outside with slate or other durable fire-
resisting material; and it shall be per-
missible to cover the sides of dormers,
gables and bay windows of such buildings
with like materials. But no Such construc-
tion 'shall have an exposed surface ex-
ceeding two hundred and fifty square
feet, nor shall it be permitted nearer than
three feet to the line of any adjoining
owner.

Section Sixty-five. Fireproof Walls for
Light and Vent Shafts—In every building
four stories or more in height hereafter
erected. all the walls or partitions forming
interior light or vent shafts shall be built
of brick or other approved fireproof ma-
terials.

Section Sixty-six. Height of Hollow
Tile Partition Walls.———Four-i;1ch and six-
inch hollow tile partition walls of hard-
burnt clay, porous terra cotta or other
suitable fireproofing, may be built not ex—

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cee'ding, in their vertical portions. ‘measw
..u'rement or fifteen feet and twenty feet, g
respectiVeiy, and in their horizontal, meas- ,
'rurement a length not exceeding seventy-
‘five feet, unless stren hened by a steel
. ,trame, cross walls, piers, columns. or but-
' tresses. All such walls are to be carried
‘ -on proper foundations or on iron girders
or columns. In no case, however, are such
partition .walls to be used as bearing‘.walls
or to support any load except their own
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Section Sixty-seven. Partition Walls.—

Every building not of the first-class here-

\\ after erected, to be used as an oflice build-

ing or a tenement or lodging house.
and having a height of three or more sto-
ries, shall be divided by brick partition
walls of the standard thickness provided
in section sixty-three of this ordinance, so .
placed that no division of such building
above the first story shall exceed an area -~"
of two thousand five hundred square feet.

“ All such division walls, shall, where possi-
ble, start from the foundations; and all
partitions in the basement and first story

of such buildings, it occupied for business
purposes, shall be of brick or concrete.
and shall extend to the top of the floor .
jbists of the floor above such partitions, ef— » ~
fectually closing all spaces between the ' -
ceiling and floor with fireproof materials.
Every building hereafter altered or con-
verted to be used as an omce building.

-or a tenement or lodging house, shall
comply with all the requirements at this
section. .

Section Sixty—eight. Partition and Wall
Furring.—-No partitions of wooden studs
or scantlin'gs. or wooden wall turrings. shall
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lar of. any building hereafter erected or
altered to be used as lodging or tenement
house or office building or mercantile or
manufacturing building, of tour orimore
stories in height; nor shall any wooden or
stud partition be used for the support of
floors in any such 'building hereafter
erected, altered or converted to the ,uses
aforesaid. Nor shall any wooden part1-
tions, or partition ‘0! wooden studs be
hereafter permitted to be erected betWeen
stores, or places of business, or tenements
to be occupied by separate tenants, but
such partition shall be of approved fire-proof
materials.

Section Sixty-nine. Fire Stops—Every
stud partition in every building of three or
more stories in height, hereafter erected
or altered, to be used as an office
building, or a tenement or lodging house,
shall have a solid continuous shoe and
cap not less than two inches thick, the
full width of such partition, effectually
closing all spaces between the studs of
such partition and the spaces between the
floor joists below or above such partition;
where stud partitions in such buildings
extend down to a partition cap, or a gird-
e'r or plate, below the floor, then the space
between the studs shall be filled solid to
two inches above the floor with approved
fireproof materials, so as to effectually
stop the passage of fire from the spaces
between the studs to the spaces between
the joists. Where brick walls of such
buildings are furred with wooden furring,
the brick work between the joists in each
tier of floor beam Ishall project the full
thickness of such furring. All slots or
chases in the walls 0: such buildings or
spaces between studs shall be solidly
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floor. Where pipes or ducts or wires pass
through the fire stops herein required,
they shall be surrounded at such places
by mortar or metal or other approved fire—
proof materials, in such a manner as to
effectually stop the passage of fire.

Section Seventy. ,Wall to Be Plastered
Back of Wainscoting,—-—Whe'n wood waln-
scoting is used in any building such as is
mentioned in the preceding section, the
surface of the wall or partition behind
such wainscoting, shall be plastered down
to the floor line, unless said wainscoting
is placed against a brick, stone or tile wall
or partition.

Section Seventy-one: The ceiling over
every cellar or basement of any building
it plastered shall be plastered over metal
lath or equally incombustlble material.

Section Seventy-two. Roofs—Every
building required by this ordinance to be
of the first, second or third-class shall
have a roof covering of metal, slate, tile
gravel, or other equally durable and in-
combustible material. All roofs other
than flat roofs, on buildings over forty-
flve feet high, and which are used for
mercantile or manufacturing purposes, shall
be wholly of fire-proof materials,
supported on iron or steel rafters and sup-
ports.

Section Seventy—three. Roofs in Con—
tinuous Buildings—In all cases where
two or more buildings are built adjoin-
ing, and separated by means of a division
wall or walls, the roof sheathing, cornices
or ridge mouldings shall not extend over
or cover any portion of such division wall
or walls unless such roots are construct-

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ed wholly of fireproof materials as men-
tioned in the preceding section.

Section Seventy-four. Mansard Roots.-
M‘ansard roofs shall be considered as
roofs having an angle with the horizon
of not less than fiftyoflve degrees, nor
more than eighty degrees, and no such
roof shall be permissible, when parallel
with and nearer than three feet to the
property line of another owner, unless such
roof be made wholly of fire-proof ma-
terials.

Section Seventy-five, Repairs and Re-
newals of Roofs—The roofs of all build-
ings within the fire limits, as described in
section twenty-six of this ordinance, shall
be covered with such materials as' are
mentioned in section seventy-two; and
when such roots are renewed, it shall be
done with such materials as will conform to
the requirements of the section.

Section Seventy-six. Metallic Leaders
From Roofs—The roofs of all buildings
shall be provided with proper metallic
leaders for conducting the water away
from the roots in such a manner as shall
protect the walls and foundations of such
buildings, or of adjacent buildings, from
injury. In no case shall water from such
leaders be allowed to flow upon adjoining
walls or premises or upon the sidewalk.
but shall be conducted by proper pipes to
the sewer. If there be no sewer available,’
then the water from such leaders shall be
conducted by pipes below the surface or
the sidewalk to the street gutter.

Section Seventy—seven. Cornices.—-In all
\cases where a wall is finished with stone
or terra cotta cornice, sixty-five per cen-

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of all
height.

buildings
excepting residences,
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tum of’the weight of 'the material for such
cornice shall be on the inside of the out-
er' face of the wall! or shall be securely
anchored so that
firmly balanced upon' the wall.

the cornice shall be
Cornices
ver forty-five feet in

shall be con-

and

shall be well secured to the walls with

iron anchors or metal brackets.

The look-

outs 'to which such cornice is'secured must
in all cases be of metal. In all cases the
walls shall be carried up to the sheathing
of the roof, and where the cornice projects
over the roof the walls shall be carried tip

top

of

the

cornice.

All

ex-

terior wooden cornices, except for residences

and buildings
he’ight that
be repaired or
structed of

under
shall
replaced,
some

forty-five
hereafter
shall
noncombustible

feet
require to
be con-

in

ma-

terial as required for new buildings: and,

all‘
except

and buildings

‘exterior wooden cornices or guttters,
residences

under

forty-five feet in height. that may hereaf-

ter be

damaged by fire

or otherwise.

shall be taken down, and if replaced shall

be ‘constructed
terial.

Section Seventy-eight.

of

noncombustible

ma-

Balconies.-—Bal-

conies may project over the street lines
of buildings only when such balconies are

constructed wholly of

terials;

incombustible me.-
but no part of such balconies

shall project more than three feet beyond
No part of such balconies
shall be nearer than fourteen feet from the

the street lines.

sidewalk grade.

Section Seventy-nine.

Projections

Over

Sidewalks on Street or Alley Linea—The
walls of all bay or oriel windows,

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in dwellings shall- be- constructed entirely
of incombustlble materials. The Limita-
tions, dimensions and locations of bay and
oriel windows projecting over the street
or alley building line shall be as fol—
lows: No part of any bay or oriel window
shall be at a less distance than fourteen feet
from the sidewalk grade. No part of any
such bay or oriel window shall
project more \than three feete over
the street or alley building line. No
part of such bay or Oriel Window shall
have a greater frontage than fifteen feet.
No bay or oriel window shall project over
the building line of any. street or alley where
said street or alley ’is less than twenty-
feet wide. There shall not be more than
one bay or oriel window for any twenty
five feet of frontage. Nothing herein con-
tained shall. however, limit thenumber and
size of bay or oriel windows which are
built in such manner as not to project over
the street or alley line.

Section Eighty. Show Windows—No
part of fixed or permanent store fronts, show
windows or storm doors on the first story
of any building intended for a. protection,
or to contain goods or wares for display or
sale, shall be constructed so as to project be-
yond the building line of any street or al-
ley. In case of alterations of store fronts
or show windows necessitated by repairs or
for the-purpose of rearrangement, or in case
of removal or restoration, necessitated by
fire or other damage, such alterations, re-
newals or restorations shall be so made as
to comply in all respects with the provisions
of this ordinance relating to the construc-
tion of new store fronts or show windows.

Section Eighty-one. Signs—Any signs

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, or; the: topof any _bui_ld_lng.-ior~'-at-

A tached to- the walls 01! any building, and - ._

.9? that- may become rotten or'~unsafe. shall - .

"be taken down and removed upon notice

’so'.to do from the Commissioner of Public'

‘Buildings. No signs exceeding twenty

V, square feet in size‘ shall hereafter be
erected on any building without_a per-

. mit ' from the Commissioner of ‘Publlc. ~
Buildings, as provided in sections two
and fourteen of this ordinance. No sign
exceeding“ three and one-half feet in

:.. Width. or’ ten feet in height. shall here-

'after be attached to any building, unless

‘ 23" such sign is.constructed wholly or metal

‘ ~-or other non-combustible material. When
two or more signs are placed on any build-
ing, one above another, the width or height ‘
of the signs shall be measured as it there
were but one sign, and the spaces between
‘the signs shall be included in the width of .
the signs, unless there be a. clear space of ' . I

:‘ at least six feet between the signs. No
, sign (shall hereafter project more than

-~ ‘ eighteen inches over the building line of any

‘street or alley, nor shall any projecting sign
'be placed nearer than eight feet to the
ground or pavement of any street or alley;
nor shall any sign be so placed as to obstruct

,_\any fire escape, or interfere with the opera- '

“rtions of the fire department. Every sign

hereafter erected upon any building, shall be
supported upon heavy iron braces bolted to
the walls or roofs of. the building 1 firm
and secure manner; and it shall be nlaw-r
ful for any person, firm or corporation ‘to g

erect or cause to be erected- any sign in ‘

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ers and spires may be erected on the roots
of buildings, but shall not occupy more
than one-quarter of the street frontage of
any building, and shall not in any case
have a base area of more than sixteen huno
dred square feet. All such dormers, towers
or spires shall be built of-non-combustlble
materials. Towers, dormers or spires shall
not be permitted on buildings of the second
and third class where the extreme height of
the top of the tower, dormer or spire shall
exceed one hundred and fifty feet above the
street grade.

Section Eighty-three. Pent Houses, How
Constructed—Pent houses used as inclos-
ures for tanks or elevators, and coverings
for the machinery of elevators, and_any
other purpose whatever, hereafter erected
on or above the roof of buildings, shall be
built of fireproof materials or sheathed and
covered on all sides with metal, including
sides and edges of doors. Covers on top or;
water tanks placed on roofs may be made
of wood, covered with sheet metal. Where
party or division walls form one or more
sides of pent houses, such walls shall he
carried up as fire walls above the roof of
the pent house.

Section Eighty-four. Water Tanks on Iron
Supports—Water tanks erected over roofs
of buildings shall be supported on brick or
stone bearing walls or on metal beams or
posts.

Se'ction Eighty-five. Least Thickness for
Wooden Beams—If wooden floor beams used
in any building other than a. building of
the fourth class, hereafter erected. shall be
of. a less thickness than two inches, except

 

wel ouses not excee ‘g fifteen feet
wide «the Building Commissioner may re—
quire Jhe beams to be spaced in a way to
adequately. insure the safety-I of the build-
ng.

Section Ei/ghty-six. Joists to Be Covered

   

the person or persons having charge or the
construction of any building hereafter erect-
ed, to have joists or girders of each floor-
above the second floor covered with scaffold
, boards, or other suitable material as the
building progresses, so as to sufficiently
.protect the workmen, either from falling
through such joists or girders or to protect
the workmen or others who may
be under or below each floor from falling
bricks, tools or other substances. whereby
accidents happen, injuries occur, and life
and limb are endangered.

.Section Eighty-seven. Wooden Beams in

‘ Party Walls—All wooden beams and other

.timber entering party or division walls of

buildings shall be separated trom the beams

or timbers entéring in the opposite side of

the wall-by at least four inches of solid
masonry.

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.F Section Eighty-eight. Ends of Beams to
Be {Beveled—The ends of all wooden floor
and roof beams, where they rest on brick
walls, shall be cut to a bevel or one inch
in five inches.

Section Eighty-nine. Bridging.—All floo;
joists shall be properly bridged with cross
bridging; in no case shall the rows of
bridging ’be more than eight feet apart.

Section Ninety. Anchoring Walls to Joists,

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Girders or Beams—In all buildings of the
first. second and third class, the floor joists,
girders, beams, and roof framing, whether of
wood, iron or steel, shall be anchored to
walls in a good and substantial manner,
such anchors to be placed not more than
eight feet apart, and to be built into the
masonry walls. The form and construction
of said anchors shall be optional with the
owner or owners of the building or build-
ings, but in no case shall they be so con-
structed or placed as to cause any strain
on the masonry walls, in case of giving way
of the floor or root construction caused' by
fire or otherwise. The anchors must in all
cases be self-releasing, and secured .to the
joists. girders, beams, etc., whether of Wood.
iron or steel. at or near the lower edge. The
size of such anchors must in all cases be
in proportion to the joist, girder or beam,
but in no case or less strength than a bar
of iron one and one-quarter inch by one—
quarter inch. Where joists, girders, beams,
etc., abut or lap over a girder, they shall be
secured to each other by nailing, or by
means of strap anchors made of iron or steel
not less than one and one-quarter inch by
one-quarter inch, and securely nailed to
Jolsts, girders or beams when of wood; and
bolted or riveted when made of iron or
steel. In all cases the system of walT an—
chors and anchors where joists, girdens or
beams abut or join shall be so arranged as
to secure a continuous tie from wall to wall.
Where joists. girders or beams are parallel
with the walls, suitable anchorage to walls
shall be provided for, but in no case shall
such anchorage be nearer‘than four feet to
the center of such joist, girder or beam.

Section Ninety-one. Beams and Wood-
work Near Flues—All wooden beams shall

   

nine inches from the inside face of the
' ‘ue in a, straight line, but in no case shall
wboden beams be built into any chimney
"a breast, and the header beamthall be at
‘ least two inches from the outside face of
\ the chimney breast. No wooden furring or
wooden lathing shall be placed against or
across any chimney breast. \

‘ Section Ninety- two. Trimmer and Header
.Beams.———The trimmer and header beams

_floor or roof beams. or shall be made of two

spiked or bolted. When the header is more
.3“ than fifteen feet in length (or where the
“ header is framed to the trimmer beams
more than five feet ‘from the bearing end
thereof) wrought iron flitch plates of proper’
thickness and depth shall be placed between
_the wooden beams, and all suitably bolted
together through the iron plates; or steel
beams of suificient strength may be used in
place of flitch plate beams. Every beam,
.‘ :' except header and tail beams shall rest not

less than four inches on the wall, or uxi‘on
. a girder.

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p ' ‘Section Ninety-three. Stirrup Irons—Ev-
~ ery wooden header more than eight feet
long used in any~building shall be hung
in stirrup irons of suitable strength for the
size of the timber.

'Section Ninety-four. Cutting Beams for
Pipes—No gas. water, or other pipes which

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may be introduced into any building shall
be let into the beams unless the same be
placed within thirty-six inches of a wall or
supporting partition; in no case shall the
said pipes be let into the beams more than
two inches in depth.

Section Ninety-five. Stairways in Mercan-
tile and Manufacturing Buildings—Every
building two stories or more in height oc-
cupied for mercantile or manufacturing pur-
poses shall be provided with at least one
stairway. not less than three feet in width
and extending from the ground floor to the
top of the building. In buildings in which
fifty or more persons are employed above
the second story at least two sairways shall
be provided, said stairways to be inclosed in
partitions plastered on metal lath, or a.
single stairway may be provided, said stair-
way to be inclosed in a fireproof shaft. The
openings into the shaft to be equipped with
standard fire doors as provided in this ordi-
nance. In buildings in which more than
one hundred persons are employed above the
first story, the stairway or Stairways shall
be of sufficient width, but in no case less
than three feet wide, and said staimays
shall be inclosed in brick or concrete shafts,
all openings into said shafts being provided
with standard fire doors, as provided in this
ordinance. Every building exceeding three
stories in height, hereafter used for mercan-
tile or manufacturing purposes; and occu-
pied by more than two tenants above the
first story, shall have all Stairways inclosed
with walls or partitions of approved fire-
proot materials. Every basement room used
as a salesroom, or as a work room, in which
twenty or more persons shall be employed.
shall have stairs leading directly to the
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' shall be so-located, and be of. such width as
, shall aflbrd a safe and adequate means of.-
_' exit~ from such basement.» Any building
ghe'reafter converted ti) uses bringing itlwith-
' in the provisions of this section as to stairs
‘ ‘ ways shall be altered so as to comply with
this section. as provided for new buildings.
And it shall be unlawful in any such build-
ing to obstruct the stairs, passages, or land-
ings with materials of any kind or to place
any inflammable or combustible materials
in the stair halls. passages or shafts.

Section Ninety-six. Stairways for Hos-
pi,tals,’Asylums, Schools. Halls and Assembly
Rooms—Stairways for hospitals. asylums.
schools, public halls, and places of assemb‘ly,
hereafter erected or altered, shall not be.
less than three feet eight inches wide, and
shall have 'no winding steps. They shall
have treads not less than ten inches wide,
and shall not have risers» of more than
eight inches‘ in height. Every building.
such as is mentioned in this section, here-
after erected or altered, shall have at least
two stairways leading from the ground to
the top story, and shall further have such
a number of stairways that the entrance to
no room or apartment in such building shall
_be more than one hundred feet from a
stairway.

Section Ninety-seven. Stairways in Lodg-
ing and Tenement Houses—Every hotel,
public boarding or lodging house and every
office building, hereafter erected, haang
more than ten rooms above the first story.
oi- having more than five rooms above the
second story, when not a building of the
first class, shall have at least two stairways
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and every.such stairway shall have the
sofl‘lt plastered or covered with approved
non-inflammable materials. And such build-
ings shall further have such a number of
stairways and so located that the entrance
to every room in such building shall not be
more than one hundred feet from a stair-
way. When such buildings shall have more
than ten rooms above the second story, then
all stair partitions shall be of approved
fireproof materials, and the stair soflits shall
be covered with metallic lathing and plas-
tered, or covered with other‘approved flre-
proof materials. Every building not of the
first class used as a lodging or tenement
house or dwelling where the lower story
is occupied as a store or stores, or for any
business, other than the office of such hotel
or lodging house, shall have the Stairways
leading to the basement and to the second
story inclosed with approved fireproof parti-
tions, and the stair soffits covered with

metallic lathing and plastered, or covering

with other approved fireproof materials. Ev-
ery hotel, public boarding or lodging house,
and évery office building, when not a build-
ing of the first class, shall have metal cov—
ered scuttles or bulkheads leading to the
roof, with ladders or stairs leading thereto,
and accessible to all tenants, and in readi-
ness for use at all times. The scuttle or
bulkhead door shall not be locked, but may
be fastened with hooks on the inside.

Section Ninety-eight. ‘Fire Escapes—It
shall be the duty of the owner, proprietor,
lessee or keeper of every hotel, boarding
and lodging houses, tenement house, school
house, opera house, theater, music hall, fac-
tory, office building and every building
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as a business place, or for public or pri-
vate assemblage, which has a height of
three or more stories, to provide said struc-
ture with stair fire escapes, attached to
the exterior of the building, and with
staircases ,located in the interior of the
building. The fire escapes shall commence
at the sill of the second story window and
run three feet above the upper window
sill of the upper story, with an iron ladder
from the upper story to the roof. The fire
escape shall extend downward from said sec-
ond story by means of a. stationary or drop
stairway to within at least nine feet of
the ground, pavement or sidewalk. School
buildings, opera houses, theaters and church
buildings, also hospitals, blind and lunatic
asylums and seminaries shall each have a.
stair fire escape. All factories, stores and
all places wherein twenty or more women or
girls are employed or congregated above
the second story thereof shall have a stair
fire escape with a drop stair to reach from
the lower landing to the ground. of such
construction as shall be required by the
Commissioner of Public Buildings.

All fire escapes shall have proper and safe
balconies for each story thereof surrounded
on the sides with pipe railings, not less
than three feet in height, and inclosed be-
low such railing with heavy wire netting
or other substantial enclosure. Stairways
shall not be steeper than an angle of fifty-
five degrees, and shall be placed on a. blank
wall' where practicable. Stairways and
landings shall have railings as required
for balconies. All fire escapes shall be so
located as to afford the greatest security to
the occupants of the buildings and there
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and unobstructed access to the fire escapes.
The location of every fire escape shall be
designated by a sign with letters not less
than three inches in length and located ad-
jacent to such escapes on each floor of said
building above the first. The location or
fire escapes to be attached to any buildfiig
shall be determined by the Commissioner of
Public Buildings. And he shall have au-
thority to suspend the requirements for
fire escapes. in the case of any public or
private school, where. in his judgment, such
outside fire escape would be a dangerous
exit for children. Provided, 'however, that
all buildings of non-fireproof construction
three or more stories in height used for
manufacturing or mercantile purposes, ho~
tels. dormitories, schools, seminaries, hos-
pitals or asylums shall have not less than
one fire escape for every fifty persons for
whom working, sleeping or living accommo-
dations are provided above the second story;
and all public halls which provide seating
room above the first story shall have such
a number of fire escapes as shall not be
less than one fire escape for every one hun-
dred persons calculated on the seating ca.-
pacity ot‘ the hall. unless a different num-
ber is authorized in writing by the Commis-
sioner of Public Buildings.

Whenever a fire escape attached to any
building shall be found to be in an unsafe
condition it shall he the duty of the owner,
lessee. proprietor or keeper of said building
‘ to forthwith rebuild or repair the same or
replace the same in a safe condition. subject
to the penalties of this ordinance. ’7

Section Ninety-nine. Stand Pipes—Ev—
ery building of more than four stories in

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height shall have 'in comiectiom with every
-fire.» escape on‘ such building; a wrought
iron'stand pipe three inches in diameter
with a Siamese hose- connection at bottom
and a hose connection and valve at every .,
story and at the roof; all the connections for
hose shall be ‘of. the standard size and
thread in use by the St. Louis Fire Depart-
ment; Provided, however, that thissection
shall be held not to apply to theaters and
other buildings in ~which stand pipes have
been placed by direction of the Commission-
er of Public Buildings or his predecessors in
ofl‘lce. ‘

Section One Hundred. Duty of Occupants
of Buildings to keep Stairways and Fire Es-
capes Free From Obstructions.—It shall be
the duty of every manager or occupant or

, tenant or lessee of every building required
by this ordinance to have fire escapes or to
have stairways as provided in sections
ninety—five, ninety-six, ninety-seven and
ninety-eight of this ordinance, to keep such

‘stairways and tire escapes and the landings
and passages thereto at all times free from
obstructions of all kinds, and it shall be un-
lawful to place any obstruction on any such
stairway or fire escape, or its landing and
passages, or to place therein any inflamma-
ble material of any kind, or to cause or per-

/‘ mit any such obstructions or materials to be
placed as aforesaid. Any person, firm or
corporation who shall violate any provision
of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall,
except in such cases where other penalties V
are provided, be fined not less than five dol-
lars, nor flore than five hundred dollars.

\ Section One Hundred and One. Fireproof
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than three stories in height, above the base-
ment, occupied for manufacturing or mer-
cantile purposes, shall have fire doors, blinds
or shutters hung to iron hinge eyes or pin
blocks built into the wall on every window
and every opening above the first story
thereof, excepting on openings of buildings
fronting on streets or vacant lots which are
more than forty feet in width; said doors,
blinds or shutters shall be standard; con-
structed of pine or other soft wood of two
thicknesses of matched boards at right an-
gles with each other and securely fastened
and covered with tin or galvanized iron on
both sides and edges, with folding lapped
joints; the nails for fastening the same shall
be driven Inside the lap. The hinges and
bolts or latches shall be secured or fasten-
ed to the door or shutter by bolting after
the same has been covered, and such door
or shutter shall be hung independent of the
Woodwork of the windows and doors and be
of sufficient area to lap two inches all
around such opening. Sliding shutters of
the above construction may be used instead
of hinged shutters, of such mechanism as g
may be approved by the Commissioner or
Public- Buildings. They shall in any case
comply with all requirements provided for
standard hinged fire shutters. In lieu of
standard fire doors and shutters wherever
mentioned in this ordinance, approved metal
frames of adequate strength. with wire glass
panels in same. may be used. It shall be
the duty of the Commissioner of Public
Buildings to require fire doors, blinds or
shutters, as provided in this section, to be
placed on the openings of buildings in cases
where lots which were vacant when the
buildings were constructed are built upon, so
that said openings become within torty feet
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Section One Hundred and No. Shutters
to se Opened From Outside—All shutters

above the first story or any building shall ,

,._,be so arranged that they- can be readily
‘l’opened from the outside by firemen. All
‘ rolling iron or steel shutters hereafter placed
"on the first story of any building shall be
counterbalanced, so that said rolling shut-
ters may be readily‘opene'd by the firemen.

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Section One Hundred and Three. Inside
Fi’re Doors. —Where openings in interior
' brick walls are required to be fitted with fire
doors to prevent the spread of fire between
‘ buildings, or parts of any buildings, ‘the
said fire doors shall be made of wood cov—
ered with tin or galvanized iron, as de-
scribed for standard fire doors and shutters.
(Section one hundred and one, this ~ordi-
nance.)

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Section One Hundred and Four. Doors
and Shutters to Be Closed at Night—Oc-
cupants of all buildings provided with fire
doors and shutters shall close the . said
fire doors and shutters at the close of busi-
ness each day.

Section One Hundred and Five. Sewer
Connectons.-—In all buildings now erected.
or hereafter to be erected in the City of St.
Louis, used or intended to be used for mer-
cantile or manufacturing purposes. and lo-
cated where a sewer connection can be
made, there shall be in the basement or
cellar. a. sewer connection, which can be
‘opened immediately for the purpose of drain-
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edirom any cause, and the location of such
sewer connection shall be indicated by a per-
manent and conspicuous sign near the cell»
ing or on the wall near the same, and such
sign shall never be hidden or obstructed. but
shall always be in plain, open view.

Section One Hundred and Six. Chimneys
and Flues.———All fire places, dues and chim—
neys in any building hereafter built, and
all chimneys or flues hereafter altered or
repaired, without reference to the purposes
for which they may be used, whether for
gas or other fuel, shall have the points
struck smooth on the inside. The brick
walls inclosing all chimney shafts used
for furnaces, heating boilers, bakers ovens,
large cooking ranges and heating furnaces,
and all fines used for similar purposes,
shall be at least nine inches in thickness;
or there shall be a cast iron or fire clay
pipe built inside of the flue, in which case
the brick work' surrounding such pipes may
be four inches in thickness. All chimneys
containing ordinary flues shall be built to a
height of at least four feet above the roof
covering._ A11 smoke fines of smelting fur-
naces, or of steam boilers or other appara—
tus. which heat the flues to a high tempera-
ture, shall be built with dOuble walls, with
an air space between them, the inside four
inches to be of fire brick or fire clay slabs
or blocks laid in fire clay mortar to a
height of twenty-five feet from the bottom.
Smoke stacks built entirely of steel, cast or
wrought iron, may be erected for any of the
above uses, provided they are effectually in-
closed in masonry or fireproof shafts, in
such a manner as to render the building safe
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Section One Hundred and Seven. Detach-
ed Chimneys—All chimne s and fines in
buildings on the fourth cl ss or detached
from the brick walls of buildings of the
_ .Zsecond or third class,s all be built of brick
1 with surrounding wall not less than nine
inches thick, unless there be flue linings
as‘ before specified in section one hundred
and six, in which case such chimneys and
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Section One Hundred and Eight. Supports
for thmneys.—Nu chimney shall be sup-
ported or built upon any floor or beam of
'wood. In no case shall a chimney be cor-
bele'd out more than nine inches from the
.wall, and in all cases the corbeling shall
c'imsist of at least five courses of brick or
stone corbeling of equal height. Where
chimneys are supported by piers, the piers
shall start from the foundation on the
same line with the chimney breast, and shall
not be less than thirteen inches on the face
and properly bonded into the wall. No
chimney shall be cut off below, in whole
or in part, and supported by wood, but shall
be suppported wholly by stone, brick or
iron. All chimneys which shall be danger-
ous, in any manner whatever, shall be re-v
paired and made safe, or taken down.

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Section One Hundred and Nine. Fire
Places, Heaters—All fire places, whether
for gas or other fuel, shall have fire backs
and jambs of brick work not less than nine
inches in thickness, and shall have hearths
not less than twenty inches wide from the
face of the breast, and extending the full
length of the chimney » breast, laid upon
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supporting. The centering must 7
ed upon completion of the ardhandbetore.
plastering and no wooden centering or 8&3):
port shall be allowed to remain below and,
in contact with any trimmer arch or
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Section One Hundred and Ten. Installing
of Boilers, Furnaces and Ovens—No steam“
boiler or heating boiler, or heating furnaces

/' 0r smelting furnace or forge or baking oven_
or roasting oven or like apparatus, whereby “
the danger from fire is increased, shall
hereafter be installed or erected or used
in any building;' nor shall any such stove.
range, oven or heating apparatus, as is
mentioned in» section one hundred and
eleven of this ordinance, be installed, or
,erected. or used, until a permit so to do
from the CommissiOner of Public Buildings
has been issued and the fees required by
section fourteen have been paid. Provided ’

._ that ordinary cooking and heating stoves 1'11
dwellings or 'other buildings Where'ln not
more than fifty persons are lodged or as-
sembled or employed, may be installed and
used without such permission from the
Commissioner of Public Buildings. All such
apparatus shall be so installed as to con-
form to all the requirements of this ordi-
nance, and it is hereby made the duty of
the owner, manager, lessee, tenant or agent;
of every building to comply with the r.e-
,/ quirements of this ordinance in the erection ..
and installation of such boilers, furnaces.
ovens, ranges and like apparatus. In all ”I
buildings, the floors under and around all
boilers, hot water heaters, heating furnaces,
ovens, coflee roasters, or other apparatus, inr
which fires are maintained, shall be non—
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‘ bricklor concrete not less than four inches
in thickness, and extending not less than 'ten
feet in front,’ and at least four feet on all
other sides. On top of thisflreproof cover-
. ing shall be placed a ventilated hollow brick
or tile foundation, upon which shall be set
Such low pressure boilers, hot water heaters,
. heating furnace, oven, coffee roaster or other
structures in which fires are maintained. The
space between the sides of any low pressure
boiler, hot water heater, heating furnace,
oven, stove or other apparatus in which fires
are maintained, and any woodwork or
wooden construction shall not be less than
five feet, unless all such woodwork be pro-
tected by metal shields, or other fireproof
materials; and then such space shall not
be less than eighteen inches, and no wood-
work shall be within eight feet of any
furnace door of such apparatus, unless simi-
larly protected. The space between any such
apparatus and any wooden ceiling or wooden
ceiling beam shall not be less than five feet,
unless such woodwork be protected by me-
tal shields or other fireproof materials ex-
‘tending at least eighteen inches“ in all direc-
tions beyond the sides of such apparatus;
and if the space between such ceiling and
such apparatus be less than tw6 feet, then
such shield or protection shall be double and
be separated by metal furrings with an air
space of at least two inches between such
coverings, but in no casewshall it be permis-
sible for any such apparatus to be nearer to
any wooden ceiling or wooden ceiling beam
than one foot. No steam boiler, or heating
boiler, or heating furnace or smelting fur-
nace, forge, or apparatus, whereby the dan-
ger from fire is increased, shall hereafter
be used in any building until the same has
been examined and approved by the Com-
missioner of Public Buildings, who shall
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paratus, and his certificate that it conforms
to the requirements of this ordinance, upon
the payment of the fees required in sections
fourteen and fifteen of this ordinance.

Section One Hundred and Eleven. Stoves,
Ranges and Ash Boxes.——-Where stoves or
ranges are set upon combustible floors, ex-
cept in dwelling houses as mentioned in
section one hundred and twelve, they shall
be so set as to leave an air space of not
less than four inches between them and the
floor, and the floor shall be protected by
sheet metal extending three feet in front
and one foot on all other sides. The space
between the sides of any such stoves, or
ranges and any woodwork or wooden con-
struction shall not be less than four feet
unless all such woodwork be protected by«
metal shields or other fireproof material;
and then such space shall not be less than
eighteen inches. Metal or non-combustible
ash boxes, raised off the floor, must be
provided where ashes are kept in a building.
No stove, range, oven or heating apparatus
shall be used in any hotel, theater, hos-
pital, school, hall or other building in which
more than fifty persons are lodged or as-
sembled or employed until the same shall
be examined and approved by the Commis-
sioner of Public Buildings, who shall then
issue a permit for the use of such stove,
oven or heating apparatus and his certificate
that it conforms to the requirements of this
ordinance, upon the payment of the fee re-
quired in section fourteen 01' this ordi-
nance.

Section One Hundred and Twelve. Set-
ting of Stoves and Ranges—Every stove or
range or other apparatus in Which fires are

  

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,for iii .section6 one hundred and ten~and one ,,
hundred and eleven of this ordinance. when
‘set' upbn combustible floors, shall have the
floors under them protected with sheet metal
extending two feet in front of and one foot
>on all other sides of same. The space he'—
tween the Sides of any such stoves or ranges
amd any woodw rk or wooden construction
shall not be less than three feet, unless all
such woodwork be protected by metal
shields or other fireproof materials; and
then such space shall not be less than eight-
. een inches. It shall be the duty of every
owner of every such stove or range. as is
mentioned in this section, to cause the same
> to conform in every particular with the re—
quirements, of this section. ‘

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Section One Hundred and Thirteen. Smoke
Pipes, Hot Air Pipes and Registers, and
‘rg Steam Pipes ——'——No smokeflbipe, shall extend
through any external wall unless connected

' with a fine, chimney, or stack, built as re-
quired by this ordinance. No smoke pipe
shall pass through any window, door, floor,
roof or partition constructed of combustible
materials, unless there be a space of at
least eighteen inches'between such smoke.
pipe and such combustible material; or

. such smoke pipe may be surrounded by a
v double metal thimble of sufiicient length to.
extend completely through such window,
door. floor, roof or partition and having a
ventilated air space of not less than four
inches around the pipe, but such air space
shall not be less than. one third the diame-

‘ ter of the pipe. No smoke pipe shall be
.placed nearer than eighteen inches to any

. _ combustible material; unless such combusti-
‘rs ble smaterial be protected by a coating of
plaster on metal lath, or by a metal shield

 
  
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
   
  
  
 
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

 

  

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two inches distant from such combustible
material, in which case the smoke pipe
shall not be placed nearer than nine inches
to such combustible material. No smoke
pipe having a greater diameter than nine
inches shall be placed nearer than twice its
diameter to any combustible material, unless
such material be protected as aforesaid, and
when so protected shall not be placed near-
er there'to than three-fourths of its diameter,
unless by written permission of the Com‘
missioner of Public Buildings. All smoke
pipes shall be put together with rivets, bolts
or approved lock joints, and must be main-
tained in good order. All pipes for the dis-
tribution of hot air shall be of metal or non- .
combustible material, and when vertical
pipes are inclosed in partitions or any cov-
ering of combustible materials, such pipes
shall be double, with an air space- of at
least one-half inch between the inner and the
outer pipes, and between the outer pipe
and any woodwork or combustible material;
or, if such pipes are single, then they shall
be covered with asbestos paper of not less
than two-ply in thickness, or with other
approved material of equal non;conducting
and non-combustible quality, and be kept
at least two inches away from all wood-
work or combustible material unless such
woodwork be tinned, and then they shall
be kept not less than one inch away from
such woodwork or combustible materials.
Horizontal hot air pipes shall be kept at
least six Inches away from all woodwork
or combustible material, unless the same
be protected by metal shields or by plaster,
and then they shall not be nearer than two
inches to such woodwork or combustible
materials, and where such horizontal pipes
are concealed or surrounded by woodwork
or other combustible material, in the same
manner as is herein required for vertical

  

 

pipes: All hot air- registers when placed
in a floor next above a furnace or other
> heater shalLbe set in approved non- com-
,bustible borders not less than two inches
in width, and shall have an air space of at
least two inches on all sides and bottom
of register box. All register boxes shall
I have a separation from all woodwork or
combustible material, equal to that herein
required for concealed hot air pipes. No
wooden lathing shall be placed in front of
or gover any hot air pipe. No steam pipe
or steam return pipe or hot water pipe
shall be placed nearer than one inch 'to any,
woodwork or combustible material, unless
the same be protected. by metal shields,
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,, Section One Hundred and Fourteen. Pen-
- — alty.—-It shall be the duty of the owner or
'- , user of every apparatus of the kinds de-
scribed in sections one ‘hundred and ten.

, one hundred and eleven, and one hundred
“and twelve and one hundred and thirteen of
this ordinance, to cause the same and its
appurtenances to be kept in a condition to
comply with all of the provisions of this
ordinance relating thereto. Every person
‘ who shall maintain, or use, or cause to be
A -. maintained or used, any such‘apparatus as
is described in_sections one hundred and
ten, one hundred afid eleven, one hundred
and twelve and one hundred and thirteen.
in violation of this ordinance, or who shall
maintain or use any such apparatus in a
' a condition to endanger life or property, shall,
‘ 5, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a
- misdemeanor and fined not less than five
"dollars nor more than five hundred dollars
for each oflense.

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Section One Hundred and Fifteen. Boiler
Rooms, Coal or Fuel Rooms—All high
pressure steam boilers, hereafter to be
placed in any building (except when in
separate brick boiler house), shall be placed
in a fireproof room, the walls of which
shall be constructed of brick, stone or con-
crete, of not less than thirteen inches in
thickness, and all openings into such fire—
proof room shall be provided with standard
fire proof doors. The ceiling or flow over
all such boiler rooms and the ceiling or
floor over all such coal or fuel
rooms in such buildings, shall be construct-
ed of concrete or masonry, supported upon
iron or steel beams or masonry arches. Ev-
ery boiler room when below ground, Qt
when under any sidewalk, shall have sta-
tionary iron ladders or stairs leading direct-
ly to a man-hole or other opening to the
outside or other adequate means of exit,
which shall be approved by the Commis-
sioner of Public Buildings.

Section One Hundred and Sixteen. Boiler
Houses—A11 buildings hereafter to be
erected for boiler houses, unless entirely
of fireproof construction, shall have walls
of either brick or stone of thickness as re-
quired by sections forty—six and fifty—six of
this ordinance, and'shall be so constructed
that a clear space of at least eight feet shall
exist between any part of the boiler and
the roof, ceiling, or other woodwork.

Section One Hundred and Seventeen. Cu-
poia Chimneys.——Cupola furnaces for foun-
dries shall have chimneys extending at
least ten feet above the highest point of
any roof Within a radius of forty feet of

    

   

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Section- One '. rHundr'ed and Eighteen.

.Height of Smoke Stacksand Chimneys.—_V'

reThe tops: of all smoke stacks and chimneys,
hereafter erected, shall be carried above _

the reefs of surrounding buildings so as ’,

,\ to ypmtect them from smoke, gases and '
fumes; and they shall have approved spark ‘ w‘
'arresters when necessary to ,prevent the '

“(escape of gsparks. The heights of such _

smoke stacks and chimneys shall not be ‘

less than here given, to-wit Smoke stacks

”and chimneys having a sectional area or

one hundred square inches or less shall

{extend at least four feet above the top of

every building Within twenty feet_thereof;-

smoke stacks and chimneys having a. sec-

tional area of more than one hundred square

inches and less than three hundred and

' eighty square inches, shall extend at least

_'eight feet above the .top of every building

within one hundred feet thereof; smoke-

' stacks and chimneys having a sectional area

of more than three hundred and eighty \

square inches, shall extend at least twelve

feet above the top of every building within

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Section One Hundred and Nineteen.
Smoke Stacks and Chinmeys May Be
Raised When of Insufficient Height—The a
Commissioner 01 Public Buildings is hereby
authorized to enter upon any premises

W whereon any smoke stack or chimney, erect-
- ed prior to the passage of this ordinance,
shall be maintained of a less h'eight than
provided in the preceding section, and raise

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t0'conform to the requirements of section
one hundred and eighteen. It shall be the
duty of every owner or occupant of every
such premises to permit said Commissioner
to enter upon such premises for the pur-
poses aforesaid.

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Section One Hundred and Twenty. Pen-
alty.——-Every pers‘on who shall maintain or
use any smoke stack or chimney erected af-
ter the passage of this ordinance, in 'viola-
tion of the provisions of section one
hundred and eighteen hereof, or any
person who shall refuse to admit
the Commissioner of Public Buildings or his
agents to any premises for the purpose of
raising any smoke stack or chimney main-
tained thereon, as provided in section one
hundred and nineteen thereof, shall, upon
conviction, be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and be fined not less than five dol—
lars nor more than five hundred dollars for
each offense, and every day whereon such
violation shall exist or such admission be
refused the Commissioner of Public Build-
ings, shall constitute a separate offense.

Section One Hundred and Twenty—one.
Gas, When Turned On, to Be Kept Burning.
—No person shall in any building in this
city turn on the gas, or cause or suffer the
same to be turned on, or escape from the
gas pipe in such building, unless such gas
be lighted at once. and kept burning until
properly turned off g

Section One Hundred and Twenty-two.
Gas Fixtures—All gas lights shall be
placed at least three feet below any ceiling
or exposed woodwork, unless the same be
properly protected by a metal shield sus-
pended at least one inch below ceiling or

   

woodwork; ,in which cases the distance
shallgnot be less than eighteen incheswand'
all gas fixtures or devices‘ for the usa of
gas shall be so located and protected that
the use thereof cannot ignite any combusto
ible materials. Every bed roomiin every
[lodging house, hereafter erected, in which
there are gas fixtures or devices, or outlets
. for the attachment of such gas fixtures or
e , devices, shall have ventilating openings at
or near the ceiling, which opening shall
have an unobstructed area of not less
than one hundred square inches, and such
greater area as shall be determined by the
Commissioner of Public Buildings. These
ventilating openings shall open into the
public corridors of such house; and it
shall be the duty 62 every keeper or pro-
,prietor of every public lodging house to
see that the ventilating openings required
by this section are kept open and unobstruct-
ed. All buildings hereafter altered, or con-
verted to be used as lodging houses. shall
‘be made to conform to the requirements of
this section. It shall be the duty or the
owner or keeper or proprietor of every
lodging house now in the City or St. Louis
to cause such lodging house to conform to
the requirement of this section within six
months after the passage of this ordinance;

   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
  

“ Section One Hundred and Twenty-three.
_Gas Pipes and Fixtures to Be Kept in Or-
der.—It shall be the duty of the owner or

‘ lessee of every building wherein gas pipes
are installed to maintain such pipes in a

. state of-good repair and keep them tight,
and to immediately repair or make tight
any defective or leaking gas pipes upon
notice from the Commissioner of Public
Buildings. It shall be the duty of every oc-
cupant of a building who uses gas,

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whether he be owner, lessee or tenant, to
maintain all gas fixtures, gas stoves, gas
heaters or other devices for the use or gas.
in a state 01: good repair and keep them
tight; and to immediately repair or make
tight any defective or leaking fixture or de-
vice upon notice from the Comm ssioner
of Public Buildings. It shall be the- duty
of every company or person supplying gas
to any building when notified by the Com-
missioner of Public Buildings of any leak-
ing or defective gas pipe or gas fixture or
device in any building, to immediately shut
011 the gas supply to such building, and to
not turn on or supply gas again to such
ouilding until such defective gas pipe or
fixture shall have been repaired and made
tight.

Section One Hundred and Twenty-four.
Hatchways or Well Holes to Be Barred or
Inclosed.—Every hoistway, hatchway, stair-
way, or well hole in every building shall
hereafter be securely guarded by means of
proper gates, railings or guards, or other
inclosures, which may be approved by the
Commissioner of Public Buildings. Such
guards or railings shall not be less than
three feet in height nor more than one
foot above the fiber, and shall be so con-
structed as to effectually prevent persons
from falling into such hoistways, hatch-

ways, Stairways, or well holes. The owners, ’

lessees. or occupants of any building in
the City of St. Louis, in which hatchways
or well holes exist, or shall hereafter be
constructed, shall cause the same to be
effectually barred or inclosed, as provided
in sections one hundred and twenty—seven,
one hundred and twenty-eight, one hundred
and twenty-nine, one hundred and thirty,
of this ordinance, for the prevention of
accidents therefrom.

   
  

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such/persons mentioned in . the preceding
ectidn who-have hatchways or ‘well holes
in' theiribuildings, to h‘a‘ve the same proper:
y guarded o; inclosed. ,. ‘

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Section One Hundred and Twenty-six.
'Saine—-Penalty.—If any- person mentioned
in section one hundred and twenty-four
; shall fail, neglect, or refuse to comply with
[notice aforesaid for the period of thirty
‘ «days after same is given; as provided in
~1section one hundred and twenty-five. ‘he
» shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction shall be fined not less than
fifty dollars, nor more than five hundred dol-
lars [for each offense. '

Section One Hundred and Twenty-seven.
Hatch Doors for Elevators or Hoistways.
-—<In every building hereafter erected or
altered to be used for manufacturing or
'mercantile purposes, in which_there shall
be hoistways, or elevators, or well hOIes,
not'inclosed iri"walls constructed of brick
or .other fireproof material and provided.
with fire doors, the openings thereof
through and upon eachfloor of said build—
_ ings shall be provided ’With approved an—
tomatically closing metal clad hatch doors
,for every such hoistway, elevator. or well
: hole. Outside windows or openings into
fr every elevator shaft or hoistway shall have
' .such sign or device to indicate the-exist-
‘f 'ence of said shaft or hoistway as shall be
.approved by the 00mmissioner of Public
Buildings.

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Section One Hundred and Twenty-eight.
Inclosure of Elevators in Mercantile or
Manufacturing Buildings—Elevator shafts
in all mercantile and manufacturing build—
ings, exceeding three stories in height,
hereafter built or altered, to be occupied by
more than two tenants above the first story,
shall be inclosed with walls or partitions of
approved fireproof material, and have au-
tomatically closing metal clad doors at
all openings thereto.

Section One Hundred and Twenty-nine.
Elevators in Connection With Stairways.—
In all buildings hereafter erected or alter-
ed, wherever elevators are placed in the
well holes of or adjacent to Stairways, such
elevators and Stairways shall be inclosed
with partitions of approved fireproof ma-
terials.

Section One Hundred and Thirty. Grating
and Floor Under Machinery at Top of Ele-
vator Shafts—There shall be placed below
the machinery and sheaves at the top of
every elevator shaft, hereafter constructed
or altered, a substantial grating or screen of
iron, so constructed as to prevent persons
or objects from falling into such shafts, and
sufficiently open to permit flames and smoke
to pass through to the skylight or windows
provided in section one hundred and thirty-
two. If such shaft be floored over with a
solid flooring, such flooring shall not co‘er
more than one-half of the area of such
shaft, and at least one-half of the area of
such shaft shall be covered with an ap-
proved open grating.

Section One Hundred and Thirty-one.

Dumb Waiters. —Dumb waiter shafts, ex- >
cept in ellings, shall be constructed of
approved non- -combustible materials, and
there shall be approved metal clad doors
at all openings thereto. -

—/' Section One fiundred and Thirty-tum.
Skylights Over Elevators—In all buildings
hereafter erected or altered, the roof im-
mediately over every hoistway, elevator,
open shaft-or well hole, shall be provided
with a skylight containing not less than
twenty- five square feet of glass; said glass

. shall be set in metal sashes or frames, in '
lights of not less than two hundred square
inches each’. and shall not exceed one- ,
eighth inch in thickness: There shall be
suspended immediately below this glass a
strong wire netting Provided, that if in
the sides of an elevator pent house, or at
the top of any such shaft or well hole,
there be Windows having thirty- -flve square
feetof glass of the thickness herein speci-
fied tor skylights, then the commissioner
of Public Buildings may, at his discretion.

, permit the skylights above described to be
omitted. .,

Section One' Hundred and Thirty-three.
Strength of Floors and Roofs—The mini- ~
mum live loads which the floors of build-
ings shall be capable of supporting, when
uniformly loaded over their entire surface,

ll be: For stores, factories, commercial
buildings and ware houses, one hundred and
fifty pounds per square foot; for office
buildings, on all floors above the first. sev-
enty pounds per square foot; for office
buildings on the first floor. one hundred
and fifty pounds per square foot; for places
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hundred pounds p'er square foot; for dwell-
ings, lodging and tenement houses, sixty
pounds per square foot. For all flat roofs.
forty pounds per square foot. When the
purpose for which any building shall be
used subjects its floors to greater loads
than those given above, then such building
shall be so constructed as to safely sup-
port such loads. with the factor of safety
prescribed in this ordinance for the ma-
terials of its construction: Live loads are
here taken to mean loads that are movable
and transient, and that are not a part of the
building, as distinguished from dead loads,
which are here taken to mean the fixed and
component parts of the building.

Section One Hundred and Thirty-four.
Load on Floors to Be Safely Distributed.—
The weights placed on any floor in any
building shall be safely distributed there-
on. The Commissioner of Public Buildings
may require the owner or occupant of any
building‘ or portion thereof, to redistribute
the load on any floor or to lighten such
load where he may deem the same to be
necessary for the protection of life and
property. No person shall place, or cause
or permit to be placed on any floor of any
building any greater load than the safe
load thereof, to be estimated and asCertain-
ed as provided in section one hundred and
thirty-five of this ordinance.

Section One Hundred and Thirty-five.
Strength of Floors to Be Computed—In
all manufacturing or commercial buildings,
where heavy materials are kept or stored
or where heavy machinery- is operated, it
shall be the duty of the owner or occupant
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-~ passage of this ordinance to have the
strength at the floors of such buikiing, and
their supports, computed by some compe-
tent person to be employed by the owner
or occupant, to estimate the weights which
may be safely sustained per square foot of
floor in such building, and to reduce such
estimate to writing, stating the materials,
sizes, distance apart and span of beams
and girders, posts or columns supporting,
each floor in such building, and the cor-
rectness of such estimate shall be sworn to
by the person making the same, and it
shall thereupon be filed in the office of the
Commissioner of Public Buildings. But it
the Commissioner of Public Buildings shall
have cause to doubt the correctness of said
estimates rhe is empowered to revise and
correct the same, and for the purpose of
such revision the officers and employes
of said building department may enter any
building and clear so much of any floor or
portion thereof as may be required to make
necessary measurements and examinations.

Section One Hundred and Thirty-six. No-
tice to Be Posted on Each Flown—«When
the correct estimate of the weight that
the floor in any manufacturing or com-
mercial building will safely sustain has
been ascertained, as provided in section one
hundred and thirty—five, this ordinance, the
Commissioner of Public Buildings shall
approve the' same,’and thereupon the owner
or occupant of said building, or any portion
thereof, shall post a copy of such approved
estimate in a conspicuous place on each
story of the building to which it relates.
Before any building shall, after ninety days
from the passage of this ordinance, be
used and occupied, in whole or in part,
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weight that each floor will safely sustain
upon each superficial foot thereof shall be
ascertained and posted as hereinbefore spec-
ified.

Section One Hundred and Thirty-seven.
Columns—All columns in buildings re-
quired by this ordinance to be buildings of
the first-class, or columns supporting brick
walls in buildings more than four stories
in height, shall be of iron or steel and
made fireproof by a covering of not less
than three inches in thickness of approved
fire-resisting materials. No column 01' cast
iron shall have a less thickness of shell
than three-quarters of an inch nor have
a. length exceeding twenty—five times its
least diameter. No column of wrought iron
or steel shall have a less thickness of
metal than one-quarter inch. No column
of wood shall have a greater length than
forty times its least diameter; nor shall
any column of wood be permissible in the
cellar or basement of any lodging house,
tenement house, or office building of more
than three stories in‘ height; nor shall any
column of wood in any building of more
than three stories in height, stand upon
any bolster or girder of wood, but' all such
columns shall stand upon metal caps or
plates of sufficient size to receive the col-
umns and their loads.

Section One Hundred and Thirty-eight.
Loads 0n Columns—Every column shall
have a calculated capacity to support in
addition to the dead loads imposed thereon,
the live loads for which dependent floors
are calculated (see section one hundred
and thirty-three), in not less than the fol-
lowing proportions: For the floor imme-

 

 

 

  

  

diately above every column, its full live
load for the floor second above, ninety-
flve per cent of its live load; for the floor
third above, ninety per cent of its live
load; for the floor fourth above, elghty- five
’per cent of its live load; and for each suc-
ceeding floor above, a proportion diminished
by not more than five per cent‘ but in no
case shall the live load of a floor be
taken at less than forty per cent of its cal-
culated amount; and‘the required support-
ing capacities so determined shall be the
minimum permissible for the factors of
safety and allowable stresses given in sec-
tion one hundred and forty-one.

Section One Hundred and Thirty-nine.
Loads on Girders2—Every girder shall have
a calculated capacity to support in addition
to the dead loads imposed thereon. At
least eighty-five per cent of the live load
and the supporting capacity so determined
shall be" the minimum permissible for the
factors of safety given in section one hun-
dred and forty-one.

Section One Hundred and Forty.—
Loads on Beams—Every beam shall have a
calculated capacity to support the full dead
and live loads imposed thereon, —With the
factors of safety given in section one huh-
dred and forty-one.

Section One Hu/ndred and Forty-one. Fac—
tors of Safety and Allowable Unit Stresses.
-—The factors of safety for materials of
construction shall not be less than the fol-
lowing: For materials subject to -transverse
or tensile strains: The unit stresses al-
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portions of the ultimate breaking strength.

to-wit:

For steel or wrought iron....

For wood ..... . . . .

......... 0.?

. One-fourth
. . .One-sixth

For cast iron .............. . . . . .One-eighth
For materials subject to compression, the
strains shall not exceed: '
For brick work (a) three hundred pounds

per square inch.

For brick work (b) two hundred and ten
pounds per square inch.
(c) one hundred and

For brick work

twenty pounds per square inch.

(23.) Strictly hard bricks laid in Portland

cement mortar.

(b) Ordinary hard and red bricks laid in
natural cement mortar.

(c) Merchantable bricks

mortar. /

laid in

lime

For concrete, as describedfin section forty-

two, two hundred
square inch.

and fifty

pounds per

For wooden posts with sduare ends, the
compression in pounds per square inch shall
not exceed the amounts given in the fol-

lowing table,

length to the least diameter:

Unsupported
Length
Divided
By
the
Least
Diameter. White Pine.
Ten ............... 700 pounds.
Fifteen ........... 615 pounds.
Twenty ...... . . . . 530 pounds.
Twenty—five ....... 445 pounds.
Thirty ............ 360 pounds.
Thirty-five ....... 275 pounds.
Forty ............. 190 pounds.

for the respective ratios 0!

Pounds
Per
Square
Inch
Oak or
Yellow
Pine.
800 pounds
710 pounds.
620 pounds.
530 pounds.
440 pounds.
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For cast iron, round or rectangular col-
umns, with square ends, the compression in
pounds per square inch shall not exceed
the amounts given in the following table
for the respective ratios of length to the
least diameter:

Unsupported '
Length
Divided
By -Pounds
the Per
Least Square
Dzameier. Inch.
Ten .......................... 8,900 pounds.
Fifteen ...................... 7,800 pounds.
Twenty ...................... 6,700 pounds.
Twenty—five .................. 5,600 pounds.

For medium steel columns with flat ends,
the compression in pounds per square inch
shall not exceed the amounts given in the
following table for the respective ratios of
length to least radius of gyration:

Unsupported
Length
Divided
By
Least Pounds
Radius Per
Of Square
Gyration. Inch.
Forty ...................... 12,444 pounds.
Sixty . . ..................... 11,262 pounds.
Eighty .. . . . ..... . .......... 10,613 pounds.
One hundred ................ 9,782 pounds.
One hundred and twenty. .. . 8,925 pounds.
One hundred and forty ...... 8,182 pounds.
One hundred and sixty ...... 7.306 pounds.
One hundred and eighty. . . . 6.579 pounds.
Two hundred ............. . .. 5,925 pounds.
Two hundie‘d and twenty... . 5,332 pounds.

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Section One Hundred- and Forty-two. Re-
striction or Floor Areas—The undivided
floor area permissible in buildings of three
or more stories in height, shall not exceed
twelve thousand square feet tor buildings
of the first-class; nor exceed seven thou-
sand flve hundred square feet for buildings
of the second and third-class. 'Larger build-
ings shall have brick partition walls of the
thickness required in section forty-six of
this ordinance. so located that no undivided
floor area shall exceed the figures above
given. There shall be automatically clos-
ing fire doors on each side of the wall of ap-
proved construction tor all openings in such
partition walls, and said walls shall be car-
ried above the roof and capped as provided
in section sixty-two of this ordinance.

Section One Hundred and Forty-three.
Unrestricted Floor Areas—Buildings of th
first-class, or buildings of the second-class,
as provided in section twenty-four of this
Ordinance, and having all sta‘irways and ele-
vator, or other openings from story to story,
inclosed with wall of brick or concrete,
provided with approved self-closing fire
doors at all openings in such walls, may be
constructed without restriction as to floor
areas, provided such buildings be equipped
with approved automatic sprinkling devices
throughout every story.

Section One Hundred and Forty-four. Un-
restricted Floors Areas, When Stairs and
Elevators Are Open—Buildings of the first-
class or buildings of the second-class, when
equipped with approved automatic sprink-
lers, may be builf exceeding the floor areas
provided in section one hundred and forty-
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and elevators; provided such» buildings have
in addition to sucli’open stairways and re-
mote from any open stairway, elevator or
open shaft, such a. number of fireproof stair-
ways inclosed in walls of brick or con—
vcrete, as shall not_be less than one such
fireproof. stairway for every fifteen thousand
square feet of floor area, or portion thereof,
for buildings of the first—class; or one such
fireproof stairway for every ten thouSand
square feet or portion thereof of floor area
of bui'l'd'ings of the second-class. Such fire-
proof stairways shall be so placed that they
may only be entered from the open air in
every story; they shall not be less, than
three feet eight inches wide, without wind-
ers, with handrails on both sides anck shall
have treads or not less than ten inches, nor -.
risers of more- than eight inches. All door-
ways leading to such stairways on all floors
above the ground floor, shall open towards
,the stairs and shall be plainly indicated
by means of conspicuous signs, doors lead-
ing ‘from such stairways on the ground
floor shall open outwardly and to the open
air.

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Section One Hundred and Forty-five.
Skeleton Construction Buildings—Buildings
of skeleton construction shall be buildings
of the first-class, and constructed upon a
steel or iron framework, so designed and
constructed as to be capable of resisting all
strains from the weight of the structure,
its contents and the pressure of the wind,
, within the limts of the factors of safety and
unit stresses provided in section one hun-
dred and forty-one of this ordinance. All
structural members of such buildings shall
be flreproofed and protected as provided in
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Section One Hundred and Forty-six. Ex-
terior Walls of Skeleton Buildings—Exterior
walls of skeleton buildings shall not be less
than eighteen inches in thickness, unless
they be supported in each story height by
the framework. in which case they shall not
be less than thirteen inches in thickness.
All exterior walls shall have at least eight
inches of masonry outside of all girders sup-
porting more than one story of the masonry,
as provided in section twenty-two, and all
such walls and masonry shall be securely
anchored to the columns and framework.

Section One Hundred and Forty—seven.
Wind Pressure on Skeleton Buildings—The
framework of a skeleton building shall be
constructed to resist a horizontal wind pres-
sure of thirty pounds per square foot on all
exposed surfaces above grade. Where there
are buildings immediately adjoining the
wall surface covered by such buildings will
be considered as not exposed to wind pres-
sure. The factors of safety to be used
in computing the sections required to resist
wind pressure shall be such that the unit
stresses provided in section one hundred
and forty—one of this ordinance, shall not
be exceeded by more than twenty per cent.

Section One Hundred and Forty—eight.
Construction Shall Conform to Accepted
Standards—The materials and workman-
ship of construction for the frame work of
skeleton buildings shall not be inferior in
quality to the requirement of the standard
specifications of the “Association of Ameri-
can Steel Manufacturers.”

Section One Hundred and Forty-nine. Ho-
tels, Etc—Fire Escapes to Be Provided-—

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Red Light. It is hereby made the duty of
every keeper or proprietor of every
hotel, public boarding or lodging
house in the city, of three stories and over
in height,, where such building is not a
building of the first-class to provide with
and securely fasten in every lodging room
in said hotel, public boarding house- or lodg-
ing house above the first story, which has
an outside window, and is used for the ac—
commodation of guestsyor employes as a
sleeping apartment, a rope or rope ladder
for the escape of lodgers therein, in case
of fire, of at least one inch in diameter,
which shall be securely fastened within
such room, and as near a Window as prac-
ticable. and of- sufficient length to reach
therefrom to the ground, ’on the outside of
such hotel, public boarding or lodging
house, and made of strong material; such
rope or rope ladder shall be kept in good
repair and condition. In - lieu ofra rope
or rope ladder, there may be' substituted
any other appliance that may be deemed
of equal or greater utility by the Com-
missioner of Public Buildings; but such
appliances shall in all cases be so con-
structed and situated as to be under the
control and management of any ledger in
such rooml It is hereby further made the
duty of every keeper or proprietor of every
hotel, public boarding or lodging house in
this city, of three stories and over in-
height, to provide and keep in plain view
at the head of each flight of stairs and
also adjacent to the opening leading to
each stationary fire escape on each and
every floor of said hotel, public boarding
or lnging house, a lamp or light with a red
glass globe surrounding the light for the
purpose of designating the location of said
stairway and fire escape, respectively; said
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"—‘Notice to Guests—4t shall be the duty:
or the proprietor or proprietors or keeper
or keepers, of every hotel, public boarding
or lodging house, mentioned in the pre-
ceding sections of this ordinance}, to post
or cause to be posted up notices in every

.« room of such hotel, public boarding or

lodging house, calling attention to the

.. _ fact that the provisions 'ofthis ordinances

‘ . - V, have been complied with and “specifying " "
' in said notice the part of the room or g

‘ __ building where the appliance to be used“ ;

’ [or the purpose of escaping from said ’

buildings in case of fire are located and

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Section One Hundred and Fifty—one
~Same—Watchman—Alarm Bell —In all ho—
tels, public boarding or lodging houses-an e».
the city containing more than twenty "
rooms and being more than three stories
in height, proprietor or proprietors,
manager or managers, lessee, keeperuor.
‘ keepers, of each and every such hbt‘el;_ =-
public boarding or lodging houses, shall
constantly' keep and employ at least one
competent and trustworthy man as watch~
mu upon the basement floor and upon
each and every floor above the second
_ story thereof, Whose duty it shall be t0'
"' keep watch and guard in such hotel, pubr
lic boarding or lodging house, against fire,_

and to give warning in case flre should
break out. Such watchman shall be on
duty between the hours of nine oclock p.
m.‘ and six o’clock a. m\ of each and
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shall do all ii; his power to awaker; each

guest and—all other persons therein, and
inform themof such fire. .A large} alarm
bell or gong shall be placed in each hotel,
public boarding or loding house, at, in
or near the office, or there shall be placed
and kept in good order in each room
above the first story of such hotel, public
boarding or lodging house, an alarm bell
which may be sounded from the ofilce, or
sounded from the corridors, and it shall
be the duty of the proprietor of such hotel,
public boarding house or lodging house
to post a conspicuous notice in every
room in )vhlch such bell is placed calling
the guest’s attention to the bell and that
it is to be used for the purpose of alarm-
ing the guests and inmates in case of fire
therein. Upon any such alarm being giv-
en, it shall be the duty of every proprie-
tor, keeper. manager or employe to do
all in his or their pOWer to save such
guests or inmates.

Section One Hundred and Fifty-two.
Same—Penalty in Case of VVatchman’s
Neglect—Should any such watchman leave
his post or be absent from his duties dur-
ing the hours mentioned in the section
next preceding, or if he should sleep while

.on duty, or if he should fail while on

duty to do all in his power to awaken
the persons sleeping in such hotel, public
boarding or lodging house, he shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction shall be fined not less than five
dollars nor more than fifty dollars.
Section One Hundred and Fifty-three.
Same—Penalty in Case of .Proprietor's
Neglect—Every proprietor, keeper, lessee
or manager of every hotel, public board~

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of St. Louis, who shall fall to comply
with the requirements of sect ons one
hundred and forty-nine, one hun red and
fifty and one hundred and fifty—one of
this ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof,
before either of the police Justices of the
city, shall be fined in a sum not less than
five dollars nor more than five hundred dol-
lars.

Section One Hundred and Fifty-four.
Height of Rooms—Windows4—Ventilating
Skylights—Every room ingevery apart-
ment house, hotel, tenement or lodging
house hereafter built, and in every build-
ing hereafter altered to be used as such,
shall be not less than eight feet in height
in the clear in every story, except that in
the attic it may be less than eight feet
high for one-half the area. of the room
Every such room shall have one or more
windows or ventilating skylights, with
area of opening of not less than one-tenth
the floor area of the room, to be lighted or
ventilated from or by an open air space
with an area throughout at least one-
fourth as great as that of the largest
room opening thereon, and it shall be un-
lawful after the passage of this ordinance,
to so construct any room in any apart-
ment house, hotel, tenement, or lodging
house, not. provided with outside windows
or skylights as required by this section.

Section One Hundred and Fifty-five.
Stables on Residence Streets Permissible
Only by Ordinance—No stable shall here-
after be built or established in any block
nearer than seventy-five feet to any street
whereon the majority of buildings front-
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to do has first been obtained from the
—Municipal Assembly by proper ordinance.
Nor shall any existing building, shed or
structure. or part thereof, be used. al-
tered, changed, removed or repaired so as
to .pstablish or conduct a stable therein,
when nearer than seventy- five feet to any
such street as aforesaid without such per-
mission.

Section One, Hundred and Fifty-six.
Livery Stables Permissible Only by Ordi-
nance—No livery stable, sale stable,
boarding stable, or any stable having ac-
commodation for ten or more animals
shall hereafter be built or established
nearer than one hundred feet to any pub-
lic street until permission so to do has
first been obtained from the Municipal As—
sembly by proper ordinance. Nor shall
any existing building, shed or structure.
or part thereof, be used. altered or re-
paired so as to establish or conduct a
livery stable. sale stable or boarding sta-
ble, or any stable having accommodations
for ten or more animals. when nearer
than one hundred feet to any street, with-
out such permission. Provided, however,
that nothing in this section and the pre-
ceding section contained, shall be deemed
to apply to any person, firm or corporation
who shall at the time of the passage of '
this ordinance be lawfully operating or
conducting any stable, livery stable, sale
stable or boarding stable, in actual use as
such, at or in the premises so occupied by
them at the- time of the passage of .this
ordinance.

Section One Hundred and Fifty-seven.
Livery Stablds—Penalty.—Any person,
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and fifty-five and. one hundred and fifty-
six of this ordinance,,shall upon convic-
tion be fined not less ‘than fifty dollars
nor more than five hundred dollars for
each offense.

Section One Hundred and Fifty—eight.
Theaters—Every theater or opera house,
or other building now or hereafter used
for theatrical or operatic purposes, or for
the purpose of holding public entertain-
ments of any kind Where stage scenery
and apparatus are employed, and having
seating accommodations for one hundred or
more persons, and where such building
shall have seating accommodations for
spectators above the first or main floor
thereof shall comply with all the require-
ments of section one hundred and fifty-
eight, one hundred and fifty-nine and one
hundred and sixty of this ordinance. All
doors shall open outwardly and must be
kept unfastened and unobstructed during
every performance. All exits in all th‘ea-
ters shall have such fastenings as may be
readily opened from the inside without
keys. and shall be of an uniform style;
and only such fastenings as shall be ap-
proved by the Commissioner of Public
Buildings. All Stairways shall have strong
hand railings on both sides thereof, which
railings shall be continuous across plat-
forms and landings wherever possible to
make them so. All exits shall be plainly
indicated by plain letters not less than
four inches in height, placed over every
doorway or passageway leading to the
outside of such building. Each exit must
at all times be kept free from curtains,
portiers, and other like obstructions, and
be designated by a red light. Every the—
'ater shall have an exit from the stage
into the street or alley, not less than four

     

» feet wide. :There shall be a clean-“unob-

printed program shall have thereon a
plan or diagram of the building, indi-
“eating the location of all exits and pas-
sages leading to the outside of such build-
.ring. All seats, excepting those contained
in boxes, shall be firmly secured to the
floor, and no seat shall have more than
nine seats intervening between 'it and an
. aisle, and no stool or seat shall be placed
in any aisle In every such building as is
mentioned in this section, the proscenium
‘ opening sh.all be provided with a. meprnof
curtain, or a curtain of asbestOS or similar
r \flreproof material of a construction to be
' approved by the Commissioner of Public
Buildings. It shall be the duty of said
Commissioner of Public Buildings to in—
spect and test the construction and opera-
tion of such fireproof curtains on or about
the first day of September and the first
day ‘of January of each year, and at such
other intervals as shall insure their main-
mtenance in a good and efficient condition

for the safety of the audience; said cur-

tain shall cover. the entire proscenium

opening, and shall extend at least twelve

inches beyond the sides of the prosce-

nium opening, and shall be operated with

rings or snaps sliding on Wire cables and

constructed in a way to be approved My
‘ the Comnfissioner of Public Buildings.
Said fireproof curtain shall be lowered at
the close of every performance. and shall
be“ operated from the stage floor by proper
devices for that purpose. It shall be so
constructed that it can be lowered from
the fly floors and the stage; it shall be
hung by wire cable or metal supports to
be approved by the Commissioner
of Public Bull-dings. All wood-

   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
  

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work on the stage, fly galleries and
rigging-lofts shall be' painted with
fireproof paint or treated with an ap-
proved fire-resisting material so as to be
effectually rendered sate against fire. The
curtains about the proscenium boxes,
and all draperies, portiers and curtains
within the auditorium or any aisles or
corridors thereof shall be chemically treat-
ed to make them less inflammable. The
frame or woodwork surrounding the can.
vas scenery owned by the'theater shall
be painted with fireproof paint and the re—
verse or back side of such canvas scenery
shall be treated with an approved fire-
resisting material. . ‘

The use of scenery painted with oil is
prohibited; the use of calcium lime lights
is likewise prohibited, except upon the
stage floor. Whenever the Commissioner
of Public Buildings shall be satisfied that
in any theater or operatic performance
an extra hazard of fire exists by reason of
the employment of vast quantities of
scenery, nets, ropes, lights, etc., he shall
order the scenery and lights to be re-
arranged in a way that such extra hazard
shall not exist.

A practical Water curtain shall be in-
stalled in every theater to be composed
of stand pipes on each side of the pros-
cenium arch and a lateral pipe running
horizontally over the proscenium arch, so
as to discharge a sheet of water back
of the fireproof curtain, the same to be
controlled by hand valves from either
side of the stage. Said water curtain
shall be made to the satisfaction of and
approved by the Commissioner of Public
Buildings. Proscenium walls and arches
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metal .to be constructed to the satisfac-
:tion 0: the Commissioner of Public Build~
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: auditorium shall be metal clad doors. All
aisles, corridors and passageways in all
theaters shall be kept free from camp
stools, chains, sofas and other obstruc-
tions, and no person shall be allowed to
stand or occupy any of said aisles during
any performance. ' The word aisle, tor
‘Fmegpurposev of this ordinance, shall be
L~construed to mean the openings or path-
ways to the seats, but shall not include
the foyer in the rear 0f the theater nor
.the space directly back of the boxes of, the
' theater. ‘

All passages, sta'irways arid corridors
throughout all- theaters shall be supplied
‘ with a supplementary lighting system of
electricty, gas or sperm oil, to be ap-
proved by the Commissioner or Public
Buildings, and such system shall be in-
dependent of all other lights in such
buildings and shall be in operation during
the entire period such theater is open to
the public, and until the audience has left
the building.

1 All theaters shall be provided with stan-
dard fire alarm box, connected by the ne-
cessary wires with the headquarters of

shall be in an accessible place on the

stage and be designated by a red light.
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their respective assistants shall have the
right to enter any theater and any and all
parts thereof at any reasonable time, es-
pecially when occupied by the public, in
order to judge of and discharge their re-
spective duties; and it shall be unlawful
for any person to refuse admission to
such officers or throw obstacles in the way
of such officers while engaged in the per-
formance of their duties.

It shall be the duty of the Chief of the
fire department to detail an experienced
fireman to be on duty at each theater
during the whole time it is open to the
public. It 'shall be the duty of said fire-
man to see that all fire apparatus and ap-
pliances required by this ordinance are
in their proper place, in proper condition,
ready for use, all exits unlocked during
the Whole time such theater is open to
the public, and all fire escapes in proper
condition. Said fireman shall require a
drill of the employes of. such theater in
the use of all apparatus and appliances
for the prevention of fire inside of the
building, except during the performance.
Said drills shall be at frequent intervals
until such employes become efficient, and
shall thereafter be had at least once a
month.

Any manager, owner, lessee or keeper
of any theater who shall violate or fail
to comply with the provisions of sections
one hundred and fifty-eight, one hundred
and fifty nine and one hundred and sixty
01' this ordinance shall on conviction
thereof, in addition to having his license
revoked as provided in section One hun-
dred and seventy-three, be fined in the
sum of not less than five dollars nor more
than five hundred dollars. There shall be
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the auditorium“ ceiling, and where this
space is not now inclosed it shall be in-
closed with metal lath and plaster or oth-
er approved fireproof materials. There
shall be provided over the stage. metal
skylights of an area, or combined area
equal ,to one-tenth of the area. of the
stage, and glazed with glass not exceed-

ing one-eighth ,of an inch in thickness. and’

each light thereof shall measure not less
than three hundred square inches; t;

whole of each such skylight‘shall be so
constructed as to open instantly upon the
cutting or burning of a. cord to be fastened
to the floor at the rear or side of the stage.
’or the melting of) a fusible link. which
shall be arranged to hold such skylight
closed, or some other equallly simple ap-
proved device may be provided for their
opening automatically in case of fire on
the stageé 11 such skylights shall be so
arranged at they may be instantly
thrown open by means of a strong wire
cable reaching therefrom to the stage
floor or by some equally effective device
which may be approved by the Commis-
sioner Of Public Buildings. All such sky-
lights shall have securely suspended be-
low the glass a strong wire netting con-
structed of Wire not less than number ten
gauge, and of a mesh not larger than one
inch. In cases where it is impracticable
to construct such skylights as are herein
described, it may be permissible to pro-
vide, in lieu thereof, ventilating openings
in the walls above the stage, at such 10-
cations and 0f such size and construc-
tion as shall be approved by the Com-
missioner of Public Buildings, and Board
of Appeals; such ventilating openings
shallribe arranged to open in the same
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9n ~,Hundred and‘ Fifty 1;
Stand Ripes and Fire Apparatus—In every.
' such building as is mentioned in section
.v one hundred and fifty—eight of this or

"din‘ance, stand pipes of two and one-half 3

inches in diameter shall be provided as
follows, namely: One on each side of the
, stage, also one on each side ot»the/audi-
torium. Hose connections »tor such
standpipes shall be provided on every tier
and gallery level and below the stage, and-
at least one in the property room and one
in the carpenter shop, if the same be con:
tiguous to the building. All such stand-
pipel shall be kept ,clear from obstruction.
Said stand pipes shall be separate‘and dis-
tinct, receiving their supply of water "di-
rect from the main, and shall be fltte with
the regulation couplings of the Fire D part-
ment, and shall be kept constantly filled
with wate; under pressure, and ready for
immediate use at all times during a_per-
‘formance in said building. A proper and
suflicient quantity of hose, fitted with reg-
ulation couplings and with nozzles attached
thereto, and with hose wrench at each
outlet, shall always be kept attached to
each base attachment. There shall also be
kept in readiness for immediate use on the
stage and each gallery at least two barrels ‘
full of water, and two buckets to each bar-
rel. Said barrels and buckets shall be paint-
ed red. There shall also be provided such
other portable fire extinguishing apparatus
as may be required by the Commissioner of
Public Buildings, and at least four axes
and two twenty-foot hooks, two fifteen-foot
hooks and also two ten-foot hooks on each ~
tier or floor of the stage. ‘

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building as is mentioned in section one
hundred and fifty-eight of this ordinance,
every portion of such building devoted to
the use or accommodation of the public,
also all outlets leading to the outside and
including open courts and corridors, shall
be well and properly 'lighte-d during each
performance until the entire audience has
left the premises. All gas and electric
lights in the halls, corridors, lobby or
any part of said buildings used by the au-
dience, except the auditorium, must be
controlled by a separate shut-off, located
in the front portion of the building and
controlled only in that partiCular place.
Gas mains supplying the building shall
have independent connections for the audi-
torium and stage, and provisions shall
be made for shutting off the gas from
the‘ outside of the building. All interior
gas lights shall be lighted by electricity
or other suitable appliances. All suspend-
ed or bracket lights surrounded by
glass globes or shades in the auditorium
or in any part of the building devoted to
the public shall be provided with proper
wire netting underneath. No gas or elec—
tric light shall be inserted in the wall,
woodwork, ceilings or in any part of the
building, unless protected by fireproof ma—
terials. All lights in passages and cor-
ridors in said building shall be protected
with proper wire network. ~Where gas
footlights are used they shall be effec—
tually guanded with wire network, and
shall be protected with strong metal guard,
not less than two feet distant from said
footlights, and the trough containing said
footlights shall be formed of and surrounded
by fireproof material. All border, ceiling
or other lights on or over the stage shall
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main chandelier or from any other light or
lights shall be constructed of fireproof ma-
terials. All lights on the stage side of
the proscenium Wall in dressing rooms,
property rooms, store rooms, and other
places, other than incandescent electric
lights, shall have strong metal wire guards
or screens not less than ten inches in
diameter. so constructed that any material
in contact therewith shall be out of reach
of the flames of said lights, and shall be
rigidly attached to the fixtures in all cases.
Wherever the word “theater" is used in sec-
tions one hundred and fifty-eight, one
hundred and fifty-nine and one hundred and
sixty hereof, it shall include all such build-
ings as are described or referred to in sec—
tion one hundred and fifty-eight.

Section One Hundred and Sixty-one.
Construction of New Theaters.—-—Every
theater or opera house or other building
intended to be used for theatrical or op-
eratic purposes, or for public entertain-
ments of any kind. where stage scenery
and apparatus are employed, hereafter
erected. shall be built to comply with the
requirements of this ordinance. No build-
ing which, at the time of the passage of
this ordinance. was not in actual use for
theatrical or operatic purposes, and no
building hereafter erected not in conformity
with the requirements of this ordinance, and
having space for the accommodation of one
hundred or more persons, and having seats
for the accommodation of spectators above
the first or main floor thereof, shall be used
for theatrical or operatic purposes or for
public entertainments of any kind, where
stage scenery or apparatus are employed,
until the same shall have been made to

   

 
 
    
     
   
   
 
       
     
     
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
   

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art , pr inclosure‘s, or in
_r exits from. or in the. sea-tins or any; .7

sting building to be used wholly‘ or in ’ "
t for public entertainments in connec-
~tion with which stage scenery or appara-

>Qas shall conform to the requirements of this
J; ordinance. ,
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1 ~Section One' Hundred and Sixty-two.
' New Theaters—Entrances and Exits.—
“Every building such as is designated in
section one hundred and sixty-one of this
ordinance shall have at least one front ,
if on a street or alley and in such front\ 4_:
there-shall be suitable means of entrances ~
and exits for the'audiences as hereinafter
provided. In addition to the aforesaid
entrances and exits on the street or alley
there shall be reserved for service in case
of an emergency an open court or space
on the side not bordering- on the street
‘or alley, where said building is located on
”a corner lot. and on both sides of said
building where there is but one frontage
on the street. The width _01 such open _
court or courts shall not be less than ~ ‘ a i
seven feet where the seating capacity is ‘
not over one thousand people, nor less
than eight feet in width for a seating ca?
pacity above one thou-sand people- Said
court or courts shall begin on a line with __
or near the proscenium wall. and shall‘
extend the length of the auditorium prop—
er, to 0':- near the wall separating the
same from the entrance, lobby or vesti-
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or alley from each open court, through
such superstructure as may be built on
the street or alley side of the auditorium.
with continuous walls of brick or fire-
proof materials on each side. The entire
length of said corridor or corridors and
the ceilings and floors shall be fireproof.
Said corridor or corridors shall not be
reduced in width, and the said width shall
be in the clear of any projection in the
walls of the same. The outer openings to be
provided with doors or gates opening to-
ward the street. During the performance,
the doors or gates in the corridors shall
be kept open. The said open courts or cor-
riders shall not be used for storage pur-
poses, or for any purpose whatsoever, ex-
cept for exit and entrance from and to
the auditorium and stage, and must be
kept clear and free during performances.
The level of said corridors at the front en-
trance to the building shall not be greater
than one step above the level of the side-
walk where they begin at the street or
alley entrances. The entrance to the main
front of the building shall not be on a
higher level from the sidewalk than four
steps. To overcome any difference of
level existing between the exits from the

parquet into courts and the level or the_

said corridors, inclined planes shall be em-
ployed where the gradients are not over
one foot in ten feet; in all other cases
steps shall be employed. From the auditor-
ium opening into the said open court on
the side street or alley, there shall not be
less than one exit on each side, in each tier
from and including the parquet, and each
and every gallery. Every exit shall be at
least five feet in width in the clear. All
of said doors shall open outwardly. and
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nance. There shall be balconies not. less than
four feet in width in the side court or
courts at each level or tier above the pars
quet on each side of the auditorium. oi:
sufficient length to embrace the exits,
and from said balconies there shall be
staircases extending to the ground level,
with a rise of not over eight and one-half.
inches to a step, and not less than nine-
inch tread, exclusive oi! the nosing. The
staircase from the upper balcony to the
next below shall not be less than three
feet in Width in the clear, and from the
first balcony to the ground, four feet in
width in the clear, where the seating ca-
pacity of the auditorium is for one thou-
sand people or less, and increasing in
width at the rate of six inches for every
increase in seating capacity of two hun-
dred or less. All of the before mentioned
balconies and staircases shall be con-
structed of steel or iron throughout. in-
cluding the floors, and of ample strength
to sustain the load to be carried by them;
they shall be covered with a metal hood
or awning; where one side of the building
borders on the street or alley. there shall
be balconies and staircases of like ca-
pacity and kind, as before mentioned. ex-
tending to the ground. When located on

' a corner lot, that portion of the premises

bordering on the side street and not re-
quired for the use of the theater may be
used for offices, stores and apartments,
provided the walls separating this por-
tion from the theater proper are carried
up solidly to and through the roof, and
that a fireproof exit is provided for the
theater on each tier, equal to the com-
bined exits opening on opposite sides of
each tier, communicating with balconies
and staircases leading to the street or al-
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in this section; said exit passages shall
be entirely cut of! by brick walls from\
‘said oflices, Jstores or apartments. and
the floors and ceilings in each tier shall
be fireproof. Nothing herein contained
shall prevent a roof garden, art gallery,
or rooms being placed above a theater or
public building, provided the_ floors of
the same forming the roof over such the-
ater or building shall be constructed of
iron or steel and fireproof materials, and
that each floor shall have no covering
boards or sleepers of wood, but be of tile
or cement. Every . roof over said garden
2:: rooms shall have all supports and rat-
ters of iron or steel, and be covered with
glass or fireproof material, or both. Such
roof gardens. art galleries or rooms shall
have exits of widths proportioned to their
seating capacity as herein provided for
theaters.

Section One Hundred and Sixty-three.
New Theaters—Work Shops, Storage and
Property Rooms—Hereafter no work-
shop, storage or general property room
shall be constructed above the auditorum
or stage or under the same, or in any
of the fly galleries. All of said rooms or
shops may be located in the rear or at the
side of the stage, but in such cases they
shall be separated from the stage by a
brick wall, and the openings leading into
said portion shall have standard fireproof
doors on each side of the openings. hung
to iron eyes built in the wall. No store
room or rooms contained in a theater build-
ing, or the offices, stores or apartments ad-
joining as aforesaid, shall be let or used
for carrying on any ‘business or dealing
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terior walls built of fireprodf. 3 material'
shall‘separate the auditoriiin from the en-
} trance vestibule, and from any room or
rooms over the same: also trom any lob-
bies, corridors, refreshment or other
rooms. The openings in walls to all stair—
‘cases shall be the full width of said stair-
cases. '

Section One Hundred and Sixty-five.
New Theaters—Proscenium Wall and Open-
lugs—A. fire wall built of brick, and of
.the thickness as provided in this ordinance
for walls of buildings of the~flrst-class,
shall separate the auditorium from the
stage, and the same shall extend at least
four feet above the stage roof or the auditor
ium roof, if the latter be the higher, and
shall be coped. Above the proscenium open-
ing there shall be an iron girder covered
with fireproof material. Should there be
constructed an orchestra over the stage
above the proscenium the said orchestra
shall be placed» on the auditorium side of
the wall.

Section One Hundred and Sixty-six.
New Theaters—Interior Construction.—
The molded trame around the prosce-
nium opening shall be formed entirely of
fireproof material. If metal be used, the
metal shall be filled in solid with non-
combustible material and securely‘ an-
chored to the wall. The proscenium ,open-
lng shall be provided with a fire-proof as—
bestos curtain as is provided in section
one hundred and fifty- eight of this ordi-
nance. The proscenium curtains shall be
placed at least three feet distant from
Nthe footlights at the nearest point. All
,doorways or openings through the pros-
cenium waif from the auditorium, in

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on each face of the wall, and thee doors
bung so as to be opened from either side
at all times. There shall be no opening
'ln- the proscenium flre walls above the -t
‘level of the auditorium ceiling. Direct 7
access to these doors shall be provided‘ on ‘
both sides, and the same shall always be
kept free from -~ incumbrance. Iron lad-
ders, securely fixed to the wall on the stage?
side, shall be provided to overcome any dif— A
ference of level existing between the floor or s .
~galleries on the stage side of the fire wall 4 ‘ -I
and those on the side of the auditorium. '
There shall be over the stage metal sky-
lights, as provided in section one hundred

and fifty-eight of this ordinance. All’ that
_portion of the stage not comprised in the__’
working of scenery, traps or other mechan-

ical apparatus for the presentation of the
scene, usually equal t0<the width of the
proscenium opening, shall be built of iron

or steel beams, filled in between with fire-

proof materials, and all girders for the sup-

port of said beams shall be of wrought

iron or rolled steel. The fly galleries en-

tire, including floor and pin rails. shall

be, constructed of incombustible material,

and no wooden boards or sleepers shall be
‘used as a covering over beams, but the ’
floor shall be entirely fireproof, the rig-
ging—lott shall be constructed of incombus-

tible material, including the floor covering

the same. All woodwork on and above

the stage and stage scenery shall be treat—

ed to become flre resistingas prescribed in
‘ section one hundred and fifty-eight of this
ordinance. The roof over the auditorium‘

and the entire main floor of the aud-t
itorium and vestibule, also the entire

floor of the second story of the front
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cries in s the auditorium,
_ constructed of iron or steel and fireproog
material, not including the use or wooden
. floor boards..and the necessary sleepers to
ffas'ten the same to, but such sleepers shall'
not be’ ttim=bers of support. The front at
each gallary shall be formed of fireproof
__111'aterial. The ceiling of the auditorium
shall be formed of fireproof material.
All lathing. wherever used, shall
be of metal. The partitions in that
portion of the building which contains the
auditorium. the entrance vestibule. and
every room. and passage devoted to the
use of the audience. shall be constructed
at fireproof material, , including the fur-
ring of outside or her walls. None of
the walls or ceilings shall be covered with
wood sheathing, canvas or other combus-
tible materials; but this shall not exclude
the use of wood wainscoting to a height
not to exceed six feet. The walls separating
the actors' dressing room from the stage
and the partitions dividing the dressing
room, together with the partitions
of‘ every passageway from the same to the
stage. shall be constructed of fireproof ma-
terial; all doors in any of said partitions
shall be standard fire doors. All the
shelving and cupboards in each and every
dressing room, property room or other
storage rooms. shall be con’structed of
metal; slate or fireproof materials. Dress-
ing rooms may be placed in fly galleries.
provided that proper exits are secured
therefrom to fire escapes in the open courts
and that the partitions and other matters
pertaining to dressing rooms shall conform
to the requirements herein contained, but-
the stairs leading to same shall be fire-
prooted.

Section One Hundred and Sixty-seven.
New Theaters—Aisles, Doors and Passages.

   
 

   

  

’ those contained in boxes, shall be firm]

1 seats in 'the auditorium, I

 
  

secured to the- floor. dud no seat in the
‘ auditorium shall have more than» nine seats ..
intervening'between it and an aisle 0n eith-
-er side. 'and no stool or seat shall be placed
in any ai§le.A11 platforms in galleries
'formed to receive the seats shall not be
more than twenty-one inches in height
of riser, nor less than thirty inches width
of platform. All aisles on the respective
floors of the auditorium having seats onj
both sides of same shalknot ‘be less than
two feet six inches wide Where they begin,
and shall be increased in width towards the
exits in the ratio of two inches to five run-
ning feet.’ Aisles having seats on one side
only shall not be less than three feet wide.
The aggregate capacity of the foyers,’lob-
bies, corridors. passages and rooms for
the use of the audience, not including the
aisle space between seats, shall, on each
gallery or floor, be sufficient to contain one-
fourth of the entire number to be accom—
modated on said floor or gallery, in the
ratio of one hundred and fifty superficial
feet of floor room for every one hundred
persons Gradients or inclined planes shall
be employe instead of steps, Where pos-
sible, fo vercome slight difference of.
level, in or between aisles, corridors, and
passages, but no such gradient shall ex-
ceed a rise of more than one foot in ten.
Every theater, such as is mentioned in sec-
tion one hundred and sixty— one, shall have
at least two exits; these exits not referring
to or including 'the exits to the open courts
at the side of the theater. , Doorways 01'
exit or entrance for the use of the public
‘shall not be less than five feet in width,
and for every additional one hundred persons
.or portions thereof above three hundred ac-
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ly, and be hung to :swing in s E: manner

Or corridor; fiend ‘no such doors shall be
, closed or 100 d during any representation,
, ,. or when the building is open to the public.
'1 Distinct and separate places of exit and en-
trance shall be provided for each gallery

, ~ or entrances may serve for the main flobr
.~' of the auditorium and the first gallery,
, provided its capacity be equal to the aggre-
gate capacity of the outlets from the main

leading. to any stairway communicating
with any entrance or exit shall be less than
,: four feet in width, in any part thereof.

Section One Hundred and Sixty-eight.
New Theaters—‘Stairways.—-All stairs
within the: building shall be constructed
of fireproof material throughout. Stair—

' file must, it straight be at least four feet
wide between railings, and, if curved or
winding, five feet wide, and for every addi-
tional hundred people to be accommodated
. six inches must be added to their Width.
5' In no case shall the risers or any inside

stairs exceed seven and one-half inches in
height, nor shall the treads, exclusive of
nosings, be less than ten and one-half inches
. wide in’ straight stairs. In circular or
. ‘ winding stairs. the width of. the tread at the

" narrowest end shall not be less tha seven
inches. Where the seating capacity is for
more than one thousand people there shall

with direct exterior outlet provided for each
' gallery in the auditorium where there are not
more than two galleries, and the same shall

as not to become an obstruction in a. passage"

above the first. A common place ot exit\

floor and the said gallery. Nol passage

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be located on opposite sides of said gallery.
Where there are more than two galleries
one or more additional staircases shall be
provided, the outlets from which shall com-
municate directly with the principal exit or
other exterior outlet?"All said staircases
shall be of width proportioned to the seat-
.ing capacity as elsewhere herein prescribed.
Where the seating capacity is for one
thousand people or less two direct lines of
inside staircases only shall be required, lo-
cated on opposite sides of the galleries and
in both cases shall extend from the side-
walk level to the upper gallery, with out-
lets from each gallery to each side of
said staircases. At least two independ-
ent inside staircases, with direct exterior
outlets, shall also be provided for the
service of the stage, and shall be located
on opposite sides of the same. Where
straight stairs return directly on them-
selves a landing of the full width of both
flights, without any steps. shall be pro-
vided. Stairs turning an angle shall have
a proper landing without winders intro—
duced at said turns. In stairs when two
side flights connect with one main flight
no winders shall be introduced, and the
width of the main flights shall be at least
equal to the aggregate width of the side
flights. Circular or winding stairs shall
have proper landings, introduced at con—
venient distances. All staircases shall have
strong hand rails on both sides and on
platforms and landings where the same is
less in length than the width of the stairs.
If walls are used for the partial or en-
tire support or inclosure of stairs such
walls are to be built of incombustible ma-
terials.

Section One Hundred and Sixty-nine.
New Theaters—Location of Boilers.—

 

canstructed or fireproof material All

doorways in said wall shall have stand—._

« ard fire doors.

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hiSection One Hundred and Seventy. New ‘

Theaters. Registers and Radiators q—Na
floor register for heating shall be per-
mitted. no coil or radiator shallA be placed
in any aisle or passageway used as an
eiit, in such manner as shall form an ob-
tructlon inrsaid passageway or exit. All
Wu‘pply, return. or ‘exhaust pipes shall be

' ing through floors or near woodwork\ as re- ,
quired in section one hundred and thirteen,
”this ordinance. . ~

Section One Hundred and Seventy-one.
:Stand Pipes and Fire Apparatus-Amery
building such as is mentioned in section‘
one hundred and sixty- -one shall have stand
pipes, hose and fire apparatus as required
a. in section one hundred and fifty-nine. Noth-
ins contained in section one hundred and
sixty-one and following sections pertaining-
to new theaters shall be construed as re:
‘ lieving them in any wiseitrom any 0: the

obligations imposed by sections one hun- \

dred and fitty- eight, one hundred and fifty-
nine and one hundred and sixty 01! this ordi-

' nance.

.Section One Hundred» and Seventy-two.
Department oi? Buildings to Have Control
_, in Every Threaten—The stand pipesl gas

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pipes, electric wiring. hose, rootlights. and
all apparatus for the extinguishing of or
guarding against fire in every theater.
shall be in charge of and .under the con-
trol of the building department, and the
Commissioner of Public Buildings is here-
by directed to see that' the provisions of
this ordinance in.respect thereto are car-
ried out and enforced; and for the pur-
pose of carrying out the provisions of. this
ordinance the Commissioner of Public
Buildings shall make not less than two in-
spections each year of all the theater
buildings,- and- shall render his certificate.
fully setting forth the conditions of said
building,,_and whether the provisions con-
tained in this. ordinance have been fully
complied with, it shall be the duty of any
manager, owner, lessee or keeper of any
theater Whose place is open to public bus—
iness to post such certificate of the Com-
missioner of Public Buildings or a true
copy thereof in the lobby and auditorium
of said theater. Any failure to comply
with the provisions of this section is hereby
declared to be a, misdemeanor and on con-
victim thereof such persons shall be fined
a sum not less than five dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars.

Section One Hundred and Seventy-three.
No building shall hereafter be erected, or
altered. or be opened to the public, or used
for theatrical or operatic purposes, or for
public entertainments of any kind, where
stage scenery or apparatus are employed,
until the Commissioner of Public Build-
ings shall have approved the same- in
writing as conforming to the require-
ments of this ordinance so far as appli-
cable to such buildings and the License
Collector of the City of St. Louis shall not

   

 
 
 

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said; Zshall have been given by the Com-
x 4mis§i6ner 0! Public Buildings. It. upon in-
emotion, or any theatei building. public
hall or place of public amusement, as pro-
vided in sections one hundred and seven‘
ty- -two and one hundred and seventy-three,
the Commissioner of. Public Buildings shall
find that any of the provision? contained in
this ordinance have not been fully com-

.tice on the manager, lessee, proprietor,
owner or keeper of such theater, public
- hall or place of public amusement, stating
.111 what reSpect the provisions of this ordin-
ance have not been complied with and nam-
ing a time when such manager, lessee, own-
er, proprietor or keeper may appear before

provided for in sectiOn one hundred’and
seventy-two should be' issued. Upon such
hearing, the Commissioner or Public Build-
ings sham issue his certificate in case he
finds that all the provisions or this ordinance
have been complied with; Otherwise.- he
shall refuse to issue the same and shall re—
voke any certificate that may have here-
tofore been issued. Upon revocation of
such certificate or upon refusal to issue
, a new one, as the case may be, it shall
' _ be the duty of theCommissioner of Public
Buildings to immediately notify the Li-
cense Collector of that fact and the License
~Collector shall thereupon revoke the license._

to such manager,\lessee, owner, proprietor
or keeper of such theater, public hall or
place of amusement. provided, however,
that upon a. new certificate being issued
by the Commissioner of Public Buildings
statingxthat all the provisions of this or-

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t‘iflcate in writing or approval,» as -a-fore-

plied with, he shall serve a. written no-‘~'

him and show cause why a certificate as_

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dinance have been complied with by such
manager, lessee, owner, proprietor or keeper.
the License Collector shall reinstate such re-
voked license.

Section One Hundred and Seventy-four.
Penalty.—-Any manager, lessee, owner or
keeper of any theater, public hall or place
of public amusement, carrying on the bus-
iness of theatricals, .or keeping a place of
public amusement of any kind, liable to
pay a license for such business under any
ordinance of the City of St. Louis, and
carrying on said business Without first hav-
ing furnished said certificate from the
Commissioner of Public Buildings and ob-
tained a. license therefor or shall carry on
said business after the revocation of his
license shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof be
fined in a. sum not less than twenty-five
dollars nor exceeding one hundred dollars.

Section One Hundred and Seventy—five.
Aisles of Theaters and All Public Places
of Assemblage to Be Kept Free From Ob-
struction—Doors to Swing Outward—It is
hereby made the duty of every manager,
lessee, owfler, keeper. or trustee of every
theater. hall or place of amusement. or
instruction. or assemblage, or worship, or
wherever people congregate. to have all
doors leading from such places to swing
outward and so hung as to not obstruct
the free passage therefrom, and it shall
be the duty of all persons, aforesaid to'
keep all balls, passageways, Stairways
and aisles of such places at all times free-
from obstructions of every kind, which
may prevent free egress therefrom.

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Same—Penalfié~Any ~ lessee,;_-

owner. keeper, or trustee of any theater,
hall or place of amusement or instruction.
or assemblage, or worship, or wherever
peonle congregate, who shall violate, or
fail or n’e eat to comply with any of the
prpvisions of the preceding section. shall
upon conviction be deemed guilty of a

Z ’«misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less

than twenty- -flve dollars nor more than
five hundred dollars.

Section One Hundred and Seventy-seven.
Billboards.—-—Hereafter no billboard having
twenty-five square feet or more or surface
shall be erected, altered. refaced or recon-
structed without a permit from the Com-
missioner of Public Buildings. and the man—
ner of construction. location and dimensions
or such billboards shall be subject to the
approval of the Commissioner 01 Public
Buildings. in accordance with the provis~
ions of this section. The term “Billboard"
within the meaning of this section shall in—
clude all structures of whatever material
the same may be constructed, which are
erected, maintained or used for the public
display of posters, painted signs: pictures
or other pictorial or reading matter, except
that the term “billboard" shall not be ap-
plied to such signs as are attached to the
mots or walls or buildings, as provided for
in section eighty-one of this ordinance. No
,billboard hereafter erected, altered, refaced
or reconstructed shall exceed fougeen feet
in height above the ground, and every such
bill board shall have an open space of at
least four feet between the lower edge and
the ground. which space shall not be closed
in any manner while the billboard stands:
nor shall any“ such billboard approach
nearer than six feet to any

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building nor to the side line of
any lot nor nearer than two feet to any
other billboard, nor shall any such billboard
exceed five hundred square feet in area,
nor approach the street line on any street,
alley or right-of-way on which any lot
fronts or abuts, nearer than fifteen feet,
but in all cases where the building line of
buildings’ within fifty feet of the proposed
billboard is more than fifteen feet from
the street line or boundary line then such
billboard shall not approach nearer to such
street line or lot boundary line than the dis-
tance that the building line of such build-
ings is from such street line or, lot boun-
dary line; and where buildings are hereafter
built near or adjacent to billboards
such billboards shall be so moved or
cut off as to leave a space of not
less than six feet between the build-
ing and such billboard, which shall in all
other respects also comply with the terms
of this section. Any billboard which may
now be or hereafter become rotten or un-
safe and any billboard which shall hereaft-
er be erected, altered, re-faced or recon-
structed, contrary to the provisions of this
section or any of them, shall be removed
or ‘otherwise properly secured in accordance
with the terms of this section by the owner
thereof. or by the owner of the ground on

which such billboard shall stand, upon re- _

ceipt of proper notice so to do, as provided
in section one-hundred and seventy-nine of
.this ordinance. for the removal of unsafe
structures, and no rotten or unsafe bill-
board shall be repaired or rebuilt except
in accordance with the provisions of this
section and upon a permit isued from the
Commissioner of Public Buildings.

Section One Hundred and Seventy-eight.
No fence, screen or structure in the nature

tha
“the surface thereof is at regular intervals
and in a uniform manner penetrated_ with
openings. or— latticed, to the extent oi: at
' least fifty per cent of the area thereof. pro-
.vided, however, that this section shall not
apply to fences constructed wholy of brick
v or stone. ,

It shall be unlawful to erect or maintain
any fence, screen, or other structure in the‘
'nature of a fence or screen exceeding eight
Ieet in height above the ground unless such
Ience be constructed wholly of brick, metal
or other non-combustible material.

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Section Ofie Hundred and Seventy-nine.
Whenever the Commissioner of Public Build-
‘:ings shall be informed -or have reason to
believe that any building or other structure
-- within the City of St. Louis is in a condition
or situation to endanger the lives 01! persons
passing or residing in the vicinity thereof.
or to endanger propel ty, he shall immediate-
7 1y proceed to make a survey or examination
. of said building or other structure, and if,
‘ in his opinion. said building or other struc-
ture is in a. condition or Situation to en-
danger the lives of persons or injure prop-
erty, he shall notify the owner or owners
\of such building or other structure to have.
the same removed or otherwise properly set
cured within three days after service "of
such notice, and should. said owner or
owners fail to comply with said notice it
shall be the duty of the Commissioner ‘0:
Public Buildings to proceed forthwith to
have the same secured so as to render it
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reasonably be secured or rendered safe.
in which case he shall demolish and re-
move the same, or so much thereof as may
be necessary. The cost of securing said
building or other structure or demolishing
the same, or any part thereof, by the
Commissioner of Public Buildings, shall be
paid in the first place by the city out of a
contingent fund, for which there shall be
made an annual appropriation of not less
than one thousand dollars for the purposes
here designated. The Comptroller, upon
receipt or, a certificate from the Commis-
sioner of Public Buildings of the amount
expended by him for the securing 0r de-
molishing of any such building or other
structure, which certificate shall be approved
by the Mayor, shall then make out bills
for said work against the owner or owners
of said building or other structure. In
case said bills are not paid upon presenta-
tion they shall be placed in the hands of
the City Attorney or in the hands of some
officer of the law department, who shall
proceed to collect the same, by suit it
necessary. and the amounts when collected
shall be credited to said contingent fund.
Every such owner who shall fail to comply
with the requirements of the notice herein-
before in this section provided for, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof shall be fined not less than
twenty—five nor more than five hundred dol-
lars.

Section One Hundred and Eighty. The
notice to the owner of building or structure
found to be dangerous by the Commissioner
of Public Buildings, as provided in section
one hundred and seventy-nine, shall be
directed to the owner or owners of such
buildings or other structures by name, if

 

‘ Busing saidulqtic (it? deliv-i
d to 'such owner either in the City’oi:
is or elsewhere.

01". second, by posting a copy' 01 such‘ n0< ' I»
tice upon the building or other structure.
‘ :said notice to be deemed served at the end

0r, _third, by mailing such notice or copy
hereof. enclosed in a. sealed envelope. post-
gge prepaid directed to such owner. either
nt his business or residence address in this
. city or elsewhere, said notice to be deemed
served twenty- four hours after the mailing
of said notice, in case it is directed to the
business or residence address of the owner in
the City of St. Louis. Provided, that if the
said owner or owners be non- -residents of the
, Qity or St. Louis, and have no business ad-
:dre‘sses or offices in the City of St. Louis.
~-. then the said notice shall be deemed served
6 at the end of such period atter the mailing
thereof as in the ordinary course or trans-
‘Vmission of the mails by the United States
Government would be required for the re-
ceipt of said notice by the owner or owners
pat their place of residence or business.

Or, fourth, by publication in the newspa-
pers doing the city printing, said notice to
be deemed served twenty- tour hours after f
publication.

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it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of
Public Buildings to post a copy of such
notice upon such building or other struc-
ture. ~

Every person who shall attempt to pre-
vent the Commisioner of Public Buildings,
or any other employe of. the City of St.
Louis, from posting such notice on such
building or other structure, or shall re—
move said notice or mutilate it or deface
it, within four days after the same is
posted, unless in the meantime such build-
ing or other structure has been put in a
safe condition or been demolished, shall be
guilty or a. misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction thereof, shall be fined not less than
twenty-five nor more than five hundred dol-
ars.

Section One Hundred and Eighty—one. No
agent of the owner of any building or other
structure shall, after notice from the Com-
missioner of Public Buildings that such
building or other structure is unsafe or
dangerous, rent or lease the same or any
part thereof, or collect any rent therefor
until such building or other structure shall
be rendered safe and secure. or shall
be demolished. Every agent who shall "vio—
late any of the provisions or this section
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less
than twenty-five nor more than five hun-
dred dollars.

Section One Hundred and Eighty-two.
Commissioner’s Power to Enforce Ordi-
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_“,:ments or this ordinance. when
interest may so require, correct,
abate the same and all costs attending such
action in such cases shall be paid from the

hundred and seventy- nine, and then collected
from the party offending as there provided,
and. the same shall also be a lien against
v the property whereon such violation was
‘ permitted to exist, to be collected as pro-
. vided by law for liens in such cases: and
any person, firm or corporation. who shall
~.,“refuse or neglect to comply with the pro-
visions of this section, or who shall violate
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Section One Hundred and Elghty- three.
Duties of Police. -—-It shall be and is hereby
made the duty of the police torce of the
‘_ City of St. Louis to report to the Commis-
Asioner of Public Buildings any violation of
the provisions 0: \this ordinance occurring
upon the respective beats of policemen. ‘

,Secti'on One Hundred and Eighty-four.

at the provisions of this ordinance shall
be deemed guilty of. a misdemeanor and
1 upon conviction thereof shall, in cases where
' no specific penalties are herein provided, be
: punished by fine of not less than five nor
3‘ more than five hundred dollars;

 

.i_n violation of this ordinance; and he shall?
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the duty oi! the Commissioner 0
Public Buildings to see that the provisions
or this ordinance are enforced. Any willful
failure to enforce said provisions on the. '
part of the Commissioner of Public Build-
ings, or any subordinate in his omce shall
be deemed a sufllcient ground for removal
from ofiice of any of said oflicials. -

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.Section One \Eundred and Eighty-six.
Boiling Inflammable Substance—No per--
son shall in this city boil any pitch, tar,’
' rosin, turpentine, varnish or other inflam‘
A * mable substance, unless the same be done
in an open place at least thirty feet dis-
tant from any building, boat, vessel or other
property that might be injured thereby, or
in a fireproof building; provided, however.
that for roofing 9r roof repairing the ma-
terials necessary therefor may be boiled in
the roadway immediately adjoining the curb-
stone, except that no fires shall be built upon
any highway or street paved with asphal—t
tum.

Section One Hundred and Eighty-seven.
,Burning 'Matter in Street Prohibited—1N0“
person shall burn any shavings, leaves, rub-
bish or other matter in any street, alley-
‘Or thoroughfare or public place ornear any
inhabited place in this city. ,

\ Section One Hundred and Eighty-eight. ’
Use of Light In Stables.—No owner or oc—
cupant of a livery or other stables in this
city shall, by himself or Vthose in his emu
ploy. use therejn, or in any place con-
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matter, any lighted candle or other light, 'ex-

cept-the same be securely kept within a tin
or glass lantern.

Section One Hundred and Eighty-nine.
Keeping Hay or Straw—No person’ shall.
except outside of the fire limits in this
city,‘ have put or keep any hay or straw
in sack or pile without having the same on-
closed or secured so as to protect it from
flying sparks oi: flre.

Section One Hundred and Ninety. Burning
Coal or Brand to Be Protected—No person
shall in this city carry. or cause to be car-
ried, in any street or thoroughfare any
burning coal or brand, unless the same be
shut up in a covered vessel.

Section One Hundred and Ninety-one.
Firearms Not to Be Discharged—Permis-
sion—No person. not being a member of the
police force, or on duty in a military corps,
and acting under orders from the comman-
der thereof, or not being a manufacturer of
firearms. and trying or proving articles
manufactured by him. so as not to endanger
or injure persons or property in the neigh~

borhood, shall discharge any kind of nre-’

arms in this city, and then only by permis-
seion of the Mayor.

Section One Hundred and Ninety-two.
Pyrotechnic Displays—Permission.——No per-
son shall, in this city. discharge or set oi!
any rockets, or any other pyrotechnic exhi-
bition without the written consent or the
Mayor. specifying the place and time, where
and when the .same may be done.

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Section One Hundred and Ninety-three.
Fire Crackers, Etc.—-No person shall, in
this city, fire or set of: any squib. cracker
03 other fireworks not previously designat-
e .

Section One Hundred’ and Ninety-tour.
Flues or Chimneys, Cleaning and Burning.—
The owner or occupant of any house, shop
or other building in this city shall cause
the'fiues or chimneys thereof to be swept
or burned out as often as may be requisite
to keep the same clean; in case of burning
out a fine, it shall be done in the daytime,
and only when a rain is falling or when
the roof of the building is covered with
snow. If, any person shall cause the fines
of a house occupied by him to be fired at
any other time than herein expressed, he
shall be liable to the penalties herein pre-
scribed. —

Section One Hundred and Ninety-five“
Keeping of Hay, Etc., Petroleum, Eta—All
hay, cotton or hemp in bales or in bulk
for the purpose of baling, or to be used for
manufacturing purposes and also all crude
petroleum, naptha, benzine, gasoline, or
coal oil, held within 'the fire limits, as de-
fined in this ordinance, shall be kept stored
in suitable and substantial brick or stone
buildings, which shall be buildings or first-
class. Nothing herein contained, however,
shall be so _construed as to prevent hay
from being kept in stable for immediate
use, or hay kept in feed stores and baled
in quantities in not exceeding five hundred
bales, or coal oil of the approved' State
standard (one hundred and ten degrees
Fahrenheit), duly inspected, not exceeding
ten barrels in quantity, from being kept
by any person for retailing or jabbing pur-
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Section One Hundred and. Ninety-six. Pe-
troleum, Etc, Storing—«Sign Displayed—Pe-
troleum, naptha, benzine, gasoline, turpen-
tine, varnish and coal oil shall be stored in
first-class buildings only, which shall be
designated by the Commissioner of Public
Buildings, and a sign shall be consLlcuously
placed on the outside of all buildings.

Section One Hundred and Ninety-seven.
Petroleum, Etc, Baied Hay, Etc, Removal
From Depot—All petroleum or coal oil, nap-
tha, turpentine, gasoline, baled hay, cotton
and hemp, shall be removed from the re-
spective railroad depots within forty-eight
hours from the time the same is received
at the depot The provisions of this section
shall not be held to’prevent the establish—
ment of manufactories ot hemp in the City
of St. Louis; provided. that the buildings
for said purpose shall be so constructed as
to be buildings of the first-class.

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