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aisles altered auditorium balcony basement billboard or sign brick building or structure buildings of Class buildings used wholly built cement center line City Electrician Class VII columns Commissioner of Buildings corridors courts covering doors duty elevator emergency exits enclosed erected exceed feet in width feet of floor Fire Apparatus fire escapes fire limits Fire Marshal Fire walls fireproof construction fireproof material flight of stairs floor area flues four inches frame buildings frontage gallery girders halls inches thick incombustible material ings inspection iron or steel least less than three live load metal missioner of Buildings mortar ordi ordinance owner partitions passageways permit person pipes pounds per square purposes of Class roof seating capacity Section side sidewalk six inches slow-burning square inches stage stairways standpipe stories in height street or alley tank tenement house terra cotta theater thence thereof thousand square feet tion water closet
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Page 137 - Buildings, and shall be suspended for ten feet by wire rope All ducts or shafts used for conducting heated air from the main chandelier, or from any other light or lights, shall be constructed of metal and made double, with an air space between.
Page 280 - ... of the owners of a majority of the frontage on both sides of the street in any block in which such billboard is to be erected.
Page 228 - The reinforcing rods must be tied together at Intervals of not more than the least side or diameter of the column.
Page 284 - Every owner or agent of any building who fails to comply with any proVision of this section shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each offense, and every...
Page 148 - Every entrance hall in a tenement house hereafter erected shall be at least three feet six inches wide in the clear, from the entrance up to and including the stair enclosure, and beyond this point at least three feet wide in the clear...
Page 163 - Every such house hereafter erected or converted, shall have adequate chimneys running through every floor, with an open fire-place or grate, or place for a stove, properly connected with one of said chimneys, for every family and set of apartments.
Page 21 - The treasurer before entering upon the duties of his office...
Page 4 - He shall be appointed by the mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the common council.
Page 158 - In each apartment there shall be at least one room containing not less than one hundred and twenty square feet of floor area, and each other room shall contain at least seventy square feet of floor area. Each room shall be in every part not less than nine feet high from the finished floor to the finished ceiling; provided that an attic room need be nine feet high in but one-half its area.
Page 234 - ... elevator enclosures are made entirely of incombustible material, and in which all metallic structural members are protected against the effects of fire by coverings of a material which shall be entirely incombustible and a slow heat conductor, and hereinafter termed "fireproof material.