3623 Construct Buildings50
OhDlN AN CE NO. 3623
(Published in the Salina Journal JL 1928)
AN ohDIN.HNCE relating to the construction of buildings in the City
of Salina and amending certain sections of ordinance No.
2993 and repealing such original sections.
BE IT ORDAINED by the board of Commissioners of the City of Salina,
Kansas:
Section 1. That Section 10 of Ordinance 2993 being Section
5-210 Revised Ordinances 1925 be and the same is hereby amended to
read as follows:
115-210 WALLS. Sec. 10. All exterior, or division walls
of buildings hereafter erected of masonry or concrete shall be of
sufficient thickness to support safely the load to be carried.
Such walls, excepting party and fire walls, for all build-
ings of other than the dwelling house class, not exceeding five
stories or 65 feet in height, shall have the upper two stories not
less than 12 inches thick, increasing 4 inches in thickness for each
two stories or fraction thereof below. For such buildings in excess
of five stories, but not exceeding ten stories or 125 feet in height,
the top story shall be not less than 12 inches thick, increasing
4 inches in thickenss for each two stories or fraction thereof be-
low. No two-story increment shall exceed 30 feet in hei�_ht.
Solid masonry exterior walls of dwellings not exceeding
30 feet in height, exclusive of gable, and occupied by not more than
two families, may be not less than 8 inches thick, and shall include
cellar and basement walls if built the same thickness. The un-
supported length of such walls shall not exceed 25 feet.
Solid concrete walls shall be not less than 6 inches thick,
and hollow monolithic concrete walls shall have an aggregate thick-
ness not less than 6 inches. If masonry walls are built hollow,
or are constructed of hollow clay or concrete units, the allowable
height of the 8 -inch portion shall be limited to 20 feet and the
remaining lower portion shall be at least 10 inches thick.
For dwellings over 30 feet high, but not exceeding 40 feet
in height, the exterior walls may be 8 inches thick for the uppermost
20 feet and shall be at least 12 inches thick for the remaining
lower portion.
Solid party and division walls of dwellings shall be not
less than 8 inches thick for the uppermost 20 feet and shall be at
least 12 inches for the remaining lower portion. Such party and
division walls, if hollow, or if' built of hollow clay or concrete
units, shall be not less than 12 inches -thick.
All walls of buildings of the dwelling house class of ordinary
construction exceeding 40 feet in height shall be solid. The upper,
three stories shall be not less than 12 inc-es think, increasing 4
inches in thickness for each three stories or fraction thereof below.
No three-story increment shall exceed 45 feet in height.
Walls in skeleton construction shall be supported by girders
at each story, and shall be not less than 12 inches thick, except
that solid concrete may be 8 inches thick.
h fire wall is hereby defined as a wall built for the purpose
of restricting the area subject to the spread of fire.
In all buildings, except dwellings, frame buildings, and
skeleton construction, party walls and fire walls which serve as
bearing walls on both sides, shall be not less than 16 inches thick
in the upper two stories or upper 30 feet, increasing 4 inches in
thickness for each two stories or fraction thereof below. All other
fire walls shall be not less than 16 inches thick in the upper four
stories or upper 50 feat, increasing 4 inches in thickness for each
two stories or fraction thereof below. No two-story increment shall
exceed 30 feet in height.
Reinforced concrete walls, with the steel reinforcement
running both horizontally and vertically and weighing not less than
one-half pound per square foot of wall, may have a thickness 4 inches
less than that prescribed for brick walls.
The foundation walls of all buildings over two stories in
height, except as above provided, shall be 4 inches thicker from
footing to grade than required for the remainder of the wall.
All exterior, and division or party walls over one story high,
shall extend the full thickness of top story to at least 2 feet above
the roof surfacing of a building as a parapet and be properly coped,
excepting walls which face on a street and are finished with incom-
bustible cornices, gutters or crown mouldings; excepting also the
wails of detached dwellings with peaked or hipped roofs. The parapet
walls of warehouses and all manufacturing or commercial buildings
shall extend 3 feet above the roof.
Fire walls shall be continuous from foundaticn to 3 feet above
roof levol and shall be coped.
Brick or concrete walls of buildings outside the fire limits,
which under this ordinance could be of wood, may have a minimum
thickness of 8 inches. Such walls shall not exceed two stories or
30 feet in height, exclusive of gable, nor shall they exceed 35 feet
in length unless properly braced day cross walls, piers, or buttresses.
Clay brick used for exterior walls, chimneys or piers, shall
have an average compressive strength of 2,000 pounds per square inch,
and an absorption not exceeding 20 per cent. Concrete, sand -lime, or
other varieties of brick, used for the same purposes shall have an
average crushing strength of 12500 pounds per square inch, and an
absorption not exceeding 15 per cent.
Portland cement cnly sYilIll be used in the manufacture of con -
trete blocks. The coarse aggregate shall be of suitable material
graded in size, but in no case shall the maximum dimension exceed
one-fourth the minimum wid.tIl of any section of tyle finished block.
Concrete blocks shall not be used in construction until they have
attained the age of 28 days, or developed the strength required in
this section.
The comms essive strength of building blocks shall inall cases
be calculated upon the gross area of the bedding faces, no account
being taken of the cellular spaces.
Hollow building tile used for exterior or parts, walls, or
piers, and designed to be laid norrially with the cells vertical,
shall have an average compressive strength of not less than 1.2.00
pounds per square inch when tested. with trie cells vertical, and
not less than 300 pounds per square inch when tested with the cells
horizontal.
The average compressive strength of hollow building tile
designed to be laid. normally with the cells horizontal, and tested
with the cells in that position, shall be not less than 700 pounds
per square inch.
Hollow concrete block or tile used for exterior or party
walls or x;iers shall have an average compressive strength of not
less than 700 pounds per square inch.
Concrete blocks shall. be not more than 36 days old when
tested. The average strength of the blocks as here liven shall be
obtained by testing five blocks of average quality.
The allowable working stress on all. masonry construction shall
not exceed one-tenth of the required average test strength.
All walls and partitions in schools, hospitals and places of
public assemblage, over one story hili:., and all walls and partitions
in theatres, shall hereafter be built of brick, stone, concrete,
hollow or solid blocks, or metal lath and portl.and cement plater on
metal studding, or other equivalent incombustible construction.
The mortar used for all 8 -inch walls, fire walls, foundation
walls, walls for skeleton construction, and all walls built of
hollow building tile or concrete blocks, shall be either Portland
cement mortar, or cement -lime mortar, the latter in proportions
not leaner than one part Portland cement, one part 'Lime and 6 parts
sand by volume."
Section 2. That Section 18 of Ordinance 2993 beim, Section
5-218 Revised. Ordinances 1925 be and the same is hereby amended to
read as follows:
"5-218 HOLLOW ICU 1LUlIIG hLOCK vALLS . Se c. 18, Hollow building
blocks of bard burned clay or of concrete, may be used. for all walls,
e.cept party and fire walls, of buildings not exceeding three stories
or 40 feet in height. The minimum thickness of such walls shall be
as required for brick walls.
Concrete blocks shell not be used in construction until they
have attained an age of 28 days, nor until they have developed the
required test strength. fll building blocks shall be laid in
Portland cement mortar.
Hollow building tile blocks in exterior walls shall be either
extra hard burned or be veneered with brick, architectural terra-
cotta, or stone, securely bonded or the blocks shall. be covered on
the exposed
surface
with
at least
3/4 inch
of Portland
cement stucco;
such blocks
shall be
well
scored,
grooved
or roughened
to retain the
coating. The stucco shall not be considered as a part of the required
thickness of the wall.
Except for party or fire walls, hard burned hollow tile blocks
may be used for walls of skeleton construction having a height not
exceeding; four stories or 55 feet.
as required for brick walls.
The thickness shall be the same
Hollow tile blocks faced with brink bonded to the backing
with a row of headers every 16 inches or attached to the backing
with approved metal wall ties imbedded in the mortar joints spaced
not further apart on centers than one foot vertically or 2 feet
horizontally, may be used for walls of skeleton construction to
a height of 10 stories or 125 feet.
Section 3.
That Section 20 of Ordinance 2993 being Section
5-220 Revised Ordinance 1925 be and the same is hereby amended to
read as follows:
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"5-220 WALL OPENIiIGS. Sec. 20. No opening in an interior
masonry wall shall exceed 8 by 10 feet. If the opening be in a
party or fire wall it shall have a standard automatic fire door
on each side of the wall. If an opening in a fire wall. is made to
serve as an emergency exit, it shall not exceed 48 square feet in
area and a self-closing fire door shall be substituted for one of
the automatic fire doors. 'Total opening in the fire wall shall not
exceed 25 per cent of lineal length of the wall. Every building with-
in the fire limits, except churches and dwellings, shall have standard
fire doors, shutters or wire glass with incombustible frames and
sash on every exterior opening above the first floor, except when
fronting on a street not less than 50 feet wide, or where no other
building is within 50 feet of such opening. The walls of a building
in the same plane as that in which the opening is situated, shall
not be considered as coming wit! -:in the intent of this rule. All
openings in the side and rear walls of the first story, excepting
show windows, shall be protected as prescribed in this section
when within 50 feet of sone other building.
Secti 4. LliviITS OF HEIGHTS AND AREA. That except as specified
in Section 30 of dinance 2993 being Section 5-230 hevised Ordinances
1925 no building herea er erected within the corporate licr:its, hav-
ing walls of hollow builain tile or concrete blocks, shall exceed
three stories, or 40 feet in he -t; and no building hereafter erected
or altered shall exceed four stories 55 feet in height, unless it
be of fireproof construction when it sha not exceed ten stories or
125 feet.
The floor a a between fire walls of non -fireproof buildings,
except frame, shall n exceed the following: When fronting on one
street, 5,000 square feet when fronting on two streets 6,000 square
feet; and when frontong on tki�,e e streets, 7,500 square feet. These
area limits may be increased unc the following conditions as indicated:
For non -fireproof buildings,` ully equipped with approved
automatic sprinklers, 66 2/3%.
For fireproof buildings, not-, exceed 125 feet in height, 50jo.
For fireproof buildings, not exceeding
fully equipped with automatic sprinklers, 100%.
feet in height,
Section 5. FIRE STOPS. At each floor level in all buildings
hereafter erected, all stud walls, partitions, furrings and spaces
between joists where they rest on division walls or partitions,
shall be fire -stopped with incombustible material in a manner to
completely cut off communication by fire through concealed spaces.
Such fire -stopping shall extend the full depth of the joists, and
at least 4 inches at)ove each floor level. Stair carriages shall be
fire -stopped at least once in the middle portion of each run.
Section 6. FhAIViE COIvbThUCTIOIv DEFINED. A building having the
exterior walls or portions thereof of wood; also a bui-aing with
wooden framework veneered with brick, stone, terra cotta, or con -
trete; or covered with plaster, stucco, or sheet metal, shall be
classed as a frame bui.iding.
Section 7. HOT nIh PIPES AND hEGISTEhS. All heater pipes from
hot air furnaces where passing through combustible partitions, or
floors, shall be doubled. tin pipes with at least 1/2 inch air space
between them. Horizontal hot air pipes leading from furnace shall
be not less than 6 inches from any woodwork, unless the woodwork be
covered with loose -fitting tin, or the pipe be covered with at least
1/2 inch of corrugated asbestos, in which latter cases the distance
from the woodwork may be reduced to not less than 3 inches.
No hot air pipe shall be placed in a wooden stud partition or
any wooden enclosure unless at least 5 feet distant horizontally from
the furnace. Hot-air pipes contained in/combustible partitions shall
be placed inside another pipe arranged to maintain 5/16 inch air
space between the two on all sides, or be securely covered with 3/8
inch of corrugated asbestos. Neitber the outer pipe nor the cover-
ing shall be within 3/8 inch of wooden studaing, and no wooden lath
shall be used to cover the portion of the partition in which the hot
air pipe is located. Hot air pipes in closets shall be double with
a space of at least 1 -inch between them on all sides.
Every hot-air furnace shall have at least one register without
valve or louvres.
X register located over a brick furnace shall be supported by
a brick shaft built up from the cover of the hot-air chamber; said
shaft shall be lined with a metal pipe, and no woodwork shall be with-
in 3 inches of the outer face of the shaft.
A register box placed in the floor over a portable furnace shall
have an open space around it of not less than 4 inches on all sides,
and be supported by an incombustible border. Hot air registers placed
in any woodwork or combustible floors shall be surrounded with borders
of incombustible material, not less than 2 inches wide, securely set
in place.
The register boxes shall be of metal, and be double; the
distance between the two shall be not less than one inch; or they
may be single if covered with asbestos not less than 1/8 inch in
thickness, and if all woodwork within 2 inches be covered with metal.
Cold -air ducts for hot-air furnaces shall be made of incombustible
material.
Section 8. STOVES ftND hxNGES. No k tchen range or stove in
any building shall be placed less than 3 feet from any woodwork or
wooden lath and plaster partition, unless the woodwork or partition
is properly protected by metal shields; in which case the distance
shall be not less than 18 inches. Wietal shields shall be loosely
attached, thus preserving an air space behind them.
Hotel and restaurant ranges shall be provided with a metal
hood, placed at least 9 inches below any wooden lath and plaster or
wooden ceiling, and have an individual pipe outlet connected to a
good brick flue. The pipe shall be protected by at least one inch
of asbestos covering, or its equivalent.
Combustible floors under coal ranges and similar appliances
without legs, in which hot fires are maintained, shall rest upon
6 -inch foundations built of incombustible materials supported within
the thickness of the floor framing. Such hearths shall extend at
least 24 inches in front and 12 inches on the sides and back of the
range or similar heating appliances.
All coal stoves or ranges, with legs, shall be set on incom-
bustible material which shall extend at least 12 inches in front.
Section 9. HE1LTlNG e jtiW.;.CE'b AliD itYrLlaNCES. Any woodwork,
wooden lath and plaster partition or, ceiling within 4 feet of the
sides or back, or 6 feet from the front of any heating boiler,
furnace, bakery overt„ coffee roaster, fire -heated candy kettle,
laundry stove or other similar appliance, shall be covered with
metal to a height of at least 4 feet above the floor. Thiscover-
ing shall extend the full lenth of the boiler, furnace, or heating
appliance, and at least 5 feet in front of it. Metal shields shall
be loosely attached, thus preserving an air space behind them. in
no case shall such combustible construction be permitted within 2 feet
of the sides or back of the heating; appliances, or 5 feet in front of
same.
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No furnace, boiler, range, or other heating appliance, shall
be placed against a wall furred with wood.
Heating boilers shall be encased on sides and top by an in-
combustible protective covering not less than 1 1/2 inches thick.
Section 10. That Sections 10, 18 and 20 of Ordinance 2993
being Sections 5-210, 5-218 and 5-220 Revised Ordinances 1925, as
now in force, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Section 11. PENALTY. That Section 55 of Ordinance No. 2993
being Section 5-255 Revised Ordinances 1925 shall apply in all respects
to all of the provisions of this ordinance to the same extent and with
the same effect as if all of the provisions of this ordinance had been
incorporated in said Ordinance 2993 and any person or corporation,
or any officer, manager, agent, or member of any corporation, partner-
ship or person who shall violate, neglect or refuse to comply with,
or who resist or oppose enforcement of any provision of this ordinance
shall be punished as provided in said Section 55,
Section 12. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
at the expiration of thirty days after its publication in the official
city paper.
Introduced, November 19th, 1928
Passed, November 26th, 1928
Guy T. Helvering
Mayor
Attest:
Chas. E. Banker
City Clerk—
STATE
er
S`T'A'TE OF KiiNShS )
) SS
COU14TY OF SALINE )
I, Chas. E. Banker, City Clerk of the City of Salina, Kansas,
do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct
copy of Ordinance No. 3623 passed and approved by the Board of
Commissioners of the City of Salina November 26th, 14;28; and a record
of the vote on its final adoption is found on page -�- 3 Journal No. 12
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(Published in the Salina Journal � f a 1928)
ORDINANCE NO. 3623
AN ORDINANCE relating to the `c construction of buildings in the
City of Salina and,_certainTsections of Ordinance No. 2993
and repealing such ortinal sections.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina,
Kansas:
Section 1. That Section 10 of Ordinance 2993 being Section
5-210 Revised Ordinaneds 1925 be and the same is hereby amended
to read as follows:
115-210 WALLS. Sec. 10. A 11 exterior, or division walls
of buildings hereafter erected of masonry or concrete shall be of
sufficient thickness to support safely the load to be carried.
Such walls, excepting party and fire walls, for all build-
ings of other than the dwelling house class, not exceeding five
stories or 65 feet in height, shall have the upper two stories
not less than 12 inches thick, increasing 4 inches in thickness
for each two stories or fraction thereof below. For such build-
ings in excess of five stories, but not exceeding ten stories or
125 feet in height, the top story shall be not less than 12 inches
thick, increasing 4 inches in thickness for each two stories or
fraction thereof below. No two-story increment shall exceed 30
feet in height.
Solid masonry exterior walls of dwellings not exceeding 30
feet in height, exclusive of gable, and occupied by not more than
two families, may be not less than 8 inches thick, and shall in-
clude cellar and basement walls if built the same thickness. The
unsupported length of such walls shall not exceed 25 feet.
Solid concrete walls shall be not less than 6 inches thick,
and hollow monolithic concrete walls shall have an.aggregate thick-
ness not less than 6 inches. If.masonry walls are built hollow,
or are constructed of hollow clay or concrete units, the allowable
height of the 8 -inch portion shall be limited to 20 feet and the
remaining lower portion shall be least 10 inches thick.
For dwellings over 30 feet high, but not exceeding 40 feet
in height, the exterior walls may be 8 inches thick for the upper -
moat 20 feet and shall be at least 12 inches thick for the remaining
lower portion.
Solid party and division walls of dwellings shall be not
less than 8 inches thick for the uppermost 20 feet and shall be
at least 12 inches for the remaining lower portion. Such party
and division walls, if hollow, or if built of hollow clay or
concrete units, shall be not less than 12 inches thick.
All walls of buildings of the dwelling house class of
ordinary construction exceeding 40 feet in height shall be solid.
The upper three stories shall be not less than 12 inches thick,
increasing 4 inches in thickness for each three stories or fraction
thereof below. No three-story increment shall exceed 45 feet in
height.
Walls in skeleton construction shall be supported by girders
at each story, and shall be not less than 12 inches thick, except
that solid concrete may be 8 inches,thick!*A Fire wall is hereby
defined as a wall built for the purpose of restricting the area
subject to the spread of fire.
In all buildings, except dwellings, frame buildings,.and
skeleton construction, party walls and fire walls which serve as
bearing walls on both sides, shall be not less than 16 inches thick
in the upper two stories or upper 30 feet,`>increasing 4 inches in
thickness for each two stories or fraction thereof below. xXxx%MN
XM=X1XXX All other fire walls shall be not less than 16 inches
thick in the upper four stories or upper 50 feet, increasing 4
inches in thickness for each•two stories or fraction thereof be-
low. No two-story increment shall exceed 30 feet in height.
Reinforced concrete walls, with the steel reinforcement
running both horizontally and vertically and weighing not less
than one-half pound per square foot of wall, may have a thickness
4 inches less than that prescribed for brick walls.
The foundation walls of all buildings over two stories in
height, except as above provided, shall be 4 inches thicker from
footing to grade than required for the remainder of the wall.
All exterior, and division or party walls over one story
high, shall extend the full thickness of top story to at least
2 feet above the roof surfacing of a building as a parapet and
be properly coped, excepting walls which face on a street and are
finished with incombustible cornices, gutters or crown mouldings;
excepting also the walls of detached dwellings with peaked or
hipped roofs. The parapet walls of warehouses and all manufactur-
ing or commercial buildings shall extend 3 feet above the roof.
Fire walls shall be continuous from foundation to 3 feet
above roof level and shall be coped.
Brick or concrete walls of buildings outside the fire limits,
which under this ordinance could be of wood, may have a minimum
thickness of S inches. Such walls shall not exceed two stories
or 30 feet in height, exclusive of gable, nor shall they exceed
35 feet in length unless properly braced by cross walls, piers,
or buttresses.
Clay brick used for exterior walls, chimneys or piers, shall
have an average compressive strength of 2,000 pounds per square
inch, and an absorption not exceeding 20 per cent. Concrete,
sand -lime, or other varieties of brick, used for the same purposes
shall have an average cruslking strength of 1,500 pounds per square
inch, and an absorption not exceeding 15 per cent.
Portland cement only shall be used in the manufacture of
concrete blocks. The coarse aggregate shall be of suitable
material graded in size, but in no case shall the maximum dimension
exceed one-fourth the minimum width of any section of the finished
block. Concrete blocks shall not be used in construction until
they have attained the age of 28 days, or developed the strength
required in this section.
The compressive strength of building blocks shall in all
cases be calculated upon the gross area of the bedding faces, no
account being taken of the cellular spaces.
Hollow building tile used for exterior or party walls, or
piers, and designed to be laid normally with the cells vertical,
shall have an average compressive strength of not less than 1200
pounds per square inch when tested with the cells vertical, and
not less than 300 pounds per square inch when tested with the cells
horizontal.
The average compressive strength of hollow building tile
designed to be laid normally with the cells horizontal, and tested
with the cells in that position, shall be not less than 700 pounds
per square inch.
Hollow concrete block or tile used for exterior or party
walls or piers shall have an average compressive strength of not
less than 700 pounds per square inch.
Concrete blocks shall be not more than 36 days old when
tested. The average strength of the blocks as here given shall be
obtained by testing five blocks of average quality.
The allowable working stress on all masonry construction
shall not exceed one-tenth of the required average test strength.
All walls and partitions in schools, hospitals and places
of public assemblage, over one story high, and all walls and
partitions in theatres, shall hereafter be built of brick, stone,
concrete, hollow or solid blocks, or metal lath and Portland cement
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plaster on metal studding, or other equivalent incombustible
construction.
The mortar used for all 8 -inch walls, fire walls, foundation
walls, walls for skeleton construction, and all walls built of
hollow building tile or concrete blocks, shall be either Portland
cement mortar, or cement -lime mortar, the latter in proportions
not leaner than one part Portland cement, one part lime and 6 parts
sand by volume."
Section 2. That Section 18 of Ordinance 2993 being Section
5-218 Revised Ordinances 1925 be and the same is hereby amended to
read as follow:
115-218 HOLLOW BUILDING BLOCK'WALLS. Seo. 18. Hollow building
blocks of hard burned clay or of concrete, may be used for all
walls, except party and fire walls, of buildings.not exceeding
three stories or 40 feet in height. The minimum thickness of such
walls shall be as required for brick walls.
Concrete blocks shall not be used in construction until they
have atlained an age of 28 days, nor until they have developed the
required test strength. All building blocks shall be laid in
Portland cement mortar.
Hollow building tile blocks in exterior walls shall be
either extra hard burned or be veneered with brick, architectural
terra cotta, or stone, securely bonded or the blocks shall be
covered on the exposed surface with at least 3/4 inch of Portland
cement stucco; such blocks shall be well scored, grooved or
roughened to retain the coating. The stucco shall not be con-
sidered as a part of the required thickness of the wall.
Except for party or fire walls, hard burned hollow the
blocks may be used for walls of skeleton construction having a
height not exceeding four stories or 55 feet. The thickness shall
be the same as required for brick walls.
Hollow the blocks faced with brick bonded to the backing
with a row of headers every 16 inches or attached to the backing
with approved metal wall ties imbedded in the mortar joints spaced
not further apart on centers than one foot vertically or 2 feet
horizontally, may be used for walls of skeleton construction to
a height of 10 stories or 125 feet.
Section 3 That Section 20 of Ordinance 2993 being Section
5-220 Revised Ordinance 1925 be and the same is hereby amended
to read as follows;
115-220 WALL OPENINGS. Sec. 20. No opening in an interior
masonry wall shall exceed 8 by 10 feet. If the opening be in a
party or fire wall it shall have a standard automatic fire door
on each side of the wall. If an opening in a fire wall is made
to serve as an emergency exit, it shall not exceed 48 square feet
in area and a self-closing fire door shall be substituted for one
of the automatic fire doors. Total opening in the fire wall shall
not exceed 25 per cent of lineal length of the wall. Every build-
ing within the fire limits, except churches and dwellings, shall
have standard fire doors, shutters or wire glass with incombustible
frames and sash on every exterior opening above the first floor,
except when fronting on a street not less than 50 feet wide, or where
no other building is within 50 feet of such opening. The walls of
a building in the same plane as that in which the opening is situated,
shall not be considered as coming within the intent of this rule.
All openings in the side and-rear.walls of ,the first story, except
ing show windows, shall be protected as prescribed in this section
when within 50 feet of some other building.
4. LiMI'PS OF HEIGHTS AND ARFA,hat except as specified
in Section 30 of Ordinance 2993 being Section 5-230 Revised Ordinances
1925 no building hereafter erected within the corporate limits,
having walls of hollow building tile or concrete blocks, shall
exceed three stories, or 40 feet in height; and no building
hereafter erected or altered shall exceed four stories or 55
feet in height, unless it be of fireproof construction when it
shall not exceed ten stories or 125 feet.
The floor area between fire walls of non -fireproof build-
ings, except frame, shall not exceed the following: When fronting
on one street, 5,000; square feet; when fronting on two streets
6,000 square feet; and when fronting'on three streets, 7,500 square
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feet. Tl*se area limits may be increased under the following
conditions as indicated:
For non -fireproof buildings, fully equipped with approved
automatic sprinklers, 66 2/3%.
50%.
For fireproof buildings, not exceeding 125 feet"in height,
For fireproof buildings, not exceeding 125 feet in height,
fully equipped with automatic sprinklers, 100%
Section 5. FIRE STOPS. At each floor level in all build-
ings hereafter erected, all stud walls, partitions, furrings and
spaces between joists where they rest on division walls or partitions,
shall be fire -stopped with incombustible material in a manner to
completely cut off communication by fire through concealed spaces.
Such fire -stopping shall extend the full depth of the ,joists, and
at least 4 inches above each floor level. Stair carriages shall
be fire -stopped at least once in the middle portion of each run.
Section 6. FRAM.CONSTRUCTION DEFINED. A building having
the exterior walls or portions thereof,of wood; also a building
with wooden framework veneered with brick, stone, terra cotta, or
concrete; or covered with plaster, stucco, or sheet metal, shall be
classed as a frame building.
Section 7. HOT AIR PIPES AND REGISTERS. All heater pipes
from hot air furnaces where passing through combustible partitions,
or floors, 'shall be doubled tin pipes with at least 1/2 inch air
space between them. Horizontal hot air pipes leading from furnace
shall be not less than 6 inches from any woodwork, unless the wood-
work be covered with loose -fitting tin, or the pipe be covered with
at least 1/2 -inch of corrugated asbestos, in which latter cases the
distance Brom the woodwork may be reduced to not less than 3 inches.
No hot air pipe shall be placed in a wooden stud partition
or any wooden enclosure unless at least 5 feet distant horizontally
from,the furnace. Hot-air pipes contained in combustible partitions
shall be placed inside another pipe arranged to maintain•5/16 inch
air space between the two on all sides, or be securely.covered with
3/8 -inch of corrugated asbestos. Neither the outer pipe nor the
covering shall be within 3/8 -inch of wooden studding, and no wooden
lath shall be used to cover the portion of the partition in which
the hot air pipe is located. Hot air pipes in closets shall be
double with a space of at least 1 -inch between them on all sides.
Every hot-air furnace shall have at least one register with-
out valve or louvres.
A register located over a brick furnace shall be supported
by a brick shaft built up from the cover of the hot-air chamber;
said shaft shall be lined with a metal pipe, and no woodwork shall
be within 3 inches of the outer face of the shaft.
A register box placed in the floor over a portable furnace
shall have an open space around it of not less than 4 inches on all
sides, and be supported by an incombustible border. Hot air
registers placed in any woodwork or combustible floors shall be
surrounded with borders of incombustible material, not less than
2 inches wide, securely set in place.
The register boxes shall be of metal, and be double; the
distance between the two shall be not less than one inch; or they
may be single if covered with asbestos not less than 1/8 -inch in
thickness, and if all woodwork within 2 inches be covered with
metal.
Cold -air ducts for hot-air furnaces shall be made of in-
combustible material.
Section B. STOVES AND RANGES. No kitchen range or stove
in any building shall be placed less than 3 feet from any wood-
work or wooden lath and plaster partition, unless the woodwork
or -partition is properly protected by metal shields; in which
case the distance shall be not less than 18 inches. Metal shields
shall be loosely attached, thus preserving an air space behind them.
Hotel and restaurant ranges shall be provided with a metal
hood, placed at least 9 inches below any wooden lath and plaster
orwooden ceiling, and have an individual pipe outlet connected
to a good brick flue. The pipe shall be protected by at least
one inch of asbestos covering, or its equivalent.
Combustible floors under coal ranges and similar appliances
without legs, in which hot fires are maintained, shall rest upon
6 -inch foundations built of incombustible materials supported
within the thickness of the floor framing. Such hearths shall
extend at least 24 inches in front and 12 inches on the sides and
back of the range or similar heating appliances.
All coal stoves or ranges, with legs, shall be set on in-
combustible material which shall extend at least 12 inches in
front.
Section 9 HEATING FURNACES AND APPLIANCES. Any woodwork,
wooden lath and plaster partition or ceiling with,,4 feet of the
sides or back, or 6 feet from the front of any heating boiler,
furnace, bakery oven, coffee roaster, fire -heated candy kettle,
laundry stove or other similar appliance, shall be covered with
metal to a height of at least 4 feet above the floor. This cover-
ing shall extend the full length of the boiler, furnace, or heat-
ing appliance, and at least 5 feet in front of it. Metal shields
shall be loosely attached,.thus preserving an air space behind them.
In no case shall such combustible construction be permitted with-
in 2 feet of the sides or back of the heating appliances, or 5 feet
in f ront of same.
No furnace, boiler, range, or other heating appliance, shall
be placed against a wall furred with wood.
Heating boilers shall be encased 'on sides and top by an in-
combustible protective covering not less than 1 1/2 inches thick.
Section 10. That Sections 10, 18 and 20 of Or dinance 2993
being Sections 5-210, 5-218 and 5-220 Revised Ordinances 1925,
as now in force, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Section 11. PENALTY. That Section 55 of Ordinance No. 2993
being Section 5-255 Revised Ordinances 1925 shall apply in all
respects to all of the provisions of this ordinance to the same _
extent and with the same effect as if all of the provisions of
this ordinance had been incorporated in said Ordinance 2993 and
any person or corporation, or any officer, manager, agent, or
any
member of/corporation, partnership or person] who shall violate,
neglect or refuse to comply with, or who resist or oppose enforce-
ment of any provision of this ordinance shall be punished as pro-
vided in said Section 55.
Section 12. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
at the expiration of thirty days after its publication in the
official city paper.
Introduced, November 19th, 1928
Passed, November
Attest:
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City Cleric