Digest of the Statutes Relating to the Inspection and Construction of Buildings ... 1886Rockwell and Churchill, 1886 - 70 pages |
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adjoining approved auditorium beams block stone board of health boiler brick building hereafter brick walls brick-work building or structure camphene ceiling cellar centre chimney city of Boston columns constructed corbelled cornice doors drain eighteen hundred erected or altered exceeding exits External and party external walls feet in height fifty dollars fire fire-escape fire-proof Fire-stops flue Foundation walls furnace girders grade incombustible material inspector of buildings iron laid in cement least less than twelve license lintels lodging house metal mortar notice occupied ORDINANCES OF 1885 overflow pipes owner Party walls penalty permit person piers piles pipes placed plastered PLATE public buildings rabbets REVISED ORDINANCES roof SECT sewer six inches sixteen inches thick soapstone soil-pipe stair-ways stairs statutes steam-boiler story street Strength of materials Tenement and Lodging tenement or lodging theatre thereof timbers twelve inches thick twenty inches unless vault ventilation Watchmen water-closets wooden buildings
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Page 20 - ... by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars; for a second offense by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days...
Page 50 - ... that in any area adjoining a vault, cellar, or underground room, there may be steps necessary for access to such vault, cellar, or room if the same be so placed as not to be over, across, or opposite to...
Page 46 - A tenement house within the meaning of this article shall be taken to mean and include every house, building or portion thereof which is rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as the home or residence of more than three families living independently of one another and doing their cooking upon the premises; or by more than two families upon a floor so living and cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways, yards, water-closets or privies or some of them.
Page 35 - ... and which does not communicate directly with the external air, a ventilating or transom window, having an opening or area of three square feet, over the door leading into, and connected with the adjoining room, if such...
Page 50 - ... such vault, cellar or room, if the same be so placed as not to be over, across or opposite to the said external window, and so as to allow between every part of such steps and the external wall of such vault, cellar or room, a clear space of six inches at least...
Page 60 - ... the provisions of this chapter, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, and to a like penalty for every day,s continuance of such violation.
Page 49 - ... and extending along the entire frontage thereof and upwards from six inches below the level of the floor thereof up to the surface of the said street or ground, an open area of at least two feet and six inches wide in every part...
Page 47 - The total area of window in every room communicating with the external air, shall be equal to at least one-tenth of the superficial area of every such room ; and the top of one, at least, of such windows shall...
Page 59 - ... stands in the ground during the summer months. It shall be the duty of the inspector of buildings to give the grades at which piles may be cut off. Buildings exceeding thirty-five feet in height shall have not less than two rows of piles under all external and party-walls, and the piles shall be spaced not over three feet on centres in the direction of the length of the wall.
Page 27 - ... room ; stairways on the outside of the building shall have suitable railed landings at each story above the first, and shall connect with each story...