Summary of the More Important Laws Applying to Dwellings in Boston ...Twentieth century club, 1899 - 31 pages |
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adjoining agent aldermen amended by St back vault board of health BOSTON HEALTH ACT building commissioner building department building law building or premises building where operatives cause of sickness cesspool city of Boston clear space combustible condition dition drainage duties DWELLINGS IN BOSTON enforce the provisions exceeding expense external air external wall external window floor human habitation inspection lands or passage-way LAW FOR BOSTON LAWS APPLYING least one water-closet let or occupied lodging house means a building means of egress notice number of occupants open space owner or occupant Party wall permit persons are employed plumbing private passage-way public health public sewer quire quoted refuse matter regu regulations repair Revised City Ordinances sash six inches source of filth stairway Statutes sufficient Supreme Judicial Court tenant tenement house tenement or lodging towns transom window Twentieth Century Club unfit for human UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN unless ventilating or transom violations water-closet or privy
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Page 19 - ... 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 19 - ... that over or across any such area there may be steps necessary for access to any building above the vault, cellar or room to which such area adjoins, if the same be so placed as not to be over, across or opposite to any such external window.
Page 19 - ... of at least two feet and six inches wide in every part, nor unless the same be well and effectually drained by means of a drain, the uppermost part of which is one foot at least below the level of the floor of such vault, cellar, or room, nor unless there is a clear space of not less than one foot below the level of the floor, except where the same is cemented, nor unless there be appurtenant to such vault, cellar, or room the use of a water-closet or privy, kept and provided as in this...
Page 19 - ... room whatsoever, unless the same be in every part thereof at least seven feet in height, measured from the floor to the ceiling thereof, nor unless the same be...
Page 19 - ... the same is cemented, nor unless there be appurtenant to such vault, cellar or room, the use of a water-closet or privy kept and provided as in this act required ; nor unless the same have an external window opening of at least nine superficial feet clear of the sash frame, in which window opening there shall be fitted a frame filled in with glazed sashes, at least four and a half superficial feet of which shall be made so as to open for the purpose of ventilation. Provided, however, that in...
Page 19 - ... 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...
Page 11 - ... section ; and, if the owner or occupant neglects so to do, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for every day during which he knowingly permits such nuisance or cause of sickness to remain after the time prescribed for the removal thereof.
Page 23 - 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 12 - Delay for the purpose of giving notice, involving either of public notice or of inquiry to ascertain who are the parties whose interests will be affected, and further delay for such hearings as the parties may think necessary for the protection of their interests, might defeat all beneficial results from an attempt to exercise the powers conferred upon boards of health. The necessity of the case, and the importance of the public interests at stake, justify the omission of notice to the individual.
Page 16 - Every tenement or lodging house, and every part thereof, shall be kept clean and free from any accumulation •of dirt, filth, garbage, or other matter in or on the same, or in the yard, court, passage, area, or alley connected with or belonging to the same.