The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-05-19

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Maunakea street, extending from the water
front to the south corner OF King street
thence along the makai side OF King street
70 point interesting the easterly line of
/ KOnia formerly Smith) street where said
/ line extended; thence along the easterly
side OF Konia formerly Smith) street to a
/ point eighty feet mauka of Hotel street;
/ thence easterly along a line eighty feet
mauka and parallel with said Hotel street,
/ to point eighty feet easterly OF the east
| erly line of Alakea street, and thence
along line eighty feet easterly and par
| allel with said easterly line of AIakea
street to the water front including all the
land now or hereafter to be reclaimed
within the said limit; also both sides of
Nuuanu and Fort streets, between Hotel
and Beretania streets, To a distance of
eighty feet from each side, shall be known
as the fire limits of Honolulu. On all
streets where one side only is within the
fire limits, the buildings on the opposite
side (if not fire-proof) shall not exceed one
story of not over is feet in hight and the
highest point, or ridge pole, of the roof
shall not be over 30 feet above the street
grade.
Sec. 2. Every building or structure, ex-
cept water closets or privies, hereafter
built within the fire limits of Honolulu,
shall have the external walls thereof con-
structed of brick, stone, concrete, iron or
other approved hre-proOf material, pro-
vided that if of iron the framework shall
also be of iron, and the rafters and roof
timbers, if covered with approved fire.
proof material, may be of wood. If any
part of the interior of fire-proof buildings
shall be ceiled, other than with fre-proof
material, such ceiling shall be of tongued
and grooved wood, properly jointed, with
out cloth covering. The provisions of this
Act shall not apply to such sheds as have
been or may be hereafter erected by the
Hawaiian Government, on the wharf front
age, for wharf accommodation.
Sec. 3. No wooden building or structure
now erected within the fire limits of Homo
lulu shall be altered, repaired or changed
without permission in writing, signed by
the Minister of the Interior, which permit
shall only be granted upon an application
in writing accompanied by particulars suf-
ficient to indicate the nature and extent of
alterations, repairs and changes contem-
granted when such alteration, repair or
change amounts to a renewal of One-third
or more of the original structure, and such
permission shall become void unless the
work for which it is issued is begun within
ten days and completed within ninety days
after the date of said permission.
Sec. 4. No person owning or occupying
any building fronting any street, lane,
alley or place within the fire limits of Hon
olulu shall construct, or cause to be con-
structed or maintained, any awning, shade
or balcony, except in accordance with the
following provisions: Such awning, shade
or balcony, should be securely supported
on wrought-iron brackets built into the
walls, and shall be supported withOutposts,
and shall be not less than eleven feet above
the line of the curb levels of the sidewalk,
and shall have gutter formed to carry off
the water to the line of the building, and
from thence to the street gutter; provided,
that no cutters will be required to be con-
structed on cloth or canvas awnings or
shades; also, provided, that the height of
all movable canvas or cloth awnings or
shades, hereafter constructed, shall not be
less than seven and half feet above the
line OF the curb level or the sidewalk. No
awning, shade or balcony shall extend be-
You'd the line of the curb. No awning,
shade or balcony shall be inclosed to a
greater height than three feet six inches
provided, that no awning, shade or bal
cony shall be erected on any building
facing on any street, lane, alley or place
which is thirty feet or less in width; and
no awning, shade or balcony shall be con-
structed on the sides or rear of any build
ing within the fire limits unless there is a
clear space of not less than thirty feet be-
tween such building and adjacent build
ings, and then they shall be constructed of
fire-proof materials. No signs shall be
placed on the front, rear or sides of any
building higher than its blocking course or
fire wall, and no sign made of wood, can
vas or cloth shall exceed three feet in
height All signs must be securely bolted
TO the building upon which they are placed.
No framework shall be placed above the
roof of any building and covered with in
fammable material, for signs or any other
purpose.
Sec. 5. No cornice, entablatures, belt
courses, or other ornamental projections of
wood, shall be placed on any hre-proof
building within the fire limits of Honolulu.
All exterior Cornices, entablatures, belt
courses, and other projections of an Orna-
mental character, shall be constructed of
some fire-proof material; if of iron to be
riyeted together with rivets not more than
? inches apart and shall be supported on
wrought-iron brackets, built into the wall
at distances not to exceed feet apart
and in every instance the greatest weight
of stone, iron or other material OF which
they shall be composed, shall be on the
inside of the outer line of the wall on
which they may rest, in the proportion of
of wall to OF cornice in weight; allowance
must be made for the excess Of leverage
produced by the projection OF cOrnice be-
yond the face of the wall all cornices shall
be we'll secured to the wall with iron
anchors, Independent of any wood work,
and in all cases the walls shall be carried
up TO the planking of the roof; and when
the roof is below the cOrnice, then the wall
shall be carried up to the top of the cor
nice or the blocking over the same, and
shall be COPIED with some fire-proof ma
terial. All wooden cornices or cutters on
fire-proof buildings that are now, or may
hereafter become unsafe, shall be taken
down and reconstructed of some fire-prOOf
material, upon an order from the Minister