The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1886-05-06

IN THE LEGISLATURE OF THE KINGDOM
ASSEMBLED:
SECTION 1. That part of the city of Homo
lulu, which is bounded as follows, to wit:
By the water front; by the easterly side of
Maunakea street, extending from the
water front to point one hundred feet
mauka of the mauka side of Hotel street;
thence on a line ole hundred feet mauka
of and parallel with Hotel street to point
eighty feet easterly of the Waikiki side of
Alakea street. thence on a line eighty feet
easterly of and parallel to the Waikiki side
of Alakea street to the water front, includ-
ing the tide lands now reclaimed. or which
may hereafter be reclaimed, makai of
Queen street from the land of Waikahalulu,
shall be known as the fire limits of Homo
lulu.
Sec. 3 Every building or structure, ex-
cept water closets or privies, hereafter
built within the limits of Honolulu shall
have the external walls and roof thereof
constructed of brick, stone concrete, iron
or other approved fireproof material, pro-
vided that if of iron the frame work shall
also be of iron, and provided further that
the provisions of this Act shall not apply
TO such sheds as have been or may here
after be erected by Government on the
wharf frontage 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 i'll writing, signed by
the Minister of the Interior, which permit
shall only be granted upon an application
in writing, accompanied by plans and
specifications of the alterations, repairs or
changes contemplated, and no such per-
mission shall be granted when such altera-
ton, repair or change amounts to a re-
newal of one-third or more of the original
structure, and such permission shall be-
come void unless the work for which it is
issued is begun within ten days and COM
pleted within ninety days after the date of
said permission.
Sec. +. No person owning or occupying
any building fronting on any street, lane,
alley or place, shall construct or cause to
be constructed or maintained, any awning,
shade or balcony, except in accordance
with the following provisions: Such avn
ing, shade or balcony should be securely
supported on wrought iron brackets built
into the walls, and shall be supported with
out posts, 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 constructed on cloth or can
vas awnings or shades; also, provided,
that the hight of all movable canvas or
cloth awnings or shades hereafter con-
structed shall not be less than seven and a
half feet above the line of the curb level of
the sidewalk. No awning, shade or bal
cony shall extend beyond the line of the
curb. No awning, shade or balcony shall
be inclosed to a greater hight than three
feet six inches; provided, that no awning,
shade or balcony shall be erected on any
building facing on any street, lane, alley or
place which is twenty feet or less in width ;
and no awning, shade or balcony shall be
constructed on the sides or rear of any
building within the fire limits, unless there
is a clear space of not less than thirty feet
| between the adjacent buildings, and then
they shall be constructed of fre-proof ma
terials 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, canvas or cloth
/ shall exceed three feet in hight. All signs
/ must be securely boIted to the building
upon which they are placed. No frame
| work shall be placed above the roof OF any
! building and covered with inhammable
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 brick
building within the city and county. All
! exterior cornices. entablatures, belt
courses, and other projections of an orna-
/ mental character, to exceed inches III
| hight and inches in projection, shall be
| constructed of some fire-proof MATERIAL Il
of iron to be riveted 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 great
est weight of stone, iron or other material
| of which they shall be composed, shall bC
ON the inside of the outer line of the wal
on which they may rest, in the proportion
of / of wall to of cOrnice in weight; al
! Iowance must be made for the excess o
leverage produced by the projection OF cor
nice beyond the face of the wall; all cor
nices shall be well secured to the wall with
iron anchors, independent of any Woo
! work, and in all cases the walls shall bt
carried up TO the planking of the roof; anC
| when the roof is below the cOrnice, theI
the walls shall be carried up to the top of TIT
cornice or the blocking over the same, anC
shall be COPIED with some fire-proof mate
rial. All wooden cornices or cutters OF
brick buildings that are now, rmay hereaf
ter become unsafe, shall be taken down an'
reconstructed of some fire-proof material
upon an order from the Minister of In
terror
Sec. 6. All side or party walls must b
constructed without openings OF any kind
and all side or party and front and rea
walls of any building Is feet or more high
shall be built up and extend at least fee
above the roof.
Sec. I. Any person violating any OF tn
provisions of this Order shall be deeme'
guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conYlc
ton shall, except where the penalty
otherwise prescribed herein, be punished