Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-07-28

SEC. Is. No person shall raise, build upon
or alter any building of brick, stone or wood,
in Districts No. and No. in tbs general fire.
limits of the city of Los Angeles, unless the
said building has been built in conformity
with the provisions of this ordinance relating
TO the erection, alteration or enlargement of
buildings.
No building already erected, or hereafter to
be built in said city, shall be enlarged, raised
or built upon in such manner that If said
building had been built or constructed after
the passage of this ordinance it would have
been built in violation of said ordinance; and
before any building of brick, stone or wood
shall be raised, enlarged, altered or built upon,
the same shall be first examined by the Super.
! intendent of Buildings, or Fire commissioners
TO ascertain If such building is in good con-
dillon to be raised, altered, enlarged or built
upon. After such examination, such officer or
officers shall issue permit certifying to the
safety OF said alteration. The Superintendent
OF Buildings shall have full power in passing
judgment on any question relating to the mode
and manner of construction, or materials used
IN the erection, alteration or repairing of any
building or any other structure provided for in
this ordinance, and to make said alterations
to conform to the true intent and meaning of
the several provisions hereof. He shall have
visions of this ordinance upon application
therefor in writing in all cases of alterations
of old buildings, or the use of party walls be-
be when the bere
practical difficulties in the way of carry
ing out the strict letter OF the ordinance,
SO that, the spirit OF the ordinance is
complied with. and the public safety secured
and substantial justice done; but no such
deviation she'll be allowed except a record of
the same be kept by the said Superintendent of
Buildings and permit issued to the party ap-
plying for the same
TERMS DEFINED.
SEC. 16. In this article the following terms
shall have the meanings assigned to them;
except necessary repairs) in. to or upon any
building. affecting an internal partition or
party @ wall chimney; floor or ,,l, stairway:
of which are built OF brick or stone.
Cellar" means basement or lower story of
building of which one-half or more of the
height from the floor to the ceiling is below the
level of the street adjoining
External wall means every outer wall or
vertical enclosure OF building, or other than
party-wan
Foundation" means that portion of wall
! below the street curb, and where the wall is
not on a street, that portion of the wall below
the level OF the highest ground next to the
wall.
partition WALL means any interior wall of
masonry in a building
Party wall" means any wall used or built in
order to be used as separation of two or more
buildings
Height" of a wall means the height from the
mean grade of the sidewalk or adjoining
ground TO the highest point of the wall
| Lodging house" means building in which
persons are temporarily accommodated with
sleeping apartments, and includes hotels
Public buildings means every building
used as church, chapel or other place Of
worship also every building used as college,
concert-room, public ball room. public lectule-
room or for any public assemblsge.
PARTITION WALLS GIRDERs AND COLUMNS.
SEC. II. Every brick or stone building here.
after e.ected, more than fifty l5O) feet in
width except dwellings, tenement or lodging
| houses, public buildings, railroad stations aud
tsbles, shall have one or more brick or stone
partition walls running from front to rear, and
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| said wall or walls may be four inches less IN
thickness than is requ red in the provisions re.
| lattng to the thickness of external walls for a
! brick building to be nsed for the same purpose,
unless the wall is used for floor bearing wall,
which shall in no case be less than twelve
inches in thickness. These walls shall be so
| located that the space between any fJor-bear.
ing walls shall not be more than twenty five
| (25) feet. Girders and iron columns or beams
may be substituted for partition walls in
buildings not more than one hundred feet in
| wild IN and shall be made OF sufficient strength
| to bear safely the weight which they are re-
! quired to support in addition to the weight of
| material used in their construction; but where
wooden columns or glrders used the col
umns shall not be further apart than twelve
feet Division walls may be made of tile in
stead of brick provided the weight above is
supported by columns and girders, but the tile
shall not be used to sustain any ofthe structure
above.
/ No timber shall be used in any wall OF any
building constructed of brick stone except
bond timbers aud lintels as herein provided
IOri anu no WAL strlps OF ponu dmpers IN any
wall shall in width and thickness exceed thai
of a course OF brick. No bond timbers shall be
more than three feet in length, and such bond
timbers shall be laid not less than two feet be-
tween them and parallel to each other, and
there shall be eighteen inches OF brick or ma
son work between the ends of the same. Nc
wood lintels shall be used in any wall of brick
or stone unless there isa good brick or stone
arch turned above said Intel Of sufficient
strength to carry tue walls above.
| HkIGHT OF STORIES.
SEC. 18. The height of stories for walls OF
| any given thickness shall not exceed IL feet
Tin the clear" for basement, 18 feet for
first story, Is feet for second story, 13 feet for
third story, IL feet for fourth story and IA feet
II any story exceeds these heights respectively
the walls Of such story and of all the stories
below the same shall be increased four inches