Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-12


bv the Committee, it being esteemed
the best measure out OF those WHICH
have been examined.
The ordinance came up in the Sec
ond Branch. where it went over on oD-
lection to be printed, and will be ready
for action at the next meeting.
The law is very long, embracing one
hundred and fourteen sections. A sum-
mary OF the most important secuons
and provisions follows:
Sec. 1 provides for application for
permits by persons contemplating
building. and prescribes the fees. By
Sec. > no permits shall be issued until
after careful inspection of the plans
and payment of the fee. Sec. pro-
vides for revoking the permit when the
inspector has reason TO believe the law
is not being complied with. Work
done after the permit has been revoked
involves punishment by fines of 50 to
500. or Imprisonment, or both Sec.
prohibits alterations of old buildings
until an inspection determines their
condition. Sec. prohibits the cutting
or altering of any wall without permits
sion. Sec. Z requires all walls and
buildings to conform to the ordinance.
Sec. s applies particularly to buildings
10 be used as schools, churches, thea
tres. factories, workshops, mercantile
establishments hotels, boarding houses
and apartment houses, and provides
for ample means of egress, fire escapes,
etc. Sec. requires at least one days
notice of any building operations or al
teratiOns within ten feet of any street,
that encrOachment on the street or in
convenience 10 the public may be pro-
vided against. Sec. 10 makes owners,
architects and contractors severally liza
BILE to punishment for violation Of the
law. Sec. II gives the inspector or as
sistants authority to enter any build
ing. Sec. u defines the words brick
buildings, cellar" party wal" Eek
ternal wall" foundation" public
building" thickness of wall" etc.
Sec. Is fixes the factor of safety. Sec.
II provides for an appeal by owners,
etc, to a board of three arbitrators,
and for Rhe payment Of the latter. Sec.
Is provides that for buildings other
than of brick, stone or wood, the thick
ness of walls and method of cOnstruc-
ton shall be such as the inspector may
approve Sec. 16 says all buildings to
be used for tenement c. lodging houses,
and an other buildings not especially
provided for. shall have external and
party walls of brick, stone or iron, or
other substantial and incOmbustible
material. and shall be subject to all the
requirements of a brick building, eX-
cept as otherwise expressly stated Sec.
II requires foundations for buildings
over one story high to be carried at
least three feet below the surface eX-
posed TO frost Sec Is provides for
notices to owners of adjoining property
of intended excavations for buildings.
Sec. 10 provides for sound and straight
piles when used for foundations. Sec.
20 relates to proper foundations. Sec.
81 calls for hard brick for walls. Sec.
% specifies the thickness of brick walls,
as follows: One story high, basement
and first story, y inches; two stories
high. basement is inches first and sec
Ond stories II inches; three stories
nigh. basement Is inches and all the
rest u inches; four stories high, base
ment 90 inches first story 20 inches,
second and third Is inches, fourth story
ID inches: five stories, basement "a
inches. first and second stories 20
inches, third and fourth Is inches, fifth
u inches: six stories, basement "a
inches. first story a inches, second and
third 20 inches, fourth and fifth 16
inches. sixth 70 inches; seven stories,
basement Is inches first and second
stories "A inches, third and fourth 20
inches. fifth Is inches. sixth and sew
entb u inches. The same provision is
made for division walls, and on S-inch
walls are allowed Sec. p provides that
when stone cOrniCes are used, they
shall be balanced upon the wall. Sec
"a reOuires party walls to be carried at
least eighteen inches above roofs, and
they shall be at least twelve inches
thick. Sec. - requires at least four
inches of solid brick between timber
ends i'm a party wall. Sec. 26 requires
a tbiekening of walls when buildings
are over twenty-five feet wide. Sec. p
limits the height of buildings, except
churches to ninety feet eXceDt thew be
thoroughly fire proof. BY Sec. % no
vertical recess or hUe shall be made
which reduces the thickness OF the wall
TO less than eight inches. and no hori-
zontaI recess shall be made except by
special permission. Sec % requires all
brick blocks used as stores and flats TO
have division walls not to exceed htty
feet apart. extending through to the
roof. IT also provides for enclosing
stairways in brick walls, etc. Sec. 30
relates to division walls in buildings
more than thirty feet wide. Sec. 81 al
lows Orders and beams as substitutes
for division walls under certain con-
dftions. Sec. 80 allows walls TO be
faced with stone or other suitable ma
terial. suitably tied and clamped. Sec
8S provides for brick arches over wood
linlels. and Sec. 81 applies TO iron lin
tells. See 50 prohibits the carrying up
of q side wall in advance of a rear wall,
and no portion of a wall can be carried
up higher than eight feet above any
other point Sec SO provides for
anchoriug walls, Sec. 81 to openings in
party walls. Sec IS to cornices. Secs
SO and 40 to brick piers, Secs. IL and Il
10 metal columns. Secs. 43, "A, - and
40 TO chimneys and fiues. Sec. A TO
floor timbers. Sec. IS % hearths, Secs
40. so. 81. 81. 53, 81 and 80 to heating
apparatus. fiues. boilers, etc Sec. 56
presCribes the strength of floors, Sec 81
provides for the hanging of headers
Sec. IS only allows jOists a bearing Of