The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-11
Building Regulations.

Health:
Building Regulations.
Rain Water. /. Where the space
between buildings is less than fifteen
feet. the water from the roofs of build
ings on the sides of such space shall
be conducted in water-tight leaders
and made to- discharge into suitable
drains leading into street or alley gut
ters: and If the building abuts on an
alley or roadway of like width the
same rule shall apply.
Air Space Between Buildings, 2. If
n building to he used for residence,
tenement or clearinghouse is on the
front of a lot, on the rear of which lot
there are one or more buildings, there
shall be a clear space of at least fifteen
! feet between each of said buildings, If
NJ not more than two stories high; but
IL higher there shall be five feet wider
space for each additional story; and
no wooden building. except that front
ing upon a street or public way Of ar
least fifteen feet wide. shall be built
or maintained within three feet of the
boundary line of the lot upon which
said building is erected.
Light and Ventilation of Dwellings,
3. Each and every room intended or
used for human habitation shall be
provided with at least eight square
J feet of window area having unob-
structed access into the open air for
! each 100 square feet of floor space in
said room, and free access shall at all
} times be had to the same by the Occu-
: pants of the room; and at least one
half of such window space shall be
movable and available for ventilation.
Air Space Under Buildings. 4. Ev-
cry building shall have ut least twenty
inches of clear space for the circula-
ton Of air between the floor timbers
and the ground. and shall have sufii-
Client openings for ventilation in the
? outer walls to admit a free circulation
of air: but, in case this air space can
not be secured without reaching
ground water level" then there shall
y be no air space. but the floor shall bt
+ of concrete or masonry.
Yards. Areas. Courts. Etc, >. Yards
areas. courts, alleyways and other oper
spaces within or between buildings
where water is used for washing of any
kind. shall be properly graded and ce
mented, or paved so as to be water
proof. and drained into trapped drain.
z properly connected with sewer, cess
: pool or street gutter; and no perma
y nent wooden floor or grating shall b.
maintained over the same.
- Water-Tight Floors, 6. All houses
o structures, rooms or parts thereof. II
J. which water Is used, or intended to b.
,r used. in such quantity as to render tn
: floor or floors thereof damp. shall hav
- such floor. or floors, made absOlutel.
% waterproof. with proper drainage int
4, trapped leaders conveying the waite
= away into cesspool or sewer: and tn
water-proofing of all such floors shall
ie be done i'm a manner satisfactory to III
3 Board of Health or Building Inspector
Privies. Privy Vaults and CesspoOls
n Z. Within thirty days after the publ
sewer system Is put into operation Tn
use of privy vaults shall be entrei
discontinued within the limits of sue
sewer system, and all privies shall b
removed except in so far as permls
sion may be granted by the Board Q
Health to transform the same INT
approved wateT-ClOsets. Pending IN
completion OF the public sewers
prIvv shall be built or maintaine
without at least three feet OF clea
- space on all sides.
s. No privy shall be built or main
y tanned so as to entirely cover the cess
cesspool or vault shall project out
one side beyond the superstructure !
such a manner as 10 allow for the II
IN srection and removal of the contents {
said cesspool or vault. The content
II of any privy vault or Cesspool shall nc
DO allowed to rise within eightee
inches of the top of the same or to sue
hight as 70 flow out onto the surtaC
of the ground. and no privy vault c
cesspool shall be Of such depth tha
/. cannot be emptied by suction pumi
! @ No cesspool shall be built 9
maintained wholly or in part unde
anv building Except in the case OF
privy) unless the same be made ans,
n iuteiy water-tight by masonry, wal
N and dome. and shall have a small ITO
manhoIe and cover at the top; ana
shall also have a 4-inch cast-iron Vei
h, nine with caulked lead joints, extern,
~ irs IN through or at the outside OF "a
- building. and the top Of said vent pr
shall extend above the r0ot OF ID
n highest building within distance
y tyyentv feet of the same, and all sue
aI oil vffv direct DO