The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-09-27
Ordinance No. 2.

An ordinance ests b shing fire limits within
the City of Skagway, District of Alaska.
Be it ordained by the Common Council of the
City of Skagway:
SECTION i.
That all that territory in the City of Skagway
lying and being within the boundaries herein.
after specified and described, be, and the same
is hereby established as, fire limit in said
city to-wit: Beginning at station "Kenn" of
the United States coast and geodetic survey
being corner No. OF the boundary line of the
City of Skagway, thence running in north
eas'erly direction to point On the left bank of
the skagwuy river at its confluence with Lynn
Can ! at low tide, running thence northerly
along the meander line OF the east channel of
said river to the intersection of said line with
Ninth avenue, thence easterly along the south
line OF Ninth avenue to its intersection with
the line of the bluff on the east side of the city
of Skagway, thence In southerly direction
along the base line of said bluff to the intersec-
ton of said line with the south line of the said
city of Skagway, thence in a westerly drec-
ton along the said south line of the city to the
place of beginning.
SECTION 2.
II shall be unlawful for any person from and
the said district hereinbefore named, to erect or
construct, or cause to be erected or constructed,
altered or repaired, or remove or cause to be
removed, from one place to another within or
in the said district any building or structure
of any kind, nature or description to be used or
occupied in such a manner IS to require heat
ing, unless the same shall be provided with
brick or stone fiues, for the accommodation of
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therein. The top OF said fue shall be not less
than thirty inches from the roof of the struc-
tnre through which it passes. and no stovepipe
shall be maintained nearer than fourteen
inches from any wood or other combustible ma
terial excepting where the same enters the
fine, and then such wood or combustible mate
rial shall not be nearer than four inches from
the said stovepipe.
And it shall be unlawful for anv person
either to occupy his own premises or the prem
ises of another as tenant or rent the same to be
occupied by any other person, unless the same
be furnished with chimneys or fiues as herein
prescribed.
SECTION 8.
That from and after the first day of Septem-
Der, 1900, IL shall be unlawful for any person TO
occupy or maintain any building within the
ing piled with the requirements of section
2, herein, with reference to building and main
tanning brick or stone fues and stovepipes, and
any person or persons wfo shall violate. or
cause to be violated, any provision OF this ordi
nance, shall be deemed guilty OF misdemeanor
and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a
sum not less than enc dollar nor more than
twenty-five dollars; and any building or struc
ture erected, occupied or maintained contrary
TO the provisions OF this ordinance, or any
building or structure maintaining metallic
fues, in use after said first day of September
1900, or otherwise contrary to the provisions "oi
this ordinance, shall be deemed a nuisance,
and any such fue, SO erected or maintained
contrary to the sp irit and intent of this ordi
nance, shall be torn down, as the Council may
direct and under the supervision OF the lire
warden, and the expenses of such tearing down
or removal shall be charged to the person Oh
persons causing such nuisance and the amount
thereof recovere by an action. in the name o.
the City OF Skagway, in any court oil competent
jurisdiction; and the same shall also be
charge against the structure or ouiidihg sc
maintained.
SECTION 4.
This ordinance shall take effect and be in forc'
from and after the day of its passage approval ane
publication for once week for three eonseeu'
tive weeks in some newspaper Of general eireua'
ton within the city of SkagSay
Passed by the common council ofthe city OF skag
way this 18th day of Augusut 1900,
Approved August 10. 1900,
JOHN HISLOP.
Attest: EH-o"eio mayo'
John w. TROY.
City Clerk.
Date Of First publication. September s, 1900.