The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-30
PART XIV.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS, THEATERS AND
PLACES OF ASSEMBLAGE.

Sec. I66. Theaters, Opera Houses,
Every theater opera house. auditorium
or other building intended to be USED tor
theatrical or operate purposes, or Tor
public entertainment of any kind, where
stage scenery and apparatus is employed
hereafter erected in the City OF st. PAU,
shall be built to comply with the require
ments of this Code.
Sec. 1877. buildings Not in Actual
Use
No building which at the time of the
passage of this Code is not in actual use
for theatrical or operate purposes, ana
no building hereafter erected and not IN
conformity with the requirements of this
Code shall be used for theatrical or OPP
cratic PURPOSES. or for public entertain
rnept Of any kind where stage scenery or
apparatus is employed until the same
- shall have been made to conform to the
requirements of this Code.
Sec. IGS. Buildings to Be AD-
proved
No building shall be opened to the pub
lie for theatrical or operate purposes, or
for public entertainments Of any KIND
unit! the Commissioner of Publc WORKS
shall have approved the same IN WrlIlnS
as conforming to the requirements OF this
Code.
No license shall be granted for any
such building and the proper officers of
the city shall close, and prevent an open
ing of the same, until a certificate of ap-
prevail in writing, shall have been given
by the Commissioner of Public WORKS
Sec. 40. AisIes and Passage
Ways
All aisles and passage ways in said
buildings shall be kept free from camp
stools, chairs, sofas and other opstruc-
tions. and no person shall be allowed 10
stand in or occupy any of the alsles or
passage ways, during any performance,
service exhibition, lecture, concert ball
or any public assemblage.
Sec. III. Fronts
Every theater or other building as men
toned in section Ice of this Code, shall
have at least one front on the street,
except as hereinafter mentioned, and in
such front there shall be suitable means
of entrance and exit for the audience.
Such main entrance shall not be more
than two feet higher than the level of
the sidewalk.
Sec. I72. Courts
In addition to the aforesaid entrances
and exits on the street, there shall be
reserved for service in case of emergency,
an open court or space on the side not
bordering On the street, where said build
ing is located on a corner, and on both
sides of said building, where there is but
one frontage on the street. The width
of such open court or courts shall not be
less than seven feet where the seating ca
pacity is not over one thousand people.
above one thousand and not more than
fifteen hundred eight feet in width, and
above fifteen hundred people, ten feet in
width.
Said open courts shall begin on a line
with or near the prOScenium wall and
shall extend the length of the auditorium
proper, TO or near the wall separating the
same from the entrance lobby or vesti-
bule.
See. I73. Separate Corridors to
Streets
A separate and distinct corridor shall
continue to the street from each open
court through such superstructure as may
be built on the street side of the audi
torjum, with continuous walls of bricks
or other fire proof materials on each side
of the entire length of said corridor or
Corridors and the ceiling and floors shall
be fire proof Said corridors shall not be
reduced in width to more than three feet
less than the width of the open court or
courts, and there shall be no projection
In the same; the outer openings to be
provided with doors or gates opening to-
ward the street
During the performance the doors or
gates shall be kept open by proper fasten-
lngS; at other times they may be closed
by movable bolts or locks. The said open
courts and the corridors shall not be used
for storage purposes, or for any purpose
whatsoever except for exit and entrance
from and to the auditorium and stage.
The level of said corridors at the street
entrance of the same shall not be more
than six inches above the level of the
sidewalk at such entrance. To overcome
any difference of level in and between
courts, Corridors Hobbies, passages and
aisles on the ground floor, gradients shall
be employed of not over one foot in
twelve feet with no perpendicular rises.
Sec. IA. Auditorium Exits to Side
Courts
From the auditorium opening into the
said street, there shall be not less than
two exits on each side in each tier, from
and including the parquet, and each and
every gallery.
Each exit shall be at least five feet in
width in the clear and provided with
doors of iron or wood, and if of wood
the doors shall be covered with metal
and shall be fastened with movable bolts
the bolts to be kept drawn during per-
fCrmances.
Sec. I75. Fire Escapes
There shall be balconies not less than
four fest in width in the said open court
or courts at each level or tier above the
parquet on each side of the auditorium
of sufficient length to embrace the two
exits. and from said balconies there shall
be stalrwayS extending to the ground
level, with rise of not over eight inches
to step, and not less than nine inch
tLead exclusive of the nosing. The stair
way from the upper balcony to the next
below shall be not less than thirty inches
In width in the clear, and from the first
balcony 10 the ground, not less than
three feet in the clear, where the seating
capacity of the auditorium is for one
thousand people or less; three feet six
inches in the clear, where above one
thousand and not more than fifteen hun
dred people; and four feet in the clear
when above fifteen hundred and not more
than twenty-five hundred people; and not
over four feet six inches in the clear
where above twenty-five hundred people.
Inc stairway from the upper balcony to
the next below, shall increase propor-
tionately.
All the above mentioned balconies and
Stairways shall be constructed in IRON
throughout including the floors, and be
OF ample strength to sustain the load to
be carried by them.
Where one side of the building borders
on public highway there shall be stair
WAYS and balconies of like capacity
and kind as heretofore mentioned and
the building set back or recessed far
enough to admit of such stairwayS with
out using any part of the public street
II situated so that the building has three
street fronts, exits must be from the
three street fronts, and constructed with
recess as above described
Sec. I7G. On "a Corner Lot
When on a corner lot. that portion
bordering on the side street and NOT re-
quired for the uses of the theater NAV
be used as offices and stores, providing
the walls separating this portion from
the theater are fire proof and carried nm
solidly to and through the roof, and that
a hre proof exit is provided for the the
aJer on each tier communicating with
balconies and staircases leading to street
IN manner provided elsewhere in this