The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1904-11-25

In such fire limits.
Be it ordained by the City Council of
the City of Pembina, North Dakota:
Sec. l. - Fire Limits Defined. = The
following limits shall be known and are
hereby established as the fire limits of
the City Of Pembina, to-wit- Lots Six C61
and Seven III in Block Fourteen [14];
Lots Five Isl, Six [el, Seven III, Eight
[s]. Nine [9], Ten [1O], Eleven I'LL and
Twelve [12] in Block Fifteen [15l; Lots
Eleven [11] and Twelve [12] in Block
Sixteen (16]; Lots One III, Two ri,
Three [3]. Four [4]. Five Isl, Six [6]
and Seven [7] in Block Five ISL. Lots
One III, Two [2], Three ri, Four [4],
Five Isl and Six C6] in Block Seven ~,
according to the plat of the Town (now
City, of Pembina on file and of record
in the Office of the Register of Deeds for
Pembina County, State of North Dakota.
Sec. Reconstruction of Buildings
1t shall be unlawful for any person or
persons, or any Incorporated body, to
erect by removal or otherwise within the
fire limits Of the City of Pembina, any
building or buildings, or any part of, or
any addition to, any building or build
ings, unless all the outside, end and par
ty walls thereof shall be built of stone at
least 20 inches thick, brick at least II
inches thick, cement at least 8 inches
thick. or of such other fire proof mater
ial, the quality and thickness of which
maybe; approved; by,th Building Com
mittee.. Provided, than when new wall
is to be built against a legal aud fire
proof wall already existing, that the ma
terial and thickness ma +, be such as may
be approved by said Building Committee
but said new wall must be constructed
of fire proof material; and all such walls
shall extend above the roofs. of such
buildings at least 10 inches; all wooden
init Is or plate pieces placed in front,
rear, or side walls, shall recede' from the
outside of the wall nc: less than inches,
or when they shall not recede, the same
shall be covered with fire proof material;
and all cutters and roofs placed on any
fire proof building shall be covered on
the outside surface with copper, tin, iron
OF other fire proof material. The plating
or sheeting OF the roof OF any fire proof
building shall not extend across the fire
wall of any such building. Provided: that
there may be erected within said fire linn
its in the rear Of any fire proof building
one wooden building or shed, not to ex-
coed fifteen feet in length, ten feet in
width, and ten feet in height at the high
est point, and one wooden privy not ex-
ceedine six feet square and eight feet in
height at the highest point.
Sec. 3 Frame Buildings within the
Fire Limits may be repaired and remov-
ed when.-It.shall be unlawful for any
person or persons. or incorporated body,
to repair any frame or wooden building
within the fire. limits of the City of Penn
bina when such building shall have been
damaged by the elements or by decay to
the extent of so percent of its value, ex.
elusive of the foundation Of such build
ing. Nor shall any such building, when
damaged less than SO per cent of the val.
ne thereof as aforesaid. be so repaired,
as to be raised higher than the highest
point thereof before such damaged oc.
Cured, Or SO as to be in a better condit.
ion or state ofsrepair than before such
damage, and no such building shall be
so repair I'd, or altered, as to occupy
greater space than the same occupied be.
fore said repair or alteration. And it is
further provided that the City Council
shall have the power by the majority
vote Of all the members elected, upon
the application Of any freeholder within
said fire limits, to remove frame build
ing from one place within said fire limits
to any other place within the same; pro-
yided, however, that no wooden or frame
building shall be removed from any place
without said fire limits 10 any place with
in the same. +.
IL Sec, Assessment Of Damages. ~
The decision Of the Committee on Build.
ings Of the City Council shall be concius-
i've Of the amount q damage 10 any
building within such fire limits caused
by The elements ~ decay, unless .the
owner 81 other psrson desiring Is repsii.
sn,h building objects "a such decision
and within y hours after its rsnditian
Ifies~ith ihe CITY luditor : pesitsonss ii
writing appsa linz sherefr rom. sslsin 3 fs.e
,decision ~ tht Council upd the question
~ damage & such Hiding committee