Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-28
CITY FIRE ORDINANCE
Passed by the Common Council
of Corvallis, June 20.
Continued from last issue)

Continued from last issue)
SECTION II.-No smoke pipe
shall be placed nearer than II
inches to any wall, except at
right angles Herewith in passing
through the same, nor nearer IS
inches to the wall OF any adjoin-
ing building. All smoke pipes
passing through the roof of any
building shall extend at least four
feet above the roof of the build
ing to which they are attached,
measuring from the point where
such passes through such roof;
and if in the opinion of the fire
wardens they be deemed unsafe
to the building or buildings ad-
joining they shall order them car
ried up to such height as may be
necessary not to exceed four feet
above the extreme height of said
adjoining building or buildings.
Provided that hotels, restaurants,
laundries and wash-houses, shall
in all cases provide brick CHM
neys or fues to be used in place
of stone pipes. All owners or
occupants of any building within
this city in which there is a
smoke or stove pipe, shall when
notified by the fire wardens, COM
ply with the foregoing require
ments, and replace bad or de-
fective smoke or stove pipe, with
a new one. when so ordered by
the fire wardens.
SEC. IL. That when any fue
smoke pipe or chimney construct
ed prior to the passage of this
ordinance or at any other tune
shall by the fire wardens be
deemed unsafe, they shall notify
in writing the owners or occu-
pant of the building that the
same must be removed or 1e-
paired within ten days; and said
smoke pipe, hue or chimney shall
not be used until repaired except
by written permit of.the fire war
dens.
SEC. IS. That the fire war
deus shall have the right, and it
shall be their duty, to enter any
building within the city limits,
at any time they shall deem
necessary, tor the purpose of dis
covering or ascertaining any vio-
lations of this ordinance.
SEC. II. That whenever the
fire wardens deem it necessary tor
the safety of any building or
buildings to have any accumula
ton of moss removed from the
roof of such building or build
lngs, they may notify the owner
or occupants thereof to remove
the same; it shall be the duty of
said owner OR occupants to have
the same speedily removed. No
person shall allow any accumu-
lation of loose hay, straw, dry
grass, leaves, paper or other in
flanmable rubbish to accumulate
on Or around their premises, and
where any such accumulation in
the Judgment of the fire wardens
shall be considered dangerous,
they shall cause the same to bere-
moved at the owners expense.
SEC. IS. No stove except
cook stoves shall stand within two
feet of any wooden or cloth wall
unless such wall is fully protected
by tin or zinc plates fastened
thereon, and all persons using
fires in stoves, shall be caused to
be placed under said stoves, zinc
or other incombustible material
sufficient to protect the place
from fire.
Sec. 16. No person shall de.
posit any ashes in any wooder
vessel or on any wooden floor il
this city, or deposit them in any
place on their premises Or or tl'e
premises of others, that will b<
nearer than ten feet from any
wooden building or fence.
SEC. II. All hay, straw O.
other combustible material
slowed in any building in thi
city, shall be slowed as to b,
safe from fire, and when not 81
slowed the fire wardens may Or
der the removal or cause the sanl'
to be protected from fire, at tn
expense of the owner or occupan
of the premises in which the sam
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