Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-24
CITY FIRE ORDINANCE.
Passed by the Common Council
of Corvallis June 20.

The following ordinance passed
by the city council at its last ses.
sion should r,c>ive the careful
perusal of every citizen. There
is no doubt but that many vio-
lators of the ordinance can be
found at the present time should
a rigid search be made. We will
give our readers the full text ot
the instrument i'll this issue and
the issue following that uncon-
scious violators may BE- prepared
for visit from the city officer.
The ordinance is as follows:
An ordinance to provide for the
prevention of fires, and the pro-
lection of persons and property
endangered thereby.
The city of Corvallis does or
dain as follows:
SECTION 1. No wooden build
ing within said fire limits shall be
altered or changed without The
written permission of the chief
engineer, approved by the COM
mittee on fire and water; which
permit shall specify fully the
alteration or change required,
and no such permit shall be given
if any increase will be made by
the proposed change or altera-
ton in the size of any wooden
building within the fire limits, or
if such repairs or alterations will
increase the value of any such
buildings more than IS per cent.
The application therefor and a
copy of the such permit shall be
ke"t on file in the office of-police
judge, Provided, that 10 more
than one permit per year shall be
issued to repair any one building
except to repair damages caused
by fire.
SEC. 2. No building within
said fire limits shall be removed
except to a position on the same
lot On which it may have stood,
to make room for more perma-
next improvements, or to point
outside the fire limits.
Sec 3: Whenever any build
ing shall be by any means so
much injured as to be in the
Judgment of the chief engineer
and committee on fire and water,
a dangerous nuisance, or when
any wooden building within the
fire limits shall, in the judgment
of the chief engineer and commit
tee on fire and water, be damaged
by fire to the extent of one.half
or more of the actual value, the
chief engineer shall Immediately
caused to be served upon the
owner or persons having control
thereof, a notice requiring such
owner or person to remove the
same forthwith and the persons
receiving such notice shall with
in ten days after receiving the
same, comply with the require
ments thereof.
SEc.2. All buildings over one
story in height hereafter erected
in the fire limits, shall have scut-
tle-frames and doors.or bulk-heads
leading to the roof, made of COW
cred with some fre-proof mater
ial, and shall have ladders or
stairways leading to the same,
and such scuttles or stairways
shall be kept so as to be ready
for immediate use at all times,
and all scuttles shall not be less
in size than two by three feet.
All other buildings now con-
structed or to be constructed
shall be provided with scut-
ties leading to the attic, loca.
ton of same to be approved by
the fire wardens.
SEC. S. The chief OF police,
chief engineer and committee on
fire and water of this city, shall,
have at all times the right to en-.
ter any building within the city
for the purpose of ascertainins
any violation of this ordinance
which may come to his knowl.
edge.
SEC. E. That it shall be ths
duty of each fireman to notify tht
chief engineer of every violation
of this ordinance which may
come to his knowledge.