Los Angeles herald., 1905-11-14
PUBLIC ADVERTISING
ordissnee ,s,s No. Is,o4O

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titled An. Ordinance amending 0rdi-
nance No. t04t5 New serles), entitled,
AN ORDINANCE establishing hre limits
moving and demolition OF buildings,
providing for the Issuing of permits
for the same and for the condemnation
OF buildings and other structures dam
gerous to property. life or limb, and
Regulating the storage and use OF dan
serous, inflammable or explosive sub
stances approved December 81, 1904
The Mayor and Council Of the City Of
Los Angeles do ordain as follows:
Section /. That Section % Of ordi-
rance No. 11,0S4 (New Series), entitled
An Ordinance amending Ordinance No.
lO,4lb New. Series), entitled An Ordi-
nance establishing fire limits. regulat-
ing the construction, repair, moving
and demolition of buildings, providing
for the Issuing of permits for the same
and for the condemnation OF buildings
and other structures dangerous to
property, life or limb, and regulating
the storage and use OF dangerous, in
flammable or explosive substances ap-
proved December 81, 1904" approved
May %, 1906, be and the same is hereby
amended SO as to read as follows:
:, Sec "a; That Section 2l5 of said or.
the same ls hereby amended SO as to
cdtMNEYs. ,ELuEs, EIREPLAcEs
Sec. 215. No chimneys shall be built
OF less than four-inch walls, and no
top shall be less than two feet above
the firewall for fiat roof and two feet
above for any pitched roof. Ordinary
chimneys In business buildings shall
have four-inch walls, eight-inch jambs.
All flues Intended for furnaces, ranges,
bake ovens, steam or hot water heating
apparatus, laundries or any other pur-
pose recurring great heat shall have
walls eight inches thick or have walls
chimney lining All walls of chimneys
less than eight inches thick, or those
not lined with tile. shall be smoothly
pla,sitered for the entire height on the
All stove pipe thimbies shall be
placed in as. the chimney Is carried
and plastered about tho inside Of the
| chimney, and shall be surrounded with
at least four inches of brick brought
ohmneys Gsn yth sba th1 bs & O All 0rSss scs
joints. All chimneys in frame build
ings shall be SO built as not to increase
fiues are built in brick walls they shall
be. subject to the same rules as other
chimneys
and be supported on the walls of any
| chimney, and the framing around chim-
neys of all kinds shall be SO COM
structed that in no case will any joists
or timbers be placed nearer than two
! inches from the outside face of walls
| or flueS, whether the same be a smoke,
air or other kind OF fiue; and in no case
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any fue to any joists or timbers be
| less than six inches.
No timber shall be placed under any
coal or wood-burning fireplace or
hearth stone, but all hearths and fire.
places shall rest upon trimmer arch
of brick OF concrete. The back of all
fireplaces shall be at least eight inches
| in thickness.
(b). All chimneys in party walls
shall not extend within four inches or
| the center of the wall All chifnneys
| In n 1c ho taIa
| tered upon the outside before any
woodwork Is placed against them. No
fireplace shall start from the joists, but
shall start from the ground on, good.
solid foundation. Joint fues in party
walls shall be separated across the wall
by an eight-inch width of brick work
be placed within one inch of any Chin
ney. Chimneys to be furred independ-
entity of brick work, and no nails are
to be driven into said brick work.
| chimneys shall not be used inside of
fire limits. Any chimney not forming
part OF a wall shall rest upon the
ground with. proper foundations, ano IN
no case shall any chimney rest on or be
| supported by any frame work, beams
or posts of woodwork of any descrip-
(d).. All openings in chimneys for
mantels as shall have an iron arch bar bar
than one-fourth inch by two two and md one
half inch turned up at the ends two
! inches on each side Of chimney breast.
so as to make a perfect bond for, the
furred with wood on face are to be sur
rounded by a brick rim eight inches
wide projecting four INCHES, bonded
| chimney breast.
(e). All chimneys having a greater
fue area than 260 square inches and
be carried up at least twelve feet above
highest point of roof of building of
which they form part. and all Chin
neys having a greater f1ue area than
| 800 square inches and not more than
/ 900 square inches shall be carried up at
least twenty feet above highest point
of roof. All chimneys having greater
| flue area than 400 square inches shalt
be lined on the inside at lease six feet
above smoke inlet with fire brick laid
in fire clay. which lining shall start at
least two feet below the smoke inlet.
If isolated chimneys are built they
shall be built with hollow walls, and
shall be so designed and constructed
that the stress upon any part thereof.
| due from the weight of the stack itself
and from wind pressure, shall never
exceed the limits elsewhere in this Orr
| dinance fixed as the maximum stress
, for brick masonry.
Where smoke pipes pass through
wood or plastered stud partition they
of brick, hollow tile porous terra
Gotta or other substance, measuring at
Least eight nShes nin.s all around of 1S., such
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than 144 square inches shall be kept at
! least twelve inches distant from any
wood work and such wood work imme-
diately over and for a distance OF two
/ feet on each side of such smoke pipe
must be covered with sheet metal or
with porous terra-cottta, or hollow tile,
or with plaster on metal lath.
20. Smoke pipes of greater area
than 144 square inches and less area
| than six square feet must be kept at
| least twenty inches away from any
woodwork, and such woodwork must
+ be protected as before specified for the
! smaller smoke pipes to a distance OF
I four feet on each side of such smoke
pipe Wherever smoke pipes of larger
area than six square feet are used they
| shall be kept at least three feet dis
tant from any woodwork, and such
! woodwork for a distance of at least
| six feet on either side of said smoke
pipe shall be protected as before speci-
| fed for smaller pipes.
| Sec. 2. This Ordinance is urgently
required for the immediate preservation
of the public peace. health and safety
and the city Clerk shall certify to its
passage by a two-thlrds vote of the
Council and cause 1t to be published
once in the Los Angeles Herald, and
thereupon and thereafter 1t shall take
effect and be In force.
hereby certify that the whole num-
ber OF members of the City Council OF
the City OF Los Angeles is nine, and
that the foregoing Ordinance was