Fitzgerald enterprise., 1906-12-18
City Ordinances
AN ORDINANCE NO. 222.

places, and to provide punishment
for the violation of the same, in the
City of Fitzgerald, in the County oi
Irwin, and the State of Georgia.
Section 1. From and after the pas
sage and publication once of this ordl
nance, it shall be unlawful for any
person or persons to erect in or near
building any chimney ,hue or fire.
place, whether for heating, venti-
Iating, or whatsoever purpose; or to
remodel or reconstruct any chimney,
fiue or fire place in any building, un-
less such chimney, tiue or fire place
shall be erected in accordance with
this ordinance.
Section 2. All main chimneys in
frame buildings, for fire places or
furnaces, shall be we'll and securely
built from the ground up and through
the building to point at least three
feet above the highest part of such
building; the walls of chimneys shall
be of stone or brick at least eight
inches in thickness and beginning
with foundation, such brick or stone
work shall be laid in cement mortar
up to the first floor, and thence
above to point where chimney pro-
trudes through the roof of building,
the brick or stone work may be laid
in good lime or fire clay mortar, from
and above the roof to top of chimney
the brick or stone work shall be laid
in cement mortar; all joints shall be
stuck smooth on the inside.
When two or more seperate fiues
are provided in chimney the division
walls may be only four inches in
thickness.
No chimney or flue shall be started
or built upon any floor or beam of
wood.
Section 3. Beams or wood work
near chimney or filue-No wood cas-
ing, Turing or Iath or other wood
work shall be placed in, against, or
within two inches of chimney or flue,
except that wood mantles, floors and
base boards, when protected by as
bestos or other fire resisting material
may come in contact with plaster
covering chimney or flue.
Ali wood beams shall be trimmed
away from all fiues and chimneys.
Section A. Trimmer, arches, fire
places, etc.--AlI fire places and CHM
ney breasts shall have trimmer
arches to support hearths, the trim
mer arches shall be at least twenty
inches in width, measuring from the
face of the chimney breast, and they
shall be constructed of brick, stone,
or burnt clay.
The length of a trimmer arch shall
be not less than the width of the
chimney breast.
When a CRATE is set in fire place,
a lining of fire brick, soapstone, tile,
or cast iron shall be added to the
fire back.
No fire place shall be closed with
wood fire board.
Section g. Chimneys and Flues
partly or wholly outside the buildin 6
shall be constructed as described in
Sections 2, 8, 4, Z, and 8.
Section 6. Chimneys and Flues,
in brick buildings, for Fire Places or
Furnaces, shall be constructed as de-
scribed in Sections 2, 3, 4, 7, s and 8,
except that the walls of building
when not less than thirteen inches in
thickness may form part of Chimney
or Flue.
In no case shall a Chimney or Flue
be corbeled out more than eight in
ches from the wall, and in all cases
the corbling shall consist of ut least
five courses of brick. Flues in party
walls shall not extend beyond the
center of said walls.
When a Chimney or Flue is to be
cut off below, in whole or in part, 1t
shall be wholly supported by brick or
stone work, propely erected from the
ground up.
Section 7. Single Chimneys or
Flues for stoves or kitchen ranges
shall be constructed as described in
Sections 2, 3, 4, 6, s and 8, except
that the walls of such Chimneys or
Flues may be only four inches in
thickness.
No Chimney or Flue shall be start
ed or built upon any floor or beam
of wood.
Section 8. The upper part of Chim-
ney or Flue walls may be only four
inches in thickness, from point at
least inches above the roof cover
Ing of building to the top of Chimney
or Flue, provided the Chimney or
Flue, provided the Chimney or Flue
be capped with terra Gotta, stone or
cast iron.
Section 8. Flues when lined on
the inside with cast iron or we'll
burnt clay or fireproof terra Gotta
pipe, from the bottom of the Flue or
from the throat of the Fire Place, If
Flue, starts from that point, may be
enclosed by brick or stone work OF
only four inches in thickness, pro-
vided the lining pipe be carried up
continuously to the extreme height of
the Flue, The ends of all such lining
pipe be made to fit close together,
and the pipe shall be built in as the
Flue or Flues are carried up.
Section 10 The Mayor with the
consent of the Council, shall appoint
an Architect or competent builder,
to be known as the ''Flue Inspector"
whose duty it shall be to examine
and inspect such Chimneys or Flues
hereinafter erected remodeled or
altered.
Section II The "Flue Inspector"