Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-08
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I'm the course Of ordinary business. AS
soon as such sum OF money shall have
been deposited with tho Board of Pub
lie Works, they shall appoint an arbt-
traitor TO represent the city. and the two
arbttr0tors thus appointed shall " they
cannot agree, select third arbitrator,
and these arbitrators shall he COM
petent builders architects or engineers.
and shall after investigating the mat
ter make u decision Ia regard to the
same. a majority report from the ar
bitrators shall be final and binding up
on the appellant as well as upon tho
city. and shall be rendered IN writing
TO the Board of Public Works and to
the appellant The fee deposited by the
appellant with the Board OF Public
Works shall be paid to the arbitrators
upon the rendering Of their decision,
and shall be IN full for all costs incl
dent to the arbitration.
Whenever the decision Of tho Board
OF Public Works upon the safety OF any
building, or any part thereof is made
promptly carry out orders to demolish
or strengthen such building or part
thereof may endanger life or limb, the
decision and order OF tho Board OF Pub
lie Works when set forth in a notice
marked emergency" shall be final
without recourse to arbitration.
1NTERFBRENCE WITH BOARD OF
PUBLIC WORKS
Sec. 10. IL shall be unlawful for any
person in any way to hinder or pre-
vent tho Board of Public Works or any
thorized officer from entering or in
specting during business hours any
building already erected, or any build
ing in course of construction, altera-
ton, repair, removal or demolition;
provided that such Officers shall not be
authorized to enter any dwelling house
after the same is occupied without the
consent of the occupant thereof
ALTERATION OF EXISTING BUILD
INGS
Sec. H. 1t shall be unlawful for any
person firm or corporation to enlarge,
alter, raise build upon or move any
building unless at the completion of
such work the whole building, and
every part thereof, shall conform to
the provisions of this ordinance; pro-
Vided, however, that when any part of
any existing building within the fire
limits is taken for the public use by
condemnation, for street or other pur-
poses. 1t shall be lawful to repair the
remaining portion of such building with
the same material. or materials of the
same or similar kind as those of which
the remaining portion of such build
ing is constructed: or IL there is suf-
ncient ground in the same lot or prem
1SeS upon which such building exists
the same may be moved as far as may
be necessary to clear that portion of the
lot or premises taken for such public
use; and If there is not sufficient
ground for such purpose, said building
may be moved elsewhere but outside
the fire limits, and provided further
that when any existing wooden building
within the fire limits is altered or re-
paired as to the interior thereof only,
u shall be lawful to make such altera-
ttons or repairs to the satisfaction of
and under the supervision of the Board
of Public Works, with materials of the
same Kind as those of which the re-
naming portion of such building is con-
Structed.
DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS
Sec. L. When plans and detailed
statements are filed in the office of the
Board of Public Works for the erection
OF a new building, If an existing build
ing or part of an existing building. is to
be demolished such fact shall be stated
In the statement so filed
In demolishing any building one story
shall be completely removed before the
demolition of another story is begun
no y material "a shall be placed upon the
OF demolition, but the brick. timbers
and other structural parts of each story
shall be lowered to the ground imme-
diately upon displacement. The owner,
architect, builder or contractor for any
building, structure, premises wall plat
form, staging or flooring to be demol-
1shed es shall give not less than twenty
four hours previous notice to the
Board Of Public Works of such intended
demolition.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
sec. IL. For the purpose of this ordi-
nance the following terms shall have
the meanings attached to them by this
section, unless it is apparent from the
context that they are used with another
Alterations" means any change or
addition
Repairs" means the reconstruction
building. or of it's fixtures or appurte-
nances.
Party Wall'' means wall used, or
built to be used, in common by two
Partition Wall" means any interior
wall IN building other than a division
division Wall" means any wall,
wall, which extends the full height of
the building and through the roof, and
such walls shall be in all respects as
provided for party walls.
Bearing Wall" is a wall carrying
the interior load of a building
Exterior Wall" means every outer
wall or vertical enclosure of building,
other than party wall.
Thickness. of Wall" means the
minimum thickness of such wall, be-
tween floors. or between floors and
Cellar or Basement" means a lower
story, any part of which is below the
level of the street, or streets. on which
II races or of the general level of the
helght OF such lower story.
story means (for the purpose of
caleulating the thickness of foundation
part of a building of which three e-uuar-
ters or more is above the level of the
street or streets on which il faces, or
the general level of the ground. or
which exceeds seven feet six inches in
height above the ground
masonry means brick stone, con-
crete or reinfoRced concrete
"A Dwelling means a building in
tended for the residence of not over two
families
IAN Apartment House" or Tenement
House is building containing sepa-
rate apartments for three or more
families and having a street entrance
common to all.
FLATS" is a building of two or more
stories containing independent dwell
ings, each having its own street en-
"a Hotel" is building used as a
place OF entertainment of transient
guests and having more than twenty
sleeping rooms for guests
"A Boarding or Lodging House" is
a building used for boarding or lodg-
ing purposes, and containing not less
than five nor more than twenty Sleep
ing rooms for guests.
An Office Building" is a building, the
whole or larger part of which is in
tended or used for Office purposes, no
part of which is used for living pur-
poses except by the janitor and his
family.
"A Public Hall" is a room for public