Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
No. 95, Al Published July 2, 1907.
CHAPTER 269. LAWS OF 1907.

No. 95, A Published July 2, 1907.
CHAPTER 269, LAWS OF 1907.
1636-176 inclusive, statutes of 1898. re-
lating to tenement, lodging and boarding
houses In cities.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented In Senate and Assembly, DO
enact as follows:
Section /. There are added to the stat
utes of 1893 twenty-seven new sections to
read Section 1636-15O. This act shall
Boarding House Act
l. A tenement house is any house or
building or portion thereof which Is rent
ed, leased, let or hired out to be occupied,
two or more families living independently
and doing their cooking or having facili-
ties for doing their cooking upon the
premises, and having a common right in
the halls, stairways, yards and water-clos-
>ets or some OF them.
2. A lodging or boarding house is any
which persons are harbored received or
lodged for hire; or any building or part
thereof which Is used for persons not mem
bers of the same family to sleep in or
occupy as q lodging.
g. An apartment is a room or suite of
rooms occupied or designed to be occupied
as a family domicile.
4. yard is an open, unoccupied space
on the same lot with tenement, lodging
or boarding house between the rear line of
the house and the rear line of the lot.
8. court Is an open unoccupied space
other than a yard on the same lot with a
tenement, lodging or boardin, house
court entirely surrounded by house or
building is an elmer court; = court bound
ed on one side and both ends by a house
or building and on the remaining side by
lot line is q slot line court" a court ex-
tending to street, alley or yard Is an
"outer court"
s. A shaft includes exterior and interior
shafts whether for air, light, elevator,
dumbwaiter or any other purpose. vent
shaft is one used solely to ventilate or
light water closet compartment or bath
room.
7. A public hall is a hall, corridor or
passageway not within an apartment.
s. A stair-hall includes the stairs, stair
landings and those portions of the public
halls through which it Is necessary to pass
in going from the entrance floor to the
roof
8. basement is story partly but not
more than one-half it's height below the
level of the curb.
10. A cellar is story more than one
half its height below the level Of the curb
II. The expressions fire proof and
fire proof construction" wherever herein
used mean a construction of walls, piers
partitions floors, roof and stairs In which
no wood other infiammable material is
used, In which the several parts are made
of hard, incombustible, ire-resisting mate
rails and in which all structural parts Of
steel or iron are thoroughly protected from
fire by an ample covering OF such IRE
lodging or boarding house is one Of fire.
proof construction. But this definition
Shall not be construed as prohibiting, else
where than in stair halls or entrance halls,
the use of wooden flooring on top Of the
hre-proof floors or the use of hardwood
hand rails to stairs.
T. Where a grade in the street ada
cent to a tenement, lodging or boarding
house varies, the mean or average grade of
such street shall be considered the grade
of such street.
tory and not directory and denotes that
the building must be maintained according
to the mandate as long as 1t continues in
use as a tenement, lodging or boarding
house.
Section 1636-151. Every tenement lodg
ing or boarding house hereafter erected
exceeding five stories or parts OF stories
in height above the curb level shall be of
fire-proof construction nor shall any such
building be altered to exceed such height
without being made fre-proof building.
Section 1636-152. The stair halls in all
non-fire proof as we'll as ire-proof tene-
ment, lodging or boarding houses hereafter
erected shall be constructed as In this sec
ton specified. Every tenement house here
after erected which shall exceed four st0r-
les and cellar in height or which exceeds
three stories and cellar in height and Is
occupied or arranged to be occupied by
more than two families on any floor, and
every lodging or boarding house which ex-
ceeds four stories and cellar In height or
which exceeds three stories and cellar in
height and is occupied or arranged to be
occupied by more than twenty-four persons
on any one floor shall have walls, floors
and ceilings of fre-proof construction
throughout. The risers, treads stringers
and balusters Of stairs shall be of metal,
stone or other non-combustible material.
Hand-rails Of hardwood will be permitted.
In ali such buildings, If non-ire- proof, the
doors opening from such stair halls shall
be fire proof and self-closing. and If pro
vided with glass, 1t shall be of good quality
wire glass There shall be no transom or
movable sash opening from such stair halls
to any other part of the house, and any
and all fixed sash opening on such halls
must be of metal filled with wire glass. In
tenement houses hereafter erected four stor-
les and cellar in height and which are not
occupied or arranged to be occupied by
more than two families on any floor, and
In lodging or boarding houses hereafter
erected which are four stories and cellar in
height and are not occupied or arranged
to be occupied by more than twenty four
persons on any floor the floor and walls of
stair halls shall be of fre-proof construc-
ton and the stairs of such building shall
be OF iron, stone other incombustible
material or may be of wood provided they
be mill construction. Stairs OF mill con-
struction shall have all stringers carriages,
risers and treads of wood not less than one
and thrss-fourths inches thick, planned ON