Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-03-09

after to be reclaimed therein, shall
be known as the FIRE limits of the
City and County Of Honolulu.
Section 8. Every building or
other structure hereafter built with
in the fire limits of the City and
County of Honolulu as above set out
shall have the external walls there
of constructed Of brick, stone, con-
crete, or other approved fireproof
material. The interior Of such
buildings or structures shall be CELL
ed with fireproof material or lathed
and plastered; provided, however.
that overhead ceilings may be made
Of tongued and ogrooved northwest
lumber. The external walls of any
such building or structure shall not
be covered with corrugated iron
roofing or sheet iron or tin. All
buildings and structures hereafter
erected within said fire limits shall
be subject to the inspection and APP
proval, as to location, plans, archi-
lecture, materials and construction,
from design to finish, of said build
ing inspector and the chief engineer
of the fire department Of the City
and County of Honolulu, and no per-
son shall erect any building or
structure within said fire limits
without permission in writing from
said building inspector and chief en-
gineer Of the fire department. 1t
shall be the duty of said building
inspector and said chief engineer OF
the fire department to inspect all
buildings and structures hereafter
built within said fire limits, and to
see that the permits granted by them
are complied with according to the
provisions Of this ordinance.
Section 4. No wooden building or
structure heretofore erected within
said fire limits shall be altered, re-
paired or changed without permits
sion in writing, signed by said build
ing inspector and said chief engin-
eer Of the fire department, which
permit shall only be granted upon
an application in writing accompa-
MED by particulars sufficient to in
dictate the nature and changes con-
templated, and no such permission
shall be granted when such altera-
ton, repair or change amounts to a
renewal of one-third or more of the
original structure. Such permission
shall become null and void unless
the work for which 1t is issued is
begun within ten days and COM
pleted within ninety days after the
date of said permission.
Section s. All openings in party,
side or rear walls OF any buildings
or other structures within said fire
limits must be protected by iron or
Uncovered shutters, to be approved
by said building inspector and chief
engineer of the FIRE department; and
all party. side and rear walls Of any
building or lfructure. fifteen feet
or more in height, shall be built up
and extend at least twenty-four
inches above every point where the
roof meets the wall. and such wall
shall be not less than twelve inches
in thickness. Detached buildings,
having a frontage on all sides. and
constructed with the exterior en-
tirely of fireproof materials, need
have no wall above the roof line,
but the walls shall extend up be-
hind the corrice to the planking or
the roof.
Section 6. Any person violating
any of the provisions of this ordl-
nance shall be deemed guilty Of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by fine
or not more than five hundred dol
lars. or by Imprisonment for term
not exceeding six months, or by both
such fine and Imprisonment.
Section Z. This ordinance shall
take effect fifteen days from and
after the date Of Its approval.