The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-20

fuIlNN Tor lffAnE nUfDOStr. All
Tenement Easements and cellars
shall have all outside walls made
damp-proof and all fiOors concret-
ed and thoroughly drained. All
tenement Easements and cellars
shall be properly lighted and ven
See. 20. ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
Inc. livery Public Hall In any
Tenement over two CO stories aud
basement In height. shall be
,ghted az night by a Gas Jet pr
Electric lamp. provided for each
story and near stairways.
Such Hall lights shall be left
burning all night ON tho entrance
noor and on the first fioor above
the entrance iloor and until 10
o'clock on all other floors.
Every Bath Room and Toilet
Room shall have Gas Jet or
Electric Lamp. Every separated
water-closet compartment shall
have gas JET, electric light, or
translucent glass panel in door
containing at least thirty-six $3.50
square inches.
Sec. 81. FLUE CONNECTION.
Each set OF Apartments I'm which
cooking Is done shall be provided
with at least one GD Chimney
Smoke Flue for Coal stove con-
nectlon.
Sec. 2s. PLUMBING FIXTURES.
In every Tenement. every separate
Apartment containing three CD or
more rooms. shall have at least
one U sink or wash bowl. with
running water at all times.
In every Tenement. every sepa-
rate Apartment containing three
or more rooms. shall have at least
one p) Water Closet. In "A separate
compartment at least three CD
feet wide or in a Bath Room,
with direct access from all rooms
without passing through a Bed
room or any room used as a Bed
room.
Where Apartments on the same
level contain less than three CD
rooms. there shall be at least one
CD sink or Wash Bowl and one
Cd Water Closet for each two ca
adjoining Apartments and Access
sable To each apartment without
passing through or into the other
apartment.
Each Tenement having Apart
ments for families. shall be pro-
Nlded with at least one Cd Water
closet for each family.
All pipes and fixtures, pertaining
10 the water supply and waste
shall be exposed. and all waste
pipes must connect 10 the Public
Sewers.
Where plumbing pipes OF any
Kind. pass through floors or parti-
lions, the openings around such
pipes, shall be sealed or made air
tight with mineral wool or other
pliable and incombustible material
NO plumbing fixtures shall be
enclosed with woodwork. and the
spaces about and below fixtures
must be left open.
Every Water Closet must be
placed In separate compartment
from every other Water Closet.
ana dividing partitions to ceiling.
unless an General Toilet Room.
where dividing partitions need
Only be seven CD feet high.
separate Water Closet compart-
ments may be located at the bot
tom or ventilation shaft, con-
salning at least eight (O sqtare
rect OF cross sectional area, pro-
vided such shaft shall have at least
three CD square feet OF glass sur
race In sash arranged TO entirely
open.
Where Water Closets are main
tained In General Toilet Room
with low partitions. one CD win
dow for the Toilet Room will be
sufhcient. Water Closets In Bath
Rooms need not be enclosed nor
nave separate window.
Any Living Apartment In q Ten
ement Basement, whether intended
Tor Janitor's use or otherwise,
snail have the same plumbing fix
lures as required for the Apart
ments above.
No Water Closet shall be main
tanned in the Basement or Cellar
OF tenement, except for the jan
ltor's use, unless with Special
Permit from the Department of
Buildings and the Board OF Health
In all Tenements now existing,
there shall be installed within six
90 months from the passage OF
TINS Ordinance, at least one ID
sink with running water on every
tioor, and at least one water closet
Tor every two CD families, and all
TO be accessible to all tenants OF
that floor
In all Tenements now existing
and within six CD months from
the passage OF this Ordinance. all
woodwork enclosing any Water
Closet shall be removed from the
'front.' or such Water-Close and
the space under the seat left open.
and the woodwork enclosing the
space below any Sink or Wash
Bowl, shall be removed and this
space left open. The floor and
wall surfaces beneath and around
all Sinks, Wash Bowls, and Water
Closets. shall be maintained in
good repair and kept painted in a
light color
Sec. %. WALL PAPER. No
MAIL Paper shall be put on the
Walls OF Tenement until all for
mer Wall Paper shall have been
removed and the walls and ceilings
thoroughly cleaned.
The Cellar Walls and the Cellar
be thoroughly whitewashed or
painted In q light color at least
once In two GU years.
Sec. 80 APPROVAL BOARD OF
HEAbTli In all requirements and
provisions OF this article concern
ing sanitation and public health.
the Department of buildings shall
exercise no authority without the
approval of the Board OF Health OF
the CITY OF Detroit.
ARTICLE xxxU.
Signs.
Section |. No sign to be erected
or altered without a permit
No sign. such as Is hereinafter
described under this article, shall
be erected or altered within the
city OF Detroit. unless a permit
shall have been first secured from
the Department Of Buildings, by the
person, firm or corporation desiring
TO erect or alter such sign. All APP
plications for such signs shall be
accompanied by such drawings and
descriptions az are necessary to
fully advise and acquaint the said
Department Of Buildings with the
location, construction, weight. ma
terials and manner OF securing or
fastening such proposed sign. If
said sign. as indicated In said draw
ings and descriptions shall be in ac-
cordance with the PROVISIONS OF this
Article said Department OF Build
ings shall thereupon issue a permit
for the erection OF such sign, upon
the payment by the applicant OF a
fee az hereinbefore fixed in Section
OF Article III Permits will not
be necessary for signs to be placed
on the walls OF buildings and fiat
against such buildings where such
signs do not exceed twenty four
t24) inches in height nor project
beyond the lines of such building
upon which same Is proposed to DO
erected
Permits will not he necessary for
signs to be placed on vacant lots or
buildings advertising the sale or
renting OF such lots or buildings on
which they are placed. provided
such signs do not exceed sixty COO
square feet In area