Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-06-08

moved and the walls thoroughly
cleaned nor shall cloth lining be used
on ceilings or walls. The owner of
and person controlling the property
shall be responsible for all violations
of this ordinance by his tenants.
No owner. agent of owner or lessee
and no person in charge of or in con-
troll OF any tenement, shall permit
any person or persons to occupy any
room of any tenement, and no person
or persons shall occupy any room of
any tenement, in which the air space
afforded is less than 400 cubic feet
of air to each person over twelve
years of age, and 200 cubic feet of air
for each child under twelve years of
age occupying the room.
RECEPTACLEs FOR GARBAGE.
Section 2. The owner of every ten
ement house shall provide therefor
suitable, covered, water-tight metallic
receptacles for ashes, rubbish, gar
bage, refuse, and other matter. No
person shall place ashes, rubbish,
garbage, refuse or other like mat
ter In the yards. open areas or al
leys connected with or appurtenant
to any tenement house, except in
such receptacle as described above.
AIR SPACE BETWEEN BUILDINGS.
Section 3. No building not flush
with u street or streets bounding the
lot on which It is to stand, shall
hereafter be erected within five feet
Of any other boundary line of said
lot. unless the nature and location
of such building and the purposes
for which 1t is to be constructed and
adapted, do not require said vacant
space for the preservation of public
health and public sanitation. There
shall be clear air space of ten feet
between all buildings, except such as
are flush with street or streets
bounding the lot on which they stand,
unless the nature md location of
such buildings and the purposes for
which they are to be constructed and
adapted do not require said vacant
space for the preservation Of the
public health and public sanitation.
The word buildings" In this para
graph shall be construed to mean and
include sheds, leantos, outhouses and
all other structures OF similar char
acter.
LIGHT AND VENTILATION OF
.....' DWELLINGS.
Section Each and every room
intended or used for habitation shall
be provided with at least eight square
feet of window area having unob-
structed access into the open air for
each 100 square feet of floor space In
said room, and free access shall, at
all times. be had to the same by the
occupants Of the room; and, at least,
one-half of such window space shall
be movable and available for ventila-
ton.
AIR SPACE UNDER BUILDINGS.
Section 8. Every building. except
as otherwise provided, shall have at
least twenty inches of clear air space
for the circulation Of air, between the
floor timbers and the highest point
of the ground under same, and shall
have sufficient openings for ventila-
ton in the outer walls to admit
free circulation of air; but said air
space shall not be secured by ex-
cavating below the level OF the street
or lot on which the building Is to
stand, and this air space shall not be
used for storage but shall be kept
clean and sanitary. In case said air
space Is not provided for In accord
ance with this regulation, the ground
floor OF all such buildings shall be
OF bitumen, concrete, or masonry, so
constructed as to leave no spaces or
openings beneath the same.
YARDS, AREAS. COURTS. ETC.
Section 6. ta Yards, areas. courts.
alleyways and other open spaces
within or between buildings, where
water is used for washing OF any
kind. shall be properly graded and
cemented, or paved so as to be wa
terproof and drained into trapped
drains properly connected with sewer
or cesspool and no permanent wood
en- floor or grating shall be main
tanned over the same.
tb) All houses, structures. rooms
or parts thereof, in which water il
used or intended to be used In such
quantity as to render the floor or
floors or the ground under the floor
or floors damp. shall have such floor
or floors made waterproof, with
proper drainage into trapped leaders
conveying the water away into cess
pool or sewer.