The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1912-03-21
KLEIN SUBMITS A MODEL BUILDING
CODE FOR GENERAL CONSIDERATION

dUONc luo .
But for warehouses. factories. stores
and other buildings used for CONNER.
clal or manufacturing purposes the par
apet walls shall be not less than twelve
| inches in thickness and eighteen inches
IN height for two stories or less, and
thirty-six inches in height for three
| stories or over. ~~ .. '.=@.
shall be coped with stone, terra Gotta OF
cast-iron. ~. ~.
ROOFS.
Sec. 9. (Roohng-Roof Plankins)
The planking and sheathing of the roofs
Of buildings shall not in any cases be
! extended across the side or party wall
| thereof.
(Material for Roonng). Every build
| ing and the tops and sides of every DOR
| mer-window thereon shall be covered
and rooted with BRICK tile slate, tin,
! copper, iron or tire-resistive compost
! ton.
(Dormer-w -windows). And the outside
! or the frames of every dOrmer- window
| hereafter placed upon any building
shall be made of some fire-prOOf ma
terial.
No wood or other building within the
city limits, which shall require roofing,
shall be rooted with any other roofing
or covered except as aforesaid, includ-
ais ehC topS anu SlueS VI uOTIuer."lH.
dows.
(Repairs of Single Roofs). Nothing
in this section shall be construed to pro-
hibit the repairing of any single roof
within or without the fire limits, pro-
vided the building is not altered in
height, but this shall not be construed
to permit the renewal Of shingle roof.
LIGHT AND VENT SHAFTS.
Sec. 10. (Light ana Vent Shafts, to
Have Walls of Brick). In every build
ing hereafter erected or altered, all the
walls or partitions forming interior light
or vent shafts, shall be built Of brick,
except that when the area of any such
shafts does not exceed twenty-five
square feet the enclosing walls or par
titions may be of such other fire-proof
! ma aterials as may be approved by the
chief of the fire department.
(To Extend Above Roof. The walls
Of all light and vent shafts, whether
exterior or interior, hereafter erected
shall be carried up not less than three
feet above the level Of the roof
BEAMS AND TIMBERs.
Sec. II. Separation Of Bsams) All
wood beams and other timbers in any
wall of a building built of brick, stone,
concrete or iron, shall be separated
from the beam or timber entering in
the opposite side of the wall by at least
eight inches of solid mason work; such
separation may be obtained by corbel-
ing or staggering the beams.
ENDS to Rest on walls or 0irders)
Every wood beam, except header beams,
shall rest. at one end four inches in the
wall, or upon girder, unless the wall
is properly eorbeled OUT four inches, in
which case, the brickwork or corbelling
shall extend to the top of the floor
beams.
Sec ~. (skylights, Metal Frames and.
sashes). All openings in roofs for the
admission of light shall have the frames
and sash thereof constructed Of metal
and glazed
skyllghts other than over elevator, stair,
dumb waiter shafts, and theater stage
roofs shall have metal frames and sash,
glazed with wired glass not less than
one-quarter inch thick, or with glass
protected above and below with wire
screens, of not less than No. ~ galvan-
1zed- wire, and not more than one Inch
mesh.
wire Netting or Wired CLASSY. Sky.
lights hereafter placed in buildings of
a public character over any passageway
or room of public resort, shall have i'm.
medlately underneath the glass thereof
a wire netting, unless wired glass is
used
FLOOR LIaHTs.
Sec. 13. (Floor Lights, Construction
for). All openings in floors for trans
mission of lights to floors below shall
be covered with floor lights constructed
of metal frames and bars, the glass in
no case to be less than three quarters
Of an inch in thickness.
wired Netting or Wired GLASS;. If
any glass in same measures more than
sixteen square inches, the glass shall be
provided with strong wire netting un-
der the same.
OPENINGS IN FLOORS AND ROOFS.
Sec. IA. (Unprotscted openings In
Floors and Roofs. SOLID Covering or
1nclosure). No opening in any floor or
roof shall be without solid covering
or an inclosure, as provided for in this
code, to prevent the communication of
fire from story to story.
ELEVATORS, sTA1RwAYs, ETC.
Sec. Is: Enclosures for Elevator
Shafts, Etc, How Constructed). All ele-
vator shafts, stairways, light wells or
other shafts shall be inclosed in suit
able walls of brick, or with such other
hreproof material and form of construc-
ton as in the opinion of the chief of
the hre department may be equally as
good.
I'm Non-Firsproof Warehous... s+o~..
ana Factories, Exceeding Three storias
IN Ae1ght). Except that the inclosure
walls IN non-fireproof buildings exceed
ing three stories in height and used as
warehouses, stores or factories, shall he
of solid brickwork. :.
BUILDINGS WITHIN FIRE LIMITS. /
Sec. Is. (Prohibiting Erection Of
Frame Butldtngs). The walls of all
buildings within the fire limits of the
city of Bemidji, over ten feet in height
at highest Of roof and (or) having
ground area of over 200 square feet
shall be of brick or other non-combust-
ible materials. = -.
Gin publishing the code the boundary
lines Of the fire limits, if already estab-
ished, should be inserted here, other
wise should be established and insert
ed).
cH11RNEYs, ETC.
Sec. II. (Chimneys ana Fluss-sup.
ports) No chimney shall be started or
bullt upon any floor or beam Of wood.
(Corbeling). In no case shall chim-
ney be corbelled out more than eight
inches from the WALL and in all such
cases the corbelling shall consist Of at
least five courses of brick
!Paers Supporting chimnaysl. Where
cnlmneys are supported by piers, the
piers shall start from the Foundation on
the same line with the chimney breast,
and shall be not less than twelve inches
on the face properly bonded into the
walls. <1s S. s. 49,. :,
(supports for Chomnsy Out on ae-
!ow) When a chimney is to be cut off
below in whole or in part, it shall be
wholly supported by stone, brick, iron
or steel go 4
tunsafe 0himnsys). All chimneys
which shall be dangerous in any man