The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-10-22

Common Council be amended by add
ing thereto Rule ~ to read as follows:
Common Council desires to explain
his vote after the calling OF the roll
has begun. ne may rise and make the
request OF the chair. which snait h.
then proceed and at the conclusion
| thereof and after the vote mas been
announced. the chair will recognise
each member in the order in which
| sion to explain their vote.
Accepted and referred to COMMITTEES
| on Rules. n
by Aid. Heating: :
| A OF Chapter y45 OF the Compiled
Ordinances OF the City OF Detroit
| for the year 1919. >
| 1t Is hereby ordained by the People
! or the city OF Detroit:
I Section !. That Section ls-A or
! Q Chapter 245 Of tho Compiled Ordi-
| nances OF the City OF Detroit for
| the year 1912 be amended so as to
9 Sec. ia. All cars carrying
| passengers operated upon any line
OF street railroad In the city OF
70 peTpeit shall come to full stop
II street or avenue I'm said city when.
l2 ever signalled to stop by any per-
IS son desiring TO take passage
IA thereon or to alight therefrOm:
Is and all cars operated on any such
lG line or lines shall be brought to
| ~ full stop before crossing any
~ any street or avenue at which any
~ two lines Of street railway inter-
| 20 sect
Sec. 2. This ordinance shall take
immediate effect.
Read TWICE by title. ordered printed
i nancec.
BY Aid Littleheld:
AN ORDINANCE defining the dutie.
and powers of the Department. OF
Buildings and OF the Board OF Health
| In reference to Tenement Houses.
| 1t is hereby ordained by the People
OF the City OF Detroit:
Section I; Definitions. Certain
words In this article are defined
| for the purpose thereof as fol-
| lows: Words used In the pres
| ent tense include the future;
3 words, words In the masculine gender
the singular number Includes the
~ plural and the plural tho sin.
40 gular: the word person" ins
| ~ ciades corporation al well as .
II ~ A tenement house" 10 any
| ~ house or building. or portion
Is thereof. which is rented. Ieased,
l, or is occupied or Is intended, arr
| Is ranged or designed to be oecu.
IL pied as the home or residence Of
30 three l3) or more families: or Of
y ton OF the building In used for
IS business or for other than rest
~ dence purposes; living independ-
90 , .htiy OF each other and doing
- This definition includes apart
~ ment houses and Hat houses and
~ also hotels and lodging houses
/ ~ a. inaegard to light and ventilation.
| 81 CD Dwelling houses occupied
| - ar intended to be occupied as the
3S5s nome or one family or more. IL
- b put In rows and In which the
~ water supply. water closets or
| - privies. or any OF them are used
~ In common: shalt be deemed to
~ lie tenement houses" and shall
20 he subject to all the provisions
~ of this ordinance, except as
!: otherwise specified
~ CD An apartment is a room
- or ora. suite ,n of two te) or more
| 90 suitable or Intended for occu-
| ~ paney as residence for one O)
50 corridor. or passaseway |" n not
81 within an apartment.
y CD stair halI' includes the
% stairs stairs stair landings and those
- RDroDns Which ~ the public halls
% pass In going between the en-
.. IRENE lowest floor and the roof.
90 &c, basement" is a story
SO at least half of It's height above
81 the level Of the curb and also
81 one-half above the level of the
| 81 adjacent ground.
| 81 CD a cellar" is a story moro
g. than one-half below the level OF
81 ground.
IS es yard" is an open un-
90 with tenement house. between
| ~ the extreme rear line OF the house
| ~ ana the extreme rear line OF the
| % lot. front yard" Is a yard be-
! ~ tween the front line Of the house
| % and the front line OF the lot. A.
| 16 side yard" shall be deemed an
| ~ outer court on the lot line.
| IS 90 A court" Is an Open nm
| ~ occupied space. other than a yard.
80 on the same lot with tenement
| 81 house. court not extending
81 to street or yard In an inner.
81 width OF one or more side. Or
IS ends to street or yard 10 an
81 Go) shaft" shall be under
So stood as being a space within a
50 building and entirely surrounded
90 by parts OF the building. and
! 81 which may. be open to the sky or
~ covered with skylight having
/ - UD A "freproof tenement
s5 house" shall be one built accord.
s6 ing to the requirements for fire.
4 VI pTOOI aS uenne0 IN tho
% Building Code OF the City OF De-
| 80 troit.
100 1a) A corner lot" IL a 10,
101 situated at the junction Of two
102 (2) streets. or OF a street and a
1903 public alley not less than ten (1Ol
t04 feet In width. Any portion OF the
| 105 width of such lot distant more
106 than seventy (70) feet from suc
| 107 junction shall not be regarded as
los part of corner lot nor when
t0o portions Of the seventy Coy feet
10 are owned by different parties
III but shall be subjected to the pro.
t12 visions OF this act respecting In
fi3 terror lots A lot other than n
! ia corner lot L. an interior lott
115 u3) The front" of n lot IA the
t16 boundary line which borders on
III the street. In case Of q corner
lis lot. the owner may elect by state
119 mcnt on his plans either street
40 boundary line as the front" The
t2t rear" OF lot In the side on
liee posite to the front" In the case
| t23 OF triangular or gore lot the
t:i rear" shall be the boundary line
tsh not bordering on a street.
I12s Gp The word nuisance"
| t25 shall he held to embrace public
lfgS nuisance az known at common
4 i2a law. or In equity Jurisprudence;
! t30 and IN " further enacted that
itsi whatever .s dangerous TO human
!I32 life or detrimental to health;
lfas whatever building or erection, or
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