The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-06-23

Sllo properly guarded DF metal SnleluS.
All joints and angles in stove pipes
shall be properly supported.
Stove pipes passing through unoccu-
pied rooms or closets or attics shall be
properly protected from contact with
any inhammabIe material, and dust
shall not be allowed to accumulate in
any quantity on top of horizontal pipes
Sec. 40. Woodwork near hot air
pipes shall be properly guarded and pro-
tected from contact with the pipe by
some incombustible material or a free
air space of at least six inches. No
vertical hot air pipe shall be placed in
stud partition or in a wooden closet
unless 1T be at least eight feet distant
IN q horizontal direction from the fur
mace. Hot air pipes in closets shall
be double with a space of one inch be-
tween them.
Cold water or other exposed plumb
ing pipes shall have the surrounding
air space closed off at the ceiling and
floor line of any floor through which
any such pipe or pipes shall be carried
See. so In any building hereafter
erected to be used as an office building,
store, factory, hotel, lodging house,
apartment house, tenement house. or
school, the stairways shall be built in
such manner, of such material and of
such number as shall meet the approval
of the Inspector. All stairwavs of a
public character, or for the use Of the
public shall be kept in good and sufi-
clent repair and properly lighted at all
times.
Sec. 81. No opening in any floor or
roof shall be without a solid covering
or an Enclosure, except as authorized by
the Inspector. In any stairway, hall
way, or corridor of a public character
or for public use, the doors shall open
outward from the building, and outward
from the stairs in a direction that
leaves the building.
Sec. 81. Whenever buildings shall be
erected or increased in height or re-
paired upon or along any street from
the owner, builder, or contractor con-
structing or repairing such buiiaiuz
shall have erected and mainlaiuta 5.l
ing such construction or repaii a
over the sidewalk in front of said +.
Uses extending from building iHe
curb, the same to be properly, slron
and tightly constructed, so as to pro
tect pedestrians and others using such
streets.
All outside and inside scaffolds
floors, roofs, and other parts of build
ings shall be properly constructed and
of sufficient strength to insure the safe
ty of the wOrkmen or any person on
persons having occasion to visit the
premises during the construction, alter.
alton, or repair OF any building OF
structure.
Sec. 50. All buildings and structures
OF any nature for any purpose whatso-
ever, whether temporary or permanent
in character not already mentioned il
this Code shall be constructed in sueI
manner and under such condition as the
Inspector may prescribe.
See. 81. The arrangement. construe-
ton and operation of all heating and
power plants or apparatus shall be or
dered and constructed in q manner APP
proved by the Inspector
See 50. All exterior woodwork or
wood coruices Within the fire limits that
may now be or that may hereafter be
| come unsafe or rotten shall be taken
| down, and if replaced shall be construct
ed OF some fireproof material.
Sec. 56. Planking and sheathing OF
| the roofs of buildings shall not in any
| case be extended across the sides OF
party wall thereof.
| Every building and the tops and side
/ of every dormer window thereon shall
\ be covered and rooted with brick, tile
slate, tin, copper or iron or such other
| incombustible roofing as the Inspector
under his certificate may authorize. NJ
wood or other buildings within the vii
! lage limits which shall require roof
/ ing shall be rooted with any other
roofing or covered except as aforesaid
/ including the tops and sides of dormel
windows.
Nothing in this section shall be con
strued to prohibit the repairing of any
shingle roof within or without the firt
/ limits, provided the building is not al
tered in height, nor the pitch of the
roof lessened, but this shall not bt
construed to permit the renewal of
shingle roof
! See. 81 In any building in which
there exists any hoist way or elevator
or well hole not enclosed in walls con
structed of brick or other fire proof
material and provided with fire proof
doors, the openings thereof through anl
upon each floor of said building shall .,
provided with and protected by a sub
stantial guard or gate, and with goo,
and sufficient automatic trap doors prom
erly counter-weighted covered with tn
on the under side and edges, and so con
structed as to form a substantial foo
surface when closed The guards Of
gates and ratings shall be of such ma
terial and form of construction as may
be approved by the Inspector.
Such guards or gates shall be KEEP
closed at all times except when in act
Iual use, and the trap doors shall b,
iclosed at the close Of business Of eacl
day by the occupant or occupants of til,
building having the use or control o.
the same.
4 Sec. 50. All dumb waiter shafts shall
be enclosed in suitable walls of such ma
terial and form of construction as shall
meet the approval of the Inspector
Said walls or construction shall exten.
at least three feet above the roof.