The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-12-14

all permanent construction and equip /
ment.
The live loads shall consist of all
loads other than dead loads. The live
load of the floors of dwellings,, apart
ment houses, hotels, and tenement houses
shall be assumed as sixty pounds per
square foot. On first floors Of Office
buildings one hundred and fifty pounds |
per square foot. On all floors above
the first floor, seventy-fve pounds per
square foot.
On floors of schools, seventy-five /
pounds per square foot. On floors of |
stables, ninety pounds per square foot. |
On floors of public assembly halls, one |
hundred twenty pounds per square foot. |
On floors of stores, light manufacturing
plants, and buildings used for light |
storage, not less than one hundred |
twenty pounds per square foot. On
floors of warehouses, factories, and |
stores for heavy material, one hundred |
fifty pounds per square foot. Side
walks over vaults and area ways, three
hundred pounds per square foot.
Sec. 1S.-NC chimney shall be start
ed or built upon any floor or beam of
wood. In no case shall chimney be
corbeled out more than eight inches
from the wall and in all cases the cor
ibeling shall consist of at least five
courses of brick.
All chimneys which shall be danger
Gus in any manner whatever shall be
repaired and made safe or taken
down.
Sec. 19.-In any building hereafter
erected to be used as an office build
ing, store, factory, hotel, lodging
or school, the stairways shall be built
in such manner of such material and
of such number as shall meet the APP
prevail of the Inspector. All stairways
of a public character, or for the use
, of the public, shall be kept in good
and sufficient repair and properly light
ed at all times.
Sec. 20.-No opening in any floor or
roof shall be without solid covering
or an inclosure, except as authorized
. by the Inspector. In any stairway,
hallway, or corridor of a public char
acter 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. 21.-Whenever buildings shall be
erected or increased in height or repair
ed upon or along any street front, the
owner, builder or contractor construct
ing or repairing such buildings shall
have erected and maintained during
such construction or repair a shed over
the sidewalk in front of said premis-
es extending from building line to
curb, the same to be properly, strong
ly and tightly constructed, so as to
protect 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
safety of the workmen or any person
or persons having occasion to visit the
premises during the construction, al
teration, or repair Of any building or
structure.
Sec. 22-An buildings and struc-
lures of any nature for any purpose
whatsoever, whether temporary or
permanent in character, not already
mentioned in this Code shall be con
structed in such manner and under
such conditions as the Inspector may
prescribe.
Sec 23.-The arrangement, construc.
ton and operation of all heating and
power plants or apparatus shall meet
See 24.-All exterior woodwork or
wood cornices within the fire limits
that may now be or that may hereaf
ter become unsafe or rotten, shall be
/ taken down, and if replaced shall be
: constructed of some freproof material
and the building inspector may cause
such exterior wood work or wood cor
nices to be removed or replaced with
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, Judgment the same shall be necessary
for the prevention of fire.
Sec. -Planking and sheathing OF
t the roofs of buildings shall not in any
ease be extended across the slides OF
: party walls thereof.
t Every building and the tops anC
sides of every dormer window thereon
, shall be covered and rooted will
brick, tile, slate, tin, copper or iron o.
such other ncombustibIe roofing as the
Inspector under his certificate may au
thorize.
Nothing in this section shall be con
strued to prohibit the repairing of any
, combustible roof within or without tn,
fire limits, provided the building is no
: altered in height, nor the pitch of tn,
roof lessened, but this shall not bt
construed to permit the renewal of
combustible roof.
See 26.-Tn any building in whicl
e there exists any hoist-way or eleva
I tor OF weH-hole not enclosed in wall
constructed of brick CT other fir,
2 proof material, the openings through
: and upon each floor of said building
1 shall be provided with and protecte,
S by a substantial guard CIR gate, anC
0 with good and sufficient automatic tral
:, doors properly counter weighted ant
: covered with tin on the under sid
e and edges, and so constructed as t.
r form substantial floor surface whel