Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1915-11-25

to Provide Punishment for the Viola
tion of the Same and for Other Pur-
poses.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Aldermen of the Town Of Fort Mill,
and by authority of the same:
Section j. That the Chief of the Fire
Department of the Town of Fort Mill,
5. c., shall be ex-officio Inspector of
Buildings with power to appoint dep
uty or deputies.
Sec. 2. When any person shall be
desirous of erecting, repairing, chang
ing. or altering any building, or struc-
ture, within the corporate limits of the
town of Fort Mill, he shall make appli-
cation at the Office of the Inspector of
Buildings for q permit for that purpose
and shall furnish said Inspector with a
written statement of the proposed loca-
tion, dimensions, and manner of con-
struction of the proposed building,
buildings, or structures and the materi-
al to be used, and with plans and spec
'tcatlons of the proposed building,
buildings, or structure, which shall be
delivered to said Inspector of Buildings
and remain in his custody a sufficient
length of time to allow the necessary
examination to be made of same and,
# required by the Inspector of Build
ings, copy of said plans and specifica-
tions shall be filed in the office of the
said Inspector of Buildings. After
which, if it shall appear to the Inspect
or of Buildings that the laws and ordi-
nances of the town of Fort Mill, s. c.,
nave been complied with, he shall issue
the permit asked for. 1t shall be unlaw-
full for any person, firm, corporation,
or company to proceed to construct, al
ter or repair any building, buildings, or
structure within the said limits of the
town of Fort Mill without such permit.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the
Inspector of Buildings to visit from
time to time any building that is in the
:ourse of construction, addition, or re-
)air to see that the work is being done
Under the rules set forth in this and all
jther ordinances in effect in the town
Of Fort Mill affecting the construction,
addition, or repair to buildings or struc-
lures and he is hereby empowered to
stop any work of construction or repair
which is in violation of the ordinances
of the town of Fort MIL, under the pen
atty hereinafter provided for such vio-
zion.
Sec. 4. No person, firm, corporation
u company shall erect or cause to be
erected within the fire limits of the
own of Fort Mill as now established
" ordinance or hereafter may be es-
.ablished by ordin; nee, any building or
my addition TO a building the outer
walls of which are not composed en-
.irely of brick, stone, concrete blocks,
Mortar ard shall be covered with slate,
rim, copper, zinc, iron or other equally
ire proof roofing. Nor shall any per-
on, firm, corporation or company make
any addition, repair, or Improvement
any building within the said fire linn
is unless the same be in accordance
With the rules laid down herein cover
ng the erection of new buildings
Sec. s. The height for stories for all
given thiclnesses OF walls must not ex-
ceed in the clear the dimensions shown
II the following table:
Basement, IL feet; First story, Is
Get; Second story. is feet; Third sto-
~, l3 feet; Fourth story. II feet, and
Il feet a clear average height of upper
story.
sec. 6. In accordance with the fore
going provisions. all walls for business
buildings shall be of the thickness des-
gna'ed in the following table:
Height Thickness of Walls in In.
l Sto 2Sto 3Sto Sto