Arizona republican., 1916-02-17
PART %I
SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO CERTAIN BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES DETERMINED
 

SPECIAL RONISlONS hEl4A l4NNr
 TO CERTAIN BUILDINGS AND
 STRUCTURES DETERMINED
 FROM THE PURPOSE FOR
 WHICH SAME ARE TO BE USED
 Sect. l. Garages. All buildings and structures hereafter erected and all buildings and structures hereafter al tered or changed. so as to be occupied as public garages. for the purpose of storing or housing automobiles, shall be of class A. B or C constructions the flooring of the first floor thereof shall be of concrete.
 Nc part of any building or struc- ture used as a hotel. apartment house, rooming house or lodging house shall be used as a public garage for the purpose of storing or housing auto mobiles.
 All gasoline stored in tanks outside the walls of any buildings or struc lures and under the sidewalk. shall be in tanks approved by the National Board of Fire Underwriters; no one tank shall contain more than 300 gallons of gasoline. Not more than
 
 gate, shall be allowed to be stored in any one private garage. Any such storage tank shall only be installed by and with the written consent of the City Building Inspector.
 Sect. 3. Hospitals. Asylums, etc. It shall be unlawful for any person. firm, association or corporation to occupy, use or maintain a hospital, sanatorium, sanitarium or asylum in any building or structure hereafter erected or constructed in the City of Phoenix more than two stories in height, unless such building or struc ture be of class A" or B" cOnstruc tion; provided however, that open air sleeping Dorches, or sleeping quarters, may be constructed and maintained upon the roof of any one-story sana- torium, sanitarium or asylum of class "C'' or ID" construction, and having not to exceed fifteen rooms. exclusive of basements or cellars; such open air sleeping porches or sleeping quar- ters, if constructed of uncomfortable material, may be constructed and maintained upon the roof of class "A" and "B' construction.
 It shall be unlawful for any person, firm. association or corporation after this ordinance becomes effective, to change or convert any building or structure exceeding one. story in height into a hospital, sanatorium, sanitarium or asylum unless such building or structure shall conform to the provisions of this ordinance for rev buildings of this character.
 The walls and ceilings of the corri- dors of the floors of every hospital, sanatorium, sanitarium or asylum shall extend form one exterior wall to another in a line as direct as prac- ticabIe; and every such corridor shall have a door at each end thereof: and if more than one story in height, such hospital, sanatorium, sanitarium or asylum shall have fire escape at each end of each such corridor.
 Every fire escape in such building or structure shall consist of an iron stairway from the ground to the top most story and shall have a landing at each story communicating with such corridor The tread of such stairway shall not be less than eight inches wide, and the risers shall not be more than seven inches high.
 Each such fire escape stairway shall have a substantial iron railing at least three feet high on it's eX- posed sides; from the landing of the top story a metal ladder shall extend to the roof as provided in this ordi- nance for other fire escapes; or in lieu of such stairway a special, or other form of chute, type of fire es- cape, of fireproof construction, sub ject, however. to the consent and ap- proval in writing of the City In spector of Buildings.
 Where any hospitals, sanatoriums, sanitariums or asylums be built on the pavilion system, consisting of two or more buildings connected by corri- dors, there shall be automatic clos ing Underwriter fire doors at each end of every corridor, connecting each building.
 The provisions of this section shall not apply to any hospital, sanatorium, sanitarium or asylum, constructed, used and occupied as such at the time of the passage of this ordinance,