Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-13
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thereafter erected shall extend not less
than 8 feet above the roof level, except
that when shaft is covered by an in
combustible ventilating skylight the
walls need not extend more than 2
feet above the roof, or except when
roof and roof supports are non-com-
bustible walls need not extend above
the roof. Masonry walls shall be prop
erly COPIED.
When metal louyres are used for
ventilating purposes, the louvres or
Stats shall be riyeted to metal frame.
Section 49, Roof Covering Every
building hereafter erected within the
FIRE limits shall have an incombustible
iroof covering, and no existing wooden
single roof, if damaged more than
2596. shall be renewed or repaired with
other than incombustible roof covering
Section II. Skylights-All openings
in roofs for the admission of light
other than those provided for in Sec
lions IS and Is, shall have incombusti
BILE frames and sash glazed with wired
glass; or ordinary glass may be used
if protected above and below by gal
vanized steel wire screens with mesh
not exceeding one inch, and the wire
not smaller than No. IL gauge. The
top screen shall be installed as speci-
/ fed in Section 10.
Section Is. Exits Required-The
/, term floor area as used in this sec
ton shall mean the entire floor space
between exterior walls or fire walls.
In every building hereafter erected,
except in private dwellings, each floor
area above the first shall be provided
with at least two means of egress re-
mote from each other, one of which
shall be an enclosed stairway, as pro-
vided by Section IL, or doorway in
"a fire wall leading to another floor
area separately provided with adequate
stairs or other independent means OF
exit. Such doorway serving as an
emergency exit in fire wall shall be
protected by an automatic and self
lclosing fire door as specified in Section
LIE. No portion of any floor area
shall be more than 100 feet from a
place of egress. Elevators shall not
be considered as means of egress, as
specified in this section.
Except in dwellings, no required
stairway shall be less than "A inches
wide and the total width of exit door
ways leading therefrom shall at least
be equal to the total width OF the stair
way which they serve.
The total width of stairway, inte-
rior and exterior, provided for the oc-
cupancy of each floor and those above
shall be not less than Al inches for
the first so persons, and IL inches for
each additional so persons to be ac-
commodated thereby. The stair treads
shall be not less than 8 IL inches
wide, and the risers not more than
Z ga inches high Winders in such
required stairways are prohibited.
*Note-As means of rapid and safe
egress from a burning building, the
use of horizontal exits through fire.
wall. or fire-exit partition are strong
lv recommended. Such a partition
shall be built of fire-resistive mate
rial not less than inches thick, and
be securely attached to the walls, floor
and ceiling of the room which it sub
divides. 1t shall be provided with one
or more self-closing fire doors, that is.
which are kept closed by some auto
matte device. Such partition would
afford an area of quick refuge on
either side. Each area must be suffi-
cient to accommodate all the people
employed upon the floor, and must be
provided with at least one independent
exit to the street. AS above indicated,
fire wall may be made to serve the
same purpose AS means of egress.
, doorway in such partition or fire
=, wall may be considered the equivalent
of three times the same width of stair
way.
Every school, hospital and theatre.
over one story high, shall have at least
two stairways constructed entirely of
incombustlble material, located re-
mote from each other and continuous
from grade line to the topmost story.
All exit doors in schools, hospitals
theatres and other places of public
lassemblage, shall open outward.
Section 49, Fire Stops-At each
floor level in all buildings hereafter
erected all stud walls, partitions, fur
rings and spaces between joists where
Ithey rest on division walls or partitions
shall be fire-stopped with not less than