The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-05-07

AN ORDINANCE to amend an ordinance en-
titled, A Ordinance relating to the cleo
ton. qualification and term of office of the
Building Inspector and to regulate and
control the manner of building Dwelling
Houses and other buildings in Pleasant
Vile, n. j." approved April LIST, 1915.
Be it Ordained by the Common Council of
the City of Pleasantville that Section one Of
an Ordinance entitled, IAN Ordinance relat-
ing to the election, qualification and term of
office of the Building Inspector and to regu-
dwelling houses and other buildings in Pleas
~antville. N. j." be amended to read as fol-
lows
Section /. Qualifications, Term of Office
and Bond. Be 1t Ordained by the Common
Council of the City of Pleasantville, that
there shall be in the City of Pleasantville. a
department to be called the Building Depart
ment. which shall be furnished at the ex-
pense of the City with such supplies for the
transaction of it's business as the Common
Council may approve. Common Council OF
the City of Pleasantville shall elect a suita-
BILE person, resident of Pleasantville, to be
Building Inspector of said City, who shall
hold his Office until January first, and at the
first stated meeting in January each year
there shall be elected a suitable person, res
ident of Pleasantville. to be building inspec-
tor of said City, for the term of one year.
and until his successor shall be duly elected
and qualified and in case of any vacancy
by death, resignation, disqualification. remov-
al or otherwise, the said Common Council
shall elect another person who shall be sub
ject to all the penalties and provisions hereof
for the remainder of the term so vacated.
Should said building inspector engage in any
building operation or contract in Pleasant
vile, Common Council shall appoint a special
inspector to inspect said work.
Such Building Inspector shall within nVe
days of his appointment deliver to the said
Common Council a bond for one hundred dol
lars ($100.0o) satisfactory to the Common
Council conditioned for the-faithful perform
ance of the duties of his office.
Section 2. Be it further Ordained that
Section 20 of said ordinance shall be amend
ed to read as follows
wood beams for uniformly distributed loads
shall be determined by multiplying the area
in square inches by its depth in inches and
dividing this product by span of the beam in
feet. The result Is to be multiplied by
10 for hemlock,
90 for spruce and white pine.
120 for oak, and by
40 for yellow pine.
Floor Loads.
The dead loads in all buildings shall con-
sist of the actual weight of walls, noors.
ton.
The live or carriable loads shall consist of
all loads, other than dead loads.
Every floor shall be of sufficient strength
to bear safely the weight to be imposed
thereon in addition to the weight of the
materials of which the floor is composed.
If to be used as a dwelling house, apart
ment house, tenement house, hotel or lodging
house, each floor shall be of sufficient strength
in all parts to bear safely upon every super
fetal foot of its surface not less than sixty
pounds.
If to be used for office purposes not less
than seventy-nve pounds upon each superb
cial foot above the first floor and for the
latter floor one hundred and twenty pounds.
If to be used for a school or place OF in
struction, not less than seventy-hve pounds
upon every superficial foot, excepting corri-
doris and assembly halls, which shall be so
constructed as to safely bear $50 pounds per
superficial foot.
If to be used for stable and carriage house
purposes not less than seventy-fve pounds
upon every superficial foot.
If to be used as a place of public assembly
not less than ninety pounds upon every SUI
~perieial foot.
If to be used for ordinary stores, light
manufacturing and light storage, not less
than one hundred and twenty pounds upon
every superficial foot.
If to be used as a store where heavy ma
terials are kept or stored, warehouse, factory
or for any other manufacturing or CONNER
cial purpose, not less than one hundred and
fifty pounds upon every superficial foot.
The strength of factory, floors intended to
above the minimum given in this Section in
proportion to the degree of vibratory impulse
liable to be transmitted to the floor, as may
be required by the Building Inspector.
The roofs of all buildings having a pitch
of less than twenty degrees shall be proper
toned to bear safely fifty pounds upon every
superficial foot of their surface, in addition
to the weight of material comprising the
same. If the pitch be more than twenty de-
grees the live load shall be assumed at thirty
pounds, upon every superficial foot measured
on a horizontal plane.
stair Horses.
Stair horses forl stairways under three feet