The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-07-09
NO. 22O.

ORDINANCE NO. ZZU.
AN ORDINANCE to amend an ordinance en-
titled. A Ordinance relating TO the cleo
tion. 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
ing to the election. qualification and term of
office of the Building Inspector and to regu-
late and control the manner of building
zrelling houses and other buildings in Pleas
AWHILE, N. j. be amended to read as fol-
lows:
Section 1. 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 five
days of his appointment deliver to the said
Common Council a bond for one hundred dol
lars ($10o.00) 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:
Section 20. The safe-carrying capacity of
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,
80 for spruce and white pine,
120 for oak, and by
140 for yellow pine.
Floor Loads.
The dead loads in all buildings shall con-
sist of the actual weight of walls, floors,
roofs, partitions and all permanent construc-
ton.
The live on 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
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If to be used for office purposes not less
than seventy-ive 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-five pounds
upon every superficial foot, excepting corri-
doris and assembly halls, which shall be so
constructed as to safely bear 100 pounds per
superficial foot.
If to be used for stable and carriage house
DurDOSeS not less than SeVeQty-1Ve pounds
Upon every superficial foot.
If to be used as a place of public assembly,
not less than ninety pounds upon every SUI
perfcial foot.
II 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
carry running machinery shall be increased
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 5efl By The BUILDING 5lili,ns Inspector I 49,
of less than twenty e snsraag nas6Kes ppriRa@
superficial foot of their Surface. in addition
to the weight of material comprising the
same. II the pitch be more than twenty de-
grees the live load shall be assumed at thirty
on a horizontal plane.
Stair Horses.
Stair horses for stairways under three feet
in width shall be two pieces. two by ten
three feet and under four feet six inches.
three pieces two by ten four feet six inches
and under six feet. four pieces, two by ten.
Be it further Ordained that Section 81 be
and the same is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Section 81. Corner Posts Plate; Stud
ding. All corner posts less than twenty-five
feet in height may be four by four provided
horizontal or diagonal sheathing be used,
otherwise four by six corner posts twenty
two feet to thirty feet shall be four by six
plate shall be double the thickness of stud
ding, and all studding used in buildings of
not over three stories shall be not less than
two inches by four inches set sixteen inches
center to center. All windows and door stud
ding shall be either three inches by four
inches or two inches by four inches doubled
If building is not sheathed. If building is
sheathed two inches by four inches. studding
may be used. All buildings of. more than
three stories in height, the materials above
designated shall be of a size approved by the
Building Inspector.
Passed third and final reading May 10,
1921.
WALTER J. ANDERSON,
President of Common Council.
Attest
NEHEMIAH ANDREWS.
City Clerk.
Approved May II, 1921.
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