The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-04-30

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cement, concrete, iron or steel, or If APP
proved by the Inspector other hard, IN
cOmbuStible material, and the several COM
Donent parts of such building shall be as
herein provided.
Sec. 12-No building or structure
hereafter erected except church spires or
elevator buildings. shall exceed in height
2I5 times the width of the widest street
upon which it stands, but in no case shall
any building exceed 100 feet in height,
or if to be used above first story as fac
tory. warehouse, or store, shall not eX-
coed % feet in height.
Sec 13.-Every building hereafter
erected or altered for use as an apart
ment house or tenement house exceeding
four stories and basement in height, house
and tenement house four stories in height
above the cellar shall be built fire PROCEED.
Behind every apartment house and tene-
ment house four stories in height here
after erected on an inside lot, there shall
be a yard not less than II feet in depth
extending across the entire width of the
lot and at every point open from ground
to sky unobstructcd. Said yard to be in
creased in depth two feet for every added
story in height to the building and may
be decreased one foot for every story III
height of the building less than four
stories.
Sec. 14-No separate tenement house
erected upon the rear of a lot 90 feet or
less in width where there is an apartment
house or a tenement house on the front
of the said lot not upon the front of any
such lot upon the rear of which there Is
such a house.
If any building is hereafter placed on
the same lot with a tenement house or an
apartment house. the space between the
said building shall always be of such size
and arranged in such manner as Is pre-
scribed for yards in rear of apartment
houses and tenement houses and no build
ing of any kind shall be hereafter placed
upon the same lot with a tenement house
or apartment house so as to decrease the
minimum size of courts or yards as here
inbefOre prescribed.
Sec 1J.-No tenement house nor apart
ment house or any part thereof shall be
used as place of storage for any article
or material dangerous to life or health for
the storage of feed, hay, straw, excelsior
or cotton, nor for the storage or handling
of rags, except under such conditions as
may be prescribed by the Inspector in a
written order.
Sec. 16-No bakery and no place of
business in which fat is boiled shall be
maintained in any tenement house or
apartment house which Is not tireprOOf
throughout, unless the ceiling and side
walls of the said place where fat boiling
Is done or baking ovens are used are made
safe by hreprOOf materials around the
same. There shall be no openings either
by door or window, dumb waiter shafts
or otherwise between said bakery or said
place where fat is boiled in any tenement
house or apartment house and the other
parts of the said building.
Sec. 1.-THE dead loads in all build
ingS shall consist of the actual weight of
walls, floors, roofs, partitions, and all
permanent construction and equipment.
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other than dead loads. The live load of
the floors of dwellings. apartment houses,
hotels, and tenement houses shall be as
sumed as sixty pounds per square foot.
On first floors of office buildings one hun
dred and fifty pounds per square foot. On
all floors above the first floor, seventy-tive
pounds per square foot.
On floors of schools, seventy-fivc pounds
per square foot. On floors of stables,
ninety pounds per square foot. On floors
of public assembly halls, one hundred
twenty pounds per square foot. On floors
of stores, light manufacturing plants, and
buildings used for light storage, not less
than one hundred twenty pounds per
square foot. On floors of warehouses,
factories, and stores for heavy material,
one hundred fifty pounds per square foot.
Sidewalks over vaults and area ways,
three hundred pounds per square foot.
Sec. 1S.-No chimney shall be started
In no case shall chimney be cOrbeled out
more than eight inches from the wall and
in all cases the cOrbelng shall consist of
at least five courses of brick.
All chimneys which shall be dangerous
in any manner whatever shall be repaired
and made safe or taken down.
Sec 19.-In any building hereafter
erected to be used as an Office building,
store, factory, hotel, lodging house, apart
ment house, tenement or school, the stair
ways shall be built in such manner of
such material and of such number as shall
meet the approval of the Inspector. All
stairwayS of a public character, or for the
and sufficient repair and properly lighted
at all times.
Sec. 20.-NO opening in any floor or
roof shall be without a solid covering or
an Enclosure, except as authorized by the
Inspector. In any stairway, hallway, or
corridor of a public character or for pub
lie use, the doors shall open outward
from the building. and outward from the
stairs in a direction that leaves the build
ing.
Sec. 21.-Whenever buildings shall be
erected or increased in height or re-
| paired upon or along any street front, the
owner, builder or contractor constructing
or repairing such buildings shall have
erected and maintained during such con
| Struction or repair a shed over the side
walk in front of said premises extending
| from building line to curb, the same to be
properly, strongly and tightly constructed
so as to protect pedestrians and Others
using such streets.
| All outside and inside scaffOlds, floors
roofs, and other parts of buildings shall be
properly constructed and of sufficient
strength to insure the safety of the work
men or any person or persons having Occa
sion to visit the premises during the con
structiOn, alteration, or repair of any
| building or structure.
| Sec. 22.-All buildings and structures
of any nature for any purpose whatsoever
whether temporary or permanent in char
acter not already mentioned in this Code
shall be constructed in such manner anC
under such conditions as the Inspector
may prescribe.
Sec. 23.-The arrangement, construc
ton and operation of all heating anC
power plants or apparatus shall meet thu
approval of the Inspector.
Sec. 24.-AH exterior woodwork Of
wood cOrnices within the fire limits, tina