Annual Report Of The Inspector Of Buildings For The Year 1877 Classic Reprint

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ISBN 13 : 9781332242276
Total Pages : 38 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Inspector of Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Report of the Inspector of Buildings: For the Year 1881 The erection of brick, stone, and iron buildings, under statute provisions, throughout the entire city limits. The erection of wooden or frame buildings of limited dimensions and range, outside of the building limits, under the provisions of the city ordinance. Additions, alternations, and repairs upon all classes of buildings, with special reference to their compliance with the present requirements of the building law. The inspection of unsafe buildings and structures, with full power to require the securing or removal of the same, and in cases of immediate danger, where the security of the public is imperiled in life and limb, authority to enter upon, secure, or take down the same, as the exigencies of the public safety, in the opinion of the Inspector, may require. The examination of buildings damaged by fire or accident, with authority to enter upon the premises and investigate the origin of fires. The inspection of buildings liable to take fie from unsafe flues and heating apparatus. The supervision and the protection of the building limits; the district in which the erection of independent wooden buildings is prohibited by statute law, with a limitation as to wharves. Special authority invested in the Inspector of Buildings to issue permits for wooden and frame sheds, for so special purposes, at his discretion, upon wharves situated within the building limits of the city. The examination for the approval of plans of proposed tenement-houses, public and family hotels, with reference to their compliance with special statute provisions, regulating area for light and ventilation, material of construction, water-closets, drainage, cesspools, height of habitable rooms, window openings, hall-ways, construction of stairways, fire-escaped, and the height of the building as regulated by the width of the street upon which they are proposed to be erected. The enforcement of statutory provisions requiring fire-escapes upon certain buildings in which operatives are employed, in factories, mills, or manufactories, tenement-houses, and hotels, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.