CHAPTER IV. BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTIONCHAPTER IV. BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION\ARTICLE 1. FIRE LIMITS

ARTICLE 1. FIRE LIMITS

The following shall be and are hereby declared to be the fire limits: the west one-half of Block 18, all of Block 19 and all of Block 10, except Lots One to Nine, inclusive, and also except Lots 20 to 28 inclusive.

(Ord. 333; Code 1998)

Every building (except as provided in section 4-103) hereafter erected or enlarged within the fire limits or moved from without to within the fire limits or moved from one place to another within the fire limits shall be enclosed on all sides with walls constructed wholly of stone, brick, hollow building tile, terra cotta, concrete, cement blocks or other equivalent incombustible materials and shall have the roof, top and sides of all structures also covered with incombustible material.

(Ord. 333; Code 1998)

No frame or wooden structure shall hereafter be built within or brought into fire limits as given herein, or as they may be hereinafter established except the following and all roofs placed upon such buildings or structures shall have an incombustible covering:

Temporary one-story frame buildings for use of builders.

(Ord. 333; Code 1998)

All buildings hereafter erected within the fire limits shall have the roof, top and sides of all roof structures covered with incombustible material. No existing wooden shingle roof within the fire limits shall be renewed or repaired with other than incombustible roofing material.

(Ord. 333; Code 1998)

Any frame building within the fire limits, which may hereafter be damaged by fire, decay or otherwise to an amount greater than 50 percent, exclusive of its foundation, shall not be repaired or rebuilt, but shall be removed.

(Ord. 333; Code 1998)