For the purpose of computing fees to be charged for the issuance of building permits, all buildings, structures and appurtenances shall be graded as follows:
(a) Grade 1. The first grade includes public buildings designed to be occupied by State, County or City administration offices (United States government buildings are regarded as belonging to this grade, but are deemed to be outside of the jurisdiction of the City Building Code); courtrooms; libraries; museums; art galleries; public or private hospitals; schools and colleges or other buildings containing class, drawing or lecture rooms for the purpose of education or instruction; music halls; churches; convention halls; auditoriums; assembly halls or that part of any building containing assembly rooms for a concourse of more than one hundred people; theaters; opera houses; playhouses; pavilions, and public utility buildings.
(b) Grade 2. The second grade includes hotels, motels or restaurants, or any building or part thereof designed to be used for supplying food or shelter; office buildings designed or used for office purposes in the conduct of general business, but may have a store or salesroom on the ground floor, and no part of such building shall be used for living purposes except for the janitor and his family; store buildings designed or used for the sale of merchandise or objects of utility or general supply; factories arid workshops or any other building designed or used for the manufacture of merchandise by machinery or hand; warehouses, and gasoline service stations.
(c) Grade 3. The third grade includes tenement houses, apartments, row houses and other buildings containing suites or apartments used for permanent habitation by more than two families; clubhouses, and other buildings used or intended to be used by an organization or society for mutual entertainment or recreation.
(d) Grade 4. The fourth grade includes dwellings which are used or designed and intended to be used as the home or residence of not more than two separate and distinct families, and includes the part of all buildings used by one family having another grade of occupancy either above or below or adjacent to the residential part of the building.
(e) Grade 5. The fifth grade includes garages; buildings designed or used for public livery or boarding stables; private barns, sheds, pens or coops; slaughterhouses, and any building for the feeding or sheltering of animals or fowl.
(f) Grade 6. The sixth grade includes all buildings, structures and appurtenances not otherwise included in another grade, and includes fences, signs and billboards.
(Ord. 726. Passed 6-13-32.)