No building, or structure of any kind, or description, shall be erected within the fire limits, as defined in § 93.15 of this subchapter, unless the outside, or party walls, thereof shall be composed entirely of brick, stone, or iron, or other incombustible material; and all buildings which shall, or may hereafter, be erected or constructed within said fire limits, shall have outside walls of not less than 13 inches in thickness, and if any building shall be more than two stories in height (above the basement), outside walls of the stories above the second shall not be less than nine inches in thickness, provided that any building, cottage, or barn, one story in height, may be built with walls not less than nine inches in thick, and, provided further, that buildings built of wood, and used exclusively for private dwelling houses, may be repaired, and the roofs thereof recovered with shingles, or boards, but they shall not be raised, or enlarged. All chimneys shall be carried at least three feet above the roof. Felt, tar, or composition roofing may be allowed in the construction and erection of buildings within the fire limits, provided such felt shall be covered with distilled roofing cement, or other equally non-inflammable materials, and well covered with gravel, or other non-combustible material.
(Prior Code, § 16-3) Penalty, see § 93.99