(A) No wooden building, or part of building, within the fire limits prescribed in § 93.15 of this subchapter, shall be raised, enlarged, or repaired, except as provided in this subchapter; that the owners, or occupants, of buildings within the fire limits shall have the right to raise wooden buildings to the established grade; also to building basements, or cellars, of brick, or stone, under the buildings so raised to grade; also to raise a cottage, or dwelling, which does not exceed one story in height, sufficiently high to place thereunder a brick, or stone, wall basement, not exceeding 12 feet in height above the established grade, provided that no wooden buildings that may hereafter be damaged to the extent of 50% of its value, be so repaired as to be raised higher than the highest point left standing, after such damage shall have occurred, or so as to occupy greater space then before the injury thereto.
(Prior Code, § 16-4)
(B) Any wooden building which may be erected, enlarged, removed, or repaired, or in process of enlargement, removal, or repair, contrary to the provisions of this subchapter, shall be deemed a nuisance and, upon information, it shall be the duty of the President, after 24 hours’ notice to the owner, occupant, persons in charge, or building, to abate the same, to raze such building to the ground, the expenses thereof shall be by the President, reported to the Board of Trustees, for assessment, or such expenses may be collected of, or from, the owner, or owners, of such building by suit in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county.
(Prior Code, § 16-7)