No person shall, for compensation, conduct or carry on the business of housing, caring for, nursing or feeding any person adjudged or classified by any probate court of this State or competent medical authority as being mentally unsound, insane, a lunatic, imbecile or an idiot, in any building or on any premises which do not comply with the following specifications:
(a) All windows in the buildings in which the inmates are housed shall be enclosed with steel bars set in a horizontal and vertical position, and firmly anchored in the wall, the bars to be one-half inch in diameter or more, and the spacing between the bars to be three inches or less.
(b) All outside doors serving as a means of ingress or egress to the buildings in which the inmates are housed shall be constructed of steel and equipped with approved-type panic hardware.
(c) All the outside doors serving as a means of ingress or egress to the buildings in which the inmates are housed shall swing outward.
(d) All buildings in which the inmates are housed being more than one story in height shall be equipped with fire escapes in such manner that all rooms in which the inmates are housed above the first floor shall have ready access thereto.
(e) All premises surrounding the buildings in which the inmates are housed and which may be used or occupied by the inmates, shall be enclosed with a fence not less than eight feet in height and having three strands of barbed wire at the top, and set at a forty-five degree angle to the inside of the fence. If constructed of stone or other hard substance, it shall not be less than twelve inches in thickness. If constructed of woven steel wire, it shall be galvanized after meshing and of not less than No. 6 gauge. The poles for supporting the same shall be not more than ten feet apart and shall be not less than two and one-half inches in depth of section and weigh not less than four and three-tenths pounds per linear foot if U-bar type of post is used, and not less than two and one-fourth inches in depth of section and weigh not less than four and one-tenth pounds per linear foot if H-beam type of post is used, and shall be either of copper bearing steel or high carbon steel. Each post shall be anchored in concrete not less than three feet in depth and ten inches in diameter.
(f) All buildings for housing inmates, and the premises surrounding same, shall be open to the inspection of the Mayor, the Building Commissioner, the Commissioner of Health and members of the Police and Fire Departments at any and all times.
(Ord. 8176. Passed 12-3-45.)