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Any grain elevator building or ice house may be constructed of wood if the exterior walls and roof are covered by an envelope of incombustible material and if the first story walls of grain elevators are built of masonry not less than 20 inches thick or reinforced concrete not less than 12 inches thick. The structure above the first story shall be anchored to such wall with 3/4 inch bolts embedded not less than two feet in the masonry or concrete and spaced not more than two feet in the masonry or concrete and spaced not more than six feet apart. Each corner of the structure shall be further reinforced with iron rods not less than one inch thick in diameter extending from above the roof plate to and into the first story wall to a depth of not less than 60 inches. The roof plates shall be fastened down with nuts and washers. All window frames and sashes in the super structure shall be of metal. The openings shall be protected by wire grating of number 14 gauge, with meshes not exceeding 1/2 inch. The openings in the body of the building and in the engine house shall have suitable metal shutters.
('72 Code, § 151.024) Penalty, see § 10.99
Any building or structure intended to be used wholly or in part as a theater, auditorium, a public garage or school shall be constructed according to specifications for fireproof construction hereinafter set forth. Any building intended to be used as a hospital and which is more than one story in height shall be of fireproof construction; and any building to be used for the storage of explosives or flammable liquids or for storing nitrocellulose, or for dry cleaning establishment, foundry or coffee roaster shall be fireproof construction.
('72 Code, § 151.021) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) Masonry is that form of construction in which non-combustible masonry units such as stone, brick, concrete block, or tile, hollow clay tile, gypsum block, or other similar building units or materials or a combination of these materials, are laid up unit by unit and set in mortar. The minimum permissible thickness of walls and partitions of masonry, and the quality of those materials shall conform to the American Standard Testing Materials Requirements for Masonry, Bulletin No. 3-145, 1940 edition, and Bulletins C-90 and C-129 of 1952 edition, published by the National Bureau of Standards of the United States Department of Commerce.
(B) Masonry bearing walls, party walls, fire walls, fire division walls, exterior panel walls, inclosure walls or curtain walls, eight inches or less in thickness must be laid in portland cement or cement-lime mortar as defined in this chapter.
('72 Code, § 151.030) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) Portland cement shall conform to the standard specifications and tests for portland cement adopted by the American Society for Testing Materials, published in pamphlet form as C150-52.
(B) Steel used as reinforcement for concrete shall conform to the standard specifications and tests for portland cement adopted by the American Standards Society for Testing Materials, “Standards on Cement,” 1952 edition.
('72 Code, § 151.028) Penalty, see § 10.99
All buildings, including single-family dwellings hereafter erected, shall be provided with at least two means of egress from the building, as far from each other as the plan of the building will permit, or by a doorway in a fire wall leading to another floor area which is provided with adequate stairs or other independent means of exit. No part of a floor shall be more than 100 feet from an exit.
('72 Code, § 151.039) Penalty, see § 10.99
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