It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to engage in the business of operating a theater or motion picture machine using nitrocellulose film in any building unless the building meets the following requirements.
(A) The main floor, provided for the spectators or audience, shall not be more than four feet above or below the adjoining grade or street level, and the building housing the theater or motion picture machine shall abut directly onto the street.
(B) To overcome any difference in level from the street to the main floor of the theater or motion picture show, steps shall not be used and the gradients shall be used of not more than one foot in ten.
(C) The theater or picture show shall have at least three exits, and all exit doors shall be on the same level as the sidewalk or street. The entrance may be counted as one exit.
(D) No theater or picture show in which a machine using nitrocellulose film is operated, shall be housed in a building that also houses a restaurant, hotel, lodging house, storerooms, factory, or workshop, except where the exhibition or place provided for the audience or spectators and motion picture machine are separated from the rest of the building by un-pierced fireproof walls and floors.
(E) No stove, furnace, or boiler shall be installed or operated in the same room occupied by the spectators or in the same room with the machine using nitrocellulose film.
(F) In addition to the foregoing provisions, no building shall be used to house a theater or picture show in which a machine using nitrocellulose film is used unless and until it complies with the provisions of the 2018 Fire Code.
(Prior Code, § 115.01) (Ord. 430.3, passed 2-7-1946) Penalty, see § 10.99