In order to enable the Fire Department to properly reach and extinguish fires occurring in the basements of buildings in the city, which basements are being used or will be used for the storage of goods or merchandise, without the loss of valuable time in having to cut holes through wood and concrete floors to such basements and for the purpose of gaining access thereto, every building already erected and every building hereafter erected in the city where the basement thereof is being used or is to be used for the storage of goods or merchandise of any description shall be provided with ground floor pipe casing holes constructed in and through the floors of the first story of such building, extending down to and even with the basement ceiling or bottom of the floor joist of such first-story floor so as to enable the Fire Department to put a water-circulating nozzle through for the prompt extinguishment of any fire occurring in any such basement. Such ground floor pipe casing holes shall be constructed according to the plans therefor on file in the office of the Chief of the Fire Department and shall be located and of such number as may be determined upon by the Chief of the Fire Department.
(Prior Code, § 9-4-1)