The Revised Ordinances of 1892 of the City of Cambridge: As Amended to November 8, 1899 |
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ACTS aforesaid air pipes Amended Dec Amended June amount annually appointed approved auditor beams board of aldermen bond brick bridge building building or structure cause cent centre line CHAPTER charge Charles river city clerk city council city engineer city of Cambridge committee concrete condition connected construction dollars drain duties easterly election exit feet fire department fire limit district fireproof fixtures floor Fresh Pond gun-cotton hackney carriage height house hereafter erected hundred inches thick inspection inspector intersection June 21 least Lechmere Square less license line of Massachusetts Massachusetts Avenue material mayor ment northeasterly line northerly ordinance owner paid party walls pawnbroker payment penalty permit person poles public grounds removed repair roof RULE SECT sidewalk southerly line southwesterly square stairs superintendent of streets sureties tenement house hereafter thence thereof tion treasurer trustees unless walls waste pipe westerly line width wires
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Page 103 - In every tenement house hereafter erected all rooms, except water-closet compartments and bathrooms, shall be of the following minimum sizes : In each apartment there shall be at least one room containing not less than one hundred and twenty square feet of floor area, and each other room shall contain at least seventy square feet of floor area. Each room shall be in every part not less than nine feet high from the finished floor to the finished ceiling; provided that an attic room need be nine feet...
Page 213 - ... be most conducive to the welfare of such children, and to the good order of such town ; and shall provide suitable places for the confinement, discipline and instruction of such children.
Page 68 - No boiler shall be placed or maintained under any public way. No part of any structure, except cornices, permanent awnings, string courses, window caps and sills...
Page 113 - The outer line of landing shall be curved to a radius of not less than two feet, to avoid square angles. Stairs turning at an angle shall have a proper landing without winders introduced at said turn. In stairs, when...
Page 113 - No door shall open immediately upon a flight of stairs, but a landing at least the width of the door shall be provided between such stairs and such doorway.
Page 209 - Hereof fail not, and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Page 139 - ... shall possess all the powers, perform all the duties, and be subject to all the obligations and...
Page 104 - In every such house there shall be in the roof, directly over each stairwell, a ventilating skylight provided with ridge ventilators having a minimum opening of forty square inches, or such skylight shall be provided with fixed or movable louvres; the glazed roof of such skylight shall be not less than twenty square feet in area. In...
Page 256 - Boston for the conveyance of persons for hire, from place to place within said city, shall be deemed a hackney carriage within the meaning of these regulations.
Page 111 - Distinct and separate places of exit and entrance shall be provided for each gallery above the first. A common place of exit and entrance may serve for the main floor of the auditorium and the first gallery, provided its capacity be equal to the aggregate capacity of the outlets from the main floor and the said gallery. No passage leading to any stairway communicating with any entrance or exit shall be less than four feet in width in any part thereof.