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Section 5-25-10. Application of chapter. - None of the provisions of this chapter, except Sections 5-25-20,...
Section 5-25-20. Fire departments in cities and towns of one hundred inhabitants; fire limits and construction therein. - Any city or town council of a city or town...
Section 5-25-40. Fire alarm boxes in hospitals and public schools. - Each hospital operating over ten beds and all public schools...
Section 5-25-50. Amount of explosives, inflammable liquids and matches that may be kept. - Explosives, inflammable liquids and matches may be kept within the...
Section 5-25-110. Chief of fire department. - The city council or governing body of every city and...
Section 5-25-120. Inspectors of buildings. - The chief of a fire department shall also be the...
Section 5-25-130. Deputy building inspector. - All duties imposed by this chapter upon the building inspector...
Section 5-25-140. Electrical inspector. - The city council of any incorporated city or town may,...
Section 5-25-150. Review of actions or orders of inspector by city council. - The city council may at any time review, reverse, modify...
Section 5-25-160. Building inspectors' responsibility to hold inquiries into origins of fires; ex officio inspectors. - The inspector of buildings of every incorporated city or town...
Section 5-25-170. Report to State Fire Marshal. - After making a complete inquiry upon such fire any such...
Section 5-25-180. Fee for inquiry; from whom derived. - An inspector of buildings shall be entitled to a fee...
Section 5-25-190. Procedure and penalty in cases of criminal carelessness. - If the officer shall consider that the fire be due...
Section 5-25-200. Procedure when municipality fails to appoint inspector. - If the governing body of any municipality shall fail or...
Section 5-25-210. Penalties; enforcement. - An officer so appointed who, after accepting such appointment, shall...
Section 5-25-310. Building permit. - Before a building is begun the owner of the property...
Section 5-25-320. Inspections and certificate of compliance. - As the construction of any building progresses the inspector shall...
Section 5-25-330. Permit for moving building. - No building shall be moved until a permit has been...
Section 5-25-340. Right to enter premises. - The local inspector shall at all times have the right...
Section 5-25-350. Reports of noncompliance. - The inspector shall report to the State Fire Marshal every...
Section 5-25-360. Quarterly inspections of premises within fire limits; reports. - Once in every three months the inspector or his deputy...
Section 5-25-370. Annual inspections required. - At least once in each and every year the inspector...
Section 5-25-380. Procedure in case of defective or illegal construction. - Whenever the inspector finds any defects in any new building...
Section 5-25-390. Notice to repair unsafe buildings. - To every building which shall appear to the inspector to...
Section 5-25-400. Approval required of proposed alterations. - No building shall be altered, repaired or moved until it...
Section 5-25-410. Effect of failure of owner to correct defects in new building. - If the owner or builder erecting any new building, upon...
Section 5-25-420. Penalty if owner of unsafe and dangerous building fails to remedy defects. - If the owner of any building which has been condemned...
Section 5-25-430. Removal of notice is a misdemeanor. - If any person shall remove any notice which has been...
Section 5-25-440. Records kept by inspector. - The inspector shall keep the following records: (1) A book...
Section 5-25-450. Reports of inspections. - The inspector shall report before the fifteenth day of February...
Section 5-25-460. Misconduct of inspector. - If the inspector shall (a) fail to perform the duties...
Section 5-25-470. Fees for inspections; compensation of inspectors. - For every inspection of a new building or of an...
Section 5-25-480. Inspection fees in cities of 70,000 or more. - Cities having a population of seventy thousand or more, according...
Section 5-25-610. Height of buildings; floor area between fire walls. - No building hereafter erected or altered shall exceed four stories...
Section 5-25-620. Height of frame buildings. - No frame building erected or altered after February 20 1917...
Section 5-25-630. Openings in walls; standard fire doors; windows. - No opening in any interior masonry wall shall exceed eight...
Section 5-25-640. Business buildings required to have standpipes; free connections and service with city water mains. - All business buildings erected after February 20 1917 being more...
Section 5-25-650. Structures around chimneys, flues and fireplaces. - No wooden beams or joists shall be placed within two...
Section 5-25-660. Construction of fireplaces and chimneys. - All fireplaces and chimneys in stone or brick walls in...
Section 5-25-670. Additional regulations as to chimneys. - No chimney shall be started or built upon a beam,...
Section 5-25-680. Construction of flues. - All flues shall extend at least three feet above the...
Section 5-25-690. Hanging flues. - Hanging flues i e., for the reception of stovepipes built...
Section 5-25-700. Stovepipe construction. - No stovepipe shall pass through any roof window or weatherboarding...
Section 5-25-710. Correction of dangerous chimneys, flues or heating apparatus. - If any chimney, flue or heating apparatus on any premises...
Section 5-25-720. Foundry chimneys. - Iron cupola or other chimneys of foundries shall extend at...
Section 5-25-730. Steam pipes. - No steam pipes shall be placed within two inches of...
Section 5-25-740. Heater pipes. - All heater pipes from hot-air furnaces, where passing through combustible...
Section 5-25-750. Registers, register boxes and cold-air ducts for hot-air furnaces. - Every hot-air furnace shall have at least one register without...
Section 5-25-760. Ranges and stoves. - No kitchen range or stove in any building shall be...
Section 5-25-770. Combustible floors under coal ranges. - Combustible floors under coal ranges and similar appliances without legs...
Section 5-25-780. Protection of woodwork near boilers, furnaces and similar appliances. - Any woodwork, wooden lath and plaster partition or ceiling within...
Section 5-25-790. Gas, gasoline, oil or charcoal stoves or heating devices. - All gas, gasoline, oil or charcoal-burning stoves or heating devices...
Section 5-25-800. Gas connections. - Gas connections to stoves and similar heating devices and lighting...
Section 5-25-810. Electric wiring. - The electrical wiring of houses or buildings for lighting or...
Section 5-25-820. Inspections of new electrical wiring; alterations. - It shall be unlawful for any person controlling such wiring...
Section 5-25-830. Stair and elevator shafts; partitions. - In all buildings erected after February 20 1917, except private...
Section 5-25-840. Door openings in stair and elevator enclosures. - All door openings in stair and elevator enclosures shall be...
Section 5-25-850. Skylights covering stairway, elevator or dumbwaiter shaft. - Where a stairway, elevator or dumbwaiter shaft extends through the...
Section 5-25-860. Interior light or vent shafts; dumbwaiter shafts. - In every building erected or altered after February 20 1917,...
Section 5-25-870. Restrictions as to openings in a roof for admission of light or air. - All openings in roofs for the admission of light or...
Section 5-25-880. Required means of egress. - In every building erected after February 20 1917, except in...
Section 5-25-890. Stairways; exit doors. - Except in dwellings, no required stairway shall be less than...
Section 5-25-900. Firestopping construction on floor levels. - At each floor level, in all buildings erected after February...
Section 5-25-910. Construction of areaways. - All areaways shall be guarded with suitable railings or be...
Section 5-25-920. Rows of frame houses. - In rows of frame houses, the dividing walls or partitions...
Section 5-25-930. Buildings outside of fire limits of incombustible material. - Outside the fire limits, when any building is to be...
Section 5-25-940. Construction not provided for in this chapter. - The construction of any or all buildings not provided for...
Section 5-25-1110. Municipalities shall pass fire limit ordinances. - The city council or governing body of every incorporated city...
Section 5-25-1120. Manner in which buildings in fire limits shall be constructed. - Every building hereafter erected or enlarged within the fire limits...
Section 5-25-1130. No frame structures shall be built or moved within fire limits; exceptions. - No frame or wood structure shall be built within such...
Section 5-25-1140. Construction of certain buildings in fire limits. - No building shall hereafter be built for a public garage,...
Section 5-25-1150. Repairs to roofs within fire limits. - All repairs to roofs within the fire limits shall be...
Section 5-25-1160. Removal of damaged frame buildings. - An existing frame building within the fire limits which may...
Section 5-25-1310. Smoke detectors required for one-family and two-family dwellings, including manufactured housing. - (A) One-family and two-family dwellings, including manufactured housing, must be...
Section 5-25-1320. Battery-operated detectors permitted in certain existing dwellings. - A battery-operated detector meeting the requirements of NFPA 74, 1989...
Section 5-25-1330. Responsibility of owner of dwelling to supply and install smoke detectors in rental dwellings and housing; instructions for operation of detectors; notice of deficiencies in detectors; repair or replacement of detector. - (A) The owner of a dwelling is responsible for supplying...
Section 5-25-1340. Conveyance or transfer of real estate prohibited unless smoke detectors have been installed and are functioning. - No person may convey a title to real estate which...
Section 5-25-1360. Enforcement of article by State Fire Marshal or local fire official. - Upon entry into a dwelling on official business by invitation...
Section 5-25-1370. Penalties for violations of article. - A person who violates this article on first offense has...
Section 5-25-1380. Failure to comply with article does not create cause of action or basis for insurance company to deny coverage. - Failure to comply with the provisions of this article does...