HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 07.14.1930 - Amending Criminal OrdinancesAN ORDINACE AM'NDITSG SECTION 191, OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
ORDINANCES OF DECL'�r E LOTH, 19069 AND ADDIaTG T?iERETO, SECTION
191-A, B,C,D AND E. FI73- LIMITS.
BE IT O-TDAITIED that Section 191 of the Civil and 7riminal
Ordinances of the City of, Georgetown, Texas, passed loth,
day of December A.D. 19069 be and the same is hereby amended
to read as follows:
That the Fire Limits of said City shd 1 include Blocks
Nos. 1, 29 3, 40, 509 519 521, 9, 41, 429 39, 499 369 37, 38,
26, 27, 28, 10 and 11 and all territory within the limits
above described, is hereby designated and shall hereafter be
known as the Fire Limits of this City, provided that when a
majority of the owners outside of the Fire Limits as above de-
scribed, shall make written application to the City Council
to have said Blocks so owned by them included within the Fire
Limits, then upon the filing of such application with the City
Secretary, signed by the majority of the owners of such Block,
asking that it shall be placed within the Fire Limits, the
said block shall thereafter be held to be within the Fire Limits.
Section 191-A Permit Required. No wall, structure,
building, or part thereof, shall hereafter be built, enlarged
or altered, until a plan of the proposea work together with
a statement of the materials to be used shall have been sub-
mitted,to the City Council, in regular session, who shall, if
in accordance with the provisions herein contained, issue a
permit for the proposed construction.
Structures hereafter erected without permit or not in
conformity with this ordinance shall be removed.
No Building shall be moved from one location to another
within the Fire Limits until a permit has been obtained there-
for. Permit shall be issued only in case the construction is
in accordance with this ordinance.
Section 191-B Every building hereafter erected,
altered or enlarged within the Fire Limits, shall be en-
closed on all sides with walls constructed wholly of stone,
well burned brick, or reinforced concrete, and shall have
the roof, also the roof and sides of all roof strictures,
covered with incumbustible material.
All cornices shall be of incombustible material.
Section 191-C No structure whose walls are wholly,
or in part, constructed of wood, shall, hereafter, be built
or moved into the Fire Limits as herein designated or as
they may hereafter be established, except as .follows:
(A) Temporary one story frame buildings for use of
builders.
(B) Small outhouses not exceeding 100 scyuare feet in
area and 8 feet in height, not located within 30 feet of any
other building, nor within 5 feet of any lot or line.
Any existing frame or iron-clbW building within the
Fire Limits, which may hereafter be damaged by fire, decay,
or otherwise, to an amount greater than one half its present
value exclusive of the foundation shall not be repaired or
rebuilt, but shall be removed.
Section 191-D Gas connections to stove and similar
heating devices shell be made of rigid metal pipes. For small
portable gas heating devices, flexible metal or rubber tubing
may be used when there is no valve or other shut-off on the
device.
Section 191-B That this Ordinance shall be cumul tive
of all other ordinances heretofore pa, sed on this subject,
except wherein it conflicts with them, in which event this
ordinance shall govern.
PASSED July 14th, 1930.
M0. Smith,
TLayor .
ATTEST: Cates,
Secretary.