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An Act Relative to the Construction, Alteration and Maintenance of Buildings in the City of Boston

Title	The Building Code Of The City Of Boston
Author	City of Boston Building Department
Publisher	City of Boston
Year	1921
Copyright	1921, City of Boston
Amazon	Building Code of the City of Boston

City of Boston

Building Department

Room 901, City Hall Annex

1921

Compiled, Codified and Indexed by Charles S. Damrell, Clerk of Building Department, City of Boston.

Approved.

Herbert A. Wilson, Building Commissioner.

Chapter 550, Acts Of 1907 - As Amended: An Act Relative to the Construction, Alteration and Maintenance of Buildings in the City of Boston. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: ...

Section 1: Par. 1. - There shall be in the city of Boston a department to be called the building department, which shall be under the charge of the building commissioner. The commissioner, who shall have had at ...

Section 2. Record of Violations: Par. 1. - The commissioner, or one of his inspectors, shall examine as often as is practicable every building in the course of construction or alteration, and shall make a record of all violations of ...

Section 4. Placards: Par. 1. - The commissioner, or one of his inspectors, shall inspect every building or other structure or anything attached to or connected therewith which he has reason to believe is not provided with...

Section 5. Commissioner May Secure Buildings: Par. 1. - The person notified as provided in the preceding section shall provide sufficient means of egress in case of fire satisfactory to the building commissioner, or shall comply with the provisio...

Section 6. Board of Appeal: Par. 1. - There shall be in said department a board to be called the board of appeal. Said board shall consist of five members appointed by the mayor in the following manner: One member from two candi...

Section 7. Appeals: Par. 1. - An applicant for a permit whose application has been refused may appeal therefrom within ninety days. A person who has been ordered by the commissioner to incur any expense may within thirty...

Section 8. Permits - Tests: Par. 1. - Permits. - Before a permit is granted to erect any building except temporary buildings or buildings of minor importance, the commissioner may demand such further drawings, strain sheets, and...

Section 9. Buildings Allowed in Building Limits: Par. 1. - The building limits of the city of Boston as they now exist shall continue until changed by ordinance, and the city council may by ordinance from time to time extend and define them, and may...

Section 10. Exemptions from Act: Par. 1. - The provisions of this act shall not apply to public highway and railway bridges, quays, or wharves nor to buildings on land ceded to the United States or owned and occupied by the Commonwea...

Section 11. Definitions: In this act the following terms shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them as follows: Par. 1. - First Class Building. - A first class building shall consist of fireproof material througho...

Section 12. Requirements for All Buildings: Permits. Par. 1. - No building, structure or foundation shall be constructed or altered without a permit, and such work shall be done in accordance with drawings bearing the approval of the commission...

Section 13. Prohibitions: Wooden Buildings in Building Limits Par. 1. - No alteration or repair of a wooden building within the building limits shall be made without a permit from the commissioner, and no permit to increase t...

Section 14. Quality and Strength of Materials. Methods of Computation: Par. 1. - All materials shall be of such quality for the purposes for which they are to be used as to insure, in the judgment of the commissioner, ample safety and security to life, limb and neighbori...

Quality and Strength of Materials. Methods of Computation. Part 2: Par. 20. - Portland Cement Mortar. - Portland cement mortar shall be thoroughly mixed and made of one part Portland cement and not more than three parts of sand by volume. Lime putty, or hydrated lime...

Quality and Strength of Materials. Methods of Computation. Part 3: Par. 38. - Stresses. - The stresses in materials used in the construction of all buildings, produced by their own weight and the loads hereinafter specified, shall not exceed the limits assigned in th...

Section 15. Reinforced Concrete: Par. 1. - Definition. - Reinforced concrete shall mean an approved mixture of Portland cement, water and fine and coarse aggregate, reinforced by steel. Par. 2. - Portland Cement and Aggregate. - The...

Reinforced Concrete. Part 2: Par. 30. - (e) for three or more equal continuous spans freely supported, the bending at mid-span of the end span and at the first interior support is wl2 / 10 and the bending at mid-span of interior ...

Reinforced Concrete. Part 3: Exterior Columns and their Reinforcement Par. 48. - Exterior columns and their reinforcement shall be so proportioned as to withstand bending in addition to the direct load without exceeding the fibe...

Reinforced Concrete. Part 4: Beams With Horizontal Bars Only Par. 64. - For beams with horizontal bars only and without web reinforcement, two per cent. Beams With Web Reinforcement Par. 65. - For beams with web reinforcement ...

Reinforced Concrete. Part 5: Par. 78. - Bending. - For the purpose of determining the bending in flat slab floors, the slab shall be considered as divided by lines parallel to the lines of columns into strips whose width is one h...

Reinforced Concrete. Part 6: Stress in Concrete Par. 100. For determining the stress in concrete due to the bending in each strip the width shall be taken as the width of the strip, except that for negative bending in A-strips w...

Section 16. Steel Construction: Materials and Stresses. - Materials, stresses and methods of computation shall be as provided in section fourteen. Par. 1. - General Requirements. - No metal thinner than one fourth of an inch shall ...

Section 17. Classification. First and Second Class Buildings: Par. 1. - Every building hereafter erected more than seventy-five feet in height, or hereafter increased in height to more than seventy-five feet, shall be a first class building. Every second class b...

Section 18. Construction: Height. Par. 1. - No building, structure or part thereof shall be of a height exceeding two and one half times the width of the widest street on which the building or structure stands, whether such st...

Section 19. Excavations: Par. 1. - All excavations shall so be protected, by sheet piling if necessary, by the persons causing the same to be made, that the adjoining soil shall not cave in by reason of its own weight. It sha...

Section 20. Foundations of Buildings: Par. 1. - The foundation loads of every building, except temporary structure, shall be carried down to a satisfactory bearing material by means of properly designed walls, piers, grillages or piling w...

Section 21. Pile Foundations: Par. 1. - General Requirements. - The supporting value of piles shall be obtained from embedment in or bearing on material as firm as can practicably be obtained, and the method of driving shall be su...

Section 22. Cellars - Rat-proofing: Par. 1. - Cellars. - The cellar of every building, where the grade or nature of the ground so requires, shall be sufficiently protected from water and damp by a bed at least two inches thick over the ...

Section 23. Thickness of Walls. Basement Wall: Par. 1. - For the purposes of this section a basement wall shall be construed to include any exterior wall between the ground and the first floor, and any party, fire and bearing walls from the top of...

Section 24. Anchors: Par. 1. - All walls of a first or second class building meeting at an angle shall be securely bonded, or shall be united every five feet of their height by anchors made of at least two inches by half ...

Section 27. Walls Framed with Iron or Steel: Par. 1. - Walls may be built in part of iron or steel or with a reinforced concrete or metal framework. In such metal framework the beams and girders shall be riveted to each other at their respective...

Section 28. Party Walls Above Roof: Par. 1. - In buildings less than forty-five feet in height all party walls shall be built to a height at least twelve inches above the roof covering, and shall be capped with stone, cement or metal se...

Section 31. Walls - Doorways in Party Walls: Par. 1. - Openings for doorways in party walls shall not exceed one hundred square feet each in area, and each opening shall have two sets of fire doors separated by the thickness of the wall, hung in...

Section 32. Fire Protection: Par. 1. - All structural metal supporting or forming part of the frame, floors, roof or columns of any building, except as otherwise exempted in this act, shall be protected against the effect of heat...

Section 33. Fireproof Partitions: Except as is otherwise provided in this section, partitions in buildings of first, class construction shall be constructed of the materials and in the manner herein specified: - Par. 1. - (a) Brick i...

Section 34. Timbers in Walls of Second Class Buildings: Par. 1. - The ends of all wooden floor or roof timbers in second class buildings shall enter the wall to a depth of at least four inches; and the ends of all such beams shall be so shaped or arranged ...

Section 36. Loads: Par. 1. - Dead loads shall consist of the weight of walls, floors, roofs, and permanent partitions. The weights of various materials shall be assumed as follows: Pounds per Cubic Fo...

Loads. Continued: Par. 19. - All buildings and structures shall be calculated to resist a pressure per square foot on any vertical surface as follows: - For forty feet in height, .... ...

Section 38. Elevators: Shafts. Par. 1. - Elevators and hoists for freight which do not run above the first story may be constructed without fireproof enclosures. Freight and passenger elevators may be placed in areas or hal...

Section 39. Wooden Buildings: Par. 1. - Foundations. - Every wooden building hereafter erected or enlarged, outside of the building limits, shall have a foundation of rubble, block granite or brick or concrete, carried up to the s...

Section 40. Habitations - Height - Distance from Lot Line: Par 1. - No wooden building hereafter erected, to be used as a habitation, shall be more than three stories nor more than forty feet in height above the first floor line; nor shall any part of such a ...

Section 42. Additional Requirements for Tenement Houses: Definitions Certain words are defined as follows: - Par. 1. - (1.) A tenement house is any house, building, structure or portion thereof, occupied, or adapted for occupation, as a dwelling by more t...

Section 43. Fire Escapes: Tenement Houses Par. 1. - Except as provided in section thirty-five, in all tenement houses hereafter erected of the first or second class more than three stories in height and in every building here...

Section 44. Bulkheads and Scuttles: Tenemeni Houses Hereafter Erected Par. 1. - Every tenement house of the first or second class hereafter erected shall have in the roof a fireproof bulkhead with a fireproof door to the same, and shal...

Section 45. Houses for Habitation - Main Staircase: Par. 1. - Every house for habitation, except a single family dwelling, hereafter erected more than three stories in height or covering an area of more than thirty-five hundred square feet shall have a...

Section 46. Stair Halls, Construction of: Par. 1. - In tenement houses hereafter erected covering more than seventeen hundred and fifty square feet, but not more than thirty-five hundred square feet in superficial area, which do not exceed th...

Section 47. Stair Halls, How Inclosed: Par. 1. - In second and third class tenement houses hereafter erected and existing tenement houses hereafter altered, stair halls other than those required to be of first class construction may be enc...

Section 48. Entrance Halls: Par. 1. - Every entrance hall in every tenement house hereafter erected shall be at least three feet six inches wide in the clear, from the entrance up to and including the stair inclosure, and beyond...

Section 50. Partitions, Construction of: Par. 1. - In all tenement houses of the second or third class hereafter erected all stud partitions which rest directly over each other shall run through the wooden floor beams and rest upon the cap o...

Section 52. Shafts: Par. 1. - All elevator or dumb waiter shafts hereafter constructed in any tenement house shall be fireproof throughout, with self-closing doors at all openings at each story. But nothing in this secti...

Section 55. Light and Ventilation: Yards Tenement houses hereafter erected. Par. 1. - The requirements for yards hereinafter provided shall be deemed sufficient for all tenement houses. Width Of Yard Par. 2. - Except in those cases...

Section 56. Cases in Which no Yard shall be Required: Tenement Houses Hereafter Erected Par. 1. - No yard shall be required behind a tenement house hereafter erected upon a lot which abuts at the rear upon a railroad right of way, a cemetery or a public...

Section 57. Courts: Tenement Houses Hereafter Erected - not to be Roofed Over Par. 1. No court of a tenement house hereafter erected shall be covered by a roof or skylight, but every such court shall be at every point o...

Section 61. Intakes: Par. 1. - Every inner court in a tenement house hereafter erected shall be provided with one or more horizontal intakes at the bottom. Such intakes in vent courts shall be not less than four square fe...

Section 63. Rooms, Lighting and Ventilation of: Par. 1. - In every tenement house hereafter erected there shall be in each room, except water-closet compartments and bath rooms, windows of a total area of at least one eighth the floor area of the r...

Section 65. Public Halls: Lighting of Par. 1. - Except as otherwise provided in section y-six, in every tenement house hereafter erected haring a superficial area of more than seventeen hundred and fifty square feet, every pu...

Section 66. Windows for Stair Halls, Size Of: Par. 1. - In every tenement house hereafter erected covering a superficial area of more than seventeen hundred and fifty square feet, the aggregate area of windows to light or ventilate stair halls on...

Section 68. Basements and Cellars in Tenement Houses and Other Buildings: Living Rooms Par. 1. - In tenement houses hereafter erected no room in the basement or cellar shall be occupied for living purposes, unless all of the following conditions are complied with: - Heigh...

Section 69. Water-closets in Tenement Houses Hereafter Erected: Par. 1. - In every tenement house hereafter erected there shall be a separate water-closet in a separate compartment within each apartment of four or more rooms. Where apartments consist of less than...

Section 70. Lighting and Ventilation of Existing Tenement: Houses Par. 1. - Excepting water-closet compartments and bathrooms, wherever a room in any tenement house has a window or windows of less than nine square feet of glazed surface opening on a street, ...

Section 71: Skylights. Existing Tenement Houses. Par. 1. - In every existing tenement house there shall be in the roof, directly over each stair well, a ventilating skylight, provided with ridge ventilators and a...

Section 72. Water-closets in Existing Tenement Houses: Par. 1. - In existing tenement houses the woodwork inclosing the space underneath the seat of all water-closets. used in common by two or more families shall be removed and such space shall be left op...

Section 75. Receptacles for Garbage and Ashes: Tenement House. Par. 1. - The owner of every tenement house shall provide therefor suitable covered, water-tight receptacles satisfactory to the board of health, for ashes, rubbish, garbage, refuse an...

Section 79. Open Courts: Par. 1. - Every theatre built in a block not on a corner shall have an open court or passageway on both sides extending from the proscenium line to the line of the street on the front, or, in case the...

Section 81. Stores, Etc: Par. 1. - Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the use of any part of a theatre building for stores, offices, or for habitation, provided that the parts so used shall be built with exits...

Section 85. Stage Floor: Par. 1. - The part of the stage floor, usually equal to the width of the proscenium opening, used in working scenery, traps or other mechanical apparatus, may be of wood, and no flooring used thereon ...

Section 86. Ventilators: Par. 1. - There shall be one or more ventilators near the center, and above the highest part of the stage of every theatre, of a combined area of opening satisfactory to the commissioner, and not less...

Section 87. Seats in Auditorium: Par. 1. - All seats in the auditorium excepting those contained in boxes shall be spaced not less than thirty inches from back to back, measured in a horizontal direction, and shall be firmly secured ...

Section 88. Aisles: Par. 1. - All aisles on the respective floors in the auditorium, having seats on both sides of the same, shall be not less than thirty inches wide where they begin and shall be increased in width towa...

Section 91. Stage Doors: Par. 1. - There shall be not less than two exit doors each not less than three feet in width, located on opposite sides of the stage, and opening directly upon a street, alley, court, or courtway lead...

Section 96. Exits: Balcony and Gallery Par. 1. - Two distinct and separate exits shall be provided for each gallery and balcony above the main floor; and the same shall be located on opposite sides of the galleries. P...

Section 98. Emergency Exits: Par. 1. - In addition to the exits previously described there shall be one exit from each side of each gallery, balcony, and main floor of auditorium, at least five feet wide, leading to exterior balc...

Section 99. Additional Requirements: Par. 1. - The commissioner shall have power to require a greater number or capacity of exits than is herein prescribed. Illuminated Exit Signs Par. 2. - In every theatre there shall be over every ex...

Section 100. Stairs: Par. 1. - The cut of the stair stringers shall not exceed seven and one-half inches rise, nor be less than ten and one half inches tread. There shall be no flights of stairs of more than fifteen or le...

Section 102. Hand Rails: Par. 1. - All enclosed stairways shall have, on both sides, strong hand-rails, firmly secured to the wall, about three inches distant therefrom and about three feet high above the stairs. Par. 2. - A...

Section 104. Radiators Forbidden in Passageways: Par. 1. - No coil or radiator or floor register shall be placed in any aisle or passageway used as an exit; but all such coils and radiators may be placed in recesses formed in the wall or partition t...

Section 105. Places of Public Assembly. Hereafter Erected: Par. 1. - Every building hereafter erected with a hall or assembly-room to contain a public audience of more than eight hundred persons, or with more than one superimposed gallery or balcony, shall be...

Section 107. Exits, Etc: Halls - Hereafter Erected Par. 1. - Every building hereafter erected containing a hall or assembly-room shall conform to all the aforesaid requirements as to exits, stairways, exit lights, aisles, an...

Section 108. Roof Gardens: Par. 1. - Nothing herein contained shall prevent the placing of a roof garden, art gallery, or rooms for similar purposes above a theatre, provided the floor of the same forming the roof over such the...

Section 110. Summer Theatres: Par. 1. - Summer theatres, if built without the building limits, and located thirty feet distant from any other building or structure or adjoining lot lines, and of no greater seating capacity than se...

Section 112. Plumbing: Definition of Terms Par. 1. - The following terms shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them: - Par. 2. - Repair of leaks shall mean such repairs as are necessary to protect property, b...

Section 113. Registration: Par. 1. - No plumber shall engage in or work at the business of plumbing unless he shall first have registered his name and place of business in the office of the commissioner, and no person shall by ...

Section 117. Soil and Waste Pipes and Traps: Par. 1. - The waste pipe of every independent sink, basin, bath-tub, water-closet, slop-hopper, urinal or other fixture shall be furnished with a separate trap which shall be placed as near as practic...

Section 118. Back Air Pipe: Par. 1. - In buildings where a series of bathrooms or kitchens are located directly over each other and have a common soil or waste pipe, the back air pipe required shall be a vent line connecting wit...

Section 120. Water-Closets, Etc: Par. 1. - Every water-closet or line of water-closets shall be supplied with water from a tank or cistern, and shall have a flushing pipe of not less than one and one quarter inches in diameter. Privy...

Section 122. Drain Pipes, Etc: Par. 1. - Drain and connecting ventilation pipes, vents and back air pipes shall be of sufficient size, and made of extra heavy cast iron pipe if under ground, and if above ground shall be made of ext...

Section 123. Special Traps, Etc. Grease - Gasolene: Par. 1. - Every building from which, in the opinion of the superintendent of sewers, grease may be discharged in such quantity as to clog or injure the sewer, shall have a special grease trap satisfac...

Section 125. Hazardous Buildings and Appliances for Power and Heat: Permits - Publications. Par. 1. - *(No building shall be used for a grain elevator or for storage or manufacture of high combustibles or explosives, or for chemical or rendering works, without a permi...

Section 126. Combustible Materials: Storage Prohibited Par. 1. - No building adapted for habitation, nor any part thereof, nor the lot upon which it is located, shall be used as a place for the storage, keeping or handling of any combu...

Section 128. Powers of the Board of Health: Limitation of Number of Occupants in Habitation Par. 1. - The board of health may by vote limit the number of occupants who shall be permitted to dwell in any building or in any part or parts thereof...

Section 129. Enforcement - Jurisdiction in Equity: On Application of City Attorney Par. 1. - Any court having jurisdiction in equity or any justice thereof, shall upon the application of the city by its attorney, have jurisdiction in equity: - Injun...

Section 132. Nuisance: Any Building Erected or Maintained in Violation of this Act Par. 1. - A building or structure which is erected or maintained in violation of the provisions of this act shall be deemed a common nuisan...

Appendices: Title Of Acts In Chronological Order 1873, Chap. 4. An Act to Authorize the Erection of Wooden Buildings in the City of Boston for Sanitary-Purposes. 1889, Chap. 129. An Act Relating to Buildings in...

Appendices. Part 2: Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. January 28, 1873. Chapter 129, Acts of 1889. An Act Relating to Buildings in the Public Parks of the City of Boston Be it enacted, etc., as fol...

Appendices. Part 3: [1899, c. 222, sect. 1.] Chapter 452, Acts of 1898. An Act Relative to the Height of Buildings on and near Copley Square, in the City of Boston Height Limit, Ninety Feet Be it enacted, etc., as fol...

Appendices. Part 4: Sect. 2. Any person owning land on or within forty-two feet of Bowdoin street, between Allston street and Beacon street, or on or within ninety-five feet of Beacon street between the Claflin building,...

Appendices. Part 5: Sect. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved May 13, 1904.] [Order of December 3, 1904.] June 7, 1904, the mayor of the city of Boston, under the provisions of chapter 333 of the...

Appendices. Part 6: * Ferdinand street is now Arlington street. Boundaries of District B. B The boundaries of the Districts B hereby established are as follows, to wit: 1. All those portions of said ward...

Appendices. Part 7: Roof Houses, Pent Houses and Bulkheads Roof houses, pent houses, bulkheads and skylights above the roof line used to enclose elevator machinery or shafts may be more than twelve feet square, but shal...

Appendices. Part 8: Sect 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved May 16, 1907.] Chapter 463, Acts of 1907. An Act Relative to the Licensing of Theatres and Public Halls in the City of Boston Section ...

Appendices. Part 9: Sect. 3. By the term volatile inflammable liquid is meant any liquid that will emit inflammable vapor at a temperature below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit, when tested in the open air. Sect. 4. Th...

Appendices. Part 10: Chapter 786, Acts of 1914. An Act Exempting a Certain Parcel of Land in the City of Boston from Restrictions as to the Height of Buildings Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. The parcel of l...

Appendices. Part 11: Sect. 2. The commission shall give notice and public hearings and shall make an order revising the boundaries of the districts aforesaid, and shall cause the same to be recorded in the registry of dee...

Appendices. Part 12: B. The boundaries of District B hereby established are as follows, to wit: Boundaries of District B 1. All those portions of said wards one and two situated outside the line begin...

Appendices. Part 13: This revision shall not be construed or applied so as to prevent owners of land on the northerly side of Boylston street along the area excluded from District A as above described from erecting buildi...

Appendices. Part 14: Registration Required Sect. 7. Every person, firm or corporation hereafter using or occupying a building in the city of Boston as a hospital shall forthwith register with the building department in t...

Appendices. Part 15: No Wharf or Structure to be Built or Extended Beyond Harbor Lines Sect. 2. No wharf, pier, wall, filling or other structure of work, shall hereafter be built or extended in said South bay beyond the ...

Building Lines: [General Laws, Chapter 82, Section 37.] Section 37. If a city by its city council or a town accepts this section or has accepted corresponding provisions of earlier laws, a building line not more tha...

Storm Water: Separate System of Plumbing [General Laws, Chapter 83, Section 5.] Section 5. In this section surface or storm water and such other waters as shall be specified by the department of public health sh...

Signs And Other Structures Projecting Into Ways: Permits for Signs and Other Structures Projecting into Ways [General Laws, Chapter 85, Sections 8 and 9.] Section 8. The municipal board or officer having charge of the laying out of public ways may...

Common Nuisances: Burnt or Dangerous Buildings [General Laws, Chapter 139, Sections 1 and 3.] Section 1. In a city or town in which the city council or the inhabitants of the town accept this and the two following se...

Licenses: Public Lodging Houses Definition [General Laws, Chapter 140, sections 33, 35, 38, 40.] Section 33. In cities of over fifty thousand inhabitants every building not licensed as an inn, in which ten o...

Supervision Of Plumbing: [General Laws, Chapter 142.] Definitions Section 1. In this chapter the following words shall have the following meanings: Certificate, certificates of registration issued in accordance with sect...

Supervision Of Plumbing. Continued: [1893, c. 477, Sect. 4; 1894, c. 455, Sect. 4; R. L. 103, Sect. 4; 1909, c. 536, Sect. 4; 4 Op. A. G. 252.] Temporary Suspension of License Sect. 7. If in the opinion of such inspector of buildings,...

General Laws, Chapter 143: Inspection, Regulation and Licenses for Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs. general provisions. Sect. 1. Definitions. Inspection Of Buildings 17. Temporary flooring during constru...

General Provisions: Definitions Section 1. In this chapter the following terms, unless a contrary meaning is required by the context or is specifically prescribed, shall have the following meanings: Alteration, chang...

Inspection Of Buildings: Temporary Flooring During Construction Sect. 17. If, in the erection of an iron or steel framed building, the spaces between the girders or floor beams of any floor are not filled or covered by the p...

Inspection Of Buildings. Part 2: 1. Compliance with existing laws, non-compliance in any particular to be specified. 2. The following ratings of each building as to the safety of the audience, in the judgment of th...

Inspection Of Buildings. Part 3: Penalty for Hindering Inspector, etc Sect. 50. Any person who hinders or prevents or attempts to prevent the commissioner of public safety, the chief of inspections of the department or any inspector...

Inspection Of Buildings. Part 4: [1094, c. 450, Sect. 11; 1913, c. 655, Sect. 59.] Restraining Illegal Use, Etc., of Buildings Sect. 60. The supreme judicial or superior court may restrain the illegal placing, maintenance or use of...

Inspection Of Buildings. Part 5: [1913,c.806, Sect. 6.] Establishment of Regulations Sect. 69. The board of elevator regulations shall, within three months after its members are appointed, draft amendments to the regulations and su...

General Laws, Chapter 148: Fire Prevention Application of Certain Sections. Section 2. Sections six, ten and thirteen to twenty-three, inclusive, shall not apply to the metropolitan district. Sections twenty-eight to fifty-one...

General Laws, Chapter 149, Section 126: Doors not to be Locked During Working Hours in Operative Buildings Section 126. No outside or inside doors of any building where operatives are employed shall be so locked bolted or otherwise fastene...

General Laws, Chapter 272: Stables - Exits Section 86. Whoever stables a horse or mule on the second or any higher floor of any building, unless there are two means of exit therefrom, at opposite ends of the building, to the m...

Revised Ordinances 1914, Chapter 8: Building Department Section 1. The building department shall be under the charge of the building commissioner, who shall exercise the powers and perform the duties provided by statute, and may appoin...

Chapter 41, Revised Ordinances Of 1914: Building Limits In the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirteen. Be it ordained by the City Council of Boston, as follows: Section 1. The building limits referred to in section nine of chapter fi...

Laws Relating To Gas Fitting, Gas Fitting Laws: Chapter 265, Acts of 1897. An Act Relative to the Licensing of Gas Fitters and to the supervision of the business of gas Fitting in the City of Boston Be it enacted, etc., as follows: License Requir...

Revised Regulations: Pertaining to Gas Fitting and Gas Fitting Materials, Adopted July 29, 1898, by the Board of Health and the Building Commissioner, to Take Effect Oct. 1,1898. - Amended Aug. 16,1899. - Amended ...

Revised Regulations. Continued: Outlets, How Fastened. Sect. 25. Fastening boards shall not be cut away to accommodate electric wires. All outlets shall be fastened according to the following diagrams: Weight of Gas-Pipes in Pounds...

Errata: Page 168, section 114, should read as follows: Notices. (No Plumbing to be done without a Permit from the Commissioner.) Sect. 114. Every plumber, before doing any work in a building, shall, except...

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