HomeMy WebLinkAboutAmending Ordinance No. 2243 - Definition of a Garage, Private Garages-Construction, living Quarters over or Connected with Other BuildingsORDINANCE No. 4044
Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend,
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ORDP9ANCE NO.
AN ORDIJANCE ALINDING ORDIJANCE
NO. 2243 COM1:ONLY 11LJOYfN AS "THE
BUILDING CODE OF SOUTH BEND,
INDIANA."
3E IT ORDAINLD by the Common Council of the Civil C1.ty of
South Bend, Indiana:
SECTION 1. That Ordinance .No. 2243 commonly known as "The
Building Code of the City of South Bend, Indiana :" be amended
so that the same shall hereafter Axe read as follows:
SECTION N0, 641 DEFINITION OF A GARAGE:
(e) Public and private garages
Garages shall be divided into two classes -- Public and
Private. Any building housing more than three cars
using inflammable liquids in their tanks, or a
buildinj in which repairs are made on wheeled vehicles
using inflammable liquids in their tanks, shall be
designated as a Public Garage. A building or shelter
housing not more than three such cars and having not more
KR* than one- thousand (1,000) square -feet floor area
shall be designated as a Private Garage. When any
building exceeds the minimum allowable 1,000 square -
foot floor area it shall be classed in the occupancy
group other than "Private Garage" that it most nearly
resembles.
:A CTION NO.657 PRIVATE GARAGES4CONSTRUCTION.
Private garages hereafter built, altered, or
converted for such purposes within the fireproof
limits shall be of fireproof construction; within the
fire limits they must be of incombustible construc-
tion and have no living quarters above them unless
built fireproof as described for public garages.
If located in the outer limits, they may be
combustible construction except that when any
building classified as a private garage is attached
to any building of classes 1,2,3, or 4, the
separating wall shall be of at least one -hour fire
resistive construction; or that when 25 per cent
or more of any one wall of a building classified
as Private Garage is clo_or that/ three feet (3r)
to any building of classes 1,2,3, or 4, except
another "Private Garage", Said wall shall be of not
less that one -hour fire resistive construction.
For the purposes of this Section a "breezeway"
connecting the Private Garage to buildings of classes
1,2,3, or 4, shall be considered a class 4 building
unless said "breezeway" is at least 75 per cent open
on at least two sides.
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SECTION NO. 658 LIVING QUART'iRS OVER JR C01- TNECTyD WITH
0) 'r'.ER BUILDINGS.
Outside the fire limits, if living quarters are
provided over, tile garage shall be of fireproof
construction up to and including the second floor
construction, or -nay be of frame construction if
all parts of the structure, including ceilings
over the garage, be of at least one -hour fire
resistive construction. All doors except those
leading to exterior shall be made of incombustible
material or covered on the garage side with an
approved incombustible material laid on smooth and
flat woodwork. Stairways leading to second stories
shall be enclosed by partitions of at least one -hour
fire resistive construction. Such partitions shall
have no openings into garage unless protectedIZX'
approved doors as above described.
Partitions between garages and ether buildings
described in the preceding section shall be un-
pierced by any opening unless same be covered by
approved protected doors or shutters as above des-
cribed. Under no circumstances shall a private
garage have any opening directly into a room used
for sleeping purposes.
SECTION II. This Ordinance shall be in full force and
.,9ffect from and after its enactment, approval by the
I::ayor, and legal publication.
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