Amending Ordinance No. 2243 Commonly Known as the Building Code of City of South Bend

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3 , ORDINANCE NO.�,, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 2243, ADOPTED BY THE COMKON COUNCIL MARCH 279 1922 AND SIGNED BY THE MAYOR MARCH 30, 1922, COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE BUILDING CODE OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL of the City of South Bend, Indiana that Article XXXII of Ordinance No. 2243 be amended by the additign of the following sections: Section 678a. It shall be unlawful for any person firm or corpora- tion to occupy or continue to occupy any basement or cellar story of any building within the fireproof district of this city, as it now exists or as it may hereafter be defined by ordinance, when such occupancy consists wholly or in part of the storage or display of goods or any materials of a combustible nature, unless such basement or cellar story is equipped with appurtenances for fire extenguish« ment as are herein specified, Section 678b, Equipment to meet the requirements of this ordinance may be approved automatic sprinklers or semi - automatic dry -pipe equip- ment. Oection 6780. Semi- automatic dry pipe equipment may be used in build ings when only the basement or cellar story of the building is requir- ed,to be so equipped. This equipment shall consist of dry -pipe with automatic sprinkler heads of size, type and arrangement required for automatic sprinkler system, Such :dry -pipes shall be: (a) connected to the public water supply or to elevated tank.with not less than two connections and controlled by manually operated valves, Or (b) provided with outside connections for the attachmant of equipment of the South Bend Fire Department, Where the cellar or basement section is used for the storage of flammable liquids or paints, or the floor area exceeds 5000 square feet, and a semi automatic dry -pipe equipment is installed, there shall be provided also a thermostatic fire alarm system which shall, in the event of fire, transmit the alarm to the fire department. Section 678de Manually operated valves connecting with the water supp- ly shall be not less than 4" valves and not more than one such conneo. tion or valve shall be located in the basement or cellar story itself. Either of the valves and connections shall be sufficient to supply the necessary volume and pressure to operate the whole number of sprinkler heads at one time. Section 679ee Where outside connections are provided, they shall meet the requirements for Siamese connections specified elsewhere in this article. Section 679f, Within 60 days after the passage of this ordinance, the owner or owners, or occupant or occupants of each basement or cellar apace, within the district aforesaid, occupied or to be occupied shall file with the chief of the Fire Department of South Bend, duplicate prints of the basement or cellar story equipped or to be equipped with the aforesaid fire protection. Such prints shall be on cloth 12 inches by 18 inches with a 2 inch binding edge at the left -hand 12 inch side, The prints shall show alldetails of the basement or cellar story drawn to scale, the construction of walls, floor and floor above, together with all openings in the same, all means of ingress and egress, all means for receiving or discharging goods, elevators and shafts, parts -� tion walls and openings therein, location and kind of heating plant/