[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Incorporated Village
of Bellerose 5-10-1926 by Ord. No. 32.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: Original Sections 2, 11, 12 and 13 of this ordinance
were repealed 5-22-1933 by Ord. No. 40.
The following shall be and are hereby declared to be the fire limits:
beginning at the westerly village line on Jericho Turnpike and
extending easterly to the village line and to a depth of 100 feet south of
the building line on Jericho Turnpike.
Every building hereafter erected or enlarged within the fire limits
shall be enclosed on all sides with walls constructed wholly of stone, brick,
hollow building tile, concrete or other equivalent incombustible materials
and shall have the roof and top and sides of all roof structures covered with
incombustible material. All cornices and dormer windows shall be of incombustible
materials when buildings are over two stories in height.
Any existing frame building within the fire limits which may hereafter
be damaged by fire, decay or otherwise to an amount greater than 1/2 of its
present value, exclusive of the foundation, shall not be repaired or rebuilt
but shall be removed.
No building hereafter erected within the fire limits shall exceed three
stories or 60 feet in height. The floor area in fireproof buildings shall
not exceed 10,000 square feet between fire walls.
A.
All exterior or division walls of buildings hereafter
erected shall be of masonry or concrete and of sufficient thickness to support
the load to be carried.
B.
In buildings over one story in height, all exterior or
division walls shall extend the full thickness to at least two feet above
the roof surfacing of a building as a parapet and be properly coped, excepting
walls which face on a street and are finished with incombustible cornices,
gutters or crown mouldings and excepting also the walls of detached dwellings
with peaked or hipped roofs.
C.
Fire walls shall be continuous from the foundation to
three feet above the roof level and shall be coped.
The end of all ceiling, floor or roof beams entering a party or fire
wall from opposite sides shall be separated by at least six inches of solid
masonry.
In all buildings hereafter erected within the fire limits, which are
used above the first floor, the stair shafts shall be separately and continuously
enclosed by incombustible partitions. The partitions shall be constructed
of brick or other fire-resistant material approved by the Village Board. No
such partition shall be less than four inches thick.
Every building hereafter erected within the fire limits shall have a
fire-resistant roof covering, and no existing shingle roof, if damaged more
than 25%, shall be renewed or repaired with other than a fire-resistant covering.
All openings in roofs for the admission of light and air shall have
incombustible frames and sash glazed with wire glass.
In every building hereafter erected, each floor and above the first
floor shall be provided with at least two means of egress remote from each
other. No required stairway shall be less than 44 inches wide.
Where the first floor of a building hereafter constructed is used as
a store and the second or second and third floor used as a tenement, the ceiling
of the store must have a metal covering.
