this Code, or with any order or regulation made thereunder, shall fail to comply with said notice within ten days after such service or shall continue to violate any requirement of this Code in the respect named in said notice shall pay a penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars. For the recovery of any said penalty or penalties an action may be brought in any municipal court, or court of record, in said city in the name of the City of New York. * * * Officers of Department May Enter Buildings. Sec. 160. All the officials of the Department of Buildings, so far as it may be necessary for the performance of their respective duties, have the right to enter any building or premises in said city upon showing their badge of office. CHAPTER XVIII. Building Code Memo for Reference to Important Points. General. Sec. 4. Work contrary to approved plans; working withcut a permit. Sec. 105. Fireproofing. Public buildings and all buildings over 75 ft. to be fireproof. Fireproof buildings defined. Sec. 106. Testing floor arches; fireproofing beams. Section 107. All interior iron columns to have not less than 2" of fireproofing and all lugs and brackets not less than " of fireproofing. Sec. IIO. Where walls are carried on steel, all columns to have not less than 8 in. of fireproofing on the outside face and not less than 4 in. on the inside faces. All girders carrying brick walls to have not less than 4 in. of fireproofing, except flange edges and projections, which must have not less than 2 in. Grillage. Sec. 25. Grillage; all metal in foundations and all metal below water level to be protected from rust by concrete, paint, asphaltum or in other approved manner. Sec. 26. Grillage beams to be provided with bolts and separators and to be filled solid in between with concrete. Sec. 129. Iron or steel under water to be enclosed in concrete. Cast Iron. Sec. 21. Cast iron shall be good foundry mixture. Sec. 112. Cast iron columns, minimum 5x34 inches thick. Column joints to have not less than 4 bolt holes. Flanges and brackets not less than 1 inch thick. Shell thickness not less than 1/12 diameter or greatest lateral dimension of cross-section. Imperfections not to reduce sectional area by more than 10 per cent. Where core has shifted more than one-fourth the thickness of the shell, compute the strength of column assuming thinnest side to be uniform all around. Columns without open sides or back to have 3 inch test hole. Shoes under columns planed on top. Sec. 114. Party wall columns to be not less in thickness than the party wall; and not less in depth than the thickness of the wall to be supported above. Sec. 115. Sec. 129. inspection. Sec. 21. Sec. III. least thickness Sec. 116. Plates between joints of open back columns. Steel and Wrought Iron. Steel and wrought iron to be of good quality. Steel and wrought iron columns; workmanship, of metal, etc. Steel and iron girders; spacing and size of rivets; use of web stiffeners. Sec. 120. defects. Sec. 120. Sec. 122. Rolled steel and iron beams to be free from Framing. Beams resting on girders to be bolted to same. All iron work to be properly framed and connected together and to the walls. Defective work. Good riveting required. Sec. 123. Sec. 125. Trusses to be rigid and well braced. Separators, Lintels, Anchors, Tie Rods, Templates, Etc. Sec. 41. at each tier. Sec. 42. Iron lintels to have not less than five inches bearing at each end. Stone or metal templates not required for spans less than six feet. Sec. 61. Wooden posts to have iron cap and base plates. Sec. 117. Iron beams used in pairs to form a girder to have separators not more than 5 ft. apart. Beams 12 in. and over to have 2 bolts in each separator. Sec. 118. Cast lintels to span not more than 16 ft. and to be not less than 3/4-inch thick all over. Sec. 119. Cast iron templates or 10 in. stone templates to be used under girders over 12 ft. long resting on brick. For spans less than 12 ft. the stone template may be 5 in. thick. Sec. 120. Tie rods; spacing not to exceed 8 feet; spacing not to exceed eight times the depth of the beams. Sec. 121. Templates to be sufficiently large to avoid excessive pressure on masonry. Painting. Sec. 129. Iron or steel under water to be enclosed in concrete. All structural metal work shall be cleaned and painted one coat of paint. After erection all work shall be painted at least one additional coat. Cast iron columns not to be painted before inspection. CHAPTER XIX. Special Regulations of the Bureau of Buildings. It often happens that the Building Code does not cover specifically certain kinds of work going on within the limits of a borough. Any additional regulations may be established within a borough by the Superintendent. Violating such regulations is just as serious as violating any provisions of the Code. Regulations made by the Superintendent are generally printed for distribution. Following are examples of special rules and regulations in force in Manhattan Borough: PROJECTIONS BEYOND BUILDING LINE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on and after this date no building plans not already on file in this department, or in the Tenement House Department, will be approved by the Bureau of Buildings for the Borough of Manhattan which provide for an encroachment by any part of the building beyond the building or lot lines at any point less than ten feet above the curb grade, except that: (a) Non-supporting columns or pilasters, including their mouldings and bases, may project not more than two and one-half per cent. of the width of the street, and in no case more than two feet beyond the building line. (b) Steps leading up or down at entrances, and included between ornamental columns, pilasters or check pieces at least three feet high, at the sides of such entrances, provided they do not exceed, together or separately, one-fifth of the width of the lot, may project not more than two and one-half per cent. of the width of the street, and in no case more than eighteen inches beyond the building line. (c) Mouldings or ornamentations of a decorative character, and base courses, including the water-table, not exceeding five feet in height above the curb grade, may project not more than one and one-fourth per cent. of the width of the street, and in no case more than ten inches beyond the building line. (d) Rustications may project not more than four inches beyond the building line. Marquises or awnings, supported wholly from the building, will be permitted where they do not extend more than two and one-half feet on either side of an entrance, provided they are constructed of iron and glass or other incombustible material, and are properly drained. ELECTRIC SIGNS. (Amended ordinance of the Board of Aldermen, approved by the Mayor, July 24, 1912.) Section 1. Any letter, word, model, sign, device or representation used in the nature of an advertisement, announcement or direction illuminated by electricity, erected on any building in the City of New York, and extending beyond the building line, shall be deemed to be an electric sign. Section 2. Electric signs are permitted in the City of New York and the City Clerk is empowered to issue licenses therefor under the following terms and conditions, to wit: A. Upon the payment by the applicant of an annual license fee of ten cents for each square foot of sign space or part of square foot of such sign space displayed on such electric sign, to be computed and collected by the City Clerk of the City of New York. The square feet of sign space on one side of an electric sign, however, shall be deemed to be the entire number of square feet of sign space for the purpose of computing the license fee herein referred to and required to be paid. B. That no electric sign shall extend more than eight feet from the building line in the City of New York. C. That no electric sign shall be less than ten feet in the clear above the level of the sidewalk beneath such sign. D. That electric signs shall be constructed entirely of metal or other incombustible material, except the insulation. thereof, including the uprights, supports and braces for the same, and shall be properly and firmly attached to the building, and shall be so constructed as not to be or become dangerous. E. That no electric sign shall be so erected as to obstruct or prevent free ingress and egress to any window or fire escape on any building in the City of New York. F. That prior to the erection of any electric sign in the City of New York, a license therefor must be obtained from the Clerk of the City of New York, and before the issuance of any license herein by said City Clerk for the said electric |