P. L. 20. district in said suit or judgment, presented to the court of common pleas in which 23 March 1877 § 1. said suit may be pending or judgment may exist, shall have the right to come into the court and defend said district in any suit, and inquire into the validity of any To give bond. judgment against said municipal district, as fully and completely as the officers of said district would, by law, have the right to do: Provided, That said tax-payer shall, whenever the court shall deem it necessary, file in said court of common pleas a bond, with one or more sufficient sureties, to be approved of by said court, to indemnify and save harmless said district from all costs that may accrue in said suit, subsequently to filing said petition.(m) (m) The act 12 June 1878, § 1, P. L. 208, for which see tit. "Counties and Townships," pl. 25, authorizes taxpayers in certain cases to appeal from reports of county auditors and to defend suits against the county. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS - FIRST CLASS. See BURIAL GROUNDS; CRIMINAL PROCEDURE; ELECTIONS; EVIDENCE; FAIRMOUNT PARK; FEES; FENCES; FINES AND RECOGNIZANCES; GIRARD COLLEGE; GUNPOWDER; HARBOR MASTER; HORSE-RACING; HOUSE OF CORRECTION; HOUSE OF REFUGE; JAILS; JURIES; MAGISTRATES' COURTS; MILK; NUISANCES; OMNIBUSES; OYSTERS; PAWNBROKERS; PILOTS; PORT REGULATIONS; PORT WARDENS; PUBLIC BUILDINGS; QUARTER SESSIONS AND OYER AND TERMINER; RAILROADS; REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS; TIME; TOBACCO; TRADE REGULATIONS; WHARVES AND DOCKS; WITNESSES. 71. May approve ordinances in vacation and call special meetings. 72. Approval and veto of ordinances. 73. To keep register of appropriations. Interest V. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS. 75. Executive departments established. 77. Bureaus to be established by councils. 78. Each department may establish rules. 79. Managers of house of correction and guardians of the poor abolished. (2.) APPOINTMENTS AND REMOVALS. 80. Directors to appoint all subordinates. 81. Directors may remove or suspend. 82. Appointments to be made only after examination. Personal solicitation. 83. Subordinates in the departments of city treas (1.) ORGANIZATION. 168. Permit for building or altering to be obtained. Fees. 169. Erection or alteration without permit. 170. Erection in violation of act. Injunction. 171. Plans and specifications to be required. Permit not to be granted until after inspection of same. Plans of public buildings. Notice to persons affected 115. To consist of five members appointed by the by proposed work. Permit to be obtained in all cases. mayor. Director, a member ex officio. (4.) ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES. 123. May search houses for nuisances. 128. Power to remove cause of nuisance. 129. Nuisance on highways. 130. Expense of removal to be a lien. 131. Liens for nuisances. 132. Encroachments on public streets. 133. Nuisances at or near the Schuylkill river. 134. Councils may exempt rural districts. (5.) HOUSE DRAINAGE AND CESSPOOLS. 135. Rules for construction to be provided. 136. Inspection and supervision. 137. Violation of rules. To be granted or refused in ten days. 172. Appeal from inspector. From order refusing permit. From order to remove a dangerous building or wall. Computation of time. Notice of appeal. 173. Appeal after permit has been issued. 174. Board of appeal. To direct inspector to issue or withhold permit. Appeal from board to the director of public safety. Appointment of examining commis (4.) BUILDING REGULATIONS. 188. No building to be erected upon a street less than twenty feet wide. 189. Curtilage of twelve feet square. 190. When street must be twenty-five feet wide. 191. Penalty for violation. 192. Councils to regulate porches, bay-windows, areas, &c. Boxes, barrels, &c. 193. Outside or division walls to be constructed of non-combustible materials. Walls to be built to a line and carried up plumb or straight. Frame sheds on wharves. Frame buildings in rural sections. Frame bathrooms or sheds. 194. Foundation walls, how laid. Not to be laid above curb level. When wooden piles may be driven. 195. Underpinning of walls when excavation does not exceed ten feet. When it does exceed ten feet. 196. Footing or base course under foundation walls. Section not to apply to dwelling-houses. 197. Foundation walls, how built. 198. Minimum thickness of brick for enclosing and division walls for business buildings seventy-five feet by twenty-four feet span or less. 199. Seventy-five feet to one hundred and fifty feet by twenty-four feet span or less. 200. One hundred and fifty feet by twenty-four feet span or less. 201. Seventy-five feet or less by twenty-four to thirty-one feet span. 202. Seventy-five to one hundred and fifty feet by twenty-four to thirty-one feet span. 203. Over one hundred and fifty feet by twentyfour to thirty-one feet span. 204. Seventy-five feet or less by thirty-one to thirty-four feet span. 205. Seventy-five to one hundred and fifty feet by thirty-one to thirty-four feet span. 206. Over one hundred and fifty feet by thirty-one to thirty-four feet span. 207. Additional requirements for walls other than those set forth in above tables. Chief may require increased thickness. 208. Thickness of walls where building is constructed of a framework of iron or steel carrying the structure. Buildings of iron or steel filled in with glass. 209. Thickness and height of party walls. 210. Buildings over thirty-four feet span. cesses and openings. 211. Recess for water or other pipes. 212. Height of stories. Re to have distinctive name or title stamped thereon. Columns may be drilled for inspection. 233. Rules in construction of interior masonry walls, with iron beams or girders and columns. 234. In stores, warehouses, &c., weight to be sustained by each floor to be estimated and posted by owner. Floors to be constructed to bear a safe weight. Proportion between safe and breaking weight. Ascertainment of dimensions. 235. Stairways in buildings of more than two stories. 236. Fire-escapes on stores. On mills. 237. Obstructing way of egress. 238. Explosives not to be stored under stairway. 239. Councils may by ordinance regulate the management and inspection of hoistways and elevator shafts. 240. Shafts to have trap door and necessary appliances. Closing. 241. Guard or gate for elevator or well hole. Outside openings of elevator shaft. Certificate of safety to be posted at entrance. 242. Flues to be examined by inspectors. 246. Hearths. 247. Smoke-pipes. 248. Furnace smoke-pipe. Tops of furnaces. 249. Boiler or furnace on floor above cellar. 250. Hot air registers set in floor. 251. Flues or pipes for heated air. 252. Permit for introducing heating apparatus. 253. Wooden girders not to be placed nearer than four inches to smoke, hot air or other flue. 254. Trimmers. Timber. Joists supporting stud partitions. Floor joists. 255. Planking and sheathing of roof. Tops and sides of dormer windows. Outside. Roofs of wooden buildings. Repairs in shingle roof. 256. Metallic leaders for conducting water. 257. Scuttle frames, bulkheads and doors. Stationary ladders for scuttles. Bulkhead in place of scuttle. Doors to same in tenement houses not to be locked. 258. Wooden shed when new building is being erected. Removal. 259. Frame bathroom projecting from upper story. 260. Frame sheds attached to building. Revocation of permits. 282. Openings through proscenium wall. Access to doors. 283. Iron ladders or stairs to overcome difference of level between floor on stage side of the fire wall and on the auditorium side. 284. Wire netting under skylights. Metal skylights. 285. Construction of that part of stage not used for scenery, traps, &c. 286. Fly galleries. Rigging loft. 287. Scenery, &c., to be saturated with non-combustible material. 288. Roof, floor and galleries to be constructed of fire-proof materials. 289. Front of gallery. placed. 322. Hose and attachments. 323. Water casks and buckets on stage. 324. Hand pumps, axes and hooks. 325. Lighting of building and outlets. Oil. 326. Oil lamps in auditorium. 342. Appeal to the common pleas. 343. Violation of act. 344. Records to be kept. Conclusiveness of order. 345. Appeal by minors and others under disabilities. 346. Power to enter upon lands. 347. Prior insufficient wall to be removed at expense of builder. Appeal. 348. Inspector to examine party or division wall. If unfit for new building, to be repaired or taken down by parties building and at their expense. 349. Right to party wall to pass to purchaser unless otherwise expressed in deed. XI. BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINES AND 350. Inspector of stationary engines to be appointed by the mayor. Bond. Term. Vacancy. 351. Advisory commission. To report on qualifications of candidates for inspector. 352. Duties of inspector. All engines and boilers to be inspected. Certificate of inspection to be furnished. Examinations from time to time. Record of examination. 353. Certificates of inspection of the Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance Co. may be accepted. 354. Violation by inspector. 355. Maintaining engine or boiler without a certifi cate. XII. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. 356. To be under one director. 357. Jurisdiction of the department. 358. Injunctions against the erection and use of public works. XIII. BUREAU OF SURVEYS. (1.) CHIEF ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR. 359. Qualifications. Oath. To be president of board. (2.) DISTRICT SURVEYORS. 360. Councils to divide city into survey districts. 361. Twelve survey districts. 362. Twenty-eighth ward created a separate district. 363. Qualifications of surveyors. Oath. Charges against. 364. Councils to regulate bureau. (3.) RECORDS. 365. Transfer of records from the recorder of deeds. 366. From the quarter sessions. XIV. REGISTRY BUREAU. 367. Registry books to be prepared. What they shall contain. 368. Where books to be kept. Board of revision to have duplicate. To be kept up. Duplicates to be 327. Separate shut-off for lights in halls, corridors brought up annually. How to be kept. 369. To preserve reports of descriptions, and give certificates of registry. 370. Board of revision to prepare assessment books. Duplicate to the receiver of taxes. To conform to registered plan. Assessor to report change of ownership to chief engineer. Penalty. 371. Seller and buyer to register. 372. If both omit, the recorder to register. 373. Duty of purchasers at judicial sales, allottees in partition, and devisees. Duty of prothonotary and register of wills. 374. On failure to register, both liable for taxes. 375. If registered, purchaser at tax sale not to acquire title unless made in name of owner after service. 376. Chief engineer may search for conveyances. Fine for not registering. 377. All owners to furnish descriptions of property. When registered property may be sold for taxes. 378. Duty to devolve upon the purchaser. Fine for not registering. Lien may be filed. When property may be sold on municipal claim. 379. Sheriff to register certain deeds. Duty of prothonotary. Sheriff's fee. |