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]32 AN ORDINANCE All NIMING AND RE-ENACTING SECTION 367 of the City Code: BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, That eec. 367 6f the Citv Code be and is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows: Sec. 367. Privies, Earth Closets, etc. 10 No privy, other than an earth closet, shall be located within ten feet of my street or within the same distance of the line of adjoining property unless the olmer of such adjoining property consent to its being located or remaining within such dist and no earth privy shallbe permitted to exist within the City, except in cases where are excluded frorn water or sewer facilities and then only when a permit has been granted bthe wealth Officer �or by the Hoard of wealth and upon a license of thr8e dollars (W per annum, payable quarterly in advance by the owner of tr a propert y, said permit to be in force for one year from its issue, or for such lees time than e ywar as the license has been paid for, and may be renewed at the discretion of the wealth Officer "gr the Board of Vealth upon the payment of the license of three dollars( ) as provided above. On or before the tenth day after the ending of each quarter tie Treasurer shall report to the Health Officer a list of all who have failed to pay tie amount necessary to renew the life of the permit for the current quarter. The Health Officer shall thereupon report each delinquent to the Police Justice as guilty of maintaining an earth closet in violation of law. Any person violating this section or any part thereof shall be fined not exceeding two dollars ($2) for each day the offense continues after being notified by the Yalyob or wealth Officer that said license is due or that said closet shall be removed. All other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. This ordiance shall be inforce fr4Om Presented and approved T)ecember 11,1914. Ya,y o r. its passage'. Adopted by tb4 Council .,ecember 10,1914, J16 n�a4x l President. AN OR.7-MiANCE AlrRIMMIG AND RE-FNACTIZIG SECTION 321 OF TNR CITY COD$: BE IT OTMLI iEn., BY TTW. COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTES71ILLE, That Sec. 321 of the City Cod$ be amended and re-enacted to read as follows: Sec. 321. BUII.nINGS WITt'IN THE FIRE 7133 TS. No person shall erect or cause to be erected, within the fire limits as herein• before defined, described and set forth, any building or buildings, or any addition to any existing building, nor make any changes or other alterations in the structurg parts of such existing buildings, except and unless such buildings, addition, change or other alteration shall be planned and arranged. and completed as to be, in absolute conformity to each and every restriction and condition hereinafter described, defined and set forth. (1) All buildings, or additions or alterations to existing buildings, fronting on fain Street shall conform to the following conditions and restrictions Tie outer walls shall be composed of brick, stone, concrete, or other. subptance equally substantial, permanent and fireproof, at least twelve (12) inches in Lhlckne``� . and shall extend from the ground upward at least two (2) feet above the roofing or t building; all partition walls, erected for the purpose of dividing tie firet floo of such building into separate rooms, other than walls running parallel or approzimatel5 so, to Main Street, shall be constructed of material conforming to the requirements for the outer walls, at least twelve (12) Inches in thickness and extend from the ground upward at least two (2) feet above the roofing of the building; the roofor roofs, shall be covered with slate, tile, metal or other material deemed eqU911yand fireproof, entrances, hallways, and stairways leading from rain Street to the aper, floor shall be at least four (4) feet wide; all openings, doorways, archways, line tures, or passages leading through any outer wall or partition wall built on a intersecting 11'ain Street at the front of the building, into an adjoining coon °rt building, such wall being hereinbefore required to extend from the ground to a,pPOO POO the roofing of the building, shall be safely arched or otherwise securelor otter by some non-inflamable material, and supplied with such automatic fire doors, 1 protection against the cornunieation of fire through such openings, etc. , as argil � be deemed sufficient and satisfactory by the Council committee on Fire nepartn1ent Public Safety, until otherwise provided by the Council; provided, '!owever, tettto e , buildings to be used only for residential rurposes if not nearer than ten fe other building, shall be governed by clause 2 providing for"all other buildings or additions .or alteratic,ne thereto." efore progi6o (2) All other buildings or additions or alterations thereto not hereinb for shall conform to the following conditions and restrictions. to Of The outer walls thereof shall be composed entirely of brick, stone, or concre other material equally substantial, permanent and fireproof, which shall be conarooff to include what is cor+nanly known as brick veneering, or metal, and the roof °rtil$, of any and all such buildings herein contemplated shall be covered with slate, ll metal or other material which shall be deemed fireproof, provided that a Woodeor 1$11 building, or a wooden addition to an existing building, costing fifty dollars t�$ may be erected upon the rear of such property by a special permit obtained fr°ldoll0 Council. And provided further that a wooden addition costing more than fifty to may be made to an existing building if the owner, having first obtained the writs of approval of the local Board of Underwriters and t1)e written consent of the ownero e the adjacent property, shall, at a regular meeting of the City Council, present petition in the manner prescribed by section 322 and be granted a permit by tbo ori it affirrative vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to the Council, Whi