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]32 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND RE-ENACTING SECTION 367 of the City Code: BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, That eec. 367 of the City Code be and is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows: Sec. 367. Privies, Earth Closets, etc. 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 owner of such adjoining property consent to its being located or remaining within such _ 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 by the Health Officer or by the Board of Health and upon a license of three dollars ($3) per annum, payable quarterly in advance by the owner of tr a property; said permit to be in force for one year from its issue, or for such less time than a ywar as the license has been paid for, and may be renewed at the discretion of the Health Officer or the Board of Health upon the payment of the license of three dollars($3) as provided above. On or before the tenth day after the ending of each quarter the Treasurer shall report to the Health Officer a list of all who have failed to pay the 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 Mayor or Health 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 All other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.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 from its passage. Presented and approved December 11,1914. Adopted by the Council December 10,1914, President Signature. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND RE0ENACTING SECTION 321 OF THE CITY CODE: BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE COUNCIL OF CHARLOTTESVILLE,That Sec. 321 of the City Code be amended and re-enacted to read as follows: Sec. 321. BUILDINGS WITHIN THE FIRE LIMITS. 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 Main Street shall conform to the following conditions and restrictions The outer walls shall be composed of brick, stone, concrete, or other substance equally substantial, permanent and fireproof, at least twelve (12) inches in thickness and shall extend from the ground upward at least two (2) feet above the roofing of the building; all partition walls, erected for the purpose of dividing the first floor of such building into separate rooms, other than walls running parallel or approzimately 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 roof or roofs, shall be covered with slate, tile, metal or other material deemed equally fireproof, entrances, hallways, and stairways leading from rain Street to the second floor shall be at least four (4) feet wide; all openings, doorways, archways, apper- 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 room or building, such wall being hereinbefore required to extend from the ground to a point above the roofing of the building, shall be safely arched or otherwise securely supported by some non-inflamable material, and supplied with such automatic fire doors, or other protection against the communication of fire through such openings, etc. , as shall be deemed sufficient and satisfactory by the Council committee on Fire Department and Public Safety, until otherwise provided by the Council; provided, however, that 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 alterations thereto." (2) All other buildings or additions or alterations thereto not hereinbefore provided for shall conform to the following conditions and restrictions. 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 or roofs of any and all such buildings herein contemplated shall be covered with slate, lmetal or other material which shall be deemed fireproof, provided that a wooden building, or a wooden addition to an existing building, costing fifty dollars or less may be erected upon the rear of such property by a special permit obtained from the Council. And provided further that a wooden addition costing more than fifty dollars may be made to an existing building if the owner, having first obtained the written approval of the local Board of Underwriters and the written consent of the owners of 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 the affirrative vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to the Council, Which vote.