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(e.) No cubicles whatever shall be erected in any room of a domestic building, or if already existing shall be allowed to remain, unless such room is provided with a window or windows opening directly into the external air and having a total area clear of the window frames of at least one-tenth of the floor area.
(f) No portion of the structure of any cubicle except the necessary corner posts shall be nearer than two inches to the floor of such cubicle, and no structure shall be erected, or if already existing shall be allowed to remain, within any cubicle, which is of a greater height than the maximum height allowed by this section for any portion of the structure of such cubicle or which provides a cover or roof of the cubicle.
(9.) No partition shall be erected, or if already existing shall be allowed to remain, nearer than four feet to any window the area of which is included in calculating the window area specified in sub-section (e.).
(.) No cubicle used for sleeping purposes shall have a less floor area than
sixty-four square feet, and a less length or width than seven feet.
For the purposes of this section every sub-division of a domestic building, unless such sub-division has a window or windows opening directly into the external air and having a total area clear of the window frames equal to one-tenth of the floor area of such sub-division, shall be deemed to be a cubicle.
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5.-(a.) It shall not be lawful to erect, or if already existing to allow to remain, Mezzanine floo any room of any domestic building, any mezzanine floor or cockloft whatsoever, except under such regulations as may be made by the Sanitary Board with the consent of the Governor-in-Council and published in the Government Gazette, and the Sanitary Board wtih the consent of the Governor-in-Council shall have full power to vary, alter and repeal any such regulations, and to substitute new regulations therefor.
(b.) Every intermediate floor, platform, or landing of a greater length than six feet and of a greater breadth than two feet, which has not a clear space of at least nine feet, measured vertically, both above and below it, and which is not separately provided with a window or windows opening directly into the external air and having a total area clear of the window frames of at least one-tenth of the floor area, shall be deemed to be a mezzanine floor or cockloft.
6. No building erected on land acquired from the Crown after the passing of Height of buiklings. this Ordinance shall exceed in height one and a half times the width of the street upon which such building fronts.
The width of any street shall be measured from the building lines, as defined by the Director of Public Works, on either side of the street and at right angles to such line or lines.
No such building shall exceed seventy-six feet in height without the permission of the Sanitary Board: Provided that in any special case in which, in the opinion of such Board, a departure froin this rule will not be detrimental to the public health, the Board may in writing authorize such departure.
The height of any such building shall be determined by measuring on the line of of the main walls (both back and front) from the level of the street on which the procipal front of such building abuts the full vertical height allowed by the provisions of this section and by drawing from the points thus ascertained lines at an angle of thirty degrees with the horizontal, and any part of such building (except any chimney or party-wall) falling outside such lines shall be deemed illegal.
In the event of the street on which the principal front of any such building abuts not being level throughout the extent of such building, or in the event of any such building having two or more principal fronts respectively abutting on streets which are dissimilar in width or level, the Sanitary Board shall determine from what point or points the full vertical height, as specified in the foregoing clause, shall be measured.
7.- (a.) Every existing domestic building must be provided with an open space Open spaces. in the rear, by opening out on each floor one-half of the entire space intervening between the principal room or rooms and the main wall at the back of such building as well as the corresponding portion of roof, unless such building is already provided with an open and unobstructed backyard of at least fifty square feet in area, and must be provided on every floor with a window of at least ten square feet superficial area open- ing into such open space. The area of such window shall not be included in calculating the window area required by sub-section (a) of section 8 of Ordinance 15 of 1894.
(b.) For the purposes of this section any domestic buildings (other than corner houses) having two main frontages in different streets shall be regarded as two domestic buildings if the entire depth from frontage to frontage exceeds fifty feet.