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Exclusion of surface
water.
Timber stores to be inclosed.
Occupation
of new building
without a certificate
prohibited. Schedule K.
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Every well shall be so constructed as to exclude surface water as far as possible, and due provision shall be made for the conveyance of the drip or waste to the nearest drain inlet or other channel into which it may be lawfully discharged.
Timber Stores.
115. Every building, yard or other place used for the storage of timber, other than timber in baulk, shall, unless exempted by the Director of Public Works, be inclosed on all sides by brick walls at least ten feet high and fourteen inches thick. Every such building, yard or place shall have a clear passage-way not less than six feet in width between such walls and the boundary of any other premises. No portion of any building, yard or place, if used for the storage of more than three hundred cubic feet of timber, other than timber in baulk, shall be within fifty feet of any building or premises used for any other purpose whether on the same or on an ad- joining lot.
No building used for the storage of timber, other than timber in baulk, and no building in any yard or place used for the storage of timber other than timber in baulk shall exceed in height thirty feet measured from the level of the ground to the extreme top of such building.
No pile, stack or store of timber shall exceed thirty feet in height from the level of the ground.
It shall not be lawful to form in any pile, stack or store of timber any room or chamber or space (other than a passage) to be used for any purpose whatever.
For the purpose of this section, timber in baulk shall not include China fir poles.
Occupation of new buildings.
116. (1) No new building shall be occupied or used in any way, except by caretakers only not exceeding two in number, until an authorised architect shall have certified in writing according to the form contained in Schedule K to the Building Authority that such building complies in all respects with the provisions of this Ordinance, and is structurally safe, nor until the owner shall have received from the Building Authority a written permit to occupy such building.
(2) If, after receiving such certificate from an authorised architect, the Building Authority or any officer deputed by him shall discover that in certain respects such building does not comply with the provisions of this Ordinance and of all Regulations made thereunder, the Building Authority may require the authorised architect who signed such certificate to pay a fee of fifty dollars (which shall be paid into the Colonial Treasury) for each further inspection and no permit that such building shall be occupied shall be issued by the Building Authority until he shall have received a further certi- ficate as aforesaid signed by an authorised architect.
(3) If the Building Authority does not, within fourteen days of the receipt of the aforesaid written certificate, notify the owner or his architect or other representative that the building is not in accordance with the provisions of this Ordin ance, such building may be occupied: Provided that in the
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