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Amends see- tion 189 of Ordinance

No. 1 of 1903.

Method of determina- tion of height of buildings.

Amends

scrtion 204

6. Section 189 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance 1903 is hereby repealed, and there shall be substituted therefor the following section :-

(1.) Wherever it is possible to do so the height of any building shall be determined by measuring on the line of the wall abutting upon the street which regulates the height, from the level of such street, the full vertical height allowed by the foregoing section. Such full vertical height shall also be measured from the level of such street on the line of the nearest main wall opposite to the wall abutting on the street, except where sugh opposite wall abuts upon another streat. From the points thus determined on the two walls lines shall be drawn at angles.of thirty degrees with the horizontal, and any part of the building (except any chimney or party wall, or any ornamental tower, turret, or other architectural feature or decoration, or any parapet not exceeding three feet in height) falling outside such lines shall be deemed illegal. Provided always that in the case of any existing building which exceeds in height one and a half times the width of the street upon which it abuts, the structure of the roof, or any part thereof, shall not be so altered or added to that any portion of such structure will fall outside lines drawn at augles of thirty degrees with the horizontal from points determined by measuring a full vertical height equal to one and a half times The width of such street on the lines of the main walls in the manner described in this sub-section.

(2.) In the event of the street on which a build- ing abuts not being level throughout the extent of such bubling, the height shall be measured from the central point of the external face of the wall abutang on such street.

(3.) In any case which does not fall within the foregoing provisions the height of the build- ing shall be determined in such manner as the Building Authority may direct,”

7. Section 204 of the Pablis fealth and Buildings Ordinance 1903 as amended by section 66 of the Public of Ordinance Health and Buildings Amendment Ordinance 1908 is

No. 1 of

1903 as

amended by Ordinance

No. 14 of 1908.

hereby further amended :--

for

(4.) by the substitution of the word "certified

the word reported " in the third line of sub- section (1) and by the deletion of all the words at the end of the said sub-section which follow the words "certificate that" and by the substi- tution there!r of the words “such building may be occupied “.

(b) by the addition after sub-section (2) thereof and before the proviso of the following sub- section, to be numbered (3) :-

(3.) If, after having received zuch certificate from an authorized architec), the Buildng 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 alt Byelaws and Regulations made therenader, the Building Authority may require the authorized architect who signed such certificate to pay a fee of twenty-five dollars for a further inspection, and no certificate that such building may he occupied shall be issued by the Building Authority until he shall have received a further certificate as aforesaid signed by an authorized arghitect."

(c.) by the deletion of the word “report

in the

second line of the proviso and by the substitu- tion therefor of the word "certificate".

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