ORDINANCE NO 95 [part 1]
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR FIRE LIMITS, THE CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF BUILDINGS AND FIRE PREVENTION AND PROTECTION IN CONNECTION WITH HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AND PROCESSES.

Be it ordained by the Board of Alderman of the City of Browning, Missouri, as follows:
ARTICLE 1 FIRE LIMITS AND PLANS AND PERMITS
SECTION 101. FIRE LIMITS. The following shall be and are declared to be the fire limits; beginning at A point where the south line of "B" Street intersects the West line of State Highway No. 5; thence in a southerly direction along the west line of said Highway to a point where said line intersects the northline of "D" street; thence West on the north line of "D" street to the East line of "6th." street; thence north along the East line of "6th." street to the south line of "B" Street; thence East along the South line of "B"street to the place of beginning.
SECTION 102. PERMIT REQUIRED. except as hereinafter exempted in this section, no wall, structure, building or part thereof shall hereafter be built, enlarged, or altered within the corporate limits until a plan of the proposed work, together with a statement of the materials to be used, shall have been submitted in writing in duplicate to board of aldermen, who shall in accordance with the provisions herein contained, issue a permit for the proposed construction. The permit herein required shall be made in duplicate and in such form as may be adopted by a resolution of the City Council and one copy thereof shall be kept on file in the office of the city clerk.
Ordinary repairs and minor alterations not involving any change in major structural parts such as walls, beams, girders, chimneys and flues, or involving a cost of not more than two hundred dollars, or erection of detached outbuildings outside the fire limits (such as sheds, chicken houses, and one-car private garages) costing not more than two hundred dollars; or minor changes or repairs in electrical wiring or equipment, shall not require the issuance of a permit. No building shall be moved until a permit has been obtained from Board of Aldermen and such official shall not issue such permit if in his judgment the proposed new location would seriously increase the fire hazards of the surrounding buildings. When any wall, structure, building, or part thereof shall be constructed within the corporate limits without a permit or contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, it shall be taken or torn down or removed, and the expense incident thereto shall be recovered of the owner of said property by a suit in a court of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION 103. INSPECTION OF CONSTRUCTION. The Mayor, or other officer designated by the Board of Aldermen shall inspect all buildings or structures during construction to see that the provisions of this ordinance are complied with. Whenever in his opinion, by reason of defective or illegal work in violation of a provision of this ordinance, the continuance of a building operation is contrary to public welfare, he may order all further work to be stopped and may require suspension of work until condition in violation has been remedied.
ARTICLE II CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT OF BUILDINGS IN GENERAL
SECTION 201. MASONRY WALLS, AND FIRE RETARDANT ROOF COVERINGS REQUIRED WITHIN FIRE LIMITS. Every building hereafter erected or enlarged within the fire limits as set out in SECTION 101, shall, except as provided for in SECTION 202, be enclosed on all sides with walls constructed wholly of brick, stone, hollow tile, hollow or solid concrete block, concrete, or other equivalent incombustible materials; and shall have the roof, also top and sides of all roof structure, including dormer windows, covered with incombustible or fire retardant materials. All cornices shall be incombustible material. Buildings with wooden frame-work clad with sheet metal or stucco or veneered with brick or its equivalent shall be classed as frame.
SECTION 202. PERMISSIBLE WOODEN AND METAL STRUCTURES WITHIN FIRE LIMITS. No frame, wooden or metal structure shall hereafter be built within the fire limits as given herein, or as they may be hereafter established, except the following:
(a) Temporary one-story buildings for use of builders, only in connection with a building operation for which a permit has been issued under SECTION 102.
(b) Fences not exceeding 10 feet in height.
(c) Porches, balconies and canopies not exceeding 10 feet in width, nor extending more than 3 feet above the second story floor beams. No such structure shall be joined to any similar structure of another building.
(d) Bay windows when covered with incombustible or fire retardant materials.
(e) Small detached outbuildings not exceeding 150 sq. ft. in area and 8 ft. in height, and not within 5 feet of any lot line.
(f) Dwellings not exceeding two stories in height and separated by at least 5 feet from lot line of adjoining property.
(g) A building occupied exclusively as a private garage or stable, not more than one story in height nor more than 750 sq. ft. in area, located on the same lot with a dwelling; provided that such
building be placed at least three feet from the lot line.
(h) One story all metal building or other unprotected non-combustible construction, with no wood in wall or roof structure, having a horizontal separation of at least ten feet on all sides, with area not exceeding 2500 square feet when used for a business occupancy, or not exceeding 1000 square feet when used for other occupancy. Business occupancy means the use of a building or structure or transacting of business or rendering or receiving of professional services; including among others, banks, barber sops, beauty parlors, offices, radio and television stations,. telephone exchanges.
(i) Coal Tipples, ice houses, material bins, trestles and water tanks when built of planking and timbers of the dimension usual for heavy timber construction.
(j.) Cooling towers not in excess of 250 sq. ft. in base area and 15 ft. in. height.
(k) Greenhouses not more than 15' in height, erected on the same lot, with and accessory to dwelling or store.
(l) Non-combustible display signs, or combustible display signs when not over 15' high and not attached to or forming part of any other structure.
No frame or metal building or other unprotected non-combustible construction not in conformity with this section shall be moved from without to within the fire limits, or from one lot to another lot within the first limits.
SECTION 203. REPAIRING FRAME BUILDINGS WITHIN FIRE LIMITS. Any existing frame building within the fire limits not in conformity with this ordinance, which may hereafter be damaged by fire, decay or otherwise to an amount greater than one-half of its value, exclusive of foundation, shall not be repaired or rebuilt, but shall be removed.
SECTION 204. LIMITS OF AREA AND HEIGHTS. The floor area of buildings between fire walls shall not exceed the following:
Type of Construction. One Story Exceeding one Story.
Ordinary construction 9000 sq. ft. 6000 sq. ft.
Unprotected non-combustible
construction 9000 sq. ft. 6000 sq. ft.
Wood Frame Construction 6000 sq. ft. 4000 sq. ft.
If fronting on more than one street, above areas may be increased 25% for each additional street.
For the purpose of this section a street shall be deemed to include any avenue, boulevard, street, alley or lane, twenty feet or greater in width, or any court, parking space or yard with direct connection to a street, and not less than twenty feet wide, Such court, parking space or yard shall be the property of the owner of the building and shall not be enclosed or roofed over. Non-fire-resistive buildings, fully equipped with approved automatic sprinklers, may be 200% greater in area than the above. Fire-resistive buildings (reinforced concrete frame, floors and roofs or the equivalent) shall not be limited as to area or height. No building shall exceed three stories or 45 feet in height unless of fire-resistive construction (reinforced concrete frame, floors and roof or the equivalent).
SECTION 205. MEANS OF EXIT. Every room of any building exceeding 1,000 sq. ft. in area or occupied by more then 100 persons shall have at least two exits. Every story of nay building shall have at least one exit and every story that exceeds 2,500 sq. ft. in area shall have at least two separate and independent exits. All doors in required exits shall swing in the direction of exit travel. The term exit and the required number of exits, their location, unobstructed width, illumination and indicating signs shall be n accordance with a nationally recognized standard and satisfactory to FIRE CHIEF.
SECTION 206. MASONRY WALLS. Those walls which are required by this ordinance to be of masonry construction shall be continuous from foundation to the roof. The thickness of such walls shall be sufficient to carry safely all imposed loads and shall comply with minimum dimensions as specified in this section/
(a) BRICK BEARING WALLS, not common to more than one building, shall have a minimum thickness of 12" for one story buildings or for the upper two stories of buildings more than one story in height. This minimum thickness shall be increased 4" for each two stories or fraction thereof below the upper two stories. (For example, minimum thickness required for a seven-story wall would be 24,20,20,16,16,12 and 12 inches.) Brick bearing walls. not common to more than one building, may be 8" in thickness under the following conditions:
(1) walls of dwellings not over two stories in height, and
(2) walls not over 15 feet in height, provided such walls are reinforced at intervals not exceeding 20 feet by cross walls, piers or buttresses.
(b) BRICK NON-BEARING WALLS, not wholly supported by girders at each story, and not common to more than one building, shall conform to minimum thickness of sub-section (a) above except that walls 4" less in thickness may be permitted where 16" or greater thickness is specified in sub-section (a). (For example, minimum thicknesses required for a seven-story wall would be 20,16, 16, 12, 12, 12, and 12 inches).
(c) BRICK NON-BEARING WALLS, WHOLLY SUPPORTED BY GIRDERS AT EACH STORY, may be 12" in thickness where common to more than one building or 8" in thickness where not common to more than one building.

(d)BRICK WALLS WHICH ARE COMMON TO MORE THAN ONE BUILDING when not covered by sub-section (c) above shall conform to the minimum thickness of sub-section (a) except that no such wall shall be less than 16" in thickness.
(e) NATURAL STONE WALLS shall be 4" thicker than specified above for brick walls. HEWN OR SQUARED STONE WALLS shall conform to the thickness specified above for brick walls.
(f) HOLLOW MASONRY WALLS shall conform to the thickness specified above for brick walls except that no hollow block or hollow tile walls shall be used where common to more than one building unless faced on both sides with not less than 4" of brick properly bonded. Where structure members project into hollow masonry units, the hollow space shall be filled with non-combustible material the full thickness of the wall and 6" or more above, between and below such members.
(g)REINFORCED CONCRETE WALLS of monolithic construction shall be not less than 2/3 the thickness specified above for brick walls except that no such wall shall be less than 6" in thickness. CONCRETE WALLS NOT PROPERLY REINFORCED shall conform to the thickness specified above for brick walls.
(h) OTHER NON-COMBUSTIBLE WALLS - Where acceptable to the FIRE CHIEF other non-combustible materials of required structural stability may be used in walls, when conforming with the following minimum requirements:
[1] Type of Wall
[2] Horizontal Separation
[3] Fire Resistance Rating Not Less Than
[4] Total area of window opening
not exceeding
[1] [2] [3] [4]
Fire Wall, bearing 4 hours None Permitted
or non-bearing
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Bearing Wall less than 3' 3 hours None Permitted
at least 3' 2 hours None Permitted
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Non-Bearing Wall less than 3' 3 hours 40% of total wall area.
at least 3' 2 hours 40% of total wall area.
at least 20 1 hour 60% of total wall area