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Home My WebLink AboutA001 - proof of publication, April 30, 1973 Section 2. Toilet Room Facilities. In all toilet rooms or Proof of Publication in The bathrooms, except those in- * ,„ tended to serve only one ANTES DAILY TRIBUNE — -- - dwelling unit or hotel or motel ORDINANCE NO. 2440 _ room,the'doors to such rooms A N ORDINANCE shall be at least thirty inches STATE OF IOWA,STORY COUNTY,ss. REGULATING THE CON- (30 ) in width,and there shall STRUCTI0N AND be; W. T. Farley on oath RECONSTRUCTION OF (1) Where water closet h? ?CIX?LX BUILDINGS SO AS TO compartments_ __are,_ depose and say that I am 2[H9¢9f{1oreman BETTER ACCOMMODATE provided,at least one such of the AMES DAILY TRIBUNE, a daily PHYSICALLY HANDICAP- compartment shall have a PED AND ELDERLY width of thirty-six inches newspaper, printed at Ames, Story County, CITIZENS. (36")or more,and it shall BE IT ORDAINED BY THE be accessible by a clear Iowa; that the annexed printed 0rdinanO CITY COUNCIL OF THE space u-iobstructed by CITY OF AMES, IOWA: door swing, grab bars or 2.�tQ______. Section, 1. Purpose and similar items of not less Scope. than thirty-two inches The purpose of this or- (32") in front of the toilet dinance is to increase the stool. Grab bars shall be was published in said newspaper for accessibility of public places conveniently provided on to physically handicapped and one or more sides and the consecutive weeks, the first ________________ elderly persons. It shall be back of each such com- and the last of said publication was on the applicable to buildings on partment or room. which construction is begun (2) Where mirrors are Qth_ day of ----lkFri------------ after the effective date provided,one mirror shall ---- 3 hereinafter provided and be installed within forty when, after the effective date inches (40") of the floor. 19 �� hereof, additjons, alterations (3) Where towel and l or repairs within any twelve disposal fixtures ar'e (12)month period exceed fifty provided, one shall be Sworn to before me and subscri�Iz_<- - ;e7i, my percent (501't) of the value of installed within forty W. T. Farley an existing building or inches (40") of the floor. presence by ) 1$sX1�36dK structure and entail the (4) Where lavatories are this ---1$t,Yl__ day of ----� ---- ---- removal of interior walls or installed, at least one --- ceilings thereof, such building lavatory shall be con- shall be made to conform to strutted within thirty-five 1 -----' the requirement of this or- inches (35") of the floor otary Public dinance. and shall have a clear in and for Story County. space underneath; - Fees, $--_5L._7_5_. provided, however, that all apartments,hotels and motels Aircraft Hangars (No repair) Section 8. Ramps Yes 4 of ten (10) units or more shall Auction Rooms This section shall every apply I to Yes r construct at least ten percent Assembly Areas, Con- an amp which serves as Yes 4—Provided ten percent i (10 of said units in com- centrated Use of the units are accessible b pliance with the above (without fixed seats) (a) The Width of ramps ramps or elevators. Y requirements. Auditoriums shall be same as is No Section 3. Drinking Foun- Bowling Alleys required for stair- Yes 5 tains. (assembly areas) ways. Where drinking fountains Churches and Chapels (b) Ramps required by Yes are provided,at least one shall Dance Floors Section 7 shall not Yes In Hotels and in have a drinking spout within Lodge Rooms exceed a slope of one Apartments more than three thrity-three inches(33")of the Reviewing Stands vertical to ten (3) stories floor and shall have up-front Stadiums horizontal. The slope No hand operated controls. Assembly areas, Less- of other ramps shall Yes 2 Where such fountain is concentrated Use not exceed one Yes recessed, the recess and Conference Rooms vertical to eight No extended access thereto shall Dining Rooms horizontal. be not less than thirty-two. Drinking Establishments (c) A ramp having a Yes inches (32") in width. Exhibit Rooms slope greater than Yes 4—In office buildings of Section 4. Public Gymnasiums one vertical to fifteen more than three (3) stories Telephones. Lounges horizontal shall have Where public telephones are Skating Rinks a landing at the top Yes provided,at least one shall be Stages and at the bottom installed so that the headset, Children's Homes and Homes and at least one If public invited dial, and coin receiver are for the Aged intermediate landing Yes within forty inches(40")of the Classrooms at each five feet of If public invited floor. Unobstructed access Dormitories rise.The top landing Yes 4 within twelve inches (12") of and intermediate Yes 4 the telephone shall be landing shall be at provided. Such access shall Dwellings least five feet in not be less than thirty-two Garage, Parking length. The landing ramp shall n'ot" be inches (32") in width and Hospitals and Sanitariums, at the bottom of the reduced to less than g ramp shall be not depth. Nursing Homes forty-two inches Section 5. Change in Floor Hotels and Apartments less than six feet in such door, and(42") by the swing of he Level at Doors. length. The landing In all buildings,except those door shall not reduce intended and used solely as Kitchen-Commercial — the required landing residences or teri '(10) Library Reading Room required, such exits shall be width by more than families or less, there shall be Locker Rooms located and arranged to three and one-half a floor or landing on each side Mechanical Equipment Room Permit travel in opposite inches when the door of all interior doorways, and Nurseries for Children (Day- directions from any pomtii- is fully open. such floor or landing shall be Care) the corridor to a separate exit (d) A ramp having .a provided for at least one ex- Offices except for a deadend corridor. slope exceeding one Where a corridor or exterior vertical to fifteen School Shops and Vocational exit balcony is accessible to an horizontal shall have terior entryway. Said floor or Rooms elevator,changes in elevation h a n d r a i l s as landing level shall not be more Stores: of the floor shall be made by required for stair than one inch (1") lower than Basement means of a ramp. ways, except that the threshold of the doorway. Ground Floor Upper Floors Features. intermediate hand- Where a door opens over a Section 7. Special Access rails need not be landing at the head or foot of Warehouses provided. Such the stairway,the landing shall All Others The following chart sets out handrails shall ex- have a length of not less than special features that shall be tend at least one foot five feet (5'). In all apart- (2) Access to secondary included in all construction or beyond either end of ments, hotels and motels of areas on balconies or reconstruction for the pur- the ramp. ten(10)units or more,at least mezzanines may be poses indicated: (e) The surface of a ten percent of the units by stairs only. Ramp and or Elevator ramp shall be will have doorways with a (3) Reviewing stands, Yes roughened or shall be threshold of not more than one grandstands and Yes finished with non-slip inch (1")above floor or grade bleachers need not materials. level. comply. Section 9. When Section 6. Corridors and (4) Access to floors Yes 2, 3 Effective. Exterior Exit Balconies. other than that This ordinance shall be in Where more than one exit is closest to grade may effect after its final passage, be by stairs only. approval, and publication as (5) Access to floors other_, provided by law. than that closest to Passed by the City Council grade and to garages the 24th day of April,1973,and used in connection approved this 24th day of with apartment April, 1973. houses may be by Stuart N. Smith, stairs only. Yes 2 Mayor Mary E. Paul, City Clerk Publsihed in The Ames Daily Tribune, April 30, 1973.