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HomeMy WebLinkAbout~Master - Requiring Building Requirement Conformity for Certain Buildings Ordinance No 476 i r ='' .AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING CHURCHES, SCHQOZrS, LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, SOCIAL CENTERS, C OL2 UNITY BUILDINGS, HOSPITALS AND SIMILAR. BUILDINGS TO CONFORM TO BUILDI NG`.REQUIREMENT$ AS SET FORTH IN ORDINANCE: NO. 411, SAID ORDINANCE NO. 411 BEING COMMONLY KNOWN AS "FIRE LIMITS" ORDINANCE. Be it Ordained by the City Council of the City of Ames, Iowa: Section 1. That all churches, schools, libraries, museums, social centers, community buildings, hospitals, and similar buildings hereafter erected in the City of Ames, Iowa, shall conform to the building requirements as set forth in Ordinance No. 411, said Ordinance No,. 411 being commonly- known as the "Fire Limits" Ordinance, Section 2. This requirement is intended to guide the City Council in passing upon the plans submitted for such buildings, and not in this Ordinance shall prevent the City Council from permitting . the construction of one or more story buildings with walls of less thickness or other construction than provided in said Ordinaneb No. 411. Section 3. Any such building, or addition thereto, erected-or re- paged or altered in violation of the provisions of this Ordinance or erected, repaired or altered without a building p emit -having, been first obtained, shall be subject to removal or destruction upon the order of this Council; and the owner of such buildim- or buildings shall pay the costs and exprnse of such removal br'.'des-. truction, the same to be especially assessed against the real es- tate upon which the said building or buildings are located, or the same may be collected by action in Court. Section 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances .in conflict here with are hereby repealed. Such repeal, however, shall not exempt from prosecution any person guilty of violating any provisiens .of such .repealed or dina.nees, nor shall it exempt buildings erected or repaired in violation-"-. of such ordinances from removal or destructs n., upon orders of the City- Council. Section 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its passage and publication as provided by law. Duly passed the 6th day of July 1937, aTl ayor ATTEST: rather, City Clerk.