and pay a penalty of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for every such offense; and a like penalty for every week that such building or other structure, bay window, fire escape or other projection shall remain in violation of any of the provisions of this section.

SEC. 3. The Board of Aldermen shall have power to cause numbers, of regular series, to be affixed to, or inscribed on all buildings, or parts of buildings, erected or fronting on any street, alley or public court in said city; and shall also have power to determine the form, size and material of such numbers, and the mode, place, succession and order of inscribing and affixing them on the respective houses or other buildings. Any owner or occupant of any building, or part of a building. who shall neglect or refuse for sixty days to affix to the same the number designated by the Board of Aldermen, or who shall affix to the same or retain thereon more than one day any number contrary to the direction of said board, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than one nor more than twenty dollars for every such offense, and a like penalty for every day thereafter until the directions of said board are complied with.

SEC. 4. No person shall injure or deface any public or private building, fence, sign or property in said city, by cutting, breaking, marking, daubing with paint, or in any other manner. Any person offending against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not more than fifty dollars for every such offense.

SEC. 5. Whenever any building, or part of a building in said city shall, in the opinion of the Board of Aldermen, become unsafe by reason of its use or mode of construction, said board shall have power to make such order relative to the discontinuance or modification of such use, and the demolition, repair or strengthening of such building, after giving the parties in interest reasonable opportunity to be heard, as the nature of the occasion requires; and to prohibit the use of such building, or part of a building, until the order of said board is complied with. Such order shall prescribe the time within which such use shall be discontinued or mode of construction modified, or such demolition, repairs or strengthen

ing made, and the City Clerk shall cause a certified copy of said order to be served upon the owners or occupants of any such building, or part of building, or the agent of any such owner, as said board may direct. Every occupant of every building, or part of a building, who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the order of said board relative to the use of said building, or part of a building, upon notice thereof as herein provided, and every owner of any building, or part of a building, who shall neglect to comply with the order of said board relative to the demolition, repair or strengthening of such building, or part of a building, upon notice thereof as herein provided, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and a like penalty for every day thereafter until the order of said board is complied with.

SEC. 6. Whenever any building in said city, designed in whole or in part for public use, shall, in the opinion of the Board of Aldermen, be unsafe by reason of insufficient facilities for egress in case of fire or other accident, said board shall have power to make such order relative to the alteration of such building, after giving the parties in interest reasonable opportunity to be heard, as the nature of the case requires; and to prohibit the use of such building for public purposes until the order of said board is complied with. Such order shall prescribe the time within which such alterations shall be made, and a copy thereof shall be served upon the parties in interest, in the same manner as provided in the next preceding section. Every owner of any such building who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the order of said board relative to such alteration, upon due notice thereof, and every lessee or owner of any such building who shall use, or allow the same to be used, for public purposes when prohibited by said board, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and a like penalty for every day. thereafter until the order of said board is complied with.

SEC. 7. Every building near any street or sidewalk in said city, shall be furnished with a balustrade or other contrivance, sufficient to prevent any slide of snow or ice falling from the

roof thereof upon such street or sidewalk. Every owner of such building, or his agent, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dollars for every neglect or refusal to make the same comply with this section, and an additional penalty of five dollars for every week he shall neglect or refuse to provide such protection after a written order from the Superintendent of Streets so to do.

Passed by Board of Aldermen May 10, 1897. Operative May 21, 1897.

AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO BUILDING IN THE CITY OF WATERBURY, CONN.

Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen of the City of Waterbury:

PART I, SHORT TITLE OF ORDINANCE.

TITLE OF ORDINANCE.

SECTION I. The following provisions shall constitute and be known as The Building Ordinance and may be cited as such, and presumptively provides for all matters concerning, affecting or relating to the construction, alteration or removal of buildings or structures erected or to be erected in the City of Waterbury except so far as such provisions are contained in the charter of said city.

BUILDING ORDINANCE TO BE CONSTRUED LIBERALLY.

SEC. 2. This ordinance is hereby declared to be remedial and is to be construed liberally to secure the beneficial interests and purposes thereof.

SEC. 3.

PART II. PRELIMINARY REQUIREMENTS.

NEW BUILDINGS OR THOSE TO BE ALTERED.

No building already erected or hereafter to be built in this city shall be raised, lowered, moved or built upon in any manner not in accordance with any or all of the provisions of this ordinance.

FILING PLANS AND STATEMENTS.

SEC. 4. Before beginning the erection or alteration of any building or part of any building or structure the owner or his agent shall file with the Building Inspector:

First-An application for permission to build which shall be made out on printed blanks furnished by the Building Inspector.

Second-A detailed specification fully and accurately describing the materials and methods of construction to be employed.

Third-Complete working and detail drawings showing arrangement and construction of buildings; where same may, in the opinion of the Building Inspector, be reasonably required to clearly indicate the nature of the work to be constructed.

And the erection, construction or alteration of said building or structure shall not be commenced or proceeded with until such statements and plans shall have been filed with the Building Inspector and approved and permission granted.

And the erection, construction or alterations of said building or structure when proceeded with shall be in strict accordance with said approved detailed statements and plans.

Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the Building Inspector from granting his approval for the erection of any part of a building or structure where statements and plans have been submitted for the same before the entire plans and detailed statements of building or structure have been submitted.

TIME LIMIT FOR PERMITS.

Any approval which may be issued by the Building Inspector in accordance with the provisions of this section, but after which no work is commenced within one year from the time of issuing, shall expire by limitation.

ORDINARY REPAIRS.

Repairs of buildings or structures may be made without notice to the Building Inspector, but such repairs shall not include the cutting away of any masonry wall or any portion thereof, the removal or cutting of any beams or supports or the removal, change or closing of any staircase.