Ordinance 1632 - Laserfiche WebLink

• It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to maintain, operate or use, or cause or permit to be maintained, operated or used any elevator within the city of Everett unless the •same is operated, maintained or used in accordance with the provis- ions contained in this section; provided, that if it shall be nec- essary to reconstruct, alter, change or repair any elevator- main- tained, used or operated, in use at the time of the taking effect of this ordinance, in order to make such elevator conform. to the provisions herein contained, the person, firm or corporation operat- ing, maintaining or using such elevator shall have ninety NO) days after the taking effect of this ordinance to make such repairs, alterations or changes. Section 3: That Section 137' of said Ordinance No . 1260 be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: DOORS, AND WIDTH OF STAIRS. Section 137: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to construct, erect or maintain, within :she city of Everett, any place of public assembly, hotel, public apartment. house, rooming house, or lodging house, or to use or to cause to be used any building as a place of public assesmbly, hotel, public•. apartment house, rooming house, or lodging house unless such place, building, hotel, public apartment house, rooming house or lodging house conforms to the following specifications, to-wit: The width of stairs shall be taken as the distance in the clear between walls, handrails, newel posts or other obstructions. Stairs and public halls leading thereto when designed for and intend- ed for a means of egress for more than three resident families or in any building other than dwellings and buildings appurtenant there- to, shall be at least three feet six inches wide, and all halls shall be at least six inches wider than the widest door swinging into them. Exit doors from stairs at ground floor either single or in the aggregate be at least equal in width to the stairs they serve and shall when serving as exits from places of public asseemb1y, swing outward.. All doors serving as exits from places of public: