A manual of statutes of Connecticut : relating to the public health and safety / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health.

Connecticut

Date:: 1902

Credit: A manual of statutes of Connecticut : relating to the public health and safety / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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$§ 2612. Owner may appeal from order. Said owner, builder, or occu- Re\8;^!^ pant, may appeal from such order to the superior court of the county in which said building is, or to a judge of said court in vacation, by a petition, to which shall be annexed a citation to the town, city, or borough, which shall be served within three days after the service of such order, and be returnable within three days after the service of such petition, and upon such petition such court or judge shall appoint three disinterested freeholders to view the premises and report to such court or judge such an order as they may deem expedient m reference thereto, which, being accepted, shall become effectual between the parties to the appeal; and said court or judge may award costs at discretion. § 2613. Execution of orders not complied with, if a final order ^1^:,,,., shall not be executed within ten days after its service by copy. or. if made od appeal, within ten days after its acceptance by such court or judge, the selectmen, common council, or warden and burgesses, shall execute it. and the person who failed to comply with it shall pay to the town. city, or borough the expense of it- execution, and be fined not more than one thousand dollars. § 2614. Regulations concerning elevators. No person, partnership, or »«.<*• <»■ corporation shall permit or employ a person under the age of sixteen years to have the care, custody, operation, or management of an elevator. Every per- son, partnership, or corporation violating any provision of this section shall forfeit not more than twenty-five dollars for each offense. § 2628. Fire escapes to be provided. Every story above the first story B^J^ffsMB. of a building used as a schoolhouse, orphan asylum, insane asylum, reforma- ig^'c^'alfii. tory, opera house, hall for public assemblies, boarding house accommodating i896.ch.2B4. more than twelve persons, or tenement house occupied by more than five families. shall he provided with more than one way id' egress, by stairways on the inside or fire escapes on the outside of such building. Said stairways and lire escapes shall, at all times, lie kept free from obstruction and shall he accessible from each room in every story above the first story. § 2629. Fire escapes in hotels. If any building specified in § 8628, r^I^-jw. or any workshop, manufactory, hotel, boarding house, tenement house, or other 1^;\-.,;%]'^ building used, in whole or in part, for any of the purposes there specified, or taufih. m. in which more than twenty persons shall be employed above the first story, shall be more than two stories in height, it shall be provided with at least one fire escape, of iron or other incombustible material, on the outside of said build- ing; unless, in the opinion of the authority inspecting the same, such building is sufficiently supplied with safe and proper means of egress; and if such build- ing shall be more than one hundred and fifty feet in length it shall be provided with one such fire escape for every one hundred and fifty feet, or fractional part thereof exceeding fifty feet, and such fire escapes shall be conveniently accessible from each story of said building. S 2630. Penalty. The owner of every such building shall provide such J^1; '.^ fire escapes and means of egress, or cause the same to be provided, and. if he $$ftffigi, shall neglect to do so for a period of three months after notice from the build- im-ch-* SiJ ing inspector or other proper authority, he shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.$