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(1.) If the height of the house does not exceed
15 ft.

(2.) If the height of the house exceeds 15 ft. but
does not exceed 25 ft.

(3.) If the height of the house exceeds 25 ft. but does
not exceed 35 ft.

(4.) If the height of the house exceeds 35 ft.
For the purposes of these by-laws, where the side boundaries
of any site are not of the same length, the mean length of such
side boundaries shall be taken as the depth of the site for the
purpose of defining the distance across such open space; and
the height of a dwellinghouse shall, for the purposes of these
by-laws, be measured from the average level of the ground
immediately adjoining the side or the rear of such dwelling-
house, as the case may be, to the level of half the vertical
height of the roof or to the top of the parapet, whichever is
the higher.

Preventing Reduction of Space.

(j.) No person shall make any alteration or addition to any
dwellinghouse (whether erected before the coming into
operation of these by-laws or not) whereby the open space
attached to such dwellinghouse shall be diminished by such
alteration or addition so as to leave a less open space than is
required by these by-laws to be provided, or whereby the
open space existing at the time these by-laws come into force,
being less (computed as aforesaid) than that provided for in
these by-laws, shall be diminished or reduced.

Foundations of Concrete.

(k.) In any foundation wall either of concrete, or bricks,
or stone, either separate or conjoined, a proper damp-proof
course of 4 lb. sheet lead, asphalt, or slates laid in cement,
or other durable material impervious to moisture, shall be
laid beneath the level of the lowest timbers, and at a height
of not less than 6 in. above the surface of the ground adjoining
such wall.

Plates and Joists above Ground.

(l.) No part of any plate or joist of any house shall be at
a less distance in case of a plate than 3 in., and in the case
of a joist than 6 in., from any portion of the ground below
or immediately adjoining such plate or joist, as the case may
be. The space between the lowest joist and the ground shall
in all cases have sufficient and proper communication with
the external air for the purpose of ventilation.

Walls of Living-rooms.

(m.) No room in any house other than a bath-room, closet,
or store-room shall have a less average height than 9 ft. between
the floor and the ceiling throughout an area equal to
at least two-thirds of the floor-space.

Insanitary Material.

(n.) No person shall use any materials in the erection,
re-erection, or repair of any dwellinghouse which are unsound,
insanitary, or improper to be used for their intended
purpose; and no person shall bring, or cause to be brought,
any such materials on to the site whereon any building is
being built, added to, altered, or repaired, until such building,
addition, alteration, or repair shall have been completed.

(o.) Any Inspector appointed by the Board may from time
to time enter upon any land during daylight and inspect
any building or material proposed to be used in the construction
of a new dwellinghouse, and no person shall obstruct
any such Inspector or prevent him from making any such
inspection.

(p.) No person shall erect, alter, add to, or renew the
external walls, party walls, or chimneys of any building at a
less distance than 4 ft. from the boundary (other than a road
or street boundary) of the property upon which such erection,
alteration, addition, or renewal shall be made. Provided
that nothing in this clause contained shall prevent the erection,
alteration, addition, or renewal of such walls or chimney
at a less distance than 4 ft. from such boundary if the material
employed in the erection, alteration, addition to, or renewal
of such walls or chimneys be not metal, wood, or other combustible
substance.

(q.) No person shall, after these by-laws shall come into
force, erect, alter, add to, or renew with wood, metal, or
other combustible material the external walls, party walls,
or chimneys of any building within 8 ft. from any other
building.

2. If any dwellinghouse or part of a dwellinghouse be
   erected, altered, or repaired contrary in any particular to the
   provisions of this Part of these by-laws, it shall be lawful
   for the Board to give notice in writing to the owner of such
   dwellinghouse, within a time to be mentioned in such notice,
   to take down, remove, or alter such dwellinghouse or part of
   such dwellinghouse in such a manner that the provisions of

this Part of these by-laws shall be accurately fulfilled. Non-
compliance with any such notice shall be deemed an offence.

3. The penalty for any breach of this Part of these by-laws
   shall be a fine not exceeding £5, and in the case of a continuous
   breach an additional fine not exceeding £5 for every
   day on which the breach is continued after the first day.

SCHEDULE.

Form A.

The Clerk, Avondale Road Board.

I BEG to make application for a permit for the erection of a
building for Mr. , on Lot No. of Subdivision
No. of Section No. , having a frontage of feet
to Road [or Street], by a depth of feet, and in
accordance with plans now lodged.

The contract price is £

Builder:
Address:
Date:

Form B.

Building Permit.

This permit is granted to Mr. , authorizing him to
erect a building for Mr. , on Lot No. of Sub-
division No. of Section No. , having a frontage of
feet to Road [or Street], by a depth of
feet, in accordance with the plans lodged.

For the Avondale Road Board.

Clerk.

PART IV.
SANITARY BY-LAW.
Drainage.

1. From and after the coming into force of these by-laws,
   every person on whose behalf any underground drain, or
   on whose behalf any water-closet or septic tank, is laid or
   constructed shall cause all the provisions of this Part of
   these by-laws to be complied with.

(a.) It shall not be lawful for any person hereafter in any
manner to erect, make, or establish a water-closet or drain,
or drain connection, or to construct or alter any sanitary
appliance or work, without having first obtained a permit
from the Board. Application for such permit to be accompanied
by a plan of such proposed drainage.

(b.) Every person to whom a permit has been granted
shall give twenty-four hours' notice in writing to the Sanitary
Inspector for the time being of the Board by leaving the
same at the Board's office that the underground work in
connection with the laying, alteration of, opening up, cleaning,
or removal of drains will be open and ready for inspection;
and no such work shall be covered up until it shall
have been inspected, tested, and approved by the Sanitary
Inspector.

(c.) All underground drains used or intended to be used
to carry away sewage or household waste waters or matters
from any house or dwelling, and all sanitary connections
therewith, shall in every case be constructed, adapted, and
maintained in such manner as to sufficiently and efficiently
carry away such sewage or household waste waters or matters.

(d.) No person shall allow any household waste or offensive
matters to flow from any building or land in his occupation
on to a road or into a ditch or open drain.

(e.) Every sink, lavatory-basin, closet-basin, or bath shall
be placed so that the outlet thereof is as near as possible to
the external wall of the room containing any such sanitary
fitting, and the gully-traps over which the waste-pipes from
such fittings discharge shall be so placed as to enable such
waste-pipes to be of the shortest possible length.

(f.) No person shall lead the waste matters from any
water-closet into any drain or sewer not being a brick, concrete,
ferro-concrete, iron, or earthenware-pipe drain or
sewer. No person shall erect any water-closet under subsection
(a) hereof unless all the drains and sewers through
which the waste matters from such water-closet would pass
are closed drains and sewers from such water-closet, connected
to or with a final sewer outfall or septic tank so constructed
and maintained as when used not to be offensive or injurious
to health.

(g.) No inlet connected with a drain shall be laid or maintained
within or under a building. For every house where
drainage is provided a gully-trap must be provided in the
yard placed where most convenient for kitchen waste waters.

(h.) For household slops and discharge from the waste-
pipes of baths, sinks, and lavatories self-cleansing gully-
traps shall be used, such traps to be not less than 6 in.
diameter at the inlet and 4 in. at the outlet, and fitted with
dished tops and moveable gratings. The dish must be
joined to the trap by means of a socket and spigot joint
properly finished with cement, or may be of one piece with
the trap, and the depth of the dish to the top of the grating