1078

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Buildings, To direct in what part of Baltimore City build-

ings of wood shall not be erected. To regulate and establish

Preventing

the size of bricks that are to be used in the houses to be built

obstruction

in the City of Baltimore. To provide for the entry into and

of streets,
lanes, alleys,

examination of all dwellings, lots, yards, enclosures and build-

of Baltimore
City.

ings, cars, boats and vehicles of every description ; to ascertain

their condition for health, cleanliness and safety; for the tak-

ing down and removal of buildings, walls, structures or super-

structures that are or may become dangerous, or to require

owners to remove them or put them into a safe and sound

condition at their own expense. To regulate the building and

maintenance of party walls, partitions, fences, parapet and

fire-walls, smoke flues, fire places, hot-air flues, boilers, kettles,

smokestacks and stovepipes. To provide for and regulate the

safe construction, inspection and repairs of all private and

Inspection of

public buildings within the city; and to compel the consump-

public and

tion of smoke, and make such regulations as may be deemed

private
buildings.

necessary to prevent the same from becoming deleterious or

offensive to health. To regulate, restrain or prohibit the erec-

tion of wooden or frame buildings within the present limits

of the city, and to remove the same at the owner's expense when

erected or suffered to remain contrary to law or ordinance.

To regulate the height, construction and inspection of all new

buildings hereafter erected in said city ; and the alterations and

repairs of any buildings already erected or hereafter to be

erected in said city, and the ordinance regulating the construc-

tion and inspection of buildings in said city passed by the City

Council and approved by the Mayor, October 23d, 1891, is here-

by authorized and legalized in the same manner as if full au-

thority had been given by the General Assembly for the passage

of the same prior to its enactment. To regulate (subject to

the restrictions hereinafter set forth) the limits within which it

Steps, porti-

shall be lawful to erect any steps, porticos, bay-windows, bow-

coes, bay-win-
dows, etc.

windows, show windows, signs, columns, piers or other pro-

jections or structural ornaments of any character for the

houses fronting on any of the streets, lanes or alleys of said

city, but no such regulations shall permit any such erection at

any point between the grade of the sidewalk of any such

street, lane or alley, and a point ten feet above such grade;

provided, that outside which such erections, or any of them,

shall lawfully exist between the grade of the said sidewalk and

a point ten feet above such grade at the time of the passage of

this Act, other such erections of the same kind as those herein-

before specified, may be permitted under such regulations as

the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may from time

to time prescribe. The burned district, within the meaning