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Sec. 7.-Section 16. of the said By-law No. 236, as amended by section 5 of By-law No. 267, is further amended by replacing it by the following:

"No license shall be transferable, nor shall the same authorize any person to do business or act under it, but the person or persons named therein."

Sec. 10.-Every license granted under the present By-law may be suspended or revoked by the City Treasurer by reason of misconduct, incompetency or violation of any By-Law on the part of the licensee.

Sec. 12. The said Treasurer shall grant none of the licenses mentioned below, except upon the written recommendation of the officials hereinafter designated:

Of the Superintendent of Police and Inspector of Buildings jointly For dancing halls, concert halls, meeting halls, halls where theatrical performances are given or places of amusement.

Of the Inspector of Buildings—For lumber, hay, straw or fire-wood yards, oil refineries, saw mills, foundries, furniture factories, blacksmiths' shops, joiner shops, shops for the repairing of furniture and all other such establishments dangerous for fire, factories and stores for the sale or storage of sky rockets or other fire works, varnishes, naphtha oil, benzine, petroleum, oils, gasoline or other very inflammable products, motors operated by gas, coal oil, gasoline, naphtha, electricity or any other power except steam.

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Sec. 13. No person shall represent himself falsely as one of the city constables designated as license inspectors, nor, not being duly authorized to that effect, shall wear the badge such inspector, nor shall prevent any of the said constables, when wearing their inspectors' badges, from entering into any house or upon any property, nor shall assault them while in the lawful performance of their duties.

NOTE: The PENALTY Section is the same as other by-laws.

BY-LAW TO PLACE THE INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE WORKSHOPS AND STORES COMMITTEE.

(ADOPTED 18TH JANUARY, 1904, NUMBER 310)

Sect. 1.-Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the several By-Laws adopted by the Council, the Inspector of Buildings and his assistant shall hereafter be under the jurisdiction of the Workshops & Stores Committee, and all clauses of said By-laws inconsistent with this By-Law are therefore repealed.

NOTE: This By-Law was never enforced as there is no permanent committee known as the "Workshops and Stores Committee." A recent resolution adopted by the City Council, has replaced the Inspector of Buildings and his Assistant under the jurisdiction of the Fire and Light Committee.

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LEGISLATION RESPECTING PUBLIC BUILDINGS. 57 VICTORIA, CHAPTER 29, AS AMENDED

BY 63 VICT., CHAP. 22.

HER MAJESTY, by and with the consent of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

1.-Section first of chapter second of title seventh of the Revised Statutes is replaced by the following.

SECTION 1.

SAFETY IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

1.-INTERPRETATIVE AND DECLARING PROVISIONS. "2973-The words; "public building," mean and include churches chapels or buildings used as such, seminaries, colleges, convents and school-houses, hospitals and asylums, hotels and boarding houses capable of receiving ten or more boarders, theatres, halls for public meetings, lectures or public amusements, shops and stores of all sizes and buildings of three (3) stories or more over the ground floor occupied as offices.

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'2974.-The words: "proprietors of public buildings," include individuals, companies and corporations who are proprietors, tenant or in possession under any title whatsoever, of any of the buildings mentioned in the definition given in the preceding articles, and their agents.

2.-APPLICATION OF THE LAW.

"2975.-Saving such restrictions as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may be pleased to determine in the regulations which he may make under article 2987, all public buildings mentioned in article 2973 are subject to the provisions of this law.

3.-SAFETY IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

"2976. The public buildings mentioned in articles 2973, must afford all the security required by this act and the regulations made under its authority.

2.-Public buildings now open to the public, and which would require too heavy expense to be made comfortable to the prescribed requirements, must, however, be made to conform thereto as much as possible, to the satisfaction of the Inspector.

3.-A new public building shall be so erected as to avoid at the outset all defects which it would be very difficult to remedy afterwards, and to this end, the architect's plans must be previously submitted to the Inspector.

4. When extensive alterations are made to a public building, an architect's certificate as to the solidity and safety of such building shall be given to the Inspector.

5.-If the destination of a public building is so altered that greater solidity is required, an architect's certificate as to such solidity shall be given by the proprietor to the Inspector.

—DUTIES OF PROPRIETORS OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS. "2977.-Every proprietor of a public building shall:

1.-Transmit to the Inspector a written notice, giving his name, the name of the building and its destination, as well as the name of the place whese it is situated, within thirty (30) days previous to the opening of such building to the public, if it be recently erected, and within sixty (60) days from the coming into force of this section, if it be at present open to the public.

2.-Transmit a written notification to the said Inspector of every fire or accident which occurs in such building, within forty-eight (48) hours from the occurence of such fire or accident.

3.-Provide such inspector with everything necessary for facilitating an effective inspection of the building and its dependencies.

4. If the building is a theatre or hall for lectures or public amusements, have a certificate of inspection signed by the Inspector posted up, and keep it constantly there, whole and legible.

5.-INSPECTION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

"2978. The factory Inspectors appointed in virtue of the fourth section of this chapter are assigned the duty of seeing to the observance of this section and regulations made under its authority.

"2979-The said Inspectors have, MUTATIS, MUTANDIS, the same powers and are subject to the same obligations, as regards safety, health and morality in public buildings, as those indicated in the said fourth section and in the regulations made by the LieutenantGovernor in Council, respecting safety, health and morality of employees in 'industrial establishments, in so far as the same may be applicable thereto.

"2980. They have the right to be present at inquiries held by the Fire Commissioners of Quebec and Montreal, and at inquests held by Coroners in all cases of fire or accident in a public building, and to question the witnesses, in order to ascertain the cause of such accident or fire.

"2981.-They have the right to make to the proper authorities any suggestions they may consider advisable in the interest of safety in public buildings.

"2982. They shall publish, in the QUEBEC OFFICIAL GAZETTE, such provisions of the law and regulations as they consider should be more especially made known to the public, and also publish their address therein.

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