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Ordinance No. 96-105 page 6 Lumber yards 10.00 Magnesium storage 10.00 Matches storage 10.00 Organic coatings 10.00 Ovens and furnaces 10.00 Welding or cutting operation 5.00 1701.14 HANDLING OF READILY COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS. (a) No person making, using, storing or having in charge, or under his control, any shavings, excelsior, rubbish, sacks, bags, litter, hay, straw, or combustible waste materials shall fail or neglect at the close of each day to cause all such material which is not compactly baled and stacked in an orderly manner to be removed from the building or stored in suitable vaults or in metal-lined, covered, receptacles or bins. The Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention shall require suitable baling presses to be installed in stores, apartment buildings, factories and similar places where accumulations of paper and waste materials are not removed at least every second day. (b) In all multiple-family homes and apartments where storage is permitted in lockers or storage rooms, there shall be a clearance of at least eighteen inches between the top of material stored and the underside of the lowest beams, girders, sprinkler deflectors or other ceiling obstruction which might restrict the discharge of water from sprinklers, or fire hose streams over this material. (c) In all multiple-family homes and apartments where individual furnace rooms are maintained, the storage of combustible materials, or flammable liquids is not permitted. 1701.15 MIIVIMUM SIZE OF ELEVATORS. One elevator in each building shall be of a minimum size of clear floor space of seven by five feet. 1701.16 STANDPIPES. (a) Standpipes shall be installed in all buildings exceeding two occupied floors or fifty feet in height, except single and two-family dwellings. Such standpipes shall not be less than four inches in diameter for buildings not excceding fifty-five feet in height, and not less than six inches in diameter for buildings over fifty-five feet in height. On stages arranged or intended for theatrical, operatic or similar performances, regardless of building height, there shall be one, two and one-half inch standpipe on each side of the stage, complete with a hose rack, hose and nozzle. The installation of all standpipe systems shall be in accordance with plans and specifications based on the requirements of this article. (b) Standpipe systems shall be installed so as to provide reasonable safety to persons