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File #: ORD-1905:006    Version: 1 Name: Establishing fire district and setting regulations
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 2/6/1905 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 2/6/1905
Title: ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A FIRE DISTRICT AND SETTING REGULATIONS
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ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A FIRE DISTRICT AND SETTING REGULATIONS
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All that part of the City of Jonesboro included in the following description: Beginning at Jefferson Avenue on Union Street and running thence North on said Union Street to the South side of Cotton Belt right of way; thence East along the said South side of said right of way to Main Street; thence North to Johnson Avenue; thence East on Johnson Avenue to La Baume Street; thence South on La Baume Street to the right of way of Frisco Railway Company; thence West along the North line of the right of way of the said Frisco Railroad Company to a point directly North of the North end of Church Street; thence South across the Cotton Belt and Frisco Railroads to Church Street; and thence South on Church Street to Jackson Avenue; thence West on Jackson Avenue to an alley between Church and Main Streets; and thence South on said alley to Jefferson Avenue; and thence West on said Jefferson Avenue to the point of beginning, is hereby established as a Fire District.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to construct or build any house or any addition to any house, within such district, unless the outside walls of such house and additions thereto be made of brick and mortar, or of stone and mortar, or of iron, and if of iron, the walls shall not be supported or built in part of wood or other inflammable material.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to construct or maintain in the said district any fence exceeding the heights of four and one-half feet, or to build or maintain any fence of any height, if made of barbed wire, jagged wire, o other material that would catch, tear or injure fire hose or injure firemen.

Any and all fences now existing in the fire district aforesaid of the kind prohibited in the preceding section are hereby declared to be public nuisances as being dangerous to public safety and tending to increase danger and destruction from fire, and ...

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