The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's HandbookBoulnois, H. Percy (Henry Percy)
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The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook
Boulnois, H. Percy (Henry Percy)
Municipal engineering; Sanitary engineering
And I herewith leave detail plans and sections of every floor of such
intended new buildings, drawn to a scale of not less than 1 inch to
every 8 feet, showing the position, form, and dimensions of the
several parts of such buildings, and of the watercloset, privy,
cesspool, earthcloset, ashpit, well, and all other appurtenances; and
also, a block plan drawn to a scale of not less than 1 inch to every
44 feet, showing the position of the buildings and appurtenances of
the properties immediately adjoining, the width and level of the
street, the level of the lowest floor of the intended building, and of
the yard or ground belonging thereto.
Dated this day of 18
Signature in full,
Address,
Occupation,
A similar form may be prepared relating to plans of proposed new
streets, but of course the number of the questions contained in it will
be less.
(3.) When the necessary notices have been given and the tracings
properly deposited with the surveyor, he should carefully examine them
to see if they are in accordance with the byelaws which are in force in
his district. They should then be folded and placed in a large envelope,
which should be endorsed with the name of the person proposing to carry
out the work, the description of the work proposed, the name of the
architect, if any, the name of the builder, if any, the date of the
deposit, and a blank left for the date of approval. Each envelope should
also have a large number stamped upon it.
(4.) These particulars should be entered in a book of reference against
a corresponding number, so that at any future date it may be easy to
find and refer to any plans that have been deposited by means of an
index and the number on the envelope.
(5.) If on examining the plans the surveyor finds anything in them
which does not conform to the byelaws, he should be empowered by the
urban authority to return them at once to the person depositing them,
without having to wait to lay them before a committee, as this is a
great saving of time. In returning the plans the surveyor should write a
letter setting forth a schedule of his objections and the particulars of
the manner in which the plans and sections fail to comply with the
requirements of the byelaws.
(6.) If the plans are redeposited unaltered or showing still some
non-compliance with the byelaws, the surveyor must lay them before his
committee and explain in what respects they are defective, leaving it to
the committee to decide whether they shall be approved or not.
(7.) If the plans are in accordance with the byelaws, the surveyor
reports the fact to the committee, whereupon the plans should be at once
signed by the chairman of the committee.
(8.) All plans which the committee decline to approve of should be at
once returned to the person who deposited them with a written
notification of the reasons.
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