People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Ordinance No. 27. [ARTICLE]

Ordinance No. 27.

Side Walks. A n Ordinance to make all sidewalks uniform. (Ordained and established June 22nd 1896.) Sec. 1. Be it ordained and established by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana; That all sidewalks shall be built of either gravel, cinder board, plank, brick. Cement or stone. Sec. 2. Gravel or cinder walks shall be made with a Lx4 oak stringer on each outer edge; the space between the stringers to be filled witn gravel or cinders, well tamped and shall be made with the required slope and so filled as not to hold water. Sec. 3. Board walks shall be built on good white oak or bur oak stringers not smaller than 2X4 laid parallel with the center of the street and must be well bedded. A four foot walk shall have three stringers laid 21 inches apart. A five foot walk shall nave four stringers equally spaced; the outer stringer one inch from the outer edge; A six foot walk shall have four stringers equally, spaced* the outer stringer one inch from the outer edge; A seven foot walk shall have five stringers equally spaced the outer stringer one inch from the outer edge; An oight foot walk shall have six stringers equally spaced; the outer stringer within one inch of the outer edge; A ten foot walk shall have seven stringers equally spaced; the outer stringer to be within one inch of the outer edge; A twelve foot walk shall have eight stringers eqnally spaced, the outer stringer within one inch of the outer edge. In four, five, six and seven foot walks the top shall be made of 1 inch pine or oak not narrower than five inches or wider than seven inches; in all walks wider than seven feet, the top shall be made of two inch plank not narrower than four inches nor wider than six inches. All planks and boards used in the top of tfcio walk shall be securely nailed; using ten penny nails where 1 inch boards are used 30 penny nails where 2 inch planks are used, using two nails where each board or plank crosses the stringer, all lumber to be sound and to be free of loose knots. Sec. 4. Brick walks shall be laid on an even bed of gravel or sand at least two inches thick. All brick to be even and well formed, none but hard brick to be used. On either side a row of brick shall be laid up on edge so as to form a curb. The walk shall be laid with a slope of 1 inch to 1 foot, sloping to the street. Sec. 5. Cement walks shall be at least four inches thick and constructed of Portland cement in proportion of at least one of Portland cement to six of good sharp gravel, excepting the top, which shall be of at least £ inch thick and be made of at least 1 part of Portland cement to three parts of good sharp saud, the top shall be made so as to adhere to the bottom and form one solid mass, all cement shall be laid flat with a slope of inch to one foot to th 6 center of the street. Sec. 6. In stone walks do stone shall be used excepting sawed stone or stone having an even surface and no stone smaller than ten square feet shall be used, all stone walks shall be laid with a slope of one fourth (±) inch to one foot toward the center ot the street. Sec. 7. All sidewalks shall be built with slope of one* fourth (£) inch per foot toward the center of the street. Sec. 8. No person shall build a sidewalk or repair a sidewalk until there has been a grade established for said walk and all walks shall be built to conform with said grade. Sec. 9. All four foot walks shall be built with the outer edge five feet from the property line. All five foot walks shall be built with the outer -edge six feet from the property line. All six foot walks shall be built with the outer edge seven feet from the property line. All seven foot walks shall be built with the outer edge eight feet from the property line. All ten foot walks shall be built with the outer edge ten feet from the property line. All twelve foot walks shall be built with the outer edge twelve feet from the property line. Sec. 10. No weeds, grass, earth or any other substance shall be allowed to accumulate along the edge of any walk so as to affect the drainage or to cause water to stand on said walk. Sec. 11. In places where no grades have been established, the property owner may make application to the City Engineer for the necessary grade; on such application the City Engineer refers the matter to the Street Committee and said Committee, if they deem it necessary, may order the City Engineer to run grade and report it at the next regular meeting of the City Council, who may establish such grade or reject it and order new grade run. Sec. 12. The City Engineer shall keed a record in his office of the width, location, grade and kind of all sidewalks. Sec. 18. This Ordinance shall be in force two weeks from arid after its passage and publication according to law.