§ 1-14. Authorization of Council to establish a building district where it shall be unlawful to construct or remove wooden buildings.  


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  • The Council is authorized to establish a building district within which it shall be unlawful to erect, elevate, enlarge, or repair, or into and within which it shall be unlawful to remove any wooden building except by permission of said Council, and to prescribe such penalties for violation of any ordinance made in pursuance hereof as authorized by § 1-191 and § 1-192 hereof. If any person, without a permit therefor, within the district so established, shall threaten to erect, elevate, enlarge, or repair any building as aforesaid, or move the same, the Corporation Counsel may, in the name of said city, institute, before the town court or any other court having jurisdiction, a proceeding to restrain such person from making such erection, elevation, enlargement, or repair of such building, or from moving the same, and said court shall render such judgment therein as may be proper and tax the costs of such proceeding as provided for the taxation of costs in civil actions.
(Sp. Laws 1913, No. 352 § 139.)