Chapter 158. To amend an Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 158.— An Act To amend an Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia. February 16, 1904. [[H. R. 7023](/us/bill/58/hr/7023).] [[Public, No. 20](/us/pl/58/20).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Distrietof Columbia. Height of non fireproof residence buildings, etc., limited. Vol. 30, p. 922, amended. That section one of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia,” approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the word “hotel,” in the fourth line thereof, the words “or as a hospital or dormitory.” so that said section will read as follows:
" “That from and after the date of the approval of this Act no combustibleHospitals and dormitories.Maximum height. or non fireproof building intended to be used or occupied as a residence, or as an apartment house, or hotel, or as a hospital or dormitory in the District of Columbia shall be erected to a height of more than five stories or raised to a height exceeding sixty feet above the sidewalk, the measurement to be made as hereinafter prescribed.” " Approved, February 16, 1904.