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Excerpt from Housing Laws: A Summary of the More Important Provisions in City and State Codes The following summary of important provisions contained in various tenement house laws, housing codes, and city ordinances was prepared for the use of the Housing Committee of the Minneapolis Civic Commerce Association in its efforts to prepare and secure the passage of a new Housing Code. In order to have each summary as nearly correct as possible, it was sent after preparation to the building inspector or some other responsible person in the city or state in question, with the request that it be carefully reviewed and corrected wherever necessary. All the laws relating to tenements were checked up in this way with the exception of those relating to Grand Rapids and Indiana. The summaries covering regulations affecting dwelling houses (marked with a star where similar to tenement requirements and with a dagger where relating to private dwellings only) were not submitted for correction and may contain errors; neither is it certain that they are complete and entirely up to date. The regulation of private dwellings is comparatively new, and the laws are sometimes difficult to locate. The laws relating to Cleveland, Denver, Kansas City, Portland, and St. Louis are not included because at the time this summary was made, these cities were in the process of revising their laws. Where cities are known to have passed ordinances providing for higher standards than those in state codes, these changes have been noted under their proper headings; otherwise, the provisions relating to cities governed by state codes are to be found under the heading of the state in which the city is located. The expense of preparing the summaries has been so great that the Housing Committee did not feel justified in going to the additional expense of printing solely for its own use. However, so many requests for the summaries have been received that it has been decided to print and make a small charge to cover the cost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.