Ordinance 1911-15
FIRE LIMITS AND AGAINST WOODEN STRUCTURES.
Be it ordained by the Town Council of the town of Wylie:
Ordinance Number 15.
Limits.
That Section One and Two of the Revised Civil and Criminal Ordinances
of the town of Wylie, County of Collin and State of Texas, passed at a regu-
lar meeting of the Town Council of the town of Wylie, Texas, on the 6th
day of January A. D. 1904, be and the same is hereby amended so as hereaf-
ter to read as follows, to wit:
Section 1. That the followind described territory is hereby declared to
be the fire limits of this town, to-wit: Beginning at the Northeast corner
of lot number three in block number seven; thence south along the west line
of First street to the right-of-way of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
Railroad; thence along the north line of said reailroad to the southwest
corner of lot number 7 in block number four in Keller's First addition to
the said town of Wylie; thence north with the east line of Jackson street
to a point in the Brown and Burns addition to the said town of Wylie to a
point west of the parallel point of beginning; thence east to the place of
beginning.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to construct
or erect or caused to construced or erected any building or buildings or
structures of any kind within the fire imits of the said town of Wylie, Texas
as defined in this ordinance, of any material then brick or stone for walls
and metal or gravel or slate for the roods of such building or buildings or
structures. Or to build or construct any shed or sheds of wood or combusti-
ble material to be used for any purpose whatever within said fire limits or
to add to or construct any addition to any building or sheds now situated in
said fire limits out of any material than is authorized in this section, pro-
vided that they may erect privies with studding of wood covered with corru-
gated iron not to exceed twelve feet in height and provided further that the
extension of the first story of not less than fifteen feet in height and
fifteen in length may be covered with corrugated iron or other iron with
equal fire proof quality, provided that iron clad ware houses may be built
on the rear of the lots not closer than within seventy feet of Ballard Avenue,
Jackson Street and First Street, provided that private residences may be
constructed of wood on the west one-half of Block One and Two in the Brown
and Burns addition to the said town, and the east one-half
of blocks number seven, eighteen and nineteen within the fire limits of the
said town of Wylie, provided that iron clad barns and sheds may be erected
on the east one-half of lots. no. eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve and thir-
teen in block number four and on lots No. eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen
and fifteen in Keller's addition and on lots No. twenty and twenty-one
Brown and Burns addition and lots No. twenty, twenty-two, twenty-three and
twenty-four Block two Brown and Burns addition and on the west One-half
of lots No. three, four and five in Block seven and on lots No. one, two,
three, four, five, adn six in Block eighteen in the town of Wylie. The above
ordinance hereby applies to any wooden building or buildins nw being con-
structed or which shall hereafter be constructed within the fire limits of
the said town of Wylie.
Section 3. That section three of Ordinance Fifteen of the Revised
Civil and Criminal Ordinances of the town of Wylie, County of Collin and
State of Texas, passed at a regular meeting of the Town Council of said
town of Wylie, on the 6th day of January A. D. 1904, be and the same is
hereby repealed.
Section 3, (A) The fact that the construction of wooden structures of
wooden building or buildings within the fire limits of the town of Wylie
would greatly increase the danger of fire within the said town of Wylie, creates
an emergency and imperative public necessity that this ordinance take
effect and be force immediately from and after its passage, and it is so
ordained.
Become a law September 28th, A. D. 1911.