avenue, or highway sixty feet wide or less, where a height equal to the width of the street may be allowed. The height of a building on a corner lot will be determined by the width of the wider street. On streets less than ninety feet wide where building lines have been established and recorded in the office of the surveyor of the district, and so as to prevent the lawful erection of a building in advance of said line, the width of the street, in so far as it controls the height of buildings under this law, shall be held to be the distance between said building lines. On blocks immediately adjacent to public buildings or to the side of any public building for which plans have been prepared and money appropriated at the time of the application for the permit to construct said building, the maximum height shall be regulated by a schedule adopted by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Buildings hereafter erected to front or abut on the plaza in front of the new Union Station provided for by Act of Congress approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and three, shall be fireproof and shall not be of a greater height than eighty feet. Spires, towers, domes, minarets, pinnacles, pent houses over elevator shafts, ventilation shafts, chimneys, smokestacks, and fire sprinkler tanks may be erected to a greater height than any limit prescribed in this Act when and as the same may be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia: Provided, however, That such structures when above such limit of height shall be fireproof, and no floor or compartment thereof shall be constructed or used for human occupancy above the top story of the building upon which such structures are placed: And provided, That pent houses, ventilation shafts, and tanks shall be set back from the exterior walls distances equal to their respective heights above the adjacent roof. SEO. 6. That no wooden or frame building hereafter erected, altered, or converted for use as a human habitation shall exceed three stories or exceed forty feet in height to the roof. SEC. 7. That for the purposes of this Act the height of buildings shall be measured from the level of the sidewalk opposite the middle of the front of the building to the highest point of the roof. If the building has more than one front, the height shall be measured from the elevation of the sidewalk opposite the middle of the front that will permit of the greater height. No parapet walls shall extend above the limit of height. SEO. 8. That buildings erected, altered, or raised or converted in violation of any of the provisions of this Act are hereby declared to be common nuisances; and the owner or the person in charge of or maintaining any such buildings, upon conviction on information filed in the police court of the District of Columbia by the corporation counsel or any of his assistants in the name of said District, and which said court is hereby authorized to hear and determine such cases, shall be adjudged guilty of maintaining a common nuisance, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars per day for each and every day such nuisance shall be permitted to continue, and shall be required by said court to abate such nuisance. The corporation counsel of the District of Columbia may maintain an action in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, in the name of the District of Columbia, to abate and perpetually enjoin such nuisance. The injunction shall be granted at the commencement of the action, and no bond shall be required. Any person violating the terms of any injunction granted in such proceeding shall be punished as for contempt by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the United States jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEO. 9. That Congress reserves the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act. All laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Approved, June 1, 1910. [PUBLIO NO. 329.] An Act To amend the Act regulating the height of buildings in the District of Columbia, approved June first, nineteen hundred and ten. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia," approved June first, nineteen hundred and ten, be, and it is hereby, amended by adding at the end of the third paragraph of section five of said Act the following proviso: "Provided, That any church the construction of which had been undertaken but not completed prior to the passage of this Act shall be exempted from the limitations of this paragraph, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall cause to be issued a permit for the construction of any such church to a height of ninety-five feet above the level of the adjacent curb." Approved, December 30, 1910. [8. 2224.] An Act To amend "An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia," approved June first, nineteen hundred and ten Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section one and section seven of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to regulate the height of buildings in the District of Columbia," approved June first, nineteen hundred and ten, be, and they are hereby, amended to read as follows: "SECTION 1. That from and after the date of approval of this Act no combustible or nonfireproof building in the District of Columbia used or occupied or intended to be used or occupied as a dwelling, flat, apartment house, tenement, lodging or boarding house, hospital, dormitory, or for any similar purpose shall be erected, altered, or raised to a height of more than four stories, or more than fifty-five feet in height above the sidewalk, and no combustible or nonfireproof building shall be converted to any of the uses aforesaid if it exceeds either of said limits of height." "SEC. 7. That for the purposes of this Act the height of buildings shall be measured from the level of the sidewalk opposite the middle of the front of the building to the highest point of the roof. If the building has more than one front, the height shall be measured from the elevation of the sidewalk opposite the middle of the front that will permit of the greater height. No parapet walls shall extend above the limit of height except on nonfireproof dwellings where a parapet wall or balustrade of a height not exceeding four feet will be permitted above the limit of height of building permitted under this Act." Approved, May 20, 1912. (5) [S. J. Res. 61.] Joint Resolution To grant authority for the erection of temporary buildings at the headquarters of the American Red Cross, Washington, District of Columbia. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That authority be, and is hereby, given to the Commission on Memorial to Women of the Civil War to grant permission, under such conditions and restrictions as it may deem necessary, to the central committee of the American Red Cross to erect upon square numbered one hundred and seventy-two, in the city of Washington, a temporary building or buildings for the use of the American Red Cross in connection with its work in cooperation with the Government of the United States: Provided, That any building or buildings which may be erected under this authority shall be removed and the site or sites thereof placed in good condition within three years from the date of the approval of this resolution, unless otherwise especially provided by Congress: Provided further, That the United States shall be put to no expense of any kind by reason of the exercise of the authority hereby conferred. Approved, May 22, 1917. (6) [H. R. 6863.] An Act To regulate the height, area, and use of buildings in the District of Columbia and to create a Zoning Commission, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to protect the public health, secure the public safety, and to protect property in the District of Columbia there is hereby created a Zoning Commission, which shall consist of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds of the District of Columbia, and the Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds, which said commission shall have all the powers and perform all the duties hereinafter specified and shall serve without additional compensation. Such employees of the government of the District of Columbia as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act shall be assigned to such duty by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia without additional compensation. There is hereby authorized for the expenses of said commission, including the employment of expert services and all incidental and contingent expenses, a sum not to exceed $5,000, payable one-half out of any money in the United States Treasury not otherwise appropriated and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. SEC. 2. That within six months after the passage of this Act and after public notice and hearing as hereinafter provided, the said commission shall divide the District of Columbia înto certain districts, to be known, respectively, as height, area, and use districts, and shall adopt regulations specifying the height and area of buildings thereafter to be erected or altered therein and the purposes for which buildings and premises therein may be used: Provided, That such regulations may differ in the various districts: Provided further, That the permissible height of buildings in any district shall not exceed the maximum height of building now authorized upon any street in any part of that district by the Act of Congress approved June 1, 1910, and amendments thereto, regulating the height of buildings in the District of Columbia: And provided further, That no such districts shall be established, nor shall any regulations therefor be adopted, nor shall the height, area, or use of buildings to be erected therein be prescribed until said commission has afforded persons interested an opportunity to be heard at a public hearing as hereinafter provided: And provided further, That in residence districts the usual accessories of a residence located on the same lot including the office of a physician, dentist, or other person, and including a private garage containing space for not more than four automobiles, shall not be prohibited. SEC. 3. That wherever, under the provisions of this Act, it is required that a public hearing shall be held, notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be published for not less than ten consecutive days in one or more newspapers of general circulation printed |