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29 of 1925 - Amending Section 439 relating to moving picture theaters ROLL CALL VOTING AYE NAY Barnes wY Salt Lake City,Utah, J.ulg 10-s ,19254... Finch y F I move that the ordinance be passed. Finch LA een V Green „ ► y Mr. Chairman Result AN RDINANCE AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 439, Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1920, relating to moving picture houses. Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah: SECTION I. That Section 439, Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1920, be amended in the following particulars, to-wit: That the first and second paragraphs of said section and subdivisions A. and C, and the second paragraph in subdivision J be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows: All places of amusement to be constructed, erected or altered wherein moving pictures are exhibited for public entertainment, and where an admission fee is charged, having a seating capacity of 600 or more persons, shall be built and constructed to conform to all laws, conditions and re- quirements now existing or hereafter to come in force and effect relating to theatres and places where theatrical or operatic performances are given. All such places of amusement hereafter to be con- structed, erected or altered, wherein moving pictures are exhibited for public entertainment, and where an admission fee is charged, having a seating capacity of less than 600 persons, shall be built and constructed in accordance with. the following laws, conditions and requirements, to-wit: A. All such places of amusement in the fire limits !i -2- i must be and shall only be contained in Glass "A", Class "B" or Class "C" buildings. All such places of amusement not contained in C,as "A" or Class "B" buildings must have their interior entirely sheet rock or plaster board and thoroughly lined with sheet metalv or metal lathed and ,. I plastered. Brick, tile or concrete walls need not be lathed ar plastered. All such places of amusement having a seating capacity of more than 400 persons must be surrounded by ma- j s onry walls. C. All seats in the auditorium shall not be less than 32 inches from back to back, measured. in a horizontal direction, and firmly secured to the floor. No seat in the auditorium shall have more than 6 seats intervening between it and an aisle. No seat nor stool shall be placed in any I aisle. , J. In addition to such exits on the street there shall be reserved for service in case of emergency, where the seating capacity is 150 or less, one exit in the rear; where the seating capacity is greater than 150 and less than 300, there shall be one exit in the rear and an additional exit in the rear half of the auditorium; where the seating capacity is greater than 300 and less than 600, there shall be one exit in the rear and two additional exits, one of which must be in the rear half of the auditorium and which, in the case of auditoriums less than 30 feet in width, must be at the side near the center. Such rear exits, if in the side walls, must be within ten feet of the rear wall. Each exit shall be not less than five feet in width. SECTION 2. In the opinion of the Board of Commissionerly_ it is necessary to the health, peace and safety of the inhabitant of Salt Lake City that this ordinance shall take effect immediate:_y. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect upon its first publication. I 3 �I -3- Passed, by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, on the day of '\ A.D. 1925. I ' Iv Or. i V City record C,*O.x'NV.1�. IY . • • . . ,. . . _ . .. . . . . _ - ; •.J.•.. \,‘ ..I. .- > v. `•;`, A C.— '7;4 -,,...--:C., • .._•-•0 g g' '9i 1....7' k''\\I .•1,? A_ P , '4 1 ..,i.i• c i tr;I: :f '.',' ',itl• ':••‘.t. '=--;.0 -,:-. ;3 . ' '- K--2--- '-•:?1, !I, * n '.•. .f. c-i .4 D.1 \ '-'• , • ..T; o f $NI \ fa . „; - 1 W j ., j . k k 'r I' . r• t= , ..--J-- , k_ gc) . -,•-, _-_,-.