School architecture; a handy manual for the use of architects and school authorities . Schoolhouse Construction The general building and inspection lawshave heretofore governed the erection of school-houses. These have referred principally to firesafety and require usually the swinging ofexit doors outward. During the past few years,however, school authorities have prevailed onlegislatures to enact laws more closely govern-ing the construction of school buildings. Fol-lowing are a few of the best laws now on thestatute books of the several states: The New York Law 1. No schoolhouse shall herea
School architecture; a handy manual for the use of architects and school authorities . Schoolhouse Construction The general building and inspection lawshave heretofore governed the erection of school-houses. These have referred principally to firesafety and require usually the swinging ofexit doors outward. During the past few years,however, school authorities have prevailed onlegislatures to enact laws more closely govern-ing the construction of school buildings. Fol-lowing are a few of the best laws now on thestatute books of the several states: The New York Law 1. No schoolhouse shall hereafter be erectedin any city of the third class or in any incor-porated village or school district, and no addi-tion to a school building in any such place shallhereafter be erected, the cost of which shall ex-ceed five hundred dollars, until the plans andspecifications for the same shall have been sub-mitted to the commissioner of education and hisapproval indorsed thereon. Such plans andspecifications shall show in detail the ventilation,heating and lighting of such buildings. 193. 194 Schoolhouse Laws 2. Such commissioner of education shall notapprove any plans for the erection of any schoolbuilding or addition thereto unless the same shallprovide at least fifteen square feet of floor spaceand two hundred cubic feet of air space for eachpupil to be accommodated in each study orrecitation room therein, and no such plans shallbe approved by him unless provision is madetherein, for assuring at least thirty cubic feet ofpure air every minute per pupil, and the facili-ties for exhausting the foul or vitiated air there-in shall be positive and independent of atmos-pheric changes. 3. No tax voted by a district meeting orother competent authority in any such city, vill-age or school district exceeding the sum of fivehundred dollars, shall be levied by the trusteesuntil the commissioner of education shall certifythat the plans and specifications for the samecomply with the provisions o
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