Chapter 18
BUILDINGS AND BUILDING REGULATIONS*

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Cross references: Building inspector, § 2-226 et seq.; advertising, ch. 6; businesses, ch. 22; environment, ch. 38; unsuitable guttering for buildings as nuisance, § 38-53; health and sanitation, ch. 42; natural resources, ch. 54; streets, sidewalks and other public places, ch. 70; removal of building materials in streets, § 70-10; taxation, ch. 78; utilities, ch. 86; vegetation, ch. 90; zoning, app. A.

State law references: Municipal Adoption of Codes and Records Act, 50 ILCS 220/0.01 et seq.; incorporation by reference of certain construction regulations, 65 ILCS 5/1-3-1 et seq.; fire safety regulations, 65 ILCS 5/11-8-1 et seq.; municipal plumbing regulations, 65 ILCS 5/11-20-5; control over building and construction, 65 ILCS 5/11-30-1 et seq.; Structural Work Act, 740 ILCS 150/0.01 et seq.

Occupancy				Live load (pounds per sq. ft.)
Assembly:
	Armories and drill rooms....			150
	Assembly halls, auditoriums, churches, lecture halls, lodge rooms and similar assembly occupancies:
		Fixed seats....		60
		Movable seats....		100
	Bowling alleys, pool rooms and similar recreational areas....			75
	Dancehalls, dining rooms, exhibition rooms, grandstands, gymnasiums, museums, passenger stations, restaurants, reviewing stands, skating rinks....			100
	Ice skating rinks....			250
	Theatres:
		Aisles, corridors, lobbies, projection rooms....		100
		Dressing rooms....		40
		Orchestra floors, balconies....		60
		Stage floors....		150
Business:
	Offices....			80
		Letter-file rooms....		80
		Card-file rooms....		125
Industrial:
	Bakery....			150
	Factories and manufacturing plants....			125
	Foundries....			600
	Laboratories, scientific....			100
	Laundries....			150
	Printing plant:
		Composing room....		100
		Linotype room....		100
		Press....		150
		Paper storage....		50 lbs. per ft. of clear story height
Institutional:
	Hospitals, asylums, infirmaries, sanitariums:
		Operating rooms....		60
		Private rooms....		40
		Wards....		40
		X-ray rooms....		100
	Nurseries, orphanages, homes for the aged....			40
	Penal institutions, reformatories, jails, houses of correction:
		Cell blocks....		40
		Corridors....		100
Libraries:
	Corridors....			100
	Reading rooms....			60
	Stack rooms....			150
Mercantile:
	Retail:
		First floor, rooms....		100
		Upper floors, rooms....		75
	Wholesale....			125
Residential:
	Dormitories:
		Partitioned....		40
		Nonpartitioned....		80
	Dwellings:
		First floor....		40
		Upper floors and habitable attics....		30
		Uninhabitable attics....		20
	Hotels, motels, lodginghouses:
		Corridors serving public rooms....		100
		Guest rooms....		40
		Public corridors....		60
		Public rooms....		100
		Private corridors....		40
	Multifamily houses, tenements:
		Corridors....		60
		Private apartments....		40
		Public rooms....		100
Schools and colleges:
	Classrooms....			40
	Corridors....			100
Storage:
	Parking garages:
		Passenger cars....		100
		Trucks, with load, to ten tons....		150
		Trucks, with load, more than ten tons....		200
	Cold storage:
		No overhead system....		250
		Plus, for trucks....		150
		Overhead system:
			Floor....	150
			Roof....	250
	Hay or grain....			300
	Warehouse, light....			125
	Warehouse, heavy....			250

	Percent
Carrying one floor....	0
Carrying two floors....	10
Carrying three floors....	20
Carrying four floors....	30
Carrying five floors....	40
Carrying six floors....	45
Carrying seven or more floors....	50

	Tons
Soft clay, medium....	1.5
Medium stiff clay....	2.5
Sand, fine, loose....	2
Sand, course, loose; compact fine sand; and loose sand-gravel mixture....	3
Gravel, loose; and compact course sand....	4
Sand-gravel mixture, compact....	6
Hardpan and exceptionally compacted or partially cemented gravels or sands....	10
Sedimentary rocks such as hard shale, sandstone, limestone, siltstone, in sound condition....	15
Foliated rocks, such as schist or slate in sound condition....	40
Massive bedrock, such as granite, diorite, gneiss, traprock, in sound condition....	100

Dated: , 20 .

	(City Clerk)