Par. 1. - Foundations. - Every wooden building hereafter erected or enlarged, outside of the building limits, shall have a foundation of rubble, block granite or brick or concrete, carried up to the surface of the ground, and no round or boulder stone shall be used. Every such foundation, if of brick or concrete, shall be at least twelve inches thick, and if of granite shall be at least eighteen inches thick, and if of rubble shall be at least twenty inches thick, and shall be laid at least four feet below any surface exposed to frost and upon the solid ground or upon piles properly spaced.

Par. 2. - Underpinning. - Every such wooden building hereafter erected or enlarged, the sills of which do not rest directly upon a foundation as above described but on an underpinning, shall have such underpinning made of brick, stone or concrete, and the underpinning, if of brick or concrete, shall be at least twelve inches thick, and if of stone shall be at least sixteen inches thick.

Par. 3. - Framing. - Every wooden building hereafter erected or enlarged shall have all its parts of sufficient strength for their purposes; shall be built with wall-girts not smaller than four by six spruce or fir, or four by four hard pine, or with ledger boards; shall have no studs more than twenty inches on centres for buildings more than one story high, with all angles between partitions, or between partitions and walls, blocked strongly, giving what is known as "solid corners"; shall have every post securely braced; shall have wall spaces back of all ledger boards tightly filled with at least two inch furring cut in between studs; and shall have all framing securely nailed or framed or ironed together.

Ledger Boards Prohibited

Par. 4. - Where no exterior wall boarding is used ledger boards shall not be used, and wall-girts shall be framed to posts and pinned. Braces shall repeat in each story and shall not be smaller than three inch studding.

[1918, c. 179, sect. 17, Special Act. 1914, c. 782, sect. 7.]