77.500. May also regulate and control the construction of buildings. - Missouri Statutes

May also regulate and control the construction of buildings.

77.500. The city council may also regulate and control theconstruction of buildings, the construction and cleaning offireplaces, chimneys, stoves and stovepipes, ovens, boilers,kettles, forges or any apparatus used in any building,manufactory or business which may be dangerous in causing orpromoting fires, and may provide for the inspection of the same.The council may also provide, by ordinance, limits within whichno building shall be constructed except of brick or stone orother incombustible materials, with fireproof roofs, and impose apenalty for the violation of such ordinance, and may causebuildings commenced, put up or removed into such limit, inviolation of such ordinance, to be removed or abated.

(RSMo 1939 § 6950)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 6804; 1919 § 8291; 1909 § 9228