City of Seattle v. Hinckley

Citations

• 40 Wash. 468
• 82 P. 747
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 1007

Syllabus

<p>Health — Pike Escapes — Municipal Regulation — Application to Buildings Already Constructed — Statutes—Retrospective Effect— Construction. A municipal ordinance requiring all buildings of a certain description within the fire limits to he supplied with certain described appurtenances as fire escapes, is intended to he retroactive and applies to all buildings, including those duly equipped with other fire escapes under former ordinances, especially in view of a clause making not only the construction or alteration of a building without fire escapes, hut the violation of “any provision” of the act, punishable by fine.</p> <p>Same — Police Power — Violation of Municipal Regulations— Vested Rights in Compliance With .Existing Regulation. A municipal ordinance requiring fire escapes upon buildings of a certain description within prescribed limits, is within the police power, and impairs no vested rights by reason of applying to buildings erected in compliance with a previous ordinance requiring a different kind of fire escapes.</p>