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The Dorothy Mae Apartment-Hotel fire was the impetus for the 1984 passage of a fire sprinkler law known as the Dorothy Mae ordinance. [2] The Dorothy Mae ordinance "requires all pre-1943 residential buildings of R-1, Occupancy, three or more stories in height, to meet certain specified retroactive fire safety requirements." [8] The November 15 ...
The Ponet Square Hotel and Apartments fire was a 1970 multiple-fatality building fire in Los Angeles, California, United States. The fire broke out before dawn on Sunday, September 13, 1970, and swept through the four-story, 86-unit building, which had been constructed around 1910. [ 1 ]
In 1991 the New Orleans City Council, led by Democrat Dorothy Mae Taylor, passed an ordinance that required social organizations, including Mardi Gras Krewes, to certify publicly that they did not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, disability, or sexual orientation, in order to obtain parade permits and other public licensure.
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Jul. 7—NORWICH — After another contentious debate, the City Council late Tuesday rescinded a June 21 ordinance to establish a fire services director and voted to reconsider a rejected ...
Dorothy Mae Richardson (May 3, 1922 – April 28, 1991) was an African American community activist who is credited with introducing a new model of community development in the late 1960s when she led a resident campaign for better housing in her neighborhood on the Central North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dorothy Mae is a given name. People with this given name include: Dorothy Mae Kilgallen, American writer and game show contestant (1913–1965) Dorothy Mae Richardson, American community activist (1922–1991) Dorothy Mae Stang, American nun murdered in Brazil (1931–2005) Dorothy Mae Taylor, American politician (1928–2000)
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