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Seattle Municipal Archives Finding Aids

Permits

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

Board of Public Works Miscellaneous Subject Files

 Series
Identifier: 0601-01
Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, reports, applications, permits, petitions, and contracts relating to construction, condemnations, street use, franchises, and rights of way. This series is an artificial collection arranged alphabetically by subject.

Dates: 1896-1977

City of Columbia City Clerk's Files

 Series
Identifier: 9112-03
Scope and Contents note Administrative records of the City of Columbia filed with the City Clerk. They cover the period from incorporation in 1893 to annexation in 1907 with a few records relating to completion of local improvements in 1913. Materials include Council resolutions, committee reports, City Attorney opinions, contracts, correspondence, franchises, city officials' reports, local improvement district bonds, mayor's messages, oaths of office, petitions, ordinances, bonds, and bills and receipts. Arranged...
Dates: 1893-1913

Edmund Meany Hotel v. City

 File — Box 5, Folder: 15
Dates: 1950-1985

Electrical Permits

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 2004-04
Abstract

Permits issued by the Building Department for electrical work.

Dates: 1914

King, John P. v. City, 1970-1970

 File — Box 10, Folder: 7

Ordinance 12, 1902-05-27

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9190_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance granting T. H. McMillin, permission to moor a float at the foot of Maryland Street and construct a sidewalk on said street to connect with Railroad Avenue.

Dates: 1902-05-27

Ordinance 17, 1890-06-07

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9106_02_017
Abstract

An Ordinance defining and prescribing the punishment of certain misdemeanors.

Dates: 1890-06-07

Ordinance 18, 1904-03-14

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9123_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance regulating the health and sanitation of the City of Georgetown.

Dates: 1904-03-14

Ordinance 19, 1904-03-14

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9123_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance to regulate the use of streets, alleys, avenues and sidewalks in certain respects, and imposing a penalty.

Dates: 1904-03-14

Ordinance 22, 1902-07-01

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9190_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance prohibiting the excavation, grading, paving, leveling, repairing, sidewalking, crosswalking, or filling in of any public street, highway, avenue or alley within the limits of the Town of West Seattle without first obtaining a written permit from the town council so to do, and providing a penalty or the violation thereof.

Dates: 1902-07-01

Ordinance 23, 1902-07-01

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9190_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance for the protection of monuments, stakes, posts and pegs establishing lot, block or street corners or the government meander line in the Town of West Seattle, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.

Dates: 1902-07-01

Ordinance 24, 1902-07-01

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9190_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance relating to the removal of buildings over and along the streets and alleys of the Town of West Seattle, and providing a penalty for its violation.

Dates: 1902-07-01

Ordinance 27, 1902-07-15

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9190_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance granting to the Independent Telephone Company the right and privilege or erecting, constructing, maintaining and operating telephone and telegraph system and apparatus in the Town of West Seattle.

Dates: 1902-07-15

Ordinance 29, 1902-07-22

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9190_02_1
Abstract An Ordinance granting to the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph Company, its successors and assigns, the right to place, erect and maintain poles, wires and other appliances and conductors and to lay underground conductors for wires for the transmission of electricity for telephone and telegraph purposes, in, upon, and under the streets, alleys, alleys, avenues and thoroughfares, and public highways in the Town of West Seattle, and to exercise the privileges of operating telephone and telegraph...
Dates: 1902-07-22

Ordinance 34, 1902-08-19

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9190_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance regulating the use of streets for the deposit of building material in the Town of West Seattle and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.

Dates: 1902-08-19

Ordinance 43, 1894-02-12

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9112_02_1
Abstract

An ordinance to fix, regulate and control the use and price of water supplied by the town Water Works.

Dates: 1894-02-12

Ordinance 43, 1902-10-14

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9190_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance granting to the Independent Telephone Company the right and privilege of erecting, constructing, maintaining and operating telephone and telegraph systems and apparatus in the Town of West Seattle.

Dates: 1902-10-14

Ordinance 56, 1890-12-11

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9106_02_056
Abstract

An ordinance regulating the use of explosives for blasting purposes.

Dates: 1890-12-11

Ordinance 59, 1903-05-05

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9190_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance to regulate the construction and maintenance of cesspools and privy vaults and enumerating and providing for the punishment and abatement of nuisances within the limits of the Town of West Seattle, and providing the penalty for violation thereof.

Dates: 1903-05-05

Ordinance 76, 1905-09-23

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9174_02_1
Abstract

An ordinance prescribing what are nuisances within the Town of South Park, and especially prescribing that the laying, or construction, or maintaining, or operation of a water pipe or water pipes, along, upon, on, across, above or under any street or streets within the said town, are and shall be nuisances.

Dates: 1905-09-23

Ordinance 97, 1905-04-10

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9123_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance enumerating and providing for the punishment of nuisances in the City of Georgetown.

Dates: 1905-04-10

Ordinance 115, 1905-06-26

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9123_02_1
Abstract

An Ordinance providing for the keeping, using, storage, handling, or transportation of dynamite, nitro-glycerine or compound thereof, Hercules powder and other explosives, in the City of Georgetown, and providing a penalty.

Dates: 1905-06-26

Ordinance 124, 1903-06-01

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9112_02_1
Abstract

An ordinance prohibiting blasting in the Town of Columbia without a permit.

Dates: 1903-06-01

Ordinance 125, 1903-06-01

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9112_02_1
Abstract

An ordinance relating to prohibiting the posting of any posters, bills or other advertising matter within the Town of Columbia without a permit.

Dates: 1903-06-01

Ordinance 127, 1903-06-22

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9112_02_1
Abstract

An ordinance to fix, regulate and control the use and price of the water supplied by the town Water Works, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.

Dates: 1903-06-22

Ordinance 134, 1903-10-08

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9112_02_1
Abstract

An ordinance providing for the maintenance, repairing, cleaning and renewal of sidewalks within the Town of Columbia and for the payment therefor, making the cost thereof a charge upon abutting property, and providing for the collection of such charge and the enforcement of the lien thereof.

Dates: 1903-10-08

Ordinance 136, 1903-11-02

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9112_02_1
Abstract

An ordinance amending Ordinance No. 134, entitled "An ordinance providing for the maintenance, repairing, cleaning and removal of sidewalks within the Town of Columbia and for payment therefor, making the cost thereof a charge upon abutting property, and providing for the collection of such charge and the enforcement of the lien thereof, and defining its terms."

Dates: 1903-11-02

Ordinance 139, 1903-12-07

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9112_02_1
Abstract An ordinance regulating the disturbing of the surface of, digging up, cutting, excavating or filling in of any public street, avenue alley, way, sidewalk or place, and the construction and removing of railway lines and switches, and poles and pole lines, in the public streets, avenues, alleys, ways and places, and the construction and removal of walks, gutters and roadways in such streets, avenues, alleys, ways and places, in the Town of Columbia, and providing a penalty for its...
Dates: 1903-12-07

Ordinance 161, 1905-04-03

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: 9112_02_1
Abstract

An ordinance amending Section 1 of Ordinance No. 124 of the Town of Columbia, being an ordinance entitled "An ordinance prohibiting blasting in the Town of Columbia without a permit."

Dates: 1905-04-03

Ordinance 345, 1900-02-27

 Item — Volume 2
Identifier: 9106_02_345
Abstract

An Ordinance prohibiting the removal of dirt, sand or gravel from the streets or alleys of the City of Ballard, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.

Dates: 1900-02-27

Ordinance 465, 1901-08-27

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9106_02_465
Abstract

An Ordinance granting to J. W. Clise, his heirs, associates, successors and assigns, the right, privilege and authority to erect and maintain gas works, and to lay down, maintain and operate pipes in the streets, alleys, and public places in the City of Ballard for the transmission, supply, distribution and sale of heating and illuminating gas.

Dates: 1901-08-27

Ordinance 492, 1909-11-01

 Item — Volume 3
Identifier: 9123_02_3
Abstract

An Ordinance to regulate plumbing and gas and steam fitting in the City of Georgetown, providing for the issuance of permits therefor, for testing and inspecting the same and for fees to be charged for such inspection, providing for the condemnation of buildings and premises unfit for human habitation, and providing penalties for violations of the provisions of this ordinance.

Dates: 1909-11-01

Ordinance 701, 1903-10-20

 Item — Volume 4
Identifier: 9106_02_701
Abstract

An Ordinance to regulate in the City of Ballard the handling, transportation and storage of explosives and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.

Dates: 1903-10-20

Ordinance 795, 1904-07-19

 Item — Volume 5
Identifier: 9106_02_795
Abstract

An Ordinance authorizing any person, firm or corporation having an automatic sprinkling system for the purpose of extinguishing fires to connect the same with the city water system and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.

Dates: 1904-07-19

Fire Department Stable, Laundry, Chicken, Fireworks, and Sign Permit Index

 Series — Box 1
Identifier: 2811-07
Scope and Contents note

Two indexes. Fireworks and signs permit index for 1906 includes name of grantee and permit number. Index for stable, laundry and chicken permits for 1908-1911 includes grantee, date, and permit type.

Dates: 1906-1911

State ex. rel. Woods v. City, 1957-1957

 File — Box 2, Folder: 2
Dates: Other: 1957