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Definition of Building department
1. Noun. The division of a business responsible for building and maintaining the physical plant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Building Department
Literary usage of Building department
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Tenement House Problem: Including the Report of the New York State by New York (State). Tenement House Commission, Lawrence Veiller, Robert Weeks De Forest (1903)
"In 1892, however, when the building department was created, besides transferring
the powers and duties of the Bureau of Buildings of the Fire Department to ..."
2. A Bibliography of Municipal Government in the United States by William Bennett Munro (1915)
"A report on the building department of the city of Boston. ... An investigation
of the powers, duties, organization and methods of the building department, ..."
3. The Law of City Planning and Zoning by Frank Backus Williams (1922)
"In the case of such premises or buildings it shall be the duty of the building
department to issue a certificate of occupancy within ten days after a ..."
4. San Francisco Relief Survey: The Organization and Methods of Relief Used by Charles James O'Connor, Francis H. McLean, Helen Swett Artieda, James Marvin Motley, Jessica Blanche Peixotto, Mary Roberts Coolidge (1913)
"443 Application for bonus 447 Land and building department. Notice ......
448 Application for housing grant 449 ..."
5. Social Conditions in an American City: A Summary of the Findings of the by Shelby Millard Harrison (1920)
"... conditions as far as possible under the building department, since the latter
must pass on all buildings when first erected and is the department most ..."
6. Special Bulletin by New York (State). Dept. of Labor (1912)
"In the case noted below, the Court of Appeals rendered a decision as to the
jurisdiction of the tenement house department and the building department over ..."
7. Police Administration: A Critical Study of Police Organisations in the by Leonhard Felix Fuld (1909)
"Whether this would be remedied by consolidating the building department with the
police department, as should logically be done, is problematical, ..."
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