Did you know you can search all City of Toronto By-laws online? There are over 200,000! Find a link to the By-law Status Registry on our homepage under "What's in the Archives". The register includes current by-laws and old ones from all the pre-amalgamation municipalities. This by-law, the city’s first (An Act For The Preventing And Extinguishing Of Fires) was passed on May 5, 1834. "Be it enacted by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of Toronto, in Common Council assembled. That all stove-pipes which may be carried through any Partition of Wood, or of Wood and Lime, or through any Floor in any House, or Building shall in every Case pass through stove pipe Stones, or Bricks, and shall be kept at least three Inches from any part of the Wood of the Partition or Floor; and at least eight Inches from the beam or Ceiling of any Room – through which the said stove Pipes may be conveyed. And they shall also be – safely and properly secured to the Beams or Ceiling with Wire, Cha...