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...fire walls near the catwalk, possibly helping the fire spread-the MGM Grand apparently met all other fire regulations. The county building code passed in 1979 required new hotels in Las Vegas to install sprinklers and smoke detectors on every floor, but the MGM Grand, built in 1973, was exempt. The hotel had sprinklers only on the basement, first and top floors. There were no smoke detectors. Said MGM Grand Hotels Board Chairman Fred Benninger of the tragedy: "This could have happened in any large hotel anywhere in America...
Some states (Massachusetts, Washington, Connecticut) and some cities (Boston, Atlanta) have in recent years enacted relatively stringent fire codes. But nearly all, including Las Vegas, have grandfather clauses that exempt existing buildings or require only minor improvements. Miami Beach, for example, adopted a tough code in 1976 but only requires its existing hotels to install, among other measures, manual fire alarms and emergency doors. A team of Miami Beach fire officials is going to Las Vegas to see what lessons the MGM Grand Hotel case holds for their city. Admits Assistant Fire Chief Braniard Dorris: "The potential [for a similar...
Proponents of the proposal last night said last month's passage of Proposition 21/2, which will sharply restrict local property tax revenues, makes the payroll tax necessary. Harvard and other universities, exempt from the property tax, currently pay taxes only on real estate not used for academic purposes...
University officials maintain that this rapid reversal of the exemption can be explained by a change of heart by Paul Menton, the associate House counsel, Lewis Armistead, assistant vice president for government and community relations, said recently. Menton ruled in 1979 that the bill would be unconstitutional if it failed to exempt Harvard. This year he allowed the exemption to be repealed...
Graham attributed the reversal to increasing sympathy among legislators for Cambridge which is trying to "collect taxes from a stone." Fifty-two per cent of Cambridge's property is now owned by tax-exempt institutions, of which Harvard, after the city itself, is the largest...