Hammond, IN Building Safety: Scaffold & Sidewalk Shed (2026)

042 puts the safety burden squarely on whoever erects a scaffold in the City of Hammond, Indiana: every scaffold used for the erection of stone, brick or other buildings must be well and safely supported, of sufficient width, and properly secured, all so that people working on it or passing under or beside it are not put at risk, and so that materials placed or deposited on it cannot fall. The section does not describe a permit process or set a numeric load rating; instead it writes the outcome the Commissioner of Buildings enforces against, leaving the engineering judgment to whether the erected scaffold actually meets that safety standard on the job site.

042 declares any scaffold erected outside these standards to be a nuisance in itself. Once the Commissioner of Buildings gives notice to remove a noncompliant scaffold, every day it remains up afterward counts as its own separate offense, so the fine keeps accruing daily rather than stopping at a single penalty. 999.