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(b). "Exit doorway" means the doorway or,other opening through which <br />persons may pass in using an exit way. <br />Section 7, BASIS FOR DETERMINING EXITS, <br />The basis of exit requirements shall be one person to each fifteen square <br />feet of gross area occupied, not including store rooms. When application is <br />made for a permit in which the number of persons to be accommodated, either in <br />any given room or space or in the gross area of the place of assembly, is greater <br />than the spaces, the exit requirements shall be based upon this greater number. <br />Where the existing exit facilities for any room or space accommodating 100 or <br />more persons are not sufficient on the above basis of one person to fifteen square <br />feet. then the number of persons permitted within approved capacity shall be <br />reduced in proportion to the exits existing and available, Where the place of <br />assembly is largely occupied by chairs or chairs and tables, no greater number of <br />chairs shall be permitted than that required for the number of persons for whom <br />exits have been provided. Chairs shall include every kind of seating arrangement. <br />Section 8, EXIT DOORWAYS. <br />(a), Every room, gallery, balcony, tier, or other space having a capacity <br />of 100 or more persons shall have at least two exit doorways. In existing places <br />of assembly located on the first or grade floor, a single exit doorway may be <br />used to provide exit for not more than 200 persons, provided the doorway has <br />a clear width of not less than 36 inches. The exit doorways shall be <br />so located that no point in the room or space is more than one hundred feet <br />distant from an exit doorway, measured along the safe and accessible line of <br />travel. <br />(b). The aggregate clear width of doorways serving as required exits <br />shall be not less than at the rate of 36 inches for every 100 persons <br />to be accommodated. No exit doorways, however, shall have a clear width of less <br />than 36 inches, except that existing exit doorways having a clear width <br />of at leapt 30 inches may be acceptable. <br />(c). Exit doorways shall be located with proper regard to the safety of <br />4, <br />