Providing the Safety of Persons & Property and Providing Issuance of Permits for Inspection for Rules & Regulations Governing all Places of Assembly

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Section 12, LIGHTING OF EXITS. (a). All required exit ways shall be kept adequately lighted when the place of assembly served thereby is occupied by one or more persons. Adequate lighting shall be determined by observation and the finding of the Chief of the Fire Department shall be conclusive. (b). In rooms accommodating more than 75 persons, artificial lighting of the rooms and of the exit ways therefrom shall be by electricity, and shall be so arranged and so supplied that interruption of supply to any lighting branch circuit will not result in the ex inj Ashment of all of the lights in the room or of all the lights along any exit way. All additional requirements concerning the electrical supply and its arrangement, reasonably relating to safety of persons and property or reasonably relating to the reduction of hazard from fire, as determined by the Chief of the Fire Department, . shall be obligatory upon owners and occupants of places of assembly and other rooms subject to the terms of this Ordinance. Section 13. USE OF EXITS No part of a stairway, whether interior or exterior, nor of a fire tower, hallway, corridor, vestibule, balcony or bridge leading to a stairway or exit of any kind,.shall be used in any way that will obstruct, in whole or in part, its use as an exit or in any way that will create or tend to create a hazard of fire Section 14. STAIRWAYS. (a), Construction. Where a place of assembly is located above the second story above grade interior exit stairways shall continue to the roof; provided that in case of roofs having a pitch exceeding one in four, such stairways shall not extend through the roof but shall be connected by a communicating hallway in the top story. Except in existing buildings. required interior exit stairways from a place of assembly shall be constructed of non - combustible materials throughout. All stairways shall have solid risers securely fastened in place. When treads or landings are of slate, marble, stone or composition_, they shall be suitably supported for their entire length and width. 7.