Chapter 7: Clssfctn & Gnrl Rqm for all Bldg by Use/Occupancy

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Section 701: Occupancy Classified
Section 702: Change in Use
Section 703: Mixed Occupancy
Section 704: Location on Property
Section 705: Allowable Floor Areas
Section 706: Allowable Floor Areas Increases
Section 707: Maximum Height of Buildings
Section 708: Minimum Requirement for Group A Dwellings
Section 709: Requirements for the other Group Occupancies
Section 701: Group A - Residential Dwellings
Group A Occupancies shall be dwellings
Section 701: Group B - Residentials. Hotels and Apartments
Group B Occupancies shall be multiple dwelling units including boarding or lodging houses, hotels, apartment buildings, row houses, convents, monasteries and other similar building each of which accommodates more than 10 persons.
Section 701: Group C - Education and Recreation
Group C Occupancles shall be buildings used for school or day-care purposes, involving assemblage for instruction, education, or recreation, and not classified in Group I or in Division 1 and 2 or Group H Occupancies.
Section 701: Group D -Institutional
Section 701: Group D -Institutional; Division 1 - Mental hospitals, mental sanitaria, jails, prisons, reformatories, and
buildings where perronal liberties of inmates are similarly restrained.
Section 701: Group D -Institutional; Division 2 - Nurseries for full-time care of children under kindergarten age, hospitals, sanitaria, nursing homes with non-ambulatory patients, and similar buildings each accommodating more than five persoos.
Section 701: Group D -Institutional; Division 3 - Nursing homes for ambulatory patients, homes for children of
kindergarten age or over, each accommodating more than five persons: Provided, that Group D Occupancies shatl not include buildings used only for private or family group dwelling purposes.
Section 701: Group E -Business and Mercantile
Section 701: Group E -Business and Mercantile; Division 1 - Gasoline filling and service stations, storage garages and boat storage structures where no work is done except exchange of parts and maintenance requiring no open flame, welding, or the use of highly flammable liquids.
Section 701: Group E -Business and Mercantile; Division 2 - Wholesale and retail stores, office buildings, drinking and dining establishments having an occupant load of less than one hundred persons, printing plants, police and fire stations, factories and workshops using not highly flammable or combustible materials and paint stores without bulk handlings.
Section 701: Group E -Business and Mercantile; Division 3 - Aircraft hangars and open parking garages where no repair work is done except exchange of parts and maintenance requiring no open flame, welding or the use of highly flammable liquids.
Section 701: Group F - Industrial
Group F Occupancies shall Include: ice plants, power plants, pumping plants, cold storage, and creameries, factories and workshops using incombustible and non-explosive materials, and storage and sales rooms for incombustible and non-exptosive materiats
Section 701: Group G - Storage and Hazardous
Section 701: Group G - Storage and Hazardous; Division 1 - Storage and handling of hazardous and highly flammable material.
Section 701: Group G - Storage and Hazardous; Division 2- Storage and handling of flammable materials, dry cleaning plants using flammable liquids; paint stores with bulk handling, paint shops and spray painting rooms.
Section 701: Group G - Storage and Hazardous; Division 3 - Wood working establishments, planing mills and box factories, shops, factories where loose combustible fibers or dust are manufactured, processed or generated; warehouses where highly combustible material is stored.
Section 701: Group G - Storage and Hazardous; Division 4 - Repair garages.
Section 701: Group G - Storage and Hazardous; Division 5 - Aircraft repair hangars.
Section 701: Group H -Assembly Other Than Group I
Section 701: Group H -Assembly Other Than Group I; Division I - Any assembly building with a stage and an occupant load of less than 1000 in the building.
Section 701: Group H - Assembly Other Than Group I; Division 2 - Any assembly building without stage and having an occupant load of 300 or more in the building.
Section 701: Group H - Assembly Other Than Group I; Division 3 - Any assembly building without a stage and having an occupant load of less than 300 in the building.
Section 701: Group H - Assembly Other Than Group I; Division 4 - Stadia, reviewing stands, amusement park structures not included within Group l or in Division 1, 2, and 3 of this Group.
Section 701: Group I -Assembly Occupant Load 1000 or More
Group I Occupancies shall be any assembly building with a stage and an occupant load of 1000 or more in the building.
Section 701: GroupJ -Accessory
Section 701: GroupJ -Accessory; Division 1 - Private garage, carports, sheds and agricultural buildings.
Section 701: GroupJ -Accessory; Division 2 - Fences over 1.80 meters high, tanks, and towers.
Section 702: No change shall be made in the character of occupancy or use of any building which would place the building in a different division of the same group of occupancy or in a different group of occupancies, unless such building is made to comply with the requirements of this Code for such division or group of occupancy.
Section 702: The character of occupancy of existing buildings may be changed subject to the approval of the Building Official and the building may be occupied for purposes set forth in other Groups:
Provided the new or proposed use is less hazardous, based on life and fire risk, than the existing use.
Section 703: (a) General Requirements
When a building is of mixed occupancy or used for more than one occupancy, the whole building shall be subject to the most restrictive requirement pertaining to any of
the type of occupancy found there in except in the following:
Section 703: (1) When a one-storey building houses more than one occupancy, each portion of the building shall conform to the requirement of the particular occupancy housed therein and;