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• Group A - Residential Dwellings

  • Dwellings
• Group B - Residentials, Hotels and Apartments

  • 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
• Group C - Education and Recreation

  • 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
• Group D - Institutional

  • Division 1 - Mental hospitals, mental sanitaria, jails, prisons, reformatories, and buildings were personal liberties of inmates are similarly restrained
  • 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 persons
  • Division 3 - Nursing homes for ambulatory patients, homes for children of kindergarten age or over, each accommodating more than five persons
• 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
  • 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
  • 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
• Group F - Industrial


  • 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-explosive materials
• Group G - Storage and Hazardous


  • Division 1 - Storage and handling of hazardous and highly flammable material
  • 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
  • Division 3 - Wood working establishments, planning mills and box factories, shops, factories where loose combustible fibers or dust are manufactured, processed or generated; warehouses where highly combustible materials is stored
  • Division 4 - Repair garages
  • Division 5 - Aircrafts repair hangars
• Group H - Assembly Other Than Group I

  • Division 1 - Any assembly building with a stage and an occupant load of less than 1000 in the building
  • Division 2 - Any assembly building without stage and having an occupant load of 300 or more in the building
  • Division 3 - Any assembly building without a stage and having an occupant load of less than 300 in the building
  • Division 4 - Stadia, reviewing stands, amusement park structures not included within Group I or in Division 1, 2, and 3 of this Group
• Group I - Assembly Occupant Load 1000 or More
• Group J - Accessory


  • Division 1 - Private garage, carports, sheds and agricultural buildings
  • Division 2 - Fences over 1.80 meters high, tanks and towers
• Forms of Occupancy Separation

  • Vertical
  • Horizontal
  • Other forms as may be required to afford a complete separation between the various occupance divisions in the building
• The total width of all openings in any three-hour fire-resistive occupancy separation wall in any one-storey must not exceed 25 percent of the length of the wall in that storey and no single opening shall have an area greater than 10.00 square meters
• All openings in floors forming a "Three-Hour Fire- Resistive Occupancy Separation" is protected by vertical enclosures extending above and below such openings
• Occupancy Separations is provided between groups, subgroupings, or divisions of occupancies
• Rules and regulations for appropriate occupancy separations in buildings of mixed occupancy provided the minimum to be a "One-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation"
• Where the occupancy separation is horizontal, structural members supporting the separation must be protected by an equivalent fire-resistive construction
• One-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation - not less than one-hour fire-resistive construction. All openings is protected by a fire assembly having a one-hour fire-resistive rating.
• . Two-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation- not less than two-hour fire-resistive construction. All openings is protected by a fire assembly having a two-hour fire-resistive rating.
• . Three-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation- not less than three hour fireresistive construction. All openings in walls forming such separation is protected by a fire assembly having a three-hour fire-resistive rating.
• Four-Hour Fire-Resistive Occupancy Separation - no openings therein and shall be of not less than four-hour fire-resistive construction.