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13-112-050  Classification of occupancies.
   Hazardous use units shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be further classified and subdivided as hazardous use general units, hazardous use storage units and hazardous use industrial units.
   Hazardous Use General Units. A hazardous use general unit shall include any hazardous use unit other than a hazardous use storage unit and other than a hazardous use industrial unit.
   Hazardous Use Storage Units. A hazardous use storage unit shall include any hazardous use unit designed, intended or used for the storage of high hazard materials, high hazard products and all other high hazard storage use not otherwise classified under this chapter. Hazardous use storage units shall include among others:
   Corrosive liquid storage buildings;
   Fume or flammable compressed gas buildings and room for no other purpose than storage;
   Grain elevators;
   Hazardous chemical storage buildings;
   Highly flammable material storage buildings and rooms;
   Highly toxic materials storage buildings and rooms;
   Malt houses and similar buildings;
   Magazines;
   Nitrocellulose buildings;
   Nitrocellulose products buildings and rooms for no purpose other than storage;
   Oxidizing materials buildings and rooms for no purpose other than storage;
   Potentially explosive chemicals buildings and rooms for no purpose other than storage;
   Rooms for the storage of waste paper;
   Tanks or structures for the storage of hazardous materials;
   Hazardous Use Industrial Units. A hazardous use industrial unit shall include any hazardous use unit designed, intended or used for industrial purposes, including any operation or process incident to the producing, fabricating, assembling, developing, molding, pressing, preparing or adapting for use, repairing or refinishing of any high hazard material, high hazard product, article or substance or high hazard parts or appliances of any product or article not otherwise classified under this chapter. Hazardous use industrial units shall include, among others:
   Fume or flammable compressed gas buildings of rooms in which any manufacturing is done;
   Grain bleachers;
   Grinding and dust producing rooms;
   Japanning and enameling rooms;
   Lumber dry kilns;
   Nitrocellulose buildings;
   Nitrocellulose products buildings and rooms in which any nitrocellulose manufacturing is done;
   Oxidizing materials buildings and rooms where oxidizing materials are used in any process;
   Paint mixing, spraying, dipping or flow coating with other than water base paint;
   Picker or shredder rooms;
   Potentially explosive chemicals buildings and rooms where any potentially explosive chemical is used in any process;
   Smoke houses and smoke rooms;
   Standard drying rooms and other drying rooms for the drying of articles or materials which will give off explosive or flammable vapors during the drying process.
(Prior code § 60-5)