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Exit signs shall be located over or immediately adjoining every opening to a horizontal means of egress or ramp leading out of a building; also over every opening leading from a public assembly room to a mezzanine floor, corridor or hallway.
Stairway or exit signs shall be located at every stairway on every floor in existing buildings. In buildings hereafter erected stairway signs only shall be located at every stairway on every floor.
Fire escape signs shall be located over or immediately adjoining every doorway or opening to a fire escape.
All such signs shall be clearly visible from all means of approach to such ways of egress.
Directional signs shall be located where the path of exit travel or the location of the exit, stairway or fire escape is not clear and unmistakable due to bridges, tunnels, intersections of hallways, intervening partitions or turns in corridors. Such signs shall be located at every yard, court, passageway or other exterior space leading from any exit to a space serving as a way of departure from every theater, public assembly building, hotel, school or church.
(Prior code § 67-18.4)