13-160-730 Directional signs – Illumination.

   Every such sign shall be internally illuminated to meet the luminance measurement test in UL 924, except existing signs may be internally illuminated by a light source providing luminous intensity equal to or greater than that provided by a ten watt incandescent electric lamp.

(Prior code § 67-18.3; Amend Coun. J. 9-6-17, p. 55278, Art. II, § 42)

13-160-740 Directional signs – Location.

   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)

13-160-750 Directional signs – Lettering.

   Every exit, stairway and fire escape sign shall bear the words “EXIT”, “STAIRWAY” and “FIRE ESCAPE”, respectively, in block letters at least four and one-half inches high with nine-sixteenths inch stroke.

   Every directional sign shall bear the word “EXIT” to indicate the direction of an exit, stairway or fire escape and shall bear a horizontal arrow pointed in the direction of travel. Lettering shall be in block letters at least three and three-eighths inches high with nine- sixteenths inch stroke. The arrow shall be one-half inch wide and as long as the lettering.

   All such letters and arrows shall be red on a white translucent field.

(Prior code § 67-18.5)

13-160-760 Reserved.

Editor's note – Coun. J. 9-6-17, p. 55278, Art. VII, § 14, repealed § 13-160-760, which pertained to directional signs – phosphorescent signs.

13-160-770 Directional signs – Normal illumination defined.

   Normal illumination is hereby defined as that intensity of illumination which provides not less than one footcandle at all points on stairways, floors and paths of travel required to be illuminated by the provisions of this Code.

(Prior code § 67-18.7)