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The handle, knob, pull or other operating hardware on doors, leading to rooms or spaces that may be dangerous or cause injury to a person with a visual impairment who accidentally enters such a room or space, shall have a textured surface. The surface shall be made by knurling or roughing or by applying material to the contact surface that has a similar effect. Textured surfaces shall not be provided for means of egress doors. Such rooms or spaces include, but are not limited to, loading docks, boiler and furnace rooms, power generation facilities, electrical and telephone equipment spaces, elevator equipment rooms and elevator pits, tanks, lagoons, storage and processing facilities, highly technical facilities, mechanical, electrical or chemical storage or processing facilities, pump facilities and spaces with complex mechanical components of multi-level construction.