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Customers, patrons and visitors shall be provided with public toilet facilities in structures and tenant spaces intended for public use and utilized as restaurants, nightclubs, places of assembly, business and mercantile occupancies. Customer toilet facilities shall be located not more than one story above or below the space required to be provided with customer toilet facilities and the path of travel to such facilities shall not exceed a distance of 200 feet (61 m). In covered mall buildings, required facilities shall be based on total square footage, and facilities shall be installed in each individual store or in a central toilet area located in accordance with this section. The maximum travel distance to the central toilet facilities in covered mall buildings shall be measured from the main entrance of any store or tenant space.
Exception: Toilet facilities for the public shall not be required in mercantile units of less than seven thousand five hundred (7500) square feet in gross area. In mercantile units of seven thousand five hundred (7500) square feet or more in gross area the occupancy content shall be determined by dividing the net floor area used by the public, as shown in an actual floor plan layout, by one hundred (100), or a minimum of twenty- five percent (25%) of the gross area whichever is smaller.
(Amend Coun. J. 3-27-02, p. 82090, § 3)