13-196-240 Automatic fire detectors – Where required.

   In every fire alarm system required in this Code, automatic fire detectors shall be installed as an integral part of a fire alarm system in rooms or portions of the building as follows:

   (a)   In all rooms where a flammable compressed gas or flammable liquid as described in Chapters 15-24 and 15-26, other than fuel oil for heating, is stored or used; also in shops and storerooms where combustible material is stored or handled.

   (b)   In every building used in part as an institutional building, school, hotel, or single-room occupancy, an automatic fire detector shall be installed in such portion or portions of the building used for purposes other than institutional, school, hotel, or single-room occupancy purposes, unless such institutional building, school, hotel, or single-room occupancy is separated from all other occupancies by a separation with a fire resistive value as specified in Section 13-56-280. Such automatic fire detectors shall be installed, spaced and located in accordance with the recommendations, based upon actual tests, prescribed by a nationally recognized testing laboratory acceptable to the fire prevention bureau.

   (c)   In every storeroom, maintenance shop, fan room, mechanical equipment room, laundry, linen room, janitor closet, kitchen and storage area.

   (d)   Fire alarm systems serving Type III schools, day care centers Class II, and those Type I schools operating as or containing a day care center Class I as defined in Section 13-4-010 shall include automatic detectors as follows:

      1.   Smoke detectors shall be installed at each floor level, including basements, of each interior stairwell up to and including one level above the level of the school or day care center, except in unoccupied attics.

      2.   Smoke detectors shall be installed in front of doors to stairwells from the school or day care center and at intervals of no less than 30 feet in all corridors within or serving the school or day care center.

      3.   Smoke detectors shall be located in all lounges, recreation areas and sleeping rooms.

      4.   Heat detectors shall be installed in boiler rooms, kitchens and combustible storage areas except where a sprinkler system with a flow alarm connected to the fire alarm system is installed in such rooms.

   (e)   In all two-story buildings occupied as open plan schools, (a story located below grade level shall be counted, if used for other than building service purposes), approved automatic fire detectors shall be installed throughout the building and be interconnected to the school fire alarm system.

   (f)   In hotel buildings over four stories, electrical equipment rooms, guest room corridors and elevator lobbies shall be equipped with automatic smoke detectors installed in accordance with NFPA 72-2013.

   (g)   In single-room occupancy buildings, automatic heat detectors shall be installed in each single- room occupancy unit, in public corridors, and at each floor level in every interior stairwell. In single-room occupancy buildings, smoke alarms required by Section 13-196-100 need not be connected to the fire alarm system, but shall be permanently wired to the electrical wiring system of the building.

(Prior code § 78-22; Amend Coun. J. 9-8-86, p. 33588; Amend Coun. J. 6-27-90, p. 17613; Amend Coun. J. 5-4-94, 49750; Amend Coun. J. 5-9-12, p. 27485, § 180; Amend Coun. J. 11-9-16, p. 36266, § 26; Amend Coun. J. 9-6-17, p. 55278, Art. VI, § 31)

13-196-250 Permitted omission of sprinklers, heat and smoke detectors.

   No automatic heat detector shall be required in any room or portion of a building which is equipped with an approved installation of automatic sprinklers and provided with a water flow alarm which is connected to the fire alarm system. No automatic smoke detector shall be required in guest room corridors nor elevator lobbies of hotel buildings equipped with an approved system of automatic sprinklers. Sprinklers may be omitted in guest room closets not over 24 square feet in area. Other areas not sprinklered, because of unreasonable hardship or as permitted by Section 15-16-350 of the Code, shall be protected by approved smoke detectors or other fire detection measures approved by the fire commissioner. Detectors shall not be required in guest room bathrooms. No automatic smoke detector shall be required in guest room corridors nor elevator to the lobbies of existing buildings having automatic sprinkler systems installed prior to the passage of this ordinance on guest room floors except that sprinkler systems installed prior to the passage of this ordinance on guest room floors except that sprinkler systems may be omitted in guest room bathrooms over 55 square feet in area with noncombustible plumbing fixtures and with walls and ceilings surfaced with noncombustible materials.

(Prior code § 78-23; Amend Coun. J. 9-8-86, p. 33588; Amend Coun. J. 5-18-16, p. 24131, § 54)

13-196-260 Fire extinguishers.

   Standard fire extinguishers shall be provided in accordance with the provisions of Sections 15-16-620 through and including 15-16-680 of this Code.

(Prior code § 78-24)

13-196-270 Elevator recall.

   All existing buildings shall comply with the requirements of Section 14C-4-3.11.3.

(Added Coun. J. 6-14-95, p. 2820; Amend Coun. J. 1-10-01, p. 50236, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 3-28-18, p. 74459, Art. II, § 19)

13-196-271 Continued operation.

   In buildings equipped with passenger elevators, not less than one passenger elevator shall be maintained in operation at all times when the building is occupied.

   Exception: Buildings equipped with only one passenger elevator shall be permitted to have the elevator temporarily out of service for testing or servicing.

(Added Coun. J. 3-28-18, p. 74459, Art. II, § 20)

13-196-280 Reserved.

Editor's note – Coun. J. 1-10-01, p. 50236, § 1, repealed § 13-196-280, which pertained to elevator safety device test.

13-196-290 Pre-ordinance hotels.

   Every pre-ordinance hotel (built before July 7, 1957) more than two stories and basement in height, having sleeping accommodations for more than 25 persons above the second story, and every pre-ordinance hotel of any capacity more than four stories and basement in height, shall comply with the requirements of Section 15-8-120 pertaining to the protection of stairs, shafts and vertical openings, except as follows:

   (a)   Enclosing walls and partitions may be of construction providing fire resistance of not less than one hour.

   (b)   Doors required for protection of openings in enclosures may be Class C fire doors of combustible material faced on both sides with materials not less fire resistive than sheet steel 18 gauge in thickness. Openings, if any, shall be glazed with wire glass and shall not exceed 144 square inches in area, except that existing openings not exceeding 1,296 square inches in area may be permitted.

   (c)   Where the top or bottom riser in a stairwell is so located that the vertical enclosures therein required will not be practical to erect without unreasonable hardship, a horizontal cutoff there shall be not more than three openings to dwelling units or other nonpublic spaces on each floor, and such dwelling units or nonpublic spaces shall be separated from the corridor by partitions providing fire resistance of not less than one hour with all openings protected with self-closing Class C fire doors.

(Prior code § 78-27)