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MUNICIPAL CODE OF CHICAGO
TITLE 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
TITLE 2 CITY GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
TITLE 3 REVENUE AND FINANCE
TITLE 4 BUSINESSES, OCCUPATIONS AND CONSUMER PROTECTION
TITLE 5 HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
TITLE 6 HUMAN RIGHTS*
TITLE 7 HEALTH AND SAFETY
TITLE 8 OFFENSES AFFECTING PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
TITLE 9 VEHICLES, TRAFFIC AND RAIL TRANSPORTATION
TITLE 10 STREETS, PUBLIC WAYS, PARKS, AIRPORTS AND HARBORS
TITLE 11 UTILITIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
TITLE 12 RESERVED
TITLE 13 BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTION
CHAPTER 13-4 DEFINITIONS
CHAPTER 13-8 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-9 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-10 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-11 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-12 ENFORCEMENT OF BUILDING, ELECTRICAL AND FIRE REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 13-14 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-16 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-20 BUILDING INSPECTION
CHAPTER 13-24 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-28 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-32 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-34 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-36 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-40 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-44 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-48 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-52 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-56 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-60 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-64 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-68 BUSINESS UNITS
CHAPTER 13-72 CONDOMINIUMS
CHAPTER 13-76 HIGH RISE BUILDINGS
CHAPTER 13-78 HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS - EMERGENCY PROCEDURE
CHAPTER 13-80 INSTITUTIONAL UNITS
CHAPTER 13-84 ASSEMBLY UNITS
CHAPTER 13-88 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-92 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-96 MISCELLANEOUS BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES
CHAPTER 13-100 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-104 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-108 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-112 HAZARDOUS OCCUPANCIES*
CHAPTER 13-116 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-120 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-124 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-128 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-132 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-136 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-140 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-144 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-148 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-152 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-156 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-160 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-164 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-168 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-172 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-176 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-180 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-184 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-192 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-196 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-200 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-204 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-206 RESERVED*
CHAPTER 13-208 TEMPORARY OVERNIGHT SHELTERS
CHAPTER 13-212 TRANSITIONAL SHELTERS
TITLE 14 RESERVED*
TITLE 14A ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS OF THE CHICAGO CONSTRUCTION CODES*
TITLE 14B BUILDING CODE*
TITLE 14C CONVEYANCE DEVICE CODE*
TITLE 14E ELECTRICAL CODE*
TITLE 14F FIRE PREVENTION CODE*
TITLE 14G FUEL GAS CODE*
TITLE 14M MECHANICAL CODE*
TITLE 14N 2022 ENERGY TRANSFORMATION CODE*
TITLE 14P PLUMBING CODE*
TITLE 14R BUILDING REHABILITATION CODE*
TITLE 14X MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR EXISTING BUILDINGS*
TITLE 15 FIRE PREVENTION
TITLE 16 LAND USE
TITLE 17 CHICAGO ZONING ORDINANCE
TITLE 18 BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE
APPENDIX TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF CHICAGO (RESERVED)*
TABLES
Chicago Zoning Ordinance and Land Use Ordinance
CHAPTER 13-112
HAZARDOUS OCCUPANCIES*
* Editor's note – Coun. J. 10-7-20, p. 21791, Art. VII, § 17, revised the title for Chapter 13-112, which formerly pertained to hazardous use units.
Article I. General Provisions
13-112-010   Reserved.
13-112-020   Reserved.
13-112-030   Reserved.
13-112-040   Types of occupancies.
13-112-050   Classification of occupancies.
13-112-060   Hazardous use rooms.
Article II. Buildings of Mixed Occupancies
13-112-070   Reserved.
13-112-080   Auxiliary business use.
13-112-090   Reserved.
13-112-100   Reserved.
13-112-110   Reserved.
Article III. Rooms and Floor Areas
13-112-120   Reserved.
13-112-130   Reserved.
13-112-140   Rooms prohibited in basements.
13-112-150   Lot occupancy.
13-112-160   Reserved.
13-112-170   Reserved.
13-112-180   Reserved.
13-112-190   Reserved.
13-112-200   Conveyors and ducts.
13-112-210   Heating.
13-112-220   Heat piping.
13-112-230   Licenses, certificates of fitness, permits and bonds.
Article IV. Means of Exit
13-112-240   Reserved.
13-112-250   Exits near openings.
13-112-260   Distance to exits.
13-112-270   Number of exits.
13-112-280   Vertical means of exit.
13-112-290   Dry cleaning building.
13-112-300   Film examining or repairing rooms.
13-112-310   Reserved.
Article V. Artificial Lighting and Exit Signs
13-112-320   Reserved.
13-112-330   Reserved.
13-112-340   Exit signs.
13-112-350   Reserved.
ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS (13-112-010 et seq.)
13-112-010 Reserved.
Editor's note – Coun. J. 4-10-19, p. 100029, Art. XXII, § 16, repealed § 13-112-010, which pertained to general requirements.
13-112-020 Reserved.
Editor's note – Coun. J. 4-10-19, p. 100029, Art. XXII, § 16, repealed § 13-112-020, which pertained to special requirements.
13-112-030 Reserved.
Editor's note – Coun. J. 4-10-19, p. 100029, Art. XXII, § 16, repealed § 13-112-030, which pertained to fire protection requirements.
13-112-040 Types of occupancies.
   The following types of occupancy shall be included as hazardous use units as defined in Section 13-56-210 of this Code:
   Asphalt, tar, pitch and resin heating rooms;
   Corrosion liquid storage buildings;
   Dip tank;
   Dry cleaning buildings;
   Fume or flammable compressed gas buildings and rooms;
   Grain bleachers;
   Grain elevators;
   Grinding and dust producing rooms;
   Hazardous chemical rooms and storage buildings;
   Highly flammable materials storage buildings and rooms;
   Highly toxic materials storage buildings and rooms;
   Japanning and enameling rooms;
   Lumber dry kilns;
   Malt houses and similar buildings;
   Magazines;
   Motion picture trial exhibition rooms;
   Motion picture studios;
   Nitrocellulose products buildings and rooms including certain rooms in motion picture film exchanges;
   Nitrocellulose buildings;
   Oxidizing materials buildings and rooms;
   Paint mixing rooms for other than water base paint;
   Paint spraying of other than water base paint;
   Picker or shredder rooms;
   Potentially explosive chemicals;
   Rooms for storage or baling of waste paper;
   Smoke houses and smoke rooms;
   Standard drying rooms;
   Tanks or structures for the storage of hazardous materials;
   Industrial properties with occupancies such as:
      Artificial flowers,
      Artificial and imitation leather,
      Carpet linings,
      Cereal food, flour, grist and starch mills,
      Cotton batting,
      Cotton clothing,
      Cotton rag sorting,
      Cotton waste,
      Explosives,
      Feather renovating or processing,
      Fireworks,
      Flammable liquids,
      Shoddy mills,
      Straw goods,
      Sugar grinding,
      Varnish,
      Woodworking.
(Prior code § 60-4)
13-112-050 Classification of occupancies.
   Hazardous use units shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be further classified and subdivided as hazardous use general units, hazardous use storage units and hazardous use industrial units.
   Hazardous Use General Units. A hazardous use general unit shall include any hazardous use unit other than a hazardous use storage unit and other than a hazardous use industrial unit.
   Hazardous Use Storage Units. A hazardous use storage unit shall include any hazardous use unit designed, intended or used for the storage of high hazard materials, high hazard products and all other high hazard storage use not otherwise classified under this chapter. Hazardous use storage units shall include among others:
   Corrosive liquid storage buildings;
   Fume or flammable compressed gas buildings and room for no other purpose than storage;
   Grain elevators;
   Hazardous chemical storage buildings;
   Highly flammable material storage buildings and rooms;
   Highly toxic materials storage buildings and rooms;
   Malt houses and similar buildings;
   Magazines;
   Nitrocellulose buildings;
   Nitrocellulose products buildings and rooms for no purpose other than storage;
   Oxidizing materials buildings and rooms for no purpose other than storage;
   Potentially explosive chemicals buildings and rooms for no purpose other than storage;
   Rooms for the storage of waste paper;
   Tanks or structures for the storage of hazardous materials;
   Hazardous Use Industrial Units. A hazardous use industrial unit shall include any hazardous use unit designed, intended or used for industrial purposes, including any operation or process incident to the producing, fabricating, assembling, developing, molding, pressing, preparing or adapting for use, repairing or refinishing of any high hazard material, high hazard product, article or substance or high hazard parts or appliances of any product or article not otherwise classified under this chapter. Hazardous use industrial units shall include, among others:
   Fume or flammable compressed gas buildings of rooms in which any manufacturing is done;
   Grain bleachers;
   Grinding and dust producing rooms;
   Japanning and enameling rooms;
   Lumber dry kilns;
   Nitrocellulose buildings;
   Nitrocellulose products buildings and rooms in which any nitrocellulose manufacturing is done;
   Oxidizing materials buildings and rooms where oxidizing materials are used in any process;
   Paint mixing, spraying, dipping or flow coating with other than water base paint;
   Picker or shredder rooms;
   Potentially explosive chemicals buildings and rooms where any potentially explosive chemical is used in any process;
   Smoke houses and smoke rooms;
   Standard drying rooms and other drying rooms for the drying of articles or materials which will give off explosive or flammable vapors during the drying process.
(Prior code § 60-5)
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