Every temporary overnight shelter shall comply with the following planning requirements:
(a) Ceiling Heights. The minimum ceiling height within sleeping quarters of a temporary overnight shelter shall be eight feet, with beams and/or furred spaces constituting not more than 20 percent of the ceiling areas. Such beams and furred spaces may have a height of not less than seven feet.
(b) Basement Rooms. Except in buildings provided throughout with an automatic sprinkler system, sleeping quarters in temporary overnight shelters which have a floor level more than two feet below the adjacent grade shall have a direct outside exit, or an exit into an enclosed stairwell which has a direct outside exit, and in no case shall the floor level be more than six feet below adjacent grade.
(c) Natural lighting. Natural lighting requirements as described in Chapter 14B-12 of this Code shall not be required for sleeping areas in temporary overnight shelters provided the provisions of Section 13-208-180 are met.
(Prior code § 78.4-20; Added Coun. J. 12-22-83, p. 4214; Amend Coun. J. 10-15-87, p. 4811; Amend Coun. J. 4-29-98, p. 66679, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 4-10-19, p. 100029, Art. II, § 106; Amend Coun. J. 10-7-20, p. 21791, Art. VII, § 24)