The following rules relative to passageways, stairs and fire exists shall be applicable to all public buildings, places of assembly, commercial and business buildings, motels, apartment buildings, lodging houses, tourist homes and all other buildings except private dwellings, and except as otherwise expressly limited herein to a particular type of building.
(A) Fire escape openings. No fire escape, stairway, balcony or ladder on any building shall be obstructed, out-of-repair or maintained in a hazardous condition. Doors and windows leading to any fire escape shall open easily from the inside.
(B) Hazardous egress. No combustible material shall be stored, placed or kept under or upon any passageway, stairs or elevator shaft, nor shall any such material be stored, placed or kept in any other part of any building in such a position so as to obstruct or render hazardous egress therefrom.
(C) Obstructions. All doors, hallways and stairways shall be unobstructed at all times.
(D) Public assembly. In all theaters, churches, schools and other places of public assembly, no door, aisle or passageway shall be obstructed with any furniture or article; nor shall any person sit or stand, or be permitted to sit or stand, in any aisle or in any exit or passageway; and all exits and the sidewalks leading therefrom shall be unobstructed while such places of public assembly are in use.
(E) Causing of violation. No person shall do any act which causes any violation of any of the rules set forth in this section, nor shall any person owning a building or in charge thereof as agent or employee permit any of said rules to be violated.
Penalty, see § 38.99