A garage beneath or attached to a dwelling shall be treated as follows:
(a) The ceiling of the garage shall be two layers of five-eighths of an inch fire code rated gypsum board (drywall) or three-fourths of an inch gypsum plaster, and all walls of the structure shall have two layers of five-eighths of an inch fire code rated gypsum board, eight inches of masonry, six inches of reinforced concrete or three-fourths of an inch gypsum plaster. The ceiling shall not contain any openings into the space above the ceiling.
(b) Editor’s Note; Former subsection (b) was deleted by Ordinance 2015-113.
(c) When a doorway from a garage connects directly with a cellar or basement on the same or a lower level in which there is any heating device or gas fixture, the door sill shall be raised at least one foot above the garage floor level. When the connection is to a living area, it shall have a door sill height of four inches above the garage floor.
(d) Minimum dimensions established for the storage of vehicles are as follows: clear length shall be not less than twenty feet and the width per car shall be not less than ten feet.
(e) There shall be provided a minimum of one drain outlet inside the garage connected to a storm drain.
(f) Any direct-fired heating appliance located in the garage building should be contained within a one-hour rated enclosure that allows out-only tempered circulation, with no direct air recirculation into the heater room from the garage. The heating unit shall be mounted a minimum of eighteen inches above the garage floor level. Through-the-wall heating units may be used without enclosures. See Chapter 1385.
(Ord. 2015-113. Passed 9-8-15.)