This section shall be applicable to all assembly, educational, and institutional occupancies. Combustible materials such as paper, cotton batting, straw, cut or dry vines, leaves, trees, artificial flowers or shrubbery, or similar combustible materials, and foam plastic materials, shall not be used for decorative purposes in non-sprinklered show windows, building lobbies, exits or exit accesses, interior stairways, or other parts of buildings, or any area of public use in such a quantity as to constitute a fire hazard.
(1998 Code, § 22-12)