All public buildings which may be or are used for church, school, opera performance, theater, lecture room, hotel, public meeting, or for similar purposes, or which may be or are used for the collection of people for worship, amusement, or instruction, and all buildings used for stores to which the public is invited, shall be so built that all doors leading from the main hall or place of assembly shall open outward; all means of egress for persons within these buildings shall be by means of doors which shall open outward from the main hall and from the building.
(1969 Code, § 9-108) Penalty, see § 92.999