(a) Exits shall be located remote from each other, providing the best practical means of egress for all patients and residents in the event fire renders one exit impassable.
(b) Each story of every building used as a nursing home or boarding care home shall have at least two means of egress to the outside. Each patient or resident-occupied room shall have at least one doorway opening directly to the outside or to a corridor leading directly or by stairway to the outside, or an opening without a door into one adjacent room which leads to the outside in the same manner.
(c) Means of egress, in addition to the minimum of two required from each story under subsection (b) hereof, shall be required when the maximum possible occupancy exceeds sixty patients and residents. There shall be at least one additional means of egress for each thirty additional patients or residents, located to give adequate passage from all areas, each by separate stairways and/or passages to the outside. Exits shall be of such number and so arranged that it will not be necessary to travel more than 100 feet from the door of a patient-occupied room, and from every point in wards, day rooms, dormitories and dining rooms, to reach the nearest approved means of egress from that story.
(d) Exits shall be so arranged with regard to floors that there are no pockets or dead ends over ten feet in length in which occupants may be trapped.
(Ord. 45-64. Passed 10-15-64.)