(A) Automatic sprinkler systems shall be installed in all new assembly, educational, industrial, mercantile, storage and office dwellings in excess of 5,000 square feet, except as provided for in divisions (C) and (D) below. Any existing building which makes additions, either through new construction or acquiring adjacent property to increase its total square footage to make a total area in excess of 10,000 square feet is to be totally protected by a sprinkler system.
(B) Automatic sprinkler systems shall be installed in all newly constructed multi-family dwellings. Any existing multi-family dwelling, building or structure which is destroyed, damaged or decayed to the extent that its value is reduced by 50% shall be required to install an automatic sprinkler system.
(C) An office occupancy shall not require a complete automatic sprinkler system, provided an adequate automatic fire detection system is installed. However, all basement areas, vertical chutes, corridors, below-grade areas and parking garages of office occupancies shall require automatic sprinkler systems.
(D) A dwelling, when of ordinary or wood construction not exceeding two stories in height, does not require automatic sprinkler systems, provided it is not a multi-family unit.
(E) Multi-family dwellings, or dwellings for four or more families, shall provide complete exit coverage to occupants, including the apartment side of the exit door leading to corridors, vertical chutes and stairwells.
(F) In addition to those buildings enumerated in divisions (A) through (E) above which require automatic sprinkler systems, sprinkler systems shall be required in all new construction or additional construction which increases the total square footage to make a total area in excess of 5,000 square feet.
(Prior Code, § 150.105) (Ord. 74-5, passed 8-26-1974; Ord. 74-5A, passed 10-14-1974; Ord. 75-15, passed 12-15-1975; Ord. 20-17, passed 10-13-2020) Penalty, see § 150.999