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occupancy like that of hotels.
B. Dormitories – includes buildings where group sleeping accommodation
are provided for persons, not members of the same family group in one
room or in series of closely associated room under joint occupancy and
single management, as in college dormitories, convents, fraternity houses,
military barracks, and the like.
C. Apartment Buildings – includes buildings containing three (3) or more living
units independent cooking and bathroom facilities, whether designated
as condominium, row house, apartment house, tenement, garden
apartment, or by any other name.
D. Lodging or Rooming Houses – includes building in which separate sleeping
rooms are rented providing sleeping accommodations for a total of
fifteen (15) or less persons, on either a transient or permanent basis; with or
without meals, but without separate cooking facilities for individual oc-
cupants.
E. Single-and-Two Family Dwellings – includes detached dwellings in which
each living unit is occupied by members of a single family.
SECTION 10.2.12.2
REQUIREMENTS
A. Occupant Load
The occupant load of residential occupancies in number of persons for
whom exits are to be provided except in detached single-and-two-family
dwellings shall be determined on the basis of one (1) person per eighteen
and six-tenths square meters (18.6 m 2 ) gross floor area, or the maximum
probable population of any room or section under consideration,
whichever is greater. The occupant load of any open mezzanine or
balcony shall be added to the occupant load of the floor below for the
purpose of determining exit capacity.
B. Capacity of Exits
Capacity of means of egress shall be in accordance with Section 10.2.5.2
paragraph “C” of this IRR.
C. Maintenance of Exits
1. No door in any means of egress shall be locked against egress when
the building is occupied.
2. No residential occupancy shall have its means of egress pass through
any nonresidential occupancy in the same building, except in
buildings provided with approved, supervised sprinkler system provided
that the means of egress shall not pass through a high hazard content
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