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that both may be blocked by any one fire or other emergency
conditions.
I.
Every vertical way of exit and other vertical openings between floors of a
building shall be suitably enclosed or protected to afford reasonable
safety of occupants while using exits and to prevent spread of fire,
smoke, or fumes through vertical openings from floor to floor before
occupants have entered exits.
J. Required Fire Safety Programs/Measures
1. In addition to the requirements, lessees or occupants of buildings,
structures or facilities shall observe all pertinent fire safety measures;
2. All occupants or lessees of buildings, structures or facilities shall or-
ganize themselves and develop and implement fire safety programs
to include among others, fire prevention in the premises, notification of
the BFP on the existence of a fire, evacuation of persons and initial fire
fighting. The building owner shall take the initiative of formulating the
fire safety program for his building and of organizing the occupants to
implement the programs.
3. In buildings, leased to and used by one or several companies or
persons, the management of each company or each person shall be
responsible for fire safety measures within the leased or occupied
areas. The building owner shall be responsible for the common areas
in the building such as the means of egress, utilities and building
service equipment or systems.
4. In building structures or facilities, such as condominium and the like,
where some units of the building are not yet sold, the provisions of
paragraph “J” sub-para "3" above shall apply. When all condominium
units have been sold, responsibility for fire safety measures in the
common areas such as the means of egrees, utilities, building
equipment/system and the building as a whole, shall devolve jointly
upon all individual unit owners or occupants.
K. Compliance with this Chapter shall not be construed as eliminating or
reducing the necessity from complying with the other provisions for safety
of persons using a structure under normal occupancy conditions. Also, no
provision of the Fire Code of the Philippines and this IRR shall be construed
as requiring or permitting any condition that might be hazardous under
normal occupancy conditions.
L. Construction and Repair Operations
1. New Construction
a. No building or structure under construction shall be occupied in
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