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5. Residential
a. Residential occupancies are those occupancies in which sleeping
accommodations are provided for normal residential purposes and
include
all
buildings
designed
to
provide
sleeping
accommodations.
b. Residential buildings, structures or facilities are treated separately in
this Rule in the following groups: hotels; motels; apartelles; pension
houses; inns; apartments; condominiums; dormitories; lodging or
rooming houses; and one- and two-family dwellings; and the likes.
6. Mercantile
a. Mercantile occupancies include stores, markets, and other rooms,
buildings, or structures for the display and/or sale of merchandise.
b. Mercantile occupancies include: malls; supermarkets; department
stores; shopping centers; flea markets; restaurants of less than 50
persons capacity; public/private dry and wet markets; water
refilling stations; drugstores; hardwares/construction supplies;
showrooms; and auction rooms.
c. Minor merchandising operation in building predominantly of other
occupancies, such as newsstand in an office building, shall be
subject to the exit requirements of the predominant occupancy.
d. Office, storage, and service facilities incidental to the sale of
merchandise and located in the same building should be
considered part of the mercantile occupancy classification.
7. Business
a. Business buildings are those used for the transaction of business
other than that covered under Mercantile, for the keeping of
accounts and records and similar purposes.
b. Included in this occupancy group are: offices for lawyers; doctors;
dentists and other professionals; general offices; City/Municipal
halls; internet shops; massage parlors, beauty parlors, barbershops
of less than 50 occupants and court houses;
c. Minor office occupancy incidental to operations in other
occupancy shall be considered as a part of the dominant
occupancy and shall be subject to the provisions of the Chapter
applying to the dominant occupancy.
8. Industrial
a. Industrial occupancies include factories that make products of all
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