Regulations
19. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations, (a) regulating the construction and alteration of hotels; (b) prescribing the design, location, identification, maintenance and lighting of means of egress from hotels and prescribing the type of hardware with which exit doors shall be equipped; (c) prescribing the method of construction and the materials to be used in the structural assemblies of hotels; (d) prescribing the design of standpipe and hose systems in hotels, prescribing the components and materials to be used in such systems and prescribing the manner in which such systems shall be installed and maintained; (e) providing for the exemption from this Act or the regulations or any provision thereof of any hotel or class or classes of hotels either absolutely or for a limited period of time, and prescribing the terms and conditions thereof; (f) prescribing the design of fire-alarm systems in hotels, prescribing the components and materials to be used in such systems and prescribing the manner in which such systems shall be installed and maintained; (g) regulating the interior and exterior finish materials in hotels; (h) requiring and regulating ventilating, air handling and cooking exhaust systems in hotels; (i) prescribing the number, type and location of portable fire extinguishers in hotels, their rating and the manner in which they shall be installed and maintained; (j) regulating the heating, cooling and air conditioning systems in hotels; (k) prescribing standards of housekeeping for hotels; (l) requiring the hotelkeeper and the staff to be trained in and to perform duties relating to fire prevention, fire protection, inspection, maintenance of equipment, supervision, fire fighting, sounding alarms, evacuating occupants, and other procedures affecting fire safety, and regulating such procedures; (m) controlling or prohibiting the use of any material, equipment, appliance or device in a hotel; (n) controlling or prohibiting exhibits and any item for display or sale in a hotel; (o) regulating the construction, erection, alteration, installation, removal, operation, or maintenance of any equipment, appliance or device in hotels; (p) prohibiting the installation or use of appliances, devices or materials in hotels; (q) requiring and regulating tests for building assemblies, materials, equipment and appliances in hotels and designating the testing agencies for such tests; (r) requiring and providing for the inspection of equipment and appliances in hotels and prescribing the frequency and the manner of such inspections; (s) prescribing classes of contractors and requiring, regulating and providing for the training, testing and registration of them, or any class of them; (t) requiring, regulating and providing for the keeping by hotelkeepers of records, statements or reports on tests, inspections, fire alarm drills and evacuation drills; (u) requiring and regulating fire prevention and fire protection equipment in hotels; (v) requiring and regulating any assembly, material, equipment, appliance or device in hotels which will reduce the likelihood of spread of fire or smoke; (w) requiring and regulating any equipment or assembly which will speed up or make the evacuation of a hotel safer and more orderly; (x) prescribing what is noncombustible construction for the purposes of this Act. R.S.O. 1990, c. H.16, s. 19.