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MS Code § 45-11-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-23. Duty of hotel and lodging house keeper to post notice

 Every proprietor or keeper of any hotel or lodging house of the kind mentioned in Section 45-11-21, shall post notices in every room of the hotel or lodging house required to be provided with a rope or rope ladder or other appliance, calling attention to the fact that said section has been complied with, and designating the part of such room where the rope, rope ladder, or appliance is fastened, with general directions for its use.
MS Code § 45-11-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-25. Certain hotels and lodging houses to be provided with iron balconies and stairs

 Every hotel or lodging house over two (2) stories in height shall be provided with permanent iron balconies, with iron stairs leading from one balcony to the other, to be placed at the end of each hall in and above the second story in case the hotel or lodging house be over one hundred and fifty feet (150´) in length, and in other cases such number of balconies with stairs as may be directed by the fire department or authority having control of the fire regulations of the city or town where the hotel or lodging house is located. The balconies and iron stairs shall be constructed at the expense of the owner of the hotel or lodging house.
MS Code § 45-11-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-27. Public halls, hotels shall provide stair rail

 Every public hall, opera house, hotel, lodging house, or other public building of two (2) or more stories, shall have provided to each stairway used by and for the public, a hand or side rail to protect persons in ascending or descending such stairway.
MS Code § 45-11-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-29. Fire detectors required for hotels and lodging houses

 All hotels or lodging houses shall be provided with a Mississippi Fire Prevention Code-approved electric fire detector with a detector on each floor.
MS Code § 45-11-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-33. Hotel and lodging house keepers to give alarm

 Every proprietor or keeper of a hotel or lodging house shall, in case of fire therein, give notice of the same to all guests and inmates thereof at once, and do all in his power to rescue them.
MS Code § 45-11-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-35. Construction requirements for hotels and lodging houses

 All hotels or lodging houses hereafter constructed over two (2) stories in height and over one hundred feet (100´) in length or breadth, shall be so constructed as to have at least two (2) flights of stairs for use of guests leading from the ground floor to the uppermost story, one (1) to be located at each end or side.
MS Code § 45-11-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-37. Doors to open outwardly

 All the doors for ingress and egress to public schoolhouses, theaters, assembly rooms, halls, courthouses, churches, factories with more than twenty (20) employees, and all other buildings and places of public resort whatever, where people are wont to assemble, excepting schoolhouses, courthouses, and churches of one (1) audience room, and that on the ground floor, shall be so swung as to open outwardly from the audience rooms, halls, or workshops; but such doors may be hung on double-jointed hinges, so as to open with equal ease outwardly or inwardly.
MS Code § 45-11-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-39. Egress in case of fire

 All school buildings, public or private, now under construction in this state or that may hereafter be constructed, shall be so constructed or so equipped as to afford ample and easy egress in case of fire.
MS Code § 45-11-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-41. School buildings to have certain fire escapes

 In the construction of school buildings all outside doors shall be made to open outwardly. All buildings of two (2) or more stories in height shall be constructed so as to give easy escape in case of fire, by providing modern fire escapes, or by providing iron ladders, slides or stairways on the outside of such buildings. In case of ladders, slides or stairways on the outside, sufficient platform room at the top of such ladder, slide or stairway and sufficient banisters or railings shall be provided to guarantee the safety of the children in getting out of the building. Provided, however, that in any fireproof school buildings with each floor on the ground level and constructed for more than ten (10) years, the board of trustees of the school or attendance center, in their discretion, may not be required to add fire escapes provided within sixty (60) days immediately following the passage of this section they spread upon their minutes a resolution to that effect.
MS Code § 45-11-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-43. County superintendent to furnish plans and approve construction

 The county superintendent of education in each county shall furnish plans and specifications for the fire escape facilities for each school building constructed, a copy of which shall be furnished the trustees of the district in which the new building is being constructed and a copy shall be placed on file in the office of the county superintendent of education. When the building is completed the trustees shall notify the county superintendent, who shall make a personal inspection of the new building and if the plans and specifications have been complied with he shall so report to the trustees and such notification and approval shall be made of record in his office. The school building shall not be opened for the reception of pupils until the county superintendent has approved the fire escape facilities.
MS Code § 45-11-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-45. Places of public amusement; how constructed

 Every place for public amusement shall have at least the following arrangements for the safety of those attending there: The seats shall be located in rows with spaces between the seats adequate for easy ingress and egress, and an aisle of at least four (4) feet in width shall run between the rows on the lowest floor, if there be more than one (1) floor, from the commencement of the seats toward the place of performance, exhibition, or speaking, as far as the seats are located, and, if there be only one (1) floor, then between the rows on that floor, and also an aisle of at least three (3) feet in width shall be made to run along the outward ends of the rows of seats and next to the walls, and also around or along the ends of all rows of seats wherever located; and all aisles shall be kept unobstructed towards places of egress. All seats shall be located in rows, to which the aisles shall conform. There shall be as many doors for egress for those in attendance, not less than two (2) at either end or side of the building, as can be made consistently with the proper strength of the structure. All scenery shall be made as secure against becoming inflamed as reasonably practicable, and all reasonably practicable arrangements shall be made for the supply of water or other means for extinguishment of fires, and they shall be kept constantly effective during the presence of the audience. In cities of over ten thousand (10,000) inhabitants a fireproof drop curtain of sufficient dimensions to cover the entire front of the stage shall be so hung that, upon an alarm of fire originating upon, or in rear of stage, it may be promptly dropped so as to prevent the fire from communicating with the auditorium.
MS Code § 45-11-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-47. Public eating places or places of public amusement to provide exits; penalties for violation

  It shall be the duty of the owner and operator of any public restaurant, cafe, night club, or eating place or place of public amusement to provide proper exits for the use of patrons in the event of fire in same. Doors to all restaurants, cafes, night clubs, or other public eating places or places of public amusement shall open to the outside of the building, where the seating capacity is over fifty (50) seats. Every room, gallery, tier or other space having a capacity of one hundred (100) or more shall have not less than two (2) exit doorways. In every establishment that accommodates three hundred (300) or more persons, each room, gallery, tier or other space where such assembly occurs, shall have exit ways to the outside as follows:  Not less than two (2) exit ways when six hundred (600) persons or less are accommodated in such room, gallery, tier or other space; and   Not less than three (3) exit ways when more than six hundred (600), but not more than one thousand (1,000) persons, are accommodated; and   Not less than four (4) exit ways when more than one thousand (1,000) persons are accommodated.    Any restaurant, cafe, night club or other public eating place or place of public amusement, consisting of two (2) or more stories or floors, or any restaurant, cafe, night club, or public eating place or place of public amusement, being situated above or higher than the ground floor of any building, when such upper or higher floor has a seating capacity for fifty (50) or more persons, shall provide at least two (2) stairways located as far apart as practical for the use of patrons in the event of fire in said building. At least one (1) of the two (2) stairways shall lead directly to the outside of such building or assembly room, and shall not lead into or through the lobby or any other place through which persons come from other parts of the building or will have to pass in making emergency exits.   Any owner of any restaurant, cafe, night club, or public eating place failing or refusing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than ninety (90) days, or by a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or by both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 45-11-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-49. Penalties on hotel and lodging house keepers

 Every owner, lessee, keeper, or proprietor of a hotel or a lodging house who shall, when the same is prescribed by law to be done, fail, neglect or refuse:   To provide for each room a rope or rope ladder, or other like appliance; or   To give notice calling attention to such rope or rope ladder or appliance, and giving directions for its use; or   To provide iron balconies with iron stairs; or   To provide a hand or side rail to each stairway; or   To provide a Mississippi Fire Prevention Code-approved electric fire detector; or   To give alarm and awaken all guests and inmates of his house in case of fire therein or in close proximity thereto; or   To do everything in case of fire in his power to rescue the guests or inmates of his house; or   To do anything required by law to be done under the provisions of Sections 45-11-21 through 45-11-55;   shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ninety (90) days nor more than six (6) months, or fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both such fine and imprisonment.
MS Code § 45-11-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-51. Penalty for giving public amusements in house not properly constructed

 Every person who shall give any public amusement, entertainment or exhibition in any house or place for public amusement not constructed and arranged as required by Sections 45-11-21 through 45-11-55, or shall violate or permit the violation of any of their requirements, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than Twenty Dollars ($20.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or imprisoned in the county jail not less than one (1) week nor more than six (6) months, or both.
MS Code § 45-11-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-53. Penalty for erection of building in disregard of requirements

 Any architect, carpenter, or builder, or the owner or other person, who may hereafter erect or cause to be erected, or aid in erecting, any hotel or other house or structure for the construction of which provisions are made in Sections 45-11-21 through 45-11-55, who shall refuse or fail to comply, in the erection or construction thereof, with such provisions, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
MS Code § 45-11-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Hotels, Schools and Other Public Buildings|§ 45-11-55. Every day's omission a separate offense

 Every day's omission or failure by any person to do whatever under the provisions of Sections 45-11-21 through 45-11-55 is required to be done or provided, shall be considered and treated as a separate offense.
MS Code § 45-11-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Sale of Burglar Bars|§ 45-11-71. Sellers of burglar bars to public to comply with standard building code

 In the interest of public safety, any person who engages in the sale of burglar bars to the public shall comply with 1105.7 of the Standard Building Code of the Southern Building Code Congress International, as revised.
MS Code § 45-11-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Sale of Burglar Bars|§ 45-11-73. State fire marshal to promulgate rules and regulations; exceptions

 The State Fire Marshal shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of Sections 45-11-71 through 45-11-75. These rules and regulations shall apply except in any county or municipality which has adopted the Standard Building Code of the Southern Building Code Congress International, with standards not less stringent than the Mississippi Fire Prevention Code.
MS Code § 45-11-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Sale of Burglar Bars|§ 45-11-75. Penalty for violation

 Any person violating the provisions of Section 45-11-71, upon conviction, shall be fined in an amount not to exceed One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), and in the case of continuing violations without reasonable effort on the part of the defendant to correct such violations, each day of violation thereafter shall be a separate offense.
MS Code § 45-11-81 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Use of Safety Glazing Material in Hazardous Locations|§ 45-11-81. Definitions

 The following terms shall have the meaning ascribed to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:   "Safety glazing material" shall mean any glazing material such as tempered glass, laminated glass, wire glass or rigid plastic, which meets the test requirements of ANSI standard Z-97.1-1972.   "Hazardous locations" shall mean those installations, glazed or to be glazed, in commercial and public buildings, known as framed or unframed glass entrance doors, and those fixed glazed panels immediately adjacent to entrance or exit doors and which may be mistaken for doors, and those installations, glazed or to be glazed, in residential buildings and other structures used as dwellings, commercial buildings and public buildings, known as sliding glass doors, storm doors, shower doors and bathtub enclosures. Any entrance or exit door, or fixed glazed panel immediately adjacent to entrance or exit doors which may be mistaken for doors, which is fifty percent (50%) or more exposed glass without division frames, or contains a single glass panel with glass of more than sixty (60) inches in height or twenty-four (24) inches in width, will be a hazardous location.
MS Code § 45-11-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Use of Safety Glazing Material in Hazardous Locations|§ 45-11-83. Labeling required

  Each light of safety glazing material manufactured, distributed, imported or sold for use in hazardous locations or installed in such a location within the State of Mississippi shall be permanently labeled by such means as etching, sandblasting, firing of ceramic material on the safety glazing material, or by other suitable means. The label shall identify the labeler, whether manufacturer, fabricator or installer, and the nominal thickness and the type of safety glazing material and the fact that said material meets the test requirements of ANSI standard Z-97.1-1972. The label must be legible and visible after installation.   Such safety glazing labeling shall not be used on other than safety glazing materials.
MS Code § 45-11-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Use of Safety Glazing Material in Hazardous Locations|§ 45-11-85. Offenses; construction of section

 It shall be unlawful within the State of Mississippi to knowingly sell, fabricate, assemble, glaze, or install glazing materials other than safety glazing materials in, or for use in, any hazardous location, whether in a new installation or replacement in an existing location, as defined hereinabove after January 1, 1975. This section shall not be construed as being retroactive.
MS Code § 45-11-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Use of Safety Glazing Material in Hazardous Locations|§ 45-11-87. Workmen not liable

 No liability under Sections 45-11-81 through 45-11-89 shall be created as to workmen who are employees of a contractor, subcontractor, or other employer responsible for compliance with Sections 45-11-81 through 45-11-89.
MS Code § 45-11-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Use of Safety Glazing Material in Hazardous Locations|§ 45-11-89. Penalties

 Whoever violates the provisions of Sections 45-11-81 through 45-11-89 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or to imprisonment of not more than six (6) months, or both.
MS Code § 45-11-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 45 - Public Safety and Good Order|Chapter 11 - Fire Protection Regulations, Fire Protection and Safety in Buildings|Mississippi Fire Prevention Code|§ 45-11-103. Standards; deviation from standards; automatic sprinkler systems

 The standards embodied in said code shall be based upon and shall be not less stringent than the standards established by the standard fire prevention code as promulgated by the Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc., and as the same may be revised or amended; however, the state fire marshal shall have the authority to deviate from the minimum requirements of such standard fire prevention code when the imposition and enforcement of a specific requirement of the standard fire prevention code would cause unnecessary hardship or when such deviation would enable builders to take advantage of new methods, materials or equipment which is of recognized adequacy.   The Mississippi Fire Prevention Code shall include provisions that every new building over seventy-five (75) feet in height in the State of Mississippi for which a permit is issued after July 1, 1978, shall be equipped throughout the building with a totally automatic sprinkler system designed for life safety and fire prevention and protection. This provision shall include every building over seventy-five (75) feet in height constructed after July 1, 1978, or to any existing building in which twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the floor space is being reconstructed or added thereto. However, public utility company buildings in which water would cause severe damage to equipment such as telephone equipment, computers or electric services, and silos, grain elevators and other structures utilized solely for the storage of agricultural products are exempt from the automatic sprinkler system provisions of the code.