Indiana Administrative Code › Title 675 - FIRE PREVENTION AND BUILDING SAFETY COMMISSION › Article 22 - FIRE PREVENTION CODES › Rule 2.5 - 2014 Indiana Fire Code › Section 2.5-6 - Chapter 5; fire services features

Current through July 10, 2024
Authority: IC
				  22-13-2-2
Affected: IC 22-12-7; IC 22-13; IC 22-14; IC 36-8-17
Sec. 6.
Chapter 5 is amended as follows:
(a) Amend Section 501.2 to delete the text
				and insert to read as follows: Address Identification. When not required by
				local ordinance, buildings shall be provided with approved address numbers,
				building numbers or approved building identification placed in a position that
				is plainly legible and visible from the street or road frontage fronting the
				property. These numbers shall contrast with their background. Address numbers
				shall be Arabic numbers or alphabetical letters. Numbers shall be a minimum of
				4 inches (101.6 mm) high with a minimum stroke width of .5 inch (12.7 mm).
				Address numbers shall be maintained.
(b) Amend Section 501.3 to delete "and
				approval" without substitution.
(c)
				Amend Section 502.1 to insert a new definition as follows: FIRE APPARATUS
				ACCESS ROAD. A road that provides not only fire apparatus access for the
				servicing fire department, but provides same access for any local or state law
				enforcement agency, for any servicing emergency medical agency and for any
				local or state emergency response agency to a facility, building or structure
				or portion thereof. This is a general term inclusive of all other terms such as
				fire lane, public street, private street, also public or private lot and lane
				and access roadway.
(d) Amend
				Section 503.1.1 to delete the text and insert as follows: Buildings and
				facilities. Approved fire apparatus access roads shall be provided for every
				facility, building or portion of a building hereafter constructed or moved into
				or within the jurisdiction. The fire apparatus access road shall comply with
				the requirements of this section and shall extend to within 150 feet (45.72 m)
				of all portions of the facility and all portions of the exterior walls of the
				first story of the building as measured around the perimeter of the exterior of
				the building or facility.
Exception: Buildings protected throughout by a supervised
				  automatic fire sprinkler system and not used for high-piled combustible storage
				  in excess of twelve thousand (12,000) square feet.
(e) Add Section 503.1.4 to read as follows:
				503.1.4. For exterior lumber storage, see Section 2809.
(f) Amend Section 503.2.2 to delete the text
				and insert the following: Vertical clearances or widths required by this
				section shall be increased when vertical clearances or widths do not provide
				fire apparatus access for the largest vehicle available to the servicing fire
				department.
(g) Amend Section
				503.2.3 to delete the text and insert as follows: Fire apparatus access roads
				shall be designed, constructed and maintained to support the imposed live loads
				of the heaviest piece of fire department apparatus available to the servicing
				fire department and shall be provided with a surface so as to provide
				all-weather driving capability with required ground clearances from chassis
				frame and appurtenances.
(h) Amend
				Section 503.2.4 to delete the text and insert the following: The turning radius
				of a fire apparatus access road shall be determined after consultation with the
				servicing fire department and shall be at least equal to the minimum required
				radius for the fire apparatus. Such roads shall be designed and constructed to
				permit turning of the longest piece of fire apparatus available to the
				servicing fire department.
(i)
				Amend Section 503.2.5 to delete the text and insert the following: Dead-end
				fire apparatus access roads in excess of one hundred fifty (150) feet in length
				shall be designed and constructed so as to allow the turning around of the
				longest piece of fire apparatus available to the servicing fire
				department.
(j) Amend Section
				503.2.6 as follows:
(1) In the first sentence,
				after "in", insert "an approved manner".
(2) In the first sentence, delete "accordance
				with AASHTO HB 17".
(3) In the
				third sentence, delete "when required by the code official".
(4) Amend the last sentence to delete the
				text and insert to read as follows: Where elevated surfaces designed for
				emergency vehicle use are adjacent to surfaces which are not designed for such
				use, approved barriers or approved signs shall be installed.