New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle S - Division of Housing and Community Renewal › Chapter II - Fire Prevention And Safety: Multiple Residences › Part 1506 - Motor Vehicle Storage In New Multiple Dwellings Or Upon The Premises Thereof › Section 1506.6 - Exit requirements

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) There
				  shall be provided from every floor of motor vehicle storage facilities in a
				  multiple dwelling or upon the premises thereof at least two means of egress
				  located remote from each other. Such means of egress shall lead directly, or
				  through an exit passageway or an exit stairway in a two-hour fire-resistive
				  enclosure, to a legal open space having access to a street. Exits, exit
				  passageways and exit stairways shall be at least 36 inches wide and six feet
				  six inches high. Ramps used shall have a slope not to exceed one foot in 10
				  feet and shall be provided with nonslip surfaces. The maximum distance of
				  travel to an exit or exitway shall not exceed 100 feet, except that such
				  distance may be 150 feet when the storage facility is equipped with an
				  automatic sprinkler system. A ramp for vehicles may be considered as one means
				  of egress when such ramp is remote from the main enclosed exit and when it has
				  a terminus at grade within 50 feet of an exit door opening to the
				  exterior.
(b) All exit doors shall
				  be self-closing and swing in the direction of egress. Interior exit doors shall
				  have a fire resistance rating of at least one and one-half hours. Exterior exit
				  doors shall have a fire resistance rating of at least three-quarter hour. Where
				  doors swing into the path of travel from other areas, they shall be so located
				  as not to project into such path of travel. Doors to stairways shall open upon
				  a landing providing a distance from door swing to line of tread of stairs not
				  less than the width of the doors. Louvers are not permitted in interior exit
				  doors.
(c) All doors used as
				  required exits shall be arranged so as to be readily openable from the motor
				  vehicle storage facility side. Locks, if provided on required exits, shall not
				  require a key to be operated from the motor vehicle storage facility
				  side.
(d) Every enclosed stairway
				  shall have at its topmost landing an opening to the exterior at least 24 by 30
				  inches, provided with a window or door, readily accessible and easily openable
				  from both the interior and exterior of the building.
(e) Stairs shall be constructed of
				  noncombustible materials, shall provide for safe ascent and descent. The use of
				  winders shall not be permitted. Stairs shall be at least three feet in clear
				  width throughout and have a handrail on the open side or, if enclosed, on at
				  least one side, with a clearance of at least one and one-half inches between
				  the handrail and the wall and placed at least 31 inches above the center of the
				  tread; when three feet eight inches or more in width, handrails shall be
				  provided on each side. Treads, exclusive of nosing, shall be not less than nine
				  and one-half inches wide; risers shall not exceed seven and three-quarter
				  inches in height; and the product of the number of inches in width of the tread
				  and the number of inches in the height of the riser shall be at least 70 and at
				  most 75. Minimum headroom shall be six feet six inches measured vertically from
				  the surface of the tread at the nosing.
(f) Well openings and window openings on
				  stairs, ramps or landings shall be guarded by substantial railings at least 33
				  inches high above the floor or tread level. The openings in such railings shall
				  not exceed six inches in width nor 48 inches in length.
(g) Exitways shall be lighted by natural and,
				  or artificial light of sufficient intensity to allow safe passage at all
				  times.
(h) Every means of egress
				  shall be indicated by a durable sign reading EXIT in red letters at least eight
				  inches high on a white background or vice versa, and such sign shall be clearly
				  visible at all times.