North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33 - State Department of Health › Article 33-03 - State Department of Health › Chapter 33-03-35 - Residential End-of-Life Facility Regulation › Section 33-03-35-07 - Fire safety

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1. Each facility
				must be constructed as a single-story facility with a minimum construction Type
				V (111), that is arranged, equipped, maintained, and operated to ensure the
				safety of its occupants from fire, smoke, fumes, or resulting panic during the
				period of time necessary for escape from the structure in case of fire or other
				emergency. Walls and ceilings separating each dwelling unit must have a
				one-hour fire rating. Dwelling unit doors must be substantial doors, such as
				those of one and three-fourths inch thick, solid bonded wood-core construction
				or of other construction of equal or greater stability and fire integrity.
				These doors must be self-closing or automatic closing and must be provided with
				latches or other mechanisms suitable for keeping the doors closed.
2. Every dwelling unit must have access to a
				primary and secondary means of escape located to provide a safe path of travel
				to the outside at grade level. Designated means of escape must be continuously
				maintained free of all obstructions.
3. No doors in any means of escape may be
				locked against egress when the building is occupied.
4. The facility shall provide an automatic
				fire alarm system with a means for manual activation. Occupant notification
				must be provided automatically and without delay. Private operating mode must
				be permitted to be used. This allows staff and other personnel required to
				evacuate patients to be notified. The notification must include means to
				readily identify the area or building in need of evacuation. Each sleeping room
				must be provided with an approved smoke alarm that is interconnected to the
				fire alarm system. The fire alarm system must be installed and tested in
				accordance with National Fire Protection Association 72, National Fire Alarm
				and Signaling Code, 2010 edition.
5. The facility must be protected throughout
				by an approved automatic sprinkler system using quick-response, residential
				sprinklers or domestic sprinklers and must initiate the fire alarm system. All
				habitable areas, closets, roofed porches, roofed decks, and roofed balconies
				must be protected by the sprinkler system. An automatic sprinkler system with a
				minimum of a thirty-minute water supply must be permitted. The sprinkler system
				supervision must be in accordance with the type of sprinkler system that is
				installed and the testing for the system must be in accordance with National
				Fire Protection Association 25, Standard for the Inspection, Testing, and
				Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems, 2011 edition. Attics used
				for storage or fuel-fired equipment must be protected with automatic
				sprinklers. Attics not used for storage or fuel-fired equipment must be
				provided with one of the following:
a.
				Protected throughout by a heat detection system arranged to activate the
				building fire alarm system;
b.
				Protected with automatic sprinkler system;
c. Must be noncombustible construction;
				or
d. Constructed of
				fire-retardant-treated wood.