CR 16-094 Rule Text

SECTION 113.

SPS 362.0910 is repealed.

SECTION 114.

SPS 362.1004 is amended to read:

SPS 362.1004 Egress for outdoor areas. Substitute the following wording for the requirements, but not the exceptions, in IBC section 1004.8 1004.5: Yards, patios, courts, and similar outdoor areas accessible to and usable by the building occupants shall be provided with means of egress as required by this chapter. The occupant load of such outdoor areas shall be based on the anticipated use. Where outdoor areas are to be used by persons in addition to the occupants of the building, and the path of egress travel from the outdoor areas passes through the building, means of egress requirements for the building shall be based on the sum of the occupant load of the building plus the outdoor areas.

SECTION 115.

SPS 362.1006 (title), (4), and (5) are created to read:

SPS 362.1006 (title) Exits.

(4) Salt and sand storage. This is a department exception to the requirements in IBC table 1006.2.1: A single exit is allowed, and the common path of travel shall be a maximum of 250 feet in buildings or portions of buildings used exclusively for non-combustible bulk material storage of salt and sand storage when the building walls contain the materials stored.

(5) Spaces with one exit or exit access doorway. Substitute the following wording for Table 1006.2.1 footnote a.: Buildings equipped throughout with an automatic sprinkler system in accordance with IBC section 903.3.1.1, 903.3.1.2, or 903.3.1.3. See IBC section 903 for occupancies where automatic sprinkler systems are permitted in accordance with IBC section 903.3.1.1, 903.3.1.2, or 903.3.1.3.

SECTION 116.

SPS 362.1008 is renumbered SPS 362.1010 and, as renumbered, is amended to read:

SPS 362.1010 Doors, gates, and turnstiles. (1) Clear door openings for nonaccessible stalls. This is a department exception to the requirements in IBC section 1008.1.1 1010.1.1: The clear door opening for a nonaccessible toilet stall, shower stall, or other similar compartment, may be less than 32-inches wide.

(2) Door arrangement. This is a department exception to the requirements in IBC section 1008.1.8 1010.1.8: Where maneuvering space is provided between the doors in accordance with IBC section 1101.2 such that use by an individual in a wheelchair will not block the operation of the doors.

SECTION 117.

SPS 362.1009 is renumbered SPS 362.1011 (1) and, as renumbered, is amended to read:

SPS 362.1011 Stairway width. (1) General. This is a department rule in addition to the requirements in IBC section 1009.1 1011.1: Where installing an inclined platform lift or stairway chairlift, the clear-passage width shall be provided with the lift in the unfolded, usable position.

SECTION 118.

SPS 362.1009 is created to read:

SPS 362.1009 Accessible means of egress. This is a department exception in addition to IBC section 1009.3: Areas of refuge are not required at floors that are not required to be accessible.

SECTION 119.

SPS 362.1010 (3) is created to read:

SPS 362.1010 (3) Panic and fire exit hardware. (1) Substitute the following wording for the requirements relating to electrical rooms in IBC section 1010.1.10:

(a) An electrical room that contains equipment rated 800 amperes or more, and contains overcurrent devices, switching devices, or control devices, and contains a personnel door intended for entrance to and egress from the working space less than 25 feet from the nearest edge of the working space, the door shall be equipped with panic hardware or fire exit hardware and open in the direction of egress.

(b) An electrical room that is over 6 feet wide and contains equipment rated 1,200 amperes or more, and contains overcurrent devices, switching devices or control devices, and contains an exit or exit access door, the door shall be equipped with panic hardware or fire exit hardware and open in the direction of egress.

SECTION 120.

SPS 362.1011 (2) is created to read:

SPS 362.1011 (2) Width and capacity. This is a department rule in addition to the requirements in IBC section 1011.7: For platform buildings designed in accordance with IBC section 510.2 in which a stair shaft serves 2 or more classes of construction and one of those classes of construction allows combustible materials, the entire stair construction within the enclosure may be of combustible materials.

SECTION 121.

SPS 362.1013 is created to read:

SPS 362.1013 Floor-level exit signs. The requirements in IBC section 1013.2 are not included as part of chs. SPS 361 to 366.

SECTION 122.

SPS 362.1014 is renumbered SPS 362.1006 (1) and, as renumbered, is amended to read:

SPS 362.1006 (1) Exit access. This is a department exception to the requirements in IBC section 1014.3 1006.3: The length of a common path of egress travel requirements shall may not be limited more than 200 feet within townhouse dwelling units provided the townhouse complies with all of the following:

(a) The townhouse does not exceed more than 3 stories above grade plane in height.

(b) Each dwelling unit within the townhouse is separated from other dwelling units by at least 2-hour fire-resistive-rated separation walls constructed in accordance with the requirements of IBC section 705 706 and do not contain any openings and plumbing equipment or mechanical equipment. The separation wall does not have to comply with the structural stability requirements of IBC section 705.2 706.2 and the horizontal continuity requirements of IBC section 705.5 706.5.

SECTION 123.

SPS 362.1015 is renumbered SPS 362.1006 (2) and is amended to read:

SPS 362.1006 (2) Refrigerated spaces. Substitute the following wording for the exception in IBC section 1015.5 1006.2.2.3: When using refrigerants in quantities limited to the amounts based on the volume set forth in ch. SPS 345.

SECTION 124.

SPS 362.1015 is created to read:

SPS 362.1015 Guards. Substitute the following wording for the requirements, but not the exception in IBC section 1015.2: Guards shall be located along the open side of walking surfaces, balconies, mezzanine, stairs, ramps, landings, roofs, and similar surfaces intended to be used by building occupants or the public where the change in elevation is more than 30 inches (762 mm) to the floor or roof below or more than 30 inches (762 mm) measured vertically to the grade below at any point within 36 inches (914 mm) horizontally to the edge of the open side. Guards shall be adequate in strength and attachment in accordance with IBC section 1607.8.

SECTION 125.

SPS 362.1018 is renumbered SPS 362.1020 and, as renumbered, is amended to read:

SPS 362.1020 Corridor continuity. This is a department exception to the requirements in IBC section 1018.6 1020.6: Other spaces or rooms constructed as required for corridors, and that are adjacent to a fire-resistance-rated corridor, shall may not be construed as intervening rooms; and may be open to the corridor when all of the following are satisfied:

SECTION 126.

SPS 362.1021 (title) and (1) are repealed.

SECTION 127.

SPS 362.1021 (2) is renumbered SPS 362.1006 (3) and amended to read:

SPS 362.1006 (3) Exits from stories. This is a department exception to the requirements in IBC section 1021.1 1006.3: Buildings of Group I-3 occupancy that are used as guard towers, provided the towers are no higher than 2 stories above grade, accommodate no more than 10 occupants, and have a travel distance of no more than 75 feet.

SECTION 128.

SPS 362.1022 is repealed.

SECTION 129.

SPS 362.1029 is created to read:

SPS 362.1029 The requirements in IBC section 1029.1.1.1 are not included as part of chs. SPS 361 to 366.

 

SECTION 130.

SPS 362.1101 (title) is amended to read:

SPS 362.1101 (title) Design of Type A and B units.

SECTION 131.

SPS 362.1101 (1) (title) is repealed.

SECTION 132.

SPS 362.1101 (1) (a) and (b) are renumbered SPS 362.1101 (1m) and (2m).

SECTION 133.

SPS 362.1101 (2) is repealed.

SECTION 134.

SPS 362.1103 (intro.) is amended to read:

SPS 362.1103 (intro.) Scoping requirement­­s — limited access spaces. Substitute the following wording for the requirements in IBC section 1103.2.8 1103.2.7: