Article 3 - LOCATION OF EXITS

Section 27-361

Section 27-361

  § 27-361 Arrangement. All exits and access facilities shall be located
so  that they are clearly visible, or their locations clearly indicated,
and they shall be kept readily accessible and unobstructed at all times.

Section 27-362

Section 27-362

  §  27-362 Tenant spaces. When more than one tenant occupies a building
or floor area, each tenant shall have  direct  access  to  the  required
number  of  exits  without  passing  through  premises occupied by other
tenants, except as permitted for balconies in subdivision (g) of section
27-369 of article five of this subchapter.

Section 27-363

Section 27-363

  § 27-363 Remote location. (a) When more than one exit is required from
a floor of a building, each such required exit shall be placed as remote
from  the  others  as  is  practicable. Where this results in a distance
between exits exceeding the maximum travel distances required by section
27-357, additional remote vertical exits shall be provided.
  (b) In addition  to  the  requirements  of  subdivision  (a)  of  this
section:
  (1)  For exits serving spaces classified in occupancy groups G or J-2,
in no event shall such exits be less than fifteen feet distant from each
other.
  (2) For exits serving spaces classified in other  occupancies,  in  no
event  shall  such  distance  be  less than thirty feet or one-third the
maximum  travel  distance  required  by  section  27-357,  whichever  is
greater.
  (c) On any floor containing ten thousand square feet or more in a high
rise  building classified in occupancy group E (office space), each exit
that is required to be remote from another  exit  shall  not  share  any
common  walls,  floors,  ceilings,  scissor  stair  assemblies, or other
enclosures.

Section 27-364

Section 27-364

  §  27-364  Exit  discharge.  All  vertical  exits  shall  extend  in a
continuous enclosure to discharge directly, or by way of a yard,  court,
or  exit  passageway,  to  an  open  exterior space. When vertical exits
serving floors above grade continue  in  the  same  enclosure  to  serve
floors below grade, the portion of such vertical exits above grade shall
be  separated  from  the  portion  below grade by construction having at
least  a  one  hour  fire-resistance  rating,  with  three-quarter  hour
self-closing  doors  opening  in  the  direction of exit travel from the
floors below grade, except  that  buildings  classified  in  residential
occupancy  group  J-3  and educational occupancy group G shall be exempt
from this requirement.