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• • • MEANS OF EGRESS egress travel within individual dwelling or sleeping privacy of the individual tenants. This limitation is units. The concern once again is possible locking based on one of the fundamental principles of egress: devices. Egress for one bedroom should not be to provide a means of egress where all components through another bedroom or bathroom. are capable of being used by the occupants without The concern in Item 5 is that kitchens, storage keys, tools, special knowledge or special effort (see rooms and similar spaces may be subject to locking Section 1 010.1.9.5). or blockage of the exit access path.This is not a gen- A common practice is to have a bank or small res- eral provision for all Group S occupancies; therefore, taurant located within a large grocery store or depart- it is not the intent of this provision to address the situ- ment store. These can be separate tenants. In these ation of egress for offices through an associated situations, the small tenants are not open when the warehouse space. Item 5, Exception 1, does not main store is closed. The intent of the exception is to apply this same prohibition to areas within dwelling or allow those small tenants to egress through the large sleeping units. However, for other spaces, a cus- tenant. Since there may be times when the larger ten- tomer means of egress should not be through the ant is open and the smaller is closed (e.g., bank holi- working portions of a commercial kitchen in a restau- days), the larger tenant cannot exit through the rant or the stock storage area of a storage room in a smaller tenant. mercantile occupancy. A dedicated path must be established through such space. The four items listed in Item 5, Exception 2, are intended to provide mea- SECTION 1017 surable criteria to increase the likelihood that the exit EXIT ACCESS TRAVEL DISTANCE access path of travel would always be available and 1017.1 General. Travel distance within the exit access por- identifiable through the stock room of a store. It is not tion of the means of egress system shall be in accordance acceptable to just mark the path on the floor. What- with this section. ever defines the route must permanently establish the egress path in a manner to maintain the minimum "Exit access"is defined as"that portion of a means of required unobstructed width. egress system that leads from any occupied portion of a building or structure to an exit"(see the commen- 1016.2.1 Multiple tenants. Where more than one tenant tary for the definition in Chapter 2). Exit access occupies any one floor of a building or structure,each tenant includes rooms, spaces, aisles and corridors that an space,dwelling unit and sleeping unit shall be provided with occupant would travel along to get to an exit.This can access to the required exits without passing through adjacent also include stairways and ramps between levels, or tenant spaces,dwelling units and sleeping units. between stories where permitted by Section 1019. Exception: The means of egress from a smaller tenant Doors and doorways along this route are exit access space shall not be prohibited from passing through a larger doorways, but may sometimes be called "exit doors." adjoining tenant space where such rooms or spaces of the True exits for this exit access travel can be: 1. An smaller tenant occupy less than 10 percent of the area of exterior exit door at grade; 2. The door to an enclo- the larger tenant space through which they pass; are the sure for an interior exit stairway, ramp or exit pas- same or similar occupancy group; a discernible path of sageway; 3. The exit door leading to an exterior exit egress travel to an exit is provided; and the means of door or ramp; or 4. A door leading through a horizon- egress into the adjoining space is not subject to locking tal exit. How exit access travel distance is measured from the egress side. A required means of egress serving is one of the key differences between interior exit the larger tenant space shall not pass through the smaller access stairways/ramps (see Section 1017.3.1) and tenant space or spaces. interior exit stairways/ramps(see Section 1017.3). ❖Where a floor is occupied by multiple tenants, each It is important to understand the relationship tenant must be provided with full and direct access to between the common path of travel limitations of See- the required exits serving that floor without passing tions 1006.2.1 and 1006.3.2 and the exit access through another tenant space. Tenants typically lock travel distance limitations of this section. Measure the doors to their spaces for privacy and security. ments start at the same location, i.e., the most Should an egress door that is shared by both tenants remote location in any occupied space. Both are be locked, occupants in one of the spaces could be measured in the exit access portion of the means of trapped and unable to reach a secondary exit.There- egress system. The common path of travel is mea fore, an egress layout where occupants from one ten sured to the point where the occupant has two dis- ant space travel through another tenant space to gain tinct paths of travel, which will lead to two distinct access to one of the required exits from that floor is exits. Travel distance is measured all the way until prohibited. the exit is reached. The common path of travel mea- This limitation is so that occupants from all tenant surement can end within a space or at a corridor spaces will have unrestricted access to the required where a single means of egress space (Section egress elements while maintaining the security and 1006.2.1) has its door to a corridor that provides access to two exits. 2015 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODER COMMENTARY I lY 10-129 INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL Copyright 3 ICC.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.Accessed by Stefan Kaiser on Sep t,zots 3 3452 PM pursuant to License Agreement with ICC.No further reproduction or distribution authorized.ANY UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION IS A VIOLATION OP THE FEDERAL COPYRIGHT ACT AND THE LICENSE AGREEMENT,AND SUBJECT TO CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES THEREUNDER.