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3. Exit Euclosures <br />xil Encicsures <br />Sec. 3301. (a) General. Every interior stairay, ramp o, escalatorsM0 <br />be enclosed as specified in this section. <br />EXCEPTIONS: 1. In other than Group I Occupancies. an enclosu:e *a <br />not be required for a stairway, ramp or escalator serving snly one a:j ;rr <br />floor and not eonnaled with corridors or stairways scrvin t other rloon.lm <br />erclesure o f escalators serving Group L Occupancies, sce C::apter 17. <br />2. Stairs in Group R. Division 3 Occupancies and stairs within indi.ild <br />apartments in Group R. Division 1 Occupances need not be enclosed. <br />3. Stairs in open parking garages, as defined in Section 709, need ra N <br />enclosed. <br />(b) Enclosure. Construction. Enclosure walls shall be of not less this <br />two-hour fire-res:Vive eonitruction in buildings more that, four storin u <br />Night and shall be of not less than one -hour fire -resistive construclin <br />elsewhere. <br />(c) Openings into Enclosures. There shall be no openings into ts3 <br />enclosures elcent exit doorways 3r.d openings in extcricr walls. X! ell <br />doors in an exit enclosure shall be protected by a fire assembly hasirf s <br />fire-protec:ion rating or not less than one huur %hers one -hour shall cv� <br />structio.s is permitted and one and one-half hours wnere two-hour stub <br />eonstructien is required. Doors shall be maint2ired self-c!-sins ors _,IN <br />automatic closing by actuation of a ;mokc detector as pro••ided roe in ete. <br />tion 4306 (b). The maximum trnnsmiaed temp;;ature ems point stall ma <br />excced 450'r. above ambient at the end of 30 minutes of :ne fire extascrr <br />q.r•,ified in U.F.C. Standard No.43-2. <br />rd) Ilment of Enclosure. Stairway and ramp erdosur, shai', <br />;,•.!legs and prrts of floors connecting stairway flights and ssa'.I also in- <br />d.lc a corridor on tie ground Floor Icadirg from the stairway to the ex- <br />etG,r or the building. Enclosed corridors or passageways arc net rccui; eel <br />6.n ur.crcicscd stairways. Every opening into the corridor shall comply <br />.••.P. the:cgcir--rants of Section 3303 (c). <br />EXCEI'TIO.V: In office bed,lings dos;ed as a Group L•, Gss,:ua c Oc- <br />cupancy, a maximum or 5o percent of the exits may s:ischarge throeoh a <br />socet Soor lobby. prosid'd the required exit width is rrce and unobstructed <br />ar'ih.,crirestreel floor is protected wi:bar.z somatic sprinkle syste-. <br />(e) fisrrler.:: st3i1w-2y in an exit enclos2rc shall not continue below the <br />psi_ Iacl exit unless an approved barrier is provided at the Erourd Floor <br />sr'd to prc•,ust persons L-otn accidentally continuing into the ba52mcnt. <br />Ip Use or Space tinder Stair. These shag be no enclosed usable spar_ <br />r ::ai v: 1 it, 2r. exi7 errtrure nor shall she Oren spur under such <br />sv:,waysba u .,d for any purpose. <br />The hTE stairtaay from the basement roust be enclosed continuously <br />until it discharges into the 4E stairway enclosure or to the <br />outside directly. <br />