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Department of Administration Building Codes and Standards Division Adopted Rules Governing Amendments to the State Building Code Entitled Proposed Optional Appendix E Automatic Fire Suppression Systems Rule as Adopted 2 MCAR § 1.10020 Optional provisions for installation of on- premises tire suppression systems. A. Purpose. This rule ainhorires optional provisions for the installation of on- premises lire suppression systems in new construction. It is intended to alleviate increasing demands for additional fire suppression resources by allowing a municipality to adopt the optional provisions of this rule based on its local lire suppression capabilities. B. Municipal option. The sprinkler system requirements in C. may he adopted without change by a municipality. If they are adopted. the requirements are applicable throughout the municipality for new buildings. addition, to buildings. and buildings for which the occupancy classification is changed. C. Requirements. Automatic sprinkler systems must he installed and maintained in operable condition in buildings in the ocCUpanes classifications listed in I. -12. This requirement is in addition to other minimum requirements set in the state building code. The height and area increases provided 4&P in sections 506 and 507 of the Uniform Building Code. as adopted in the state building code tm+y be rrppkied are applicable. I. Group A -I occupancies. 2. Group A -2 occupancies with an occupant load of 3(8) or more. 3.. Group A2.1 occupancies. 4. Group B -1 service stations with 3.000 or more gross sq. ft. of aea. not including canopies. 5. Group 8-1 parking garages with 5.000 or more gross sq. ft. of area. 6. Group B -2 offices and post - secondary classroom, with 8.500 or more gross sq. ft. of area or three or more stories in height. 7. Group 13 -2 retail, warehouse. or manufacturing areas with2.000 or more gross sq. ft. of area or three or more stories in height. 8. Group E -1 and E -2 occupancies with 8.500 or more gross sq. ft. in area or two or more stories in height. except for minor additions that do not increase the occupant load or significantly increase the tire load. 9. Group E -3 occupancies with an occupant load of 30 or more. 10. Group H -4 occupancies with 3,000 or more gross sq. ft. of area. I I. Group R -I apmnnrnl houses with 8,t0l) of more gross sq. ft. of area OF with dwelling units on three or once Doors. except that when they are not required by Uniform Building Code. sections 1807 or 1907, or other provisions of the sane building code. automatic sprinkler systems within dwelling units in apartment occupancies are considered Complete when plot eetion is provided m all habitable rooms. Building officials. in concurrence with their fire chiefs. may accept alternate systems not telly e4+ntpfy4ng which have fire protection capabilities equivalent to systems which comply with Standard 38 -1 of the Uniform Building Code. 12. Group R -1 hotels and motels with 8.5(0. or more gross sq. ft. of area or w ith guest rooms on three or more floors. KEY: PROPOSED RULES SECTION — Underlining indicates additions to existing rule language. Strike outs indicate deletions from inkling rule language. If a proposed rule is totally new, it is designated "all new material.– AIN)PTED RULES SECTION — Underlining indicates additions to proposed rule language. Striloe outs indicate deletions hum proposed rule language. (CITE 7 S.R. 1519) STATE REGISTER, MONDAY, APRIL 18. 1983 6 6 PAGE 1519