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What is NYC BC § 1023.11?

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This section mandates that buildings complying with Section 403 or 405 must have smokeproof enclosures or pressurization alternatives for interior exit stairways and ramps serving certain elevated stories. The enforcement agency is the Department of Buildings. Applies to building owners of high-rise structures.

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1023.11 Smokeproof enclosures and pressurization alternative.

BC § 1023.11

In buildings required to comply with Section 403 or 405, each of the interior exit stairways and ramps serving a story with a floor surface located more than 75 feet (22 860 mm) above the lowest level of Fire Department vehicle access or more than 30 feet (9144 mm) below the finished floor of a level of exit discharge serving such stories shall be protected by a smokeproof enclosure or pressurization alternative in accordance with Section 909.20.

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