NYC Administrative Code

§ 27-123 — Alterations involving high hazard occupancies.

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This section allows buildings erected before December 6, 1968, to utilize new high hazard occupancies if equipped with an approved automatic sprinkler system. Existing high hazard occupancies may continue operations under fire protection requirements set by the fire commissioner. Applies to building owners of older structures with high hazard uses.

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§ 27-123 Alterations involving high hazard occupancies.

AC § 27-123

Any building erected prior to the effective date of this code (December sixth, nineteen hundred sixty-eight) and complying with section 27-117 of this article may be utilized for new high hazard occupancies without compliance with article two of subchapter six of this chapter on condition that the building or building section for such high hazard occupancy be provided with an approved one source automatic sprinkler system complying with the provisions of subchapter seventeen for B-1 occupancies regardless of the area thereof. Existing high hazard occupancies in structures erected prior to the effective date of this code and complying with section 27-117 of this article may continue to operate, subject to such fire protection requirements as the fire commissioner shall direct.

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