§ 27-243 Classification.
AC § 27-243
Buildings and spaces shall be classified in the high hazard occupancy group when they are used for storing, manufacturing, or processing potentially-explosive products or materials, or highly-combustible or highly-flammable products or materials that are likely to burn with extreme rapidity. The high hazard group shall also include: uses that involve storing, processing, or handling any materials that produce explosive dust, or that result in the division of matter into fine particles subject to spontaneous ignition; uses that employ solids or substances that ignite or produce flammable gases on contact with water; and any other uses that constitute a high fire hazard because of the form, character, or volume of the materials involved.
(a)Typical material contents. Acetylene gas and gases under pressure of fifteen psig or more and in quantities greater than twenty-five hundred cubic feet, including hydrogen, illuminating gas, natural gas, and all other gases subject to explosion; gas piping at pressure levels above fifteen psig regardless of the quantities of gas; celluloid and celluloid products; cotton batting; kerosene; fuel or other oils having a flash point under 200° F (tag closed cup), except five hundred fifty gallons or less in one- and two-family dwellings; refrigerating systems using high hazard refrigerants as defined in subchapter thirteen of this chapter, and except that in buildings lawfully occupied as garages prior to December sixth, nineteen hundred sixty-eight the storage of tank trucks or other vehicles, approved by the fire commissioner for the transportation of products having a flash point of over 100° F (tag open cup), and where the product contained in the cargo space of the vehicles is pending delivery, shall only be considered to constitute a high hazard occupancy when the product is stored in quantities greater than forty-five thousand gallons.
(b)Typical occupant activities. Artificial flower and synthetic leather manufacture; ammunition, explosives, and fireworks manufacture, sales or storage; dry cleaning or dyeing; using or storing gasoline or other combustible solvents as outlined in article six of subchapter seven of this chapter; feather renovating; fruit ripening processes; hydrogenation processes; match manufacture or storage; metal enamelling or japanning; paint and varnish manufacture; paint spraying or dipping, as specified in article three of subchapter seven of this chapter; derivation of petroleum products by application of heat; processing of paper or cardboard in loose form; pyroxylin products manufacture and storage; rag sorting and storage; shoe polish manufacture; straw goods manufacture or broom corn storage; tar, pitch, or resin processing; waste paper sorting, shredding, storage, or baling; cotton waste processes.
