Section 53(1) in Kerala Municipality Building Rules, 1999
(1)Every floor of a flat, apartment house lodging or rooming house, dormitory, hostel or hotel with residential accommodation exceeding 150 sq. metres of floor area with a capacity for accommodating more than 20 persons shall have at least 2 door ways as remote as practicable from each other; such doorways shall provide access to separate exits or may open upon a common corridor, leading to separate exit in opposite direction.
