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[Cites 0, Cited by 0] [Section 7] [Entire Act]

State of Tamilnadu - Subsection

Section 7(2) in The Special Rules for the Mulit-storeyed and Public Buildings, 1974

(2)
(a)Every building meant for human occupation shall be provided with exits sufficient to permit safe escape of occupants in case of fire or other emergency.
(b)An exit may be a doorway, corridor, passage way to an internal staircase or external staircase or to a varandah or roofs or terrace having access to the street or a staircase.
Explanation. - Lifts and escalators shall not be considered as exits.
(c)Exits shall be arranged as to provide continuous means of egress to the exterior of a building or an exterior open space leading to a street, without passing through any occupied unit.
(d)Exits shall be so located that the travel distance on the floor shall not exceed 22 meters in the case of residential and public buildings and 30 meters in the case of commercial, industrial and other buildings. There shall be at least two exits serving every floor and at least one of them shall lead to the staircase.
Explanation. - Travel distance means the distance from any point of one floor area to any exit measured along the path of egress travel except that when floor areas are sub divided into rooms used singly or number of rooms and served by corridors or passages, the travel distance to be measured from the corridor entrance of such rooms or suits to the nearest staircase or varandah having access to the street.
(e)Width of any exit shall not be less than 100 cm. and shall be determined for the total number of occupants as specified in the following table. The unit of exit width for measuring the capacity of exits shall be 25 cms. A clear width of 25 cm. shall be counted as an additional half and any width less than 25 cm. shall not be counted for calculating width :-
S. No. Type of Occupancy No. of occupants per unit size width
Stair case Doors
(1) (2) (3) (4)
1 Residential 25 75
2 Mixed and other uses including buildingspermitted in special areas notified. 50 75