N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 9, Appendices, app S-1

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 50, December 11, 2024
Appendix S-1

CLASSIFICATION OF BUILDINGS BY OCCUPANCY OR USE

C1--Business

This group includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Banks

Buildings for broadcasting and telecasting having a capacity of not more than 99

persons

Computer and data processing buildings

Indoor tennis courts designed for or in-

tended to be used by not more than 99

persons, without seating for spectators

Administration buildings

Laboratories, other than chemical

Library buildings having a capacity of not more than 99 persons

Office buildings

Professional offices, incidental to other uses

School administration buildings without classrooms

Telephone exchanges

C2--Mercantile

This group includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Auto sales rooms

Display rooms

Gasoline service stations without mainte-

nance or repair facilities

Markets and supermarkets

Stores, including paint stores without bulk handling facilities

C3--Industrial

This group includes, but is not limited to, the following:

C3.1 Low Hazard:

Car wash facilities

Dairy product processing

Dry cleaning plants using nonflammable solvents

Electric substations

Electrolytic processing excluding those that generate flammable or toxic gases

Electronic assembly plants

Foundries

Power generating plants

Metal processing buildings

Metal fabrication buildings

Ceramic product manufacture

Masonry product manufacture

Waterpumping stations

Wineries, Breweries

C3.2 Moderate Hazard:

Aircraft maintenance and repair facili-

ties

Bakeries

Chemical laboratories and manufactur-

ers other than high hazard

Commercial laundries

Dry cleaning plants using flammable solvents

Metal-working shops requiring volatile or flammable liquids

Motor vehicle maintenance and repair shops

Papermills and sawmills

Woodworking plants excluding furniture manufacture

C3.3 High Hazard:

Celluloid, pyroxylin and nitrocellulose products

Explosives and fireworks manufacturing and distributing

Flammable dust

Gasoline plants and plants for flamma-

ble gas

Oil refineries and oil cracking facilities

Paint and varnish manufacture

Rooms with high oxygen atmosphere in-

cluding hospital operating rooms

Upholstering facilities

Wood furniture manufacture

C4--Storage

This group includes, but is not limited to, the following:

C4.1 Low Hazard:

Cold storage of food products

Firehouse without assembly space

Passenger car storage without mainte-

nance or repair facilities

Storage of noncombustible materials

C4.2 Moderate Hazard:

Aircraft hangars

Book storage

Firehouse with assembly space

Furniture storage, wood

Garage with maintenance or repair fa-

cilities

Grain elevators

Lumber storage without facilities for producing chips or dust

Paper or cardboard storage, tightly packed

Stables or barns within fire limits

Truck or commercial garages

Warehouse and truck terminals

C4.3 High Hazard:

Buildings wherein flammable chips or dust are produced

Gasoline bulk stations including han-

dling facilities

Storage of flammable medical gas or hy-

drogen

Wholesale chemical storage

C5--Assembly

This classification is subdivided into groups,

according to the number of persons or the use of the building, as follows:

Groups C5.1 for not more than six hundred persons.

Group C5.2 for more than six hundred, but not more than fifteen hundred persons.

Group C5.3 for more than fifteen hundred persons.

The above groups, based on number of persons,

include but are not limited to the following:

Amusement park buildings to which the public has access

Armories

Art galleries

Assembly halls

Auditoriums

Bath houses

Bowling alleys

Club rooms

Coliseums and stadiums

Court rooms

Dance halls

Exhibition halls or buildings

Grandstands

Gymnasiums

Indoor tennis courts with seating for spec-

tators

Lecture halls

Libraries and broadcasting and tele-

casting stations having a capacity of more than 99 persons

Lodge halls or rooms

Mortuary Chapels

Motion picture theaters

Museums

Night clubs

Passenger stations and terminals of air,

surface, underground and marine public transportation facilities

Recreation centers, halls and piers

Restaurants

Skating rinks

Tents and similar shelters

Theaters

The following groups include, but are not limited to:

Group C5.4--churches, synagogues, mosques,

and similar places of worship.

Group C5.5--schools, colleges and similar places of education.

C6--Institutional

This classification is subdivided into groups,

according to the movement of the occupants, and includes, but is not limited to, the following:

C6.1--for persons whose movements are not limited and have a normal sense of perception, as follows:

Out-patient clinics without domiciliary fa-

cilities

Days centers for, children 3 years of age or over

C6.2--for persons whose movements are limited because of illness, physical or mental handicap,

(except nursing and old-age homes regulated by the

State Building Construction Code applicable to

Multiple Dwellings).

Examples are as follows:

Child caring institutions with overnight sleeping facilities

Clinics with sleeping rooms

Community residences as defined in sec-

tion 803.3

Day care centers for children under 3

years of age

Hospitals

Infirmaries

Sanitariums

C6.3 Detained or Confined:

Detention homes

Houses of correction

Jails

Mental hospitals.

Penitentiaries

Police lockups

Prisons

Reformatories

C7--Miscellaneous

This group includes, but is not limited to, the following:

Boathouses

Chimneys, free standing

Contractors' temporary buildings

Roofed marine terminals

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 9, Appendices, app S-1