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Title 8. BUILDINGS AND HOUSING · Chapter 2. STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND ALTERATION OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES · Article 3. APPLICATION OF BUILDING AND FIRE RELATED CODES TO EXISTING BUILDINGS

8-2-207. Compliance alternatives for inadequate number of exits.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. Compliance alternatives for an inadequate number of exits include, but are not limited to, the following:

  2. (1)

    Provide connecting fire-exit balconies acceptable to the enforcement authority between buildings;#

  3. (2)

    Provide alternate exit or egress facilities leading to safety outside the building or to a place of safe refuge in the building or an adjoining building as acceptable to the enforcement authority;#

  4. (3)

    Provide an exterior fire escape or escapes as acceptable to the enforcement authority where the providing of enclosed interior or enclosed exterior stairs is not practical; or#

  5. (4)

    Install early fire warning and fire suppression systems.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 8-2-207, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 1160, § 1.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

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