Compliance Alternatives for Inadequate Number of Exits

1. Law
2. Georgia Code
3. Buildings and Housing
4. Standards and Requirements for Construction, and Alteration, of Buildings and Other Structures
5. Application of Building and Fire Related Codes to Existing Buildings
6. Compliance Alternatives for Inadequate Number of Exits

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

1. Provide connecting fire-exit balconies acceptable to the enforcement authority between buildings;
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;
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
4. Install early fire warning and fire suppression systems.

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

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