Compliance Alternatives for Excessive Travel Distances to Approved Exit

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  6. Compliance Alternatives for Excessive Travel Distances to Approved Exit

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Compliance alternatives for excessive travel distances to an approved exit include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. Install an approved smoke detection system throughout the building;
  2. Install an approved complete automatic fire suppression system;
  3. Subdivide the exit travel route with smoke-stop doors acceptable to the enforcement authority;
  4. Increase the fire resistance rating of corridor walls and doors; or
  5. Provide additional approved means of escape.

(Code 1981, §8-2-208, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 1160, § 1.)


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