4101:2-90-13 Doorways and doors.

(A) Doorways may serve as required exits when such doorways have a clear width of not less than 36 inches for rooms occupied by nonambulatory persons, and not less than 30 inches for rooms occupied by ambulatory persons.

(B) All new doorways shall comply with the requirements of OBC-1964.

(C) Doors in required exit ways shall swing, when opening, in the direction of egress except when in exits from rooms or buildings occupied by fewer than 15 persons.

(D) An accordion-type door may be used as the exit door from a room occupied by fewer than 6 persons. Accordion-type doors shall be designed, constructed, and installed to insure that they will be easy to operate at all times, and there shall be no looking devices to lock such doors in the closed position. Egress from any room to a conforming exit way or the outside of a building shall be dependent upon the operation of not more than one accordion-type door. Such doors shall have flame-resistive properties of not less than those of Class D material under section 1203.34 OBC-1964, or as required for flame-resistive decorative material under section 1203.41 OBC-1964.

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 07/10/2007 and 07/01/2012

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 3781.10(E)

Rule Amplifies: 3781.03, 3791.04

Prior Effective Dates: 12/21/76