3731.02 Fire marshal rules and enforcement - building code standards for SRO facilities.

(A) The fire marshal shall make such rules as are necessary to carry out this chapter. The fire marshal and the assistant fire marshals shall enforce this chapter.

(B) Except as otherwise provided in this division, the board of building standards shall adopt, pursuant to section 3781.10 of the Revised Code, rules that specify that the building code standards for SRO facilities shall be use group R-2. Any facility operating prior to October 16, 1996, in the nature of an SRO facility that met the building code standards for an SRO facility prior to that date, whether previously licensed as a hotel or not, and after October 16, 1996, licensed as an SRO facility under section 3731.03 of the Revised Code, shall be permitted under the rules to have a building code standard of either use group R-1 or use group R-2 if the facility meets the requirements for those use groups as specified in the Ohio building code adopted pursuant to section 3781.10 of the Revised Code.

Effective Date: 10-16-1996; 04-04-2007