Chapter 5 General Building Heights and Areas

State Fire Marshal

508 Mixed Use and Occupancy

508.2.4 Separation of occupancies

Amendment permitting the consideration of some uses as accessory occupancies. Among other requirements, the amendment revises Section 508.2.4 Exception and limits permitted, unseparated accessory covered entrances to those required by Section 11B-206.4.10 for weather protection at entrances to medical care and long-term care facilities or Section 1224.33.2.1, emergency medical service exterior entrances. The amendment eliminates a conflict with provisions enforced by Centers for Medicare-Medicaid Services (CMS).

Table 508.4 Required separation of occupancies (hours), Footnote J

Amendment to the footnotes in Table 508.4 that reduces the fire-resistive separation criteria for covered vehicle entrances required by other provisions of the California Building Code associated with Group I-2 occupancies from 2-hour to 1-hour fire-resistance-rated construction.