R 408.10621 Classes of occupancy.

Rule 621. A building or part thereof shall be classified as follows: (a) A hotel, which includes a building, portion of a building, or group of buildings which is under the same management and in which there are more than 16 sleeping accommodations for hire that are primarily used by transients, whether designated as a hotel, apartment hotel, inn, club, or motel or by any other name. (b) Mercantile occupancy, which includes a store, market, and other room or building for the display and sale of merchandise. Examples of this occupancy are as follows: (i) Supermarkets. (ii) Department stores. (iii) Shopping centers. (iv) Drugstores. (v) Auction rooms. (c) Business occupancy, which means a place used for the transaction of business, other than that covered under mercantile occupancy, for the keeping of accounts and records and for similar purposes. Examples of this occupancy are as follows: (i) Doctors' and dentists' offices. (ii) City and township halls. (iii) Courthouses. (iv) Libraries. (v) Schools. (d) An industrial occupancy, which includes a factory that makes products of all kinds and a property devoted to operations such as processing, assembling, mixing, packaging, finishing or decorating, repairing, and similar operations. Examples of this group are as follows: (i) Laboratories. (ii) Dry cleaning plants. (iii) Power plants. (iv) Pumping stations. (v) Smokehouses. (vi) Laundries. (vii) Creameries. (viii) Gas plants. (ix) Refineries. (x) Sawmills. (e) A storage occupancy, which includes a building that is used primarily for the storage or sheltering of goods, merchandise, products, vehicles, or animals. Examples of this group are as follows: (i) Warehouses. (ii) Cold storage operations. (iii) Freight terminals. (iv) Truck and marine terminals. (v) Bulk oil storage. (vi) Parking garages. (vii) Hangars. (viii) Grain elevators. (ix) Barns. (x) Stables. (f) Miscellaneous occupancies, which means those buildings covered in the provisions of R 408.10691 to R 408.10697.