H-1 - Ordinance 2025-519 - 2024 International Fire Code with Amendents

fire alarm system employing automatic fire detectors or water-flow devices. Where other sections of this code allow elimination of fire alarm boxes due to sprinklers, a single fire alarm box shall be installed. Exceptions: 1. The manual fire alarm box is not required for fire alarm systems dedicated to elevator recall control and supervisory service. 2. The manual fire alarm box is required for Group R-2 occupancies to provide a means for fire watch personnel to initiate an alarm during a sprinkler system impairment event. The manual fire alarm box shall not be located in an area that is accessible to the public. 3. Multi-tenant buildings required to have a manual/automatic fire alarms system shall install one manual pull station per tenant space. 4. Visual notification appliances are not required within self-storage units. Section 907.2.1.3 Add a new section to read as follows: Group A Occupancies. In Group A occupancies, the activation of the fire alarm or fire sprinkler system, shall automatically shut down or stop music, sound systems, conflicting or confusing sounds and visual distractions and initiate illumination of all the means of exit egress components. Section 907.2.9 Group R-2. Add a sentence at the end to read as follows: An automatic smoke detection system shall be installed throughout all interior corridors and at the top of stairwell enclosures serving sleeping units that activates the occupant notification system in accordance with Section 907.5. Section 907.2.9.1 Delete exception 2 without substitution. Section 907.2.11.2 Modify by adding a fourth location requirement as follows: 4) Supervised smoke detectors shall be installed in all common corridors and at the top and bottom of all stairway enclosures in Groups R-2, R-4 and I-1 occupancies. In corridors, detectors shall be located within fifteen (15) feet of the end of the corridor and in such a way that one detector is located for each thirty (30) feet of corridor length or spaced as allowed by the code. Section 907.2.1.3 Add a new section to read as follows: Group A Occupancies. In Group A occupancies, the activation of the fire alarm or fire sprinkler system, shall automatically shut down or stop music, sound systems, conflicting or confusing sounds and visual distractions and initiate illumination of all the means of exit egress components. Section 907.4.2 Add a sentence to the end of the section to read as follows: Where in the opinion of the Fire Code Official manual fire alarm boxes may be used to cause false fire alarms, the Fire Code Official is authorized to modify the requirements for manual fire alarm boxes. Section 907.5.2.1.3.2 Add a sentence to the end of the first sentence to read as follows: single-or multiple station smoke alarms shall be monitored by the fire alarm system as a supervisory signal.