19 Public Safety Adoption of 2006 IFC

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for human occupancy located more than 55 feet ( 16 764 mm) above the lowest level of fire department vehicle access shall be provided with an automatic fire alarm system and an emergency voice/alarm communications system in accordance with Section 907.2.12.2. (73) Section 907.2.12 Exception #3, shall be amended to read as follows: 3. Buildings with an occupancy in Group A-5 in accordance with Section 303.1 of the International Building Code, when used for open air seating; however, this exception does not apply to accessory uses including, but not limited to, sky boxes, restaurants and similarly enclosed areas. (74) Section 907.4 shall be amended to add a second paragraph to read as follows: Manual alarm actuating devices shall be an approved double action type. (75) Section 907.6.1 shall be added to read as follows: 907.6.1 Installation. All fire alarm systems shall be installed in such a manner that the failure of any single initiating device or single open in an initiating circuit conductor will not interfere with the normal operation of any other such devices. All initiating circuit conductors shall be Class "A" wired with a minimum of six feet separation between supply and return circuit conductors. IDC - Class "A" style - D; SLC Class "A" Style 6; NAC Class "B" Style Y. The IDC from an addressable device used to monitor the status of a suppression system may be wired Class B, Style B, provided the distance from the addressable device is within 10 feet of the suppression system device. (76) Section 907.9.2 shall be amended, in part, to read as follows: 907.9.2 High-rise buildings. In buildings that have any floor used for human occupancy that is located more than 55 feet (16 764 mm) above the lowest level ...{remainder of section unchanged}. (77) Section 907.10.3 shall be added to read as follows: 27 w 0O1.~195