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Section 905.3.8, Building Area, shall be added to read as follows: <br />In buildings exceeding 10,000 square feet in area per <br />story, Class I automatic wet or manual wet standpipes shall be <br />provided where any portion of the building's interior area is <br />more than 200 feet (60960 mm) of travel, vertically and <br />horizontally, from the nearest point of fire department vehicle <br />access. <br />Exception: Automatic dry and semi-automatic dry <br />standpipes are allowed as provided for in NFPA 14. <br />Section 905.4, Location of Class I standpipe hose connections, subsection <br />5, shall be amended to read as follows: <br />5. Where the roof has a slope less than four units vertical in 12 <br />units horizontal (33.3-percent slope), each standpipe shall <br />be provided with a two-way hose connection located either <br />on the roof or at the highest landing of a stairway with stair <br />access to the roof. An additional hose connection shall be <br />provided at the top of the most hydraulically remote <br />standpipe for testing purposes. <br />Section 905.4, Location of Class 1 standpipe hose connections, subsection, <br />shall be amended to add subsection 7 to read as follows: <br />7. Class I standpipes shall also be required on all occupancies <br />in which the distance from accessible points for the Fire <br />Department ingress to any point in the structure exceeds <br />two hundred fifty feet (250') along the route that a fire hose <br />is laid as measured from the fire apparatus access road. <br />When required by this Code, standpipe connections shall be <br />placed adjacent to all required exits to the structure and at <br />two hundred (200') intervals along major corridors <br />thereafter. <br />Section 905.9, Valve supervision, shall be amended to add a second <br />paragraph before the exceptions to read as follows: <br />Sprinkler and standpipe system water-flow detectors shall <br />be provided for each floor tap to the sprinkler system and shall <br />cause an alarm upon detection of water flow for more than 45 <br />seconds. All control valves in the sprinkler and standpipe <br />systems except for fire department hose connection valves shall <br />be electrically supervised to initiate a supervisory signal at the <br />24 <br />~ LO0U70 <br />