California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety
Subchapter 7 - General Industry Safety Orders
Group 1 - General Physical Conditions and Structures
Article 2 - Standard Specifications
Section 3225 - Maintenance and Access to Exits

(a) Exits shall be so located and arranged that they are readily accessible at all times.

(b) Exits from a room may open into an adjoining or intervening room or area, providing such adjoining room is accessory to the area served and provides a direct means of egress to an exit corridor, exit passageway, exit stairway, exterior exit, horizontal exit, or exterior exit balcony.

EXCEPTION: Exits are not to pass through kitchens, storerooms, restrooms, closets or spaces used for similar purposes. Foyers, lobbies, and reception rooms constructed as required for corridors shall not be construed as intervening rooms.

(Title 24, Part 2, Section 3302(e).).

Exits will not pass through any room subject to locking. (Title 24, Part 2, Section 2-3302(e).)

(c) No hangings or draperies shall be placed over exit doors or otherwise so located as to conceal or obscure any exit. No mirrors shall be placed on exit doors. No mirrors shall be placed in or adjacent to any exit in such a manner as to confuse the direction of exit. (Title 24, Part 2, Section 2-3302(i).)

(d) Exits shall be so arranged that it will not be necessary to travel toward any area of high hazard occupancy in order to reach the nearest exit, unless the path of travel is effectively shielded from the high hazard location by suitable partitions or other physical barriers. (Title 24, Part 2, Section 2-3302(d).)