New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 5 - COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
Chapter 70 - UNIFORM FIRE CODE
Subchapter 4 - FIRE SAFETY CODE
Section 5:70-4.1 - Code adopted; scope
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 5:70-4.1
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) Pursuant to authority of the Uniform Fire Safety Act ( P.L. 1983, c.383, 52:27D-192 et seq.), the Commissioner hereby adopts this subchapter as the State Fire Safety Code.
(b) All buildings for which requirements are established in this subchapter shall be in compliance with such applicable requirements of this subchapter, unless a date for compliance is set forth in this subchapter.
1. One- and
two-family or attached single family structures used exclusively for dwelling
purposes shall not be subject to any requirements of this subchapter other than
5:70-4.19.
2. Use
Group A-2 (nightclubs) shall be in compliance with the applicable requirements
of 5:70-4.7, 4.9 and 4.11 effective on
February 5, 2007 by February 5, 2009.
(c) For purposes of this subchapter, the following Use Group designations shall apply:
"Use" or "Use Group" means the use to which a building, portion of a building, or premises, is put as follows. It shall also mean and include any place, whether constructed, manufactured, or naturally occurring, whether fixed or mobile, that is used for human purpose or occupancy that would subject it to the provisions of this Code if it were a building or premises. The Use Group designations below shall be used for all Use Group references in this subchapter.
1. "Use Group A-1
theaters": This Use Group shall include all theater and all other buildings and
structures, or parts thereof, intended for the production and viewing of
performing arts or motion pictures; and which are usually provided with fixed
seats--including theaters and television and radio studios admitting an
audience.
2. "Use Group A-2
(nightclubs)": This Use Group shall include all buildings and places of public
assembly, designed for use as dance halls, nightclubs, eating, and/or drinking
establishments, and similar occupancies, in which the established maximum
permitted occupant load exceeds the number of seats provided by more than 30
percent or which affords less than 12 square feet net area per occupant. For
purposes of determining the net area per occupant, only the actual public
assembly room or rooms shall be considered. For purposes of applying the
requirements of this chapter, the nightclub shall include all rooms, lobbies,
and other spaces connected thereto with a common means of egress and
entrance.
3. "Use Group A-3": This
Use Group shall include all buildings with or without an auditorium in which
persons assemble for amusement, entertainment, or recreation, and incidental
motion picture, dramatic or theatrical presentations, lectures, or other
similar purposes without theatrical stage other than a raised platform; and
principally used without permanent seating facilities, including art galleries,
exhibition halls, museums, lecture halls, libraries, restaurants other than
night clubs, and recreation centers; and buildings designed for other similar
assembly purposes including passenger terminals.
4. "Use Group A-4": This Use Group shall
include all buildings used as churches and for similar religious
purposes.
5. "Use Group A-5": This
Use Group shall include grandstands, bleachers, coliseums, stadiums, tents, and
similar structures for outdoor assembly uses.
6. "Use Group B": All buildings and
structures, or parts thereof, shall be classified in Use Group B, which are
used for the transaction of business, for the rendering of professional
services, or for other services that involve stocks of goods, wares, or
merchandise in limited quantities for use incidental to office uses or sample
purposes.
7. "Use Group E": This
Use Group shall include all buildings and structures used for educational
purposes serving six or more students in any or all of the grades from
kindergarten through grade 12.
8.
"Use Group F": All buildings and structures, or parts thereof, in which
occupants are engaged in performing work or labor in the fabricating,
assembling, or processing of products or materials shall be classified in Use
Group F; including, among others, factories, assembling plants, industrial
laboratories, and all other industrial and manufacturing uses, except those of
Use Group H involving highly combustible, flammable, or explosive products and
materials.
i. "Use Group F-1": Factory and
industrial uses that are not otherwise classified as low-hazard Use Group F-2,
shall be classified as a moderate-hazard factory and industrial use, Use Group
F-1.
ii. "Use Group F-2": Factory
and industrial uses that involve the fabrication or manufacturing of
noncombustible materials that, during finishing, packing, or processing, do not
contribute to a significant fire hazard, shall be classified as Use Group F-2.
The following manufacturing processes are indicative of, and shall be
classified as, Use Group F-2: beverages, nonalcoholic; brick and masonry;
ceramic products; foundries; glass products; gypsum; ice; metal fabrication and
assembly; and water pumping plants.
9. "Use Group H": All buildings and
structures, or parts thereof, shall be classified in Use Group H that are used
for the manufacturing, processing, generation, or storage of corrosive, highly
toxic, highly combustible, flammable, or explosive materials that constitute a
high fire or explosion hazard, including loose combustible fibers, dust, and
unstable materials.
10. "Use Group
I-1": This Use Group shall include buildings housing six or more individuals
who, because of age, mental instability or other reasons, must live in a
supervised environment but who are physically capable of responding to an
emergency situation without personal assistance. Included in this group are
uses such as facilities for children, aged persons, mentally impaired, and
convalescents including: convalescent facilities, group homes, homes for the
aged, mentally retarded care facilities, orphanages, and residential care
facilities. Occupancies such as the above with five or fewer occupants shall be
classified as a residential Use Group.
11. "Use Group I-2": This Use Group shall
include all buildings used for housing people suffering from physical
limitations because of health or age, including, among others, day nurseries,
hospitals, sanitariums, infirmaries, orphanages, and homes for aged and
infirm.
12. "Use Group I-3": This
Use Group shall include all buildings designed for the detention of people
under restraint, including, among others, jails, prisons, reformatories, insane
asylums, and similar uses.
13. "Use
Group M": All buildings and structures, or parts thereof, shall be classified
in Use Group M that are used for display and sales purposes involving stocks of
goods, wares, or merchandise incidental to such purposes and accessible to the
public; including, among others, retail stores, motor fuel service stations,
shops and salesrooms, and markets.
14. "Use Group R-1": This Use Group shall
include all hotels, motels, retreat lodging facilities, and similar buildings
arranged for shelter and sleeping accommodations and in which the occupants are
primarily transient in nature, making use of the facilities for a period of
less than 30 days. This definition shall also mean and include bed and
breakfast guesthouses and bed and breakfast inns.
15. "Use Group R-2": This Use Group shall
include all multiple family dwellings having more than two dwelling units and
shall also include all dormitories, rooming houses, group rentals where the
occupants are living independently of each other, and similar buildings
arranged for shelter and sleeping accommodations in which the occupants are
primarily not transient in nature. This Use Group shall also include attached
one- and two-family dwelling units that do not meet the definition for Use
Group R-3.
16. "Use Group R-3":
This Use Group shall include all buildings arranged for the use of detached
one- and two-family dwelling units, including, but not limited to, buildings
with not more than five lodgers or boarders per family, and excluding buildings
designed in accordance with the one- and two-family subcode of the State
Uniform Construction Code. This Use Group shall also mean and include:
i. Bed and breakfast homestays; and
ii. Attached one- and two-family dwellings
constructed in accordance with the Uniform Construction Code requirements for
multiple single family dwellings.
17. "Use Group R-4": This Use Group shall
include all buildings arranged for use as detached one-and two-family dwelling
units, including, without limitation, buildings occupied by not more than five
lodgers or boarders per family and buildings used as bed and breakfast
homestays, that are designed in accordance with the one- and two-family
dwelling subcode of the State Uniform Construction Code.
18. "Use Group S-1": All buildings and
structures, or parts thereof, that are used primarily for the storage of
moderate hazard contents, which are likely to burn with moderate rapidity, but
which do not produce either poisonous gases, fumes, or explosives, including,
among others, warehouses, storehouses, and freight depots.
19. "Use Group S-2": All buildings and
structures, or parts thereof, that are used primarily for the storage of
noncombustible materials, and of low hazard wares that do not ordinarily burn
rapidly such as products on wood pallets or in paper cartons without
significant amounts of combustible wrappings, including, among others,
warehouses, storehouses, and freight depots. Such products may have a
negligible amount of plastic trim such as knobs, handles, or film
wrapping.
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