Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 265 - State Fire Marshal Commission
Chapter 10 - Smoke Detectors
Subchapter 3 - Rationalization
Section 265:10-3-1 - Institutional

(1) "Hospital" means a building or part thereof used for the medical, psychiatric, obstetrical or surgical care on a 24-hour basis of three or more inpatients. Hospital wherever used in these rules and regulations shall include General Hospitals, Mental Hospitals, Tuberculosis Hospitals, Children's Hospitals, Specialized Hospitals and any such facilities providing inpatient care.

(2) "Nursing home" means a building or part thereof used for the lodging, boarding and nursing care on a 24-hour basis of three or more persons who because of mental or physical incapacity may be unable to provide for their own needs and safety without the assistance of another person. Nursing Home wherever used in these rules and regulations shall include nursing homes, convalescent homes, skilled nursing facilities and infirmaries in homes for the aged.

(3) "Rest home" means a facility that contains a group housing arrangement for three or more persons that provides at least two meals per day and such social and personal care services needed by the residents because of age or physical incapacity may be unable to provide for their own needs, but that do not provide intermediate or skilled nursing care.

(1) New facilities: smoke detectors/detection systems shall be installed as per the requirements set out in the building codes as most recently adopted by the Oklahoma Uniform Building Code Commission.

(2) Existing facilities: approved single station or multiple station detectors must be installed in all sleeping rooms, except in facilities which have an approved corridor smoke detection system and are protected by an approved automatic sprinkler system.