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A. International Fire Code Chapter 9 is amended to read as follows:

907.1.3 Equipment. Equipment systems and their components shall be listed and approved for the purposes for which they were installed. All new systems shall be addressable. Each device shall have its own address and annunciate individual device addresses at a UL Central Station.

907.1.4 Approved Fire Alarm and Detection Systems. In addition to any requirement of 907.2 or 907.3, all new buildings exceeding 5,000 square feet gross floor area shall be required to provide an approved automatic fire detection and alarm system. For existing buildings, additions increasing the total area to greater than 5,000 square feet or alterations or repairs exceeding 5,000 square feet shall be required to provide an approved automatic fire detection and alarm system for the entire associated fire area as required for new construction. Fire walls shall not be considered to separate a building to enable deletion of the required fire detection system.

EXCEPTIONS:

1. Group “U” Occupancies.

2. One and Two Family residences.

907.5.2.3.1 Employee Work Areas. Visible alarm notification appliances shall be provided in employee work areas.

B. For purposes of this chapter, a “fire wall,” “fire barrier,” or “horizontal assembly” shall not be considered to separate a building so as to avoid the required automatic fire alarm and detection system. A building shall have a minimum distance of five feet from any point of the building to any point of another building and from the property line in order to be considered a separate building. (Ord. 6902 § 19, 2023; Ord. 6763 § 5, 2021; Ord. 6601 § 21, 2016; Ord. 6310 § 16, 2010; Ord. 6104 § 14, 2007.)