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USE�AND OCCUPANCY CLASSIFICATION 308.5 Group I-4,day care facilities.This group shall include dential Code in accordance with Section 101.2. Residential buildings and structures occupied by persons of any age who occupancies shall include the foliowing: receive custodial care for less than 24 hours by individuals other than parents or guardians,relatives by blood,marriage or R-1 Residential occupancies containing sleeping units adoption,and in a place other than the home of the person cared where the occupants are primarily transient in nature, for.A facility such as the above with five or fewer persons shall including: be classified as a Group R-3 or shall comply with the Interna- Boarding houses(transient) tional Residential Code in accordance with Section 101.2. Hotels(transient) Places of worship during religious functions are not included. Motels(transient) 308.5.1 Adult care facility.A facility that provides accom- B.2 Residential occupancies containing sleeping units or modations for less than 24 hours for more than five unre- more than two dwelling units where the occupants are lated adults and provides supervision and personal care primarily permanent in nature,including: services shall be classified as Group I-4. Apartment houses Exception: A facility where occupants are capable of Boarding houses (not transient) responding to an emergency situation without physical Coments assistance from the staff shall be classified as Group A-3. Dornutories 308.5.2 Child care facility.A facility that provides supervi- Fraternities and sororities sion and personal care on less than a 24-hour basis for more Hotels(nontransient) than five children 2'/2 years of age or less shall be classified Monasteries as Group I-4. Motels(nontransient) Vacation timeshare properties Exception: A child day care facility that provides care far more than five but no more than 100 children 2'/2 Congregate living facilities with 16 or fewer occu- I years or less of age,when the rooms where such children pants are pernutted to comply with the construction are cared far are located on the level of exit discharge and requirements for Group R-3. each of these child care rooms has an exit doar directly to R-3 Residential occupancies where the occupants are pri- the exterior,shall be classified as Group E. marily permanent in nature and not classified as Group R-1,R-2,R-4 or I,including: SECTION 309 Buildings that do not contain more than two dwelling I MERCANTILE GROUP M units. Adult facilities that provide accommodations for I 309.1 Mercantile Group M.Mercantile Group M occupancy five or fewer persons of any age for less than 24 includes, among others, buildings and structures or a portion hours. thereof, for the display and sale of inerchandise, and involves Child care facilities that provide accommodations for - stocks of goods, wares or merchandise incidental to such pur- five or fewer persons of any age for less than 24 poses and accessible to the public. Mercantile occupancies hours. shall include,but not be limited to, the following: Congregate living facilities with 16 or fewer persons. Department stores Adult and child care facilities that are within a sin- Drug stores gle-family home are pernvtted to comply with the Markets Motor fuel-dispensing facilities International Residential Code. Retail or wholesale stores R-4 Residential occupancies shall include buildings Sales rooms arranged for occupancy as residential care/assisted liv- 309.2 Quantity of hazardous materials.The aggregate quan- ing facilities including more than five but not more than tity of nonflammable solid and nonflammable or 16 occupants,excluding staff. noncombustible liquid hazardous materials stored or displayed Group R-4 occupancies shall meet the require- in a single control area of a Group M occupancy shall not ments for construction as defined for Group R-3, exceed the quantities in Tabie 414.2.4(1). except as otherwise provided for in this code,or shall comply with the International Residential Code. SECTION 310 310.2 Definitions.T'he following words and terms shall,for the RESIDENTIAL GROUP R purposes of this section and as used elsewhere in this code, have the meanings shown herein. 310.1 Residential Group R. Residential Group R includes, among others, the use of a building or structure, or a portion BOARDING HOUSE.A building arranged or used for lodg- thereof,for sleeping purposes when not classified as an Institu- ing for compensation,with ar without meals,and not occupied tional Group I or when not regulated by the International Resi- as a single-family unit. 34 2006 INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE�