FDNY adopted a new rule which has become a NYC safety law: 3 RCNY §401-06 Close The Door Notices and §505-01/02 related to a requirement for Apartment Door Signs. On 06/01/2016 The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) adopted a new rule which has become a NYC safety law: 3 RCNY §505-01 related to a requirement for Apartment and Guest Room Identification and Directional Markings and Signs. All apartment buildings in New York City must comply with the marking and sign requirements by March 30, 2018 except that buildings and occupancies with multi-floor dwellings (duplex, triplex) units must install markings by March 30, 2017. This new law, 3 RCNY §505-01 has set specific standards and requirements for the design and placement of entrance door room number markings for dwelling units (for all apartments, guest rooms and sleeping rooms) in Occupancy Groups R-1 and Group R-2 buildings as well as installing building lobby and hallway corridor directional signs. These mandatory apartment identification signs are required to assist emergency response personnel in locating apartments when responding to fires, medical emergencies and other emergencies. The law requires that building owners mark apartment entrance doors with emergency markings that serve to assist firefighters, first responders and building occupants to identify apartment numbers in smoke conditions that obscure the regular (eye-level) apartment door numbers signs. This law must be followed by all buildings in New York City classified as Occupancy Group R-1 and R-2 type buildings. R-l Residential occupancies containing sleeping units where the occupants are primarily transient in nature, including:
Boarding houses (transient)
Hotels (transient)
Motels (transient)
R-2 Residential occupancies containing sleeping units or more than two dwelling units where the occupants are primarily permanent in nature, including:
Apartment houses
Boarding houses (non-transient)
Convents
Dormitories
Fraternities and sororities
Hotels (non-transient)
Live / work units
Monasteries
Motels (non-transient)
Vacation timeshare properties
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