CHAPTER 31
H.P. 237 - L.D. 274
An Act Concerning the Requirements for Exits for Boardinghouses and Lodging Houses
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 25 MRSA §2453, first ¶, as amended by PL 1999, c. 384, §19, is further amended to read:
Each story above the first story of a building used as a schoolhouse, orphan asylum, hospital for the mentally ill, reformatory, opera house, hall for public assemblies, hotel, boardinghouse or lodginghouse accommodating more than 6 persons, or tenement house occupied by more than 2 families, or store in which more than 10 persons are employed above the first story, must be provided with more than one way of egress, by stairways on the inside or fire escapes on the outside of such building. Such stairways and fire escapes must be so constructed, in such a number, or such size and in such location as to give reasonably safe, adequate and convenient means of exit, in view of the number of persons who may need to use such stairway or fire escape, must at all times be kept free from obstruction and must be accessible from each room in each story above the first story.
Effective September 21, 2001, unless otherwise indicated.
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