Nevada Code § 477.150

Fire sprinklers; elevators; posting of floor numbers and route for evacuation; heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and paging systems
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The owner or operator of every hotel, motel,
office, apartment building or condominium where human occupancy is permitted on
floors which are more than 55 feet above the lowest level of ground accessible
to vehicles of a fire department, shall:
1. Equip each exit corridor of the
building with fire sprinklers as required by regulations of the State Fire
Marshal;
2. Except in a condominium, equip each
room with at least one fire sprinkler above each door opening into an exit corridor
of the building;
3. Equip every elevator so as to permit it
to be recalled automatically, in compliance with section A 17.1 of the 1978
edition of the American National Standards Institute and section 211.3 of the
1981 amendments to that edition, to the first floor or, if necessary, to any
other floor of the building not affected by fire;
4. Post the number of each floor in every
stairwell and in every lobby adjacent to an elevator;
5. Equip the heating, ventilating and
air-conditioning system with an automatic device to shut it off as prescribed
in section 1009 of the 1979 edition of the Uniform Mechanical Code , and
with an additional smoke detector as required by the 1978 edition of National
Fire Protection Association Standard 90A; and
6. In each room primarily used for
sleeping, except in a condominium:
(a) Post in a prominent location an explanation
of the route to use for evacuation of the building; and
(b) Install a paging alarm system which conforms
to the regulations of the State Fire Marshal, to permit vocal warning and
instructions to the occupants.
7. In a condominium, install in the common
areas a paging alarm system meeting the requirements of paragraph (b) of
subsection 6, with a sound level of 80 decibels.

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