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Calif. multifamily rec room warming kitchen - recirculating or no hood?

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New apartment building in California, has a community room (multipurpose / "rec room") that has a warming kitchen are: refrigerator, sink, coffee maker. These spaces often have a electric (not gas) domestic range, though it is rarely used. It is certainly not used for cooking, only for keeping something warm.
This particular space has a significant problem getting a vented range hood to duct to the outdoors. The owner is asking:
  • Do the California Codes (energy, Mechanical, Green) require a non-residential range hood to be ducted?
  • Under what circumstances can the range hood be deleted altogether? Are there alternative warming devices (electric oven only, warming drawer only, or maybe an induction burner in the countertop just to boil some water) that do not trigger a requirement for a hood?
 
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