The way I'm reading Section 1014, Exit Access through intervening rooms, that a person can exit through four intervening rooms, with locked doors, as long as the distance to an exit discharge is within code and as long as the rooms are an accessory room to the other rooms?
Here's the story, City Hall had a visitor last week, just walked in off the street and started talking about how the Government has been screwing him around and he wants answers NOW! Called the police, they interviewed him, determined he was a danger to the occupants of city hall and for us to be on the lookout for him and if he showed back up call 911.
At a meeting last night he showed up banging on the back door screaming to let him in! Called 911, he was gone before they showed up.
So today we are sort-of on lockdown, limited access, front door only with an officer on duty outside the entrance. The city manager has come up with a "secure" the area plan. All kinds of locked doors, adding doors with locks, bullet proof glass, the whole nine yards. I think it is WAY overboard but I am reviewing the plans as he has drawn them up. This is where my question comes from!
The area is the finance director's office going through the cashiers area, then through receptionist area, then into a room that was made by adding a wall and lockable door, then through the waiting area, then the front hallway, then outside! Five rooms, five doors, two of them locked doors.
I have noted several areas of concern however the exiting through five rooms with locked doors concerns me but I can't find a reason not to allow it. What am I missing???
Here's the story, City Hall had a visitor last week, just walked in off the street and started talking about how the Government has been screwing him around and he wants answers NOW! Called the police, they interviewed him, determined he was a danger to the occupants of city hall and for us to be on the lookout for him and if he showed back up call 911.
At a meeting last night he showed up banging on the back door screaming to let him in! Called 911, he was gone before they showed up.
So today we are sort-of on lockdown, limited access, front door only with an officer on duty outside the entrance. The city manager has come up with a "secure" the area plan. All kinds of locked doors, adding doors with locks, bullet proof glass, the whole nine yards. I think it is WAY overboard but I am reviewing the plans as he has drawn them up. This is where my question comes from!
The area is the finance director's office going through the cashiers area, then through receptionist area, then into a room that was made by adding a wall and lockable door, then through the waiting area, then the front hallway, then outside! Five rooms, five doors, two of them locked doors.
I have noted several areas of concern however the exiting through five rooms with locked doors concerns me but I can't find a reason not to allow it. What am I missing???
