Mezzanine, sleeping room, emergency escape and rescue openings

[VLADIMIR LEVIN]

I'm converting a historic (bank) building into apartments.
If there is a mezzanine in an apartment and I put a bed in the mezzanine, does the mezzanine require an emergency escape and rescue opening?
Code says "sleeping rooms" require EERO, but a mezzanine is regarded as "a portion of the story below".
So, would it be compliant if the story below have the EERO?

 

[fatboy]

What if the "bed" was a sleeper sofa? I wouldn't worry about it myself.

Furnishings shouldn't be in there for a final inspection anyway, the mezzanine is just extra space, tenant can use it for whatever they want.

 

[steveray]

If it is a sleeping room, it gets an EERO....If not......

Everything is part of some story, (Sleeping room, bathroom) story should not play into it in this case....

 

[VLADIMIR LEVIN]

I think you are both (fatboy and steveray) right...