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New York City · Through Local Law 2026/135 (enacted August 31, 2026)

N.Y.C. Admin. Code § 27-246: § 27-246 Occupancy group B-1.

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  1. New York City Administrative Code
  2. Title 27
  3. Chapter 1: Building Code

Shall include buildings and spaces used for storing any flammable or combustible materials that is likely to permit the development and propagation of fire with moderate rapidity.

TABLE 3-2 Typical Occupancies For Occupancy Classification*

Occupancy Group

Designation

Representative Occupancies

High Hazard

A

Paint shop and storerooms; industrial smoke houses; grain elevators; tanneries with enamelling or japanning; distilleries; sugar, starch, cereal, feed, flour, and grist mills; any space containing distribution piping at pressure levels above fifteen psig

Storage

B-1

Warehouses; storerooms; freight depots; stables; coal pockets; group 1 public garages**

B-2

Warehouses; storerooms; private garages; green houses; group 2 public garages**

Mercantile

C

Retail stores; shops; sales rooms; markets

Industrial

D-1

Baking plants; breweries; automotive repair shops; foundries; heliports; scenery shops

D-2

Mechanical and electrical equipment rooms; power plants, and boiler and furnace rooms, except those containing gas distribution piping at pressure levels above fifteen psig; commercial laundries; vocational training shops; laboratories; nonresidential kitchens

Business

E

Office buildings; banks; civic administration buildings; radio and television stations not classified as places of assembly or as equipment rooms; telephone exchanges; and beauty shops; automotive service stations; neighborhood family care centers; medical offices or group medical centers

F-1b

Churches; lecture halls; court rooms; convention halls; concert halls; sports arenas; planetariums, motion picture theaters

F-2

Grandstands; bleachers; stadiums; drive-in theaters; amusement attractions and devices; bandstands; skating rinks

F-3

Exhibition halls; galleries; gymnasiums, museums; passenger terminals; bowling alleys; billiard parlors; skating rinks

F-4

Restaurants; night clubs; cabarets; dance halls; ballrooms; banquet rooms; cafeterias; snack bars; taverns; coffee houses

Educational

G

Schools; academies; universities; libraries

Institutional

H-1

Jails; prisons; reformatories; mental institutions

H-2

Hospitals; sanitariums; clinics; nursing homes; orphanages; homes for the aged; day nurseries

Residential

J-1

Hotels; motels; lodging houses; rooming houses

J-2

Apartment houses; apartment hotels; school dormitory buildings

J-3

One-family and two-family dwellings; rectories; convents

Miscellaneous

K

Sheds; fences; signs

* This list of occupancies is representative only and is not complete. See reference standard RS 3-3 for additional listings.

** See article ten of subchapter seven of this chapter.

(a) Typical material contents: bags (cloth, burlap, and paper); bamboo and rattan; baskets; belting (canvas and leather); books and paper in rolls or packs; buttons, including cloth-covered, pearl, or bone; boots and shoes; cardboard and cardboard boxes; wearing apparel; cordage; furniture; furs; glue, mucilage, paste, and size; horn and combs other than celluloid; leather enamelling or japanning; linoleum; livestock; lumber; photo-engraving supplies; silk; soap; sugar; tobacco; cigars, cigarettes, and snuff; upholstery and mattresses; wax candles.

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