The following are only examples of the major occupancy classifications described in Table 3.1.2.1. To ensure the correct classification, refer to the definitions for each occupancy in Part 1 of Division A.
Group A, Division 1
- Motion picture theatres
- Opera houses
- Television studios admitting a viewing audience
- Theatres, including experimental theatres
Group A, Division 2
- Art galleries
- Auditoria
- Bowling alleys
- Child care facility
- Churches and similar places of worship
- Clubs, nonresidential
- Community halls
- Courtrooms
- Dance halls
- Exhibition halls (other than classified in Group E)
- Gymnasia
- Lecture halls
- Libraries
- Licensed beverage establishments
- Museums
- Passenger stations and depots
- Recreational piers
- Restaurants
- Schools and colleges, nonresidential
- Undertaking premises
Group A, Division 3
- Arenas
- Indoor swimming pools
- Rinks
Group A, Division 4
- Amusement park structures (not elsewhere classified)
- Bleachers
- Grandstands
- Reviewing stands
- Stadia
Group B, Division 1
- Jails
- Penitentiaries
- Police stations with detention quarters
- Prisons
- Psychiatric hospitals with detention quarters
- Reformatories with detention quarters
Group B, Division 2
- Facilities for people with developmental disabilities
- Homes for the aged
- Hospitals
- Infirmaries
- Long term care
- Nursing homes
- Psychiatric hospitals without detention quarters
- Reformatories without detention quarters
- Sanatoria without detention quarters
Group B, Division 3
(See also Sentence 3.1.2.5.(1).)
- Children’s custodial homes
- Convalescent homes
- Group homes for people with developmental disabilities
- Residential care facilities
- Sanatoria without detention quarters
Group C
- Apartments
- Boarding houses
- Camps for housing workers
- Clubs, residential
- Colleges, residential
- Convents
- Dormitories
- Group homes
- Halfway houses, drug and alcohol treatment
- Hostels
- Hotels
- Houses
- Lodging houses
- Monasteries
- Motels
- Open and semi-secure detention for youth
- Recreational camps
- Rooming houses
- Shelters for homeless
- Shelters for women
- Schools, boarding
Group D
- Banks
- Barber and hairdressing shops
- Beauty parlours
- Dental offices
- Dry cleaning establishments, self-service, not using flammable or explosive solvents or cleaners
- Laundries, self-service
- Medical offices
- Offices
- Police stations without detention quarters
- Radio stations
- Small tool and appliance rental and service establishments
Group E
- Department stores
- Exhibition halls
- Markets
- Restaurants with an occupant load not more than 30 persons consuming food and drink
- Shops
- Stores
- Supermarkets
Group F, Division 1
- Bulk plants for flammable liquids
- Bulk storage warehouses for hazardous substances
- Cereal mills
- Chemical manufacturing or processing plants
- Distilleries
- Dry cleaning plants using flammable or explosive solvents or cleaners
- Feed mills
- Flour mills
- Grain elevators
- Lacquer factories
- Paint, varnish and pyroxylin product factories
- Rubber processing plants
- Spray painting operations
Group F, Division 2
- Aircraft hangars
- Cold storage plants
- Dry cleaning establishments not using flammable or explosive solvents or cleaners
- Electrical substations
- Freight depots
- Helicopter landing areas on roofs
- Laboratories
- Laundries, except self-service
- Planing mills
- Printing plants
- Repair garages
- Self-service storage buildings
- Service stations
- Storage rooms
- Television studios not admitting a viewing audience
- Tire storage
- Warehouses
- Woodworking factories
Group F, Division 3
- Creameries
- Laboratories
- Power plants
- Storage garages, including open air parking garages
- Storage rooms
- Warehouses