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