Occupancy Category

OCCUPANCY CATEGORY OCCUPANCY OR FUNCTION OF STRUCTURE

• Occupancies having surgery and emergency treatment
areas

• Fire and Police Stations

• Garages and Shelters for emergency vehicles and

emergency aircraft

• Structures and shelters in emergency preparedness

centers

• Aviation control towers

• Structures and equipment in communication centers

and other facilities required for emergency response

I ESSENTIAL FACILITIES • Facilities for standby power-generating equipment for

Category I structures

• Tanks or other structures containing housing or

supporting water or other fire-suppression material or
equipment required for the protection of Category I,II
or III, IV and V structures

• Public school buildings

• Hospitals

• Designated evacuation centers and

• Power and communication transmission lines

• Occupancies and structures housing or supporting

toxic or explosive chemicals or substances
II HAZARDOUS FACILITIES
• Non-building structures storing, supporting or
containing quantities of toxic or explosive substances
 • Buildings with an assembly room with an occupant
capacity of 1,000 or more

• Educational buildings such as museums, libraries,

auditorium with a capacity of 300 or more occupants

• Buildings used for college or adult education with a

capacity of 500 or more occupants

• Institutional buildings with 50 or more incapacitated

patients, but not included in Category I

• Mental hospitals, Sanitariums, jails, prisons and other

SPECIAL OCCUPANCY
III buildings where personal liberties of inmates are
STRUCTURES
similarly restrained.

• Churches, Mosques and other Religion Facilities

• All structures with an occupancy of 5,000 or more

persons

• Structures and equipment in power-generating

stations and other public utility facilities not included
in Category I or Category II and required for continued
operation

• All structures housing occupancies or having functions

STANDARD OCCUPANCY
IV not listed in Category I, II, or III and Category V
STRUCTURES
• Private garage, carports, sheds and fences over 1.5m
V Miscellaneous Structures
high