Minnesota Session Laws - 1983, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1983 

                        CHAPTER 228--S.F.No. 427
           An act relating to the safety of buildings and 
          structures; regulating the application of the state 
          building code to hospitals; establishing new 
          requirements for the use of glazed safety glass in 
          hazardous locations; amending Minnesota Statutes 1982, 
          sections 16.851, subdivision 3; and 299G.13, 
          subdivisions 3 and 10. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 16.851, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read: 
    Subd. 3.  Nothing in the state building code shall require 
that each door entering a sleeping or patient's room from a 
corridor in a nursing home or hospital with an approved complete 
standard automatic fire extinguishing system be constructed or 
maintained as self-closing or automatically closing. 
    Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 299G.13, 
subdivision 3, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 3.  "Hazardous locations" means those structural 
elements, glazed or to be glazed, in residential buildings and 
other structures used as dwellings, commercial buildings, 
industrial buildings, and public buildings, known as interior 
and exterior commercial entrance and exit doors, and the 
immediately adjacent flat fixed operable and inoperable glazed 
panels, sliding glass door units including the fixed glazed 
panels which are part of such units, storm or combination doors, 
shower and bathtub enclosures, primary residential entrance and 
exit doors and the fixed or operable and inoperable adjacent 
sidelites, whether or not the glazing in such doors, panels and 
enclosures is transparent.  
    Sec. 3.  Minnesota Statutes 1982, section 299G.13, 
subdivision 10, is amended to read:  
    Subd. 10.  "Fixed flat Operable and inoperable glazed 
panels immediately adjacent to entrance or exit doors" means the 
first fixed flat glazed panel panels on either or both sides of 
interior or exterior doors, 48 inches or less in width, the and 
within the same wallplane as the door, whose nearest vertical 
edge of which is located within six feet horizontally of the 
nearest vertical edge of the door 12 inches of the door in a 
closed position and whose bottom edge is less than 60 inches 
above the floor or walking surface. 
    Approved June 1, 1983