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3.8.2.1.(1)

Application

Intent

OA1


Objective	OA1 Barrier-Free Path of Travel
Attribution	[F73-OA1]
Application	Application 1: Barrier-free path of travel from entrances required by Sentences 3.8.1.2.(1) and (2) to be barrier-free and within other normally occupied floor areas served by a passenger elevator, escalator, inclined moving walk, or other platform-equipped passenger-elevating device. This applies to buildings described in Sentence 1.3.3.2.(1) of Division A. Exceptions: except as stated in: Sentence 3.8.1.1.(1), which applies to: houses, including semi-detached houses, duplexes, triplexes, townhouses, row houses, and boarding houses, buildings of Group F, Division 1 major occupancy, and buildings that are not intended to be occupied on a daily or full-time basis, including automatic telephone exchanges, pumphouses and substations, and Sentence 3.8.2.1.(2), which applies to: service rooms, elevator machine rooms, janitor's rooms, service spaces, crawl spaces, attic or roof spaces, certain floor levels, and high-hazard industrial occupancies, assembly occupancies, residential occupancies, and those parts of a floor area that are not at the same level as the entry level. Application 2: This also applies to buildings to which Part 9 applies [see Sentence 1.3.3.3.(1) of Division A for application of Part 9], as stated in Sentence 9.5.2.1.(1). Exceptions: except as stated in Article 9.5.2.3., which applies to apartment buildings.
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Intent	Intent 1: To limit the probability that a person using a manual wheelchair or other manual mobility assistance device will not be able to move about within a building, or use facilities located within a building, without the assistance of another person.
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