50-61-103. Application of chapter -- definitions. This chapter applies to the occupancies defined below:
     (1) "Assembly occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by a gathering of persons for civic, political, travel, religious, social, or recreational purposes, including among others:
     (a) armories;
     (b) assembly halls;
     (c) auditoriums;
     (d) bowling alleys;
     (e) broadcasting studios;
     (f) chapels;
     (g) churches;
     (h) club rooms;
     (i) dance halls;
     (j) exhibition rooms;
     (k) gymnasiums;
     (l) lecture halls;
     (m) lodge rooms;
     (n) motion picture theaters;
     (o) museums;
     (p) night clubs;
     (q) opera houses;
     (r) passenger stations;
     (s) pool rooms;
     (t) recreation areas;
     (u) restaurants;
     (v) skating rinks;
     (w) television studios;
     (x) theaters; and
     (y) taverns.
     (2) "Business occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof for the transaction of business or the rendering or receiving of professional services, including among others:
     (a) banks;
     (b) barbershops;
     (c) beauty parlors;
     (d) office buildings;
     (e) radio stations;
     (f) telephone exchanges; and
     (g) television stations.
     (3) "Educational occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by persons assembled for the purpose of learning or receiving educational instruction, including among others:
     (a) academies;
     (b) colleges;
     (c) libraries;
     (d) schools; and
     (e) universities.
     (4) "Industrial occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof for assembling, fabricating, finishing, manufacturing, packaging, or processing operations, including among others:
     (a) assembly plants;
     (b) creameries;
     (c) electric substations;
     (d) factories;
     (e) ice plants;
     (f) laboratories;
     (g) laundries;
     (h) manufacturing plants;
     (i) mills;
     (j) power plants;
     (k) processing plants;
     (l) pumping stations;
     (m) repair garages;
     (n) smokehouses; and
     (o) workshops.
     (5) "Institutional occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by persons harbored or detained to receive medical, charitable, or other care or treatment or by persons involuntarily detained, including among others:
     (a) asylums;
     (b) homes for the aged;
     (c) hospitals;
     (d) houses of correction;
     (e) day-care facilities;
     (f) infirmaries;
     (g) jails;
     (h) nurseries;
     (i) orphanages;
     (j) nursing homes;
     (k) penal institutions;
     (l) reformatories;
     (m) sanitariums;
     (n) long-term care facilities; and
     (o) boarding homes.
     (6) "Residential occupancy" means the occupancy or use of a building or structure or any portion thereof by persons for whom sleeping accommodations are provided and who are not harbored or detained to receive medical, charitable, or other care or treatment or are not involuntarily detained, including among others (but not including single-family private houses):
     (a) apartments;
     (b) clubhouses;
     (c) convents;
     (d) dormitories;
     (e) dwellings;
     (f) hotels;
     (g) motels;
     (h) multifamily houses; and
     (i) lodging houses.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 279, L. 1947; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 229, L. 1967; amd. Sec. 12, Ch. 187, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 69-1802.