2006 New York Code - Location And Identification Of Sending Stations And Sounding Devices.

 
    §  27-973 Location and identification of sending stations and sounding
  devices. (a) Location of sending stations.
    (1) There shall be at least one fire alarm  sending  station  in  each
  story  of any building at all natural paths of egress to the street. The
  station shall be installed at a readily accessible location meeting  the
  approval  of  the  fire  commissioner. The sending station shall be kept
  unobstructed  at  all  times.  Additional  sending  stations  shall   be
  installed  so  that no point on any floor is more than one hundred fifty
  feet  from  the  nearest  sending  station  in  buildings  of  Group   I
  construction and one hundred feet in buildings of Group II construction.
    (2)  All fire alarm stations installed or relocated after April first,
  nineteen hundred eighty-four shall be installed so that  the  handle  is
  approximately four feet from the floor.
    (b) Location of sounding devices.
    (1)  Sounding  devices shall be of sufficient number so that the alarm
  shall be clearly audible to all the occupants of the building.
    (2) The centerline of all gongs and signaling devices shall be located
  at least eight feet above the  floor  except  that  in  locations  where
  ceilings  prevent the installation at this height, the centerline of the
  device shall be located six inches below the ceiling.
    (3) Approved gongs shall be provided as the  sounding  devices.  Where
  gongs  are  not  audible,  approved  horns,  chimes,  or whistles may be
  installed subject to the approval of the fire commissioner.
    (c) Location of instructions. An approved instruction  card,  properly
  marked  and  framed  under  glass, shall be installed at each fire alarm
  station. Instruction cards for individually coded systems shall indicate
  the code designation  and  location  of  each  sending  station  in  the
  building.
    (d)  Fastening  for  devices.  All  materials and devices used in fire
  alarm signal  systems  shall  be  securely  fastened  in  position.  The
  locations  shall be selected by an architect or engineer, subject to the
  approval of the commissioner.
    (e) Identification of equipment. Fire alarm sending stations  for  all
  systems shall be painted red. A diagonal white stripe one inch wide from
  upper  left  hand  corner to lower right hand corner shall be painted or
  applied to sending stations which transmit a fire alarm  signal  to  the
  fire department via a central station of a franchised operating company.
  The  stripe  shall  not render any lettering illegible or obliterate the
  station number.
    (f) Mixed occupancy buildings. Where a building is subdivided by  fire
  divisions,  each  building section may be treated as a separate building
  for the purpose of fire alarm signal system installations.  One  control
  board may be used, if so arranged as to operate the signaling devices in
  each building section independently.
    (g)  Subdivided  occupancy.  In  buildings requiring fire alarm signal
  systems, and in which parts are occupied by other than  factory  tenants
  and  in  which  the fire department has approved the use of a local fire
  brigade, the commissioner may accept dual operation systems.