2015 Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
70.54 Miscellaneous health and safety provisions.
70.54.070 Door of public buildings to swing outward—Penalty.
RCW 70.54.070 Door of public buildings to swing outward—Penalty.
The doors of all theatres, opera houses, school buildings, churches, public halls, or places used for public entertainments, exhibitions or meetings, which are used exclusively or in part for admission to or egress from the same, or any part thereof, shall be so hung and arranged as to open outwardly, and during any exhibition, entertainment or meeting, shall be kept unlocked and unfastened, and in such condition that in case of danger or necessity, immediate escape from such building shall not be prevented or delayed; and every agent or lessee of any such building who shall rent the same or allow it to be used for any of the aforesaid public purposes without having the doors thereof hung and arranged as hereinbefore provided, shall, for each violation of any provision of this section, be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[1909 c 249 § 273; RRS § 2525.]
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