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Page 2 Ordinance No. 73-25 automatic sprinkler equipments to carry into effect the provisions of the Ordinance. Approval of deuices shall be based on reports of a nationally recognized testing laboratory. All rules adopted by the Chief of the Fire Department under this section shall be promulgated at least one month before application and enforcement. Sec. 3. Where Installed Approved automatic sprinkler equipments shall be installed and maintained as follows: (a) All new buildings, garages, warehouses, basements, cellars, and hazardous occupancies that are not existing at the date of this Ordinance. (b) All new additions to buildings as in (a) of this section; where the new addition is 5,000 square feet or more, the total of new addition and existing buildings if 5,000 square feet or more, an additional floor or story, or where the addition is 20b or more, all of which the complete building shall have a sprinkler system installed. (c) Basement and cellar additions as in (a) of this section, where the addition is 2,000 square feet or more, or the total or the complete basement or cellar is 2,000 square feet or more, a sprinkler system shall be installed. (d) Especially hazardous properties. Throughout every building which by reason of its inferior construction or highly combustible occupancy involves a severe life hazard to its occupants or in the judgment of the Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention constitutes a fire hazard to its occupants or a fire menace to adjoining property. (e) Buildings for the manufacture, storage, or sale of combustible goods or merchandise throughout every fire-resistive building occupied in whole for the manufacture, storage or sale of com- bustible goods or merchandise, if one or more stories in heights 5,000 square feet or more in area, or if over three stories in height regard- less of area. (f) Throughout every building of other than fire- resistive construction as herein defined, occupied, in whole or in part, for the manufacture, storage, or sale of combustible goods, or merchandise if one or more stories in height., 5,000 sq. ft, or more in area, or if over three stories in height regardless of area, or in such parts of buildings of this class as may be specified by the Chief of the Fire Department. (g). Throughout public garages as follows. Fire- resistive buildings, 5,000 sq. ft. or more in area. Non-fire-resistive buildings over 3,000 sq. ft. area. (h) Throughout all basements and cellars of buildings having an area of 2,000 square feet or more, or its total area, used for the manufacture, storage, or sale of combustible material or merchandise, or the housing of automobiles or vehicles of any type.