Title 16 - Buildings and Construction

16.330 PLUMBING CODE

16.330.410.4

Section 410.4 of the International Plumbing Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

410.4 Drinking Fountain Substitutions. The following substitutions shall be permissible: A break room sink, or water dispenser, or bottled water dispenser complying with the reach ranges in ICC A117.1 for the following occupancies.

1. 1.
  
  Mercantile and business occupancies (excluding medical offices and concentrated business areas) with less than 2,500 square feet of gross floor area.
2. 2.
  
  Warehouse occupancies with less than 7500 square feet of gross floor area.
3. 3.
  
  Where restaurants provide drinking water in a container free of charge, drinking fountains shall not be required in those restaurants.
4. 4.
  
  In occupancies other than restaurants where drinking fountains are required, water dispensers shall be permitted to be substituted for not more than 50 percent of the required number of drinking fountains.
5. 5.
  
  In veterinary clinics, kennel’s, barber and beauty shops where hair cutting services are provided, dental offices and similar occupancies where it creates a health hazard to install a drinking fountain.

(History: Ord. No. BC-3499, §123, 2026; Ord. No. BC-3286 §149, 2020)

Effective on: 1/1/1901