Major Occupancy Classifications
Group A, Division 1
Motion Picture Theatres
Opera Houses
Television Studios admitting a viewing audience
Theatres, including experimental theatres
Group A, Division 2
Art Galleries
Auditories
Bowling Alleys
Child Care Facility
Churches and similar places of worship
Clubs, non-residential
Community halls
Courtrooms
Dance halls
Exhibition halls (other than those classified in Group E)
Gymnasia
Lecture halls
Libraries
Licensed beverage establishments
Museums
Passenger stations and depots
Recreational piers
Restaurants
Schools and colleges, non-residential
Undertaking premises
Group A, Division 3
Arenas
Indoor swimming pools
Rinks
Group A, Division 4
Amusement park structures (not elsewhere classified)
Bleachers
Grandstands
Reviewing Stands
Stadia
Group B, Division 1
Jails
Penitentiaries
Police stations with detention quarters
Prisons
Psychiatric hospitals with detention quarters
Reformatories with detention quarters
Group B, Division 2
Facilities for developmentally handicapped residents
Homes for the aged
Hospitals
Infirmaries
Long term care
Nursing homes
Psychiatric hospitals without detention quarters
Reformatories without detention quarters
Sanatoria without detention quarters
Group B, Division 3
Also see OBC sentence 3.1.2.5.(1)
Children’s custodial homes
Convalescent homes
Group homes for developmentally handicapped residents
Residential care facilities
Sanatoria without detention quarters
Group C
Apartments
Boarding Houses
Camps for housing workers
Clubs, residential
Convents
Dormitories
Group Homes
Halfway houses, drug and alcohol treatment
Hostels
Hotels
Lodging houses
Monasteries
Motels
Open and semi secure detention for youth
Recreational camps
Rooming houses
Schools, residential
Shelters for homeless
Shelters for women
Group D
Banks
Barber and hair dressing shops
Beauty parlours
Dental offices
Dry cleaning establishments, self service, not using
flammable or explosive solvents or cleaners
Laundries, self service
Medical offices
Offices
Police stations without detention quarters
Radio stations
Small tool and appliance rental and service establishments
Group E
Department stores
Exhibition halls
Markets
Restaurants with an occupant load not more than 30 persons
consuming food and drink
Shops
Stores
Supermarkets
Group F, Division 1
Bulk plants for flammable liquids
Bulk storage warehouses for hazardous substances
Cereal mills
Chemical manufacturing or processing plants
Distilleries
Dry cleaning plants using flammable or explosive solvents or
cleaners
Feed mills
Flour mills
Grain elevators
Lacquer factories
Paint, varnish, and pyroxylin product factories
Rubber processing plants
Spray painting operations
Group F, Division 2
Aircraft hangers
Cold storage plants
Dry cleaning establishments not using flammable or explosive
solvents or cleaners
Electrical substations
Freight depots
Helicopter landing pads
Laboratories
Laundries except self service
Planting mills
Printing plants
Repair garages Self service storage buildings
Service stations
Storage rooms
Television studios not admitting a studio audience
Tire storage
Warehouses Woodworking factories
Group F, Division 3
Creameries
Laboratories
Power plants
Storage garages, including open air parking garages
Storage rooms
Warehouses