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WAC 296-800-31053

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Provide adequate lighting for exit routes and signs.

  You must:

     • Illuminate each exit route adequately and reliably.

     • Have at least five foot-candles illumination from a reliable light source.

     • Make sure any exit signs illuminated by artificial lights and made of translucent material (other than internally illuminated types)

     – Have screens, discs or lens of at least twenty-five square inches in size; and

     – Show red or other designated color on the approach side of the exit.

     • Make sure brightly lit signs, displays, or objects in or near the line of vision do not distract attention from the exit sign.

     • Make sure exit signs that are self-lighting have a minimum luminance surface value of .06 footlamberts.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.010, [49.17].040, and[49.17].050 . 01-11-038, § 296-800-31053, filed 5/9/01, effective 9/1/01.]