§ 35-9-501 — Required in private and public buildings; specifications generally; notices as to location to be posted

Every building now or hereafter used, in whole or in part, as a
public building, public or private institution, office building,
lyceum, church, theater, public hall, place of assemblage or
place of public resort, and every hotel, apartment house,
boarding house, tenement house, factory or workshop, three (3)
or more stories in height, school and hospital building, two (2)
or more stories in height, shall be provided with safe and
suitable metallic, tunnel, iron or fireproof ladders or stair
fire escapes with guard rail of sufficient strength, attached to
the outside walls thereof and extending from or suitably near
the ground to the uppermost story thereof, with platforms not
less than six by three (6 x 3) feet and of such shape and size
and in such proximity to the windows of each story above the
first, as to render access to such ladders or stairs from each
such story easy and safe to the occupants of such building, in
case of fire; and it shall be the duty of every proprietor,
custodian, superintendent or person or persons having charge and
control of such public buildings mentioned and described herein,
to post notices in every hall, and in a public and conspicuous
place in such building, designating the places on each and every
floor of such building where such fire escapes are located and
may be found.