22.206.140 - Requirements
A.
The following requirements shall apply to housing units and buildings which contain
housing units, except detached single-family dwellings, to provide a reasonable security
from criminal actions to the permanent and transient occupants thereof and to their
possessions.
1.
All building entrance doors, except building entrance doors which open directly into
a single housing unit, shall be self-closing, self-locking, and equipped with a deadlatch
with at least a 1-inch throw which penetrates the striker at least 1/2 inch; provided,
that the main entrance door need not be self-locking if an attendant is present and
on duty 24 hours per day.
2.
All building entrance doors, other than a main entrance door which opens into a common
area, shall be solid or, if provided with glazed openings, shall have wire or grilles
to prevent operation of the door latch from outside by hand or instrument. Main entrance
doors which open into a common area may be framed or unframed nonshattering glass
or framed 1/4-inch plate glass.
3.
When garage-to-exterior doors are equipped with an electrically operated remote control
device for opening and closing, garage-to-building doors need not be self-locking.
When either the garage-to-exterior doors or garage-to-building doors are equipped
for self-closing and self-locking, the other need not be so equipped.
4.
Entrance doors from interior corridors to individual housing units shall not have
glass openings and shall be capable of resisting forcible entry equal to a single-panel
or solid-core door 1 3/8 inches thick.
5.