Windows may be located adjacent to and within the wall plane of an entrance door,
but if located within 12 inches of such door, as measured from a closed position,
then such windows shall be made of either framed or unframed nonshattering glass,
framed 1/4 inch plate glass, or glass with sufficient wire or grilles so as to both
make the glass visible and prevent it from being used to operate the door latch from
outside by either hand or instrument.
3.
Garage-to-exterior doors may be equipped with a remote-control electrically operated
opening and closing device in lieu of a deadlatch. When garage-to-exterior doors are
equipped with such remote-control devices, garage-to-building doors need not be locking.
4.
Every entrance door shall have a visitor-observation port of glass side light. Observation
ports shall be installed at a height of not less than 54 inches and not more than
66 inches from the floor.
5.
Dead-bolts or other approved locking devices shall be provided on all sliding patio
doors and openable windows and shall be installed so that the mounting screws for
the lock cases are inaccessible from the outside, except that locks shall not be required
on any window whose sill is located ten or more feet above grade or above any deck,
balcony, or porch that is not readily accessible from grade except through the building.
C.
Subject to approval by the Director, alternate security devices may be substituted
for those required herein if the devices are equally capable of resisting illegal
entry, and installation of the devices does not conflict with the requirements of
this Code or the requirements of other ordinances regulating safe exits.
(Ord. 125343, § 10, 2017; Ord. 115671, § 16, 1991; Ord. 113545, § 5(part), 1987.)