the Life Safety Code and the International Building Code regulate light levels for EMERGENCY and EGRESS lighting
Emergency lighting is a minimum of 0.1 fc and an average of 1.0 fc with Max:Min of 40:1.
Egress lighting is a minimum of 1.0 fc along the path of egress during normal conditions.
There is also an elevator Code that mandates 10 fc in the elevator pit.
Those are the only Code required levels I know of.
The Illumination Engineering Society is a list of suggestions. It's not Code unless someone adopts all or part of it as a building Code.
Some organizations have their own standards. I had a high school swim coach keep telling me he wanted 100 fc on the pool. That it was a requirement for all competition pools. I had designed it at 50 fc and thought it was pretty good. Doubling it would hurt my Energy Code compliance. So I looked into it and found there was a 100 fc standard, but it was only for Olympic level competition pools. So he got 50 fc and the pool looks great.
Just because someone says something is a requirement doesn't mean it's true.