some local health-care rules require inside patient rooms.
Sometimes local law enforcement will require through the building department a night light located in the back of any store that has windows in front, this is so on patrol they can see through the store if anyone is moving around inside, although I haven't seen it implicated in a while around here.
It is stupid not to want to do that in the first place. That is part of the stupidity code:grin:
I think with todays burglar alarm systems that are much better up kept and monitored at a lower cost, kind of made requirements like this go by the way side, back when I saw these requirement in place I think we had maybe one or two alarm manufactures, I can remember Ademco as the largest, and charge a fortune monthly, once the competition came around prices dropped and every one got into the action including our power company.
Actually it is better to keep the building completely dark. Some one moving around inside using a flash light is much easier to see from the outside that some one moving around in minimal lighting.Sometimes local law enforcement will require through the building department a night light located in the back of any store that has windows in front, this is so on patrol they can see through the store if anyone is moving around inside, although I haven't seen it implicated in a while around here.
Actually it is better to keep the building completely dark. Some one moving around inside using a flash light is much easier to see from the outside that some one moving around in minimal lighting.
Most energy codes would prohibit 'night lights'.
We have done many large buildings both retail and office that all lights are out when unoccupied including exit signs.
Most energy codes would prohibit 'night lights'.
I bet they still have at least some exterior lighting on. Especially signs.
The International Energy Code has two exceptions for the rule that lighting have manual controls: 1. Areas designated as security or emergency areas, 2. lighting in stairways or corridors that are elements of the means of egress. I think night lights in either of those two areas are permitted unless there is a local amendment.
"Night Lights" is one of those undefined terms, often confused with Egress Lighting, or Emergency Lighting