@piersc and @BillConnerFASTC I'm posting from Canada thus my comments may or may not apply. Up here north of Donald's walls our Liquor Control Board's egress rules are even stricter, and more rigidly enforced, than our fire codes. Immediately above every fire exit must be an internally illuminated and clearly visible EXIT sign containing at least two lamps for redundancy plus a third lamp on an emergency / power failure circuit. Normally lights are also required to illuminate the path to the exit. When our local 2183 seat, twin balconied, soft seater was built in 1973, the consulting engineers thought they had all of the required Exit and emergency lights poured into the poured concrete walls and ceiling slabs. When our LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario) inspectors toured through shortly prior to opening night they enforced their stricter rules prior to issuing permits to sell wine and alcoholic beverages. The owners, architect, GC, GM and electrical contractor tried pleading with the LCBO inspectors saying that surely non-internally illuminated signage would suffice with lights shone on them from locations where power was conveniently available. No dice, our LCBO inspectors wouldn't yield. This accounts for the time consuming / neatly installed Pyrotenax running around the four levels of lobby bars on the surface of the poured concrete walls to this day.
Moral of my tale: Be sure you're conforming to ALL applicable minimum standards. If you're ever planning to serve wine at some future date, even for rentals, your ATF folks MAY have stricter rules.
EDIT: Edited my inadvertent mis-spelling of Pyrotenax, copper clad / mineral insulated fire proof single and multi-conductor wiring.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard
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