All housing for the elderly complexes, as defined in § 42-66.1-2, that are serviced by one or more elevators and/or electrically powered chair lifts, and that include more than one hundred (100) residential living units in a single building shall be equipped with emergency generators which shall provide sufficient power to provide emergency lighting to all common areas and a community room and power to operate the elevators and a refrigerator in a common area. Generator systems shall be in accordance with the national electric code and § 23-28.24-9 [repealed]. History of Section.P.L. 1997, ch. 297, § 2; P.L. 2013, ch. 381, § 2; P.L. 2013, ch. 532, § 1.
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