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<chapter num="55" heading="Safety Glazing" title_num="09" subtitle_num="12">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Purpose and Authority.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>These regulations are adopted pursuant to Public Safety Article, Title 12, Subtitle 4, Annotated Code of Maryland. This law provides for determinations by the Secretary of Labor as to three subjects: Further requirements for standards of safety glazing material; additional glazed elements to be designated “hazardous locations”; and exceptions of certain panels from the definition of “hazardous locations”.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>These regulations are to be read in conjunction with the Safety Glazing Law, Public Safety Article, Title 12, Subtitle 4, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" heading="Reference Standards and Specific Hazardous Locations.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>The reference standards and specific hazardous locations applicable to safety glazing shall be those identified in COMAR 09.12.50 Maryland Model Performance Code.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>In addition to the specific hazardous locations indicated in the Maryland Model Performance Code, hazardous locations shall include the first fixed glazed panel on either or both sides of the door, or doors, which have a glazing less than 18 inches from the finished floor or whose least dimension is 18 inches or more, which may be mistaken as a means of egress or ingress.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Public Safety Article, §§12-403 and 12-404, Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date: October 1, 1974 (1:1 Md. R. 22)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .02—.05 repealed and new Regulation .02 adopted effective September 1, 1986 (13:12 Md. R. 1373)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Chapter recodified from COMAR 05.01.06 to COMAR 05.02.06</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Chapter recodified from COMAR 05.02.06 to COMAR 09.12.55 effective March 25, 2019 (46:6 Md. R. 345)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01A amended effective March 25, 2019 (46:6 Md. R. 345)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .02A amended effective March 25, 2019 (46:6 Md. R. 345)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>