Pennsylvania Statutes Title 53 P.S. Municipal and Quasi-Municipal Corporations § 25086. To regulate construction and equipment of buildings, fire escapes, etc.

To provide, for the purpose of preventing fires, the spread of fire, fire waste, danger to life in case of fire, and loss of life or damage to property from unsafe or improper construction or design of buildings, regulations and specifications for the construction, equipment, arrangement, maintenance, alteration and inspection, heating, cooling and lighting, stairways, doorways, elevators, fire-towers, fire-escapes, exits, aisles, passageways, floor levels, seats, fire-alarms, and all other means of providing safe escape in case of fire, of all buildings which may hereafter be constructed for use as stores, manufacturing establishments, churches, theatres, dance-halls, lodginghouses, tenements, dwellings, stables, storage houses, office buildings, hospitals, asylums, hotels, colleges, schools, dry-cleaning establishments, garages, and all other buildings where a large number of people have homes, congregate, or are employed.