Section SPS 377.26 - Fire protection in booth; care and use of film(1) All shelves, furniture and fixtures shall be incombustible. No combustible material shall be permitted to be within such booth, except films and film cement not exceeding one pint. Smoking is prohibited. Heating equipment in booths shall be limited to steam, warm air, hot water or electric convection heaters with low surface temperature elements. Radiators shall be protected by 1/4 inch mesh screen with the top sloped at least 45º to the horizontal.(2) Films not in process of rewinding, examination or projection shall be kept in metal containers. Up to 40 pounds of film may be kept in the projection booth in interstate commerce commission shipping containers. Excess over 40 pounds shall be kept in an approved film cabinet, but the total quantity of film in any booth shall not exceed 125 pounds.(3) Rewinding in the projection booth is prohibited unless done in an approved enclosed type rewind machine. An approved can with self-closing hinged cover shall be provided for scrap film.(4) Up to 125 pounds of film in addition to that permitted in a projection booth, may be kept in containers as specified above, providing this excess is in a rewind room of not less than 80 square feet area, and of the construction specified in ss. SPS 377.19 and 377.20. Such room shall have a vent of at least 50 square inches area extending upward to the outside of the building, with a clearance to combustible material conforming to s. SPS 377.23. Furniture and heating shall be as for the projection booth, and smoking is prohibited.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Safety and Professional Services SPS 377.26
1-2-56; renum. and am., Register, September, 1974, No. 225, eff. 10-1-74; corrections made under s. 13.93(2m) (b) 7, Stats., Register, June, 1995, No. 474; correction in (4) made under s. 13.92(4) (b) 7, Stats., Register December 2011 No. 672.In the foregoing order the weight of a 1000 foot roll of 35 millimeter film is assumed as 5 pounds.