A building or portion of a building used for gathering together 50 or more persons for such purposes as worship, entertainment, or dining is classified as:

• A. An educational occupancy.
• B. A place of assembly.
• C. A business occupancy.
• D. A mercantile occupancy.

Answer: (B)

The space is classified as a place of assembly. When a building or part of a building is used for gatherings of 50 or more people for activities like worship, entertainment, or dining, it falls under assembly occupancy. This classification is tied to how many people can be present and the purpose of the gathering, which drives specific life-safety rules such as means of egress, fire protection, and occupant load calculations. Other occupancies—educational, business, or mercantile—cover spaces whose primary use is schooling, work, or shopping, not large gatherings for those purposes, so they don’t fit this scenario.