---
kind: "section"
citation: "24 C.F.R. § 3280.108"
title: "24"
number: "3280.108"
heading: "Interior passage."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/24/3280.108"
---

# §3280.108. Interior passage.

- (a) Interior doors having passage hardware without a privacy lock, or with a privacy lock not engaged, shall open from either side by a single movement of the hardware mechanism in any direction.
- (b) Each manufactured home interior door, when provided with a privacy lock, shall have a privacy lock that has an emergency release on the outside to permit entry when the lock has been locked by a locking knob, lever, button, or other locking device on the inside.
- (c) All interior swinging doors must have a minimum clear opening of 27 inches except doors to toilet compartments in single-section homes (see [§ 3280.111(b)](/cfr/24/3280.111.md?p=b)), and doors to closets and pantries.

## Notes

### Amendments

[40 FR 58752, Dec. 18, 1975, as amended at 86 FR 2517, Jan. 12, 2021]

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2697, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d), 5403, and 5424.

### Source

Source: 40 FR 58752, Dec. 18, 1975, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 44 FR 20679, Apr. 6, 1979.

### Amendments

[40 FR 58752, Dec. 18, 1975, as amended at 86 FR 2517, Jan. 12, 2021]