Title 15 — Commerce and TradeRelease 119-73
§2205 Public education
Title 15 › Chapter CHAPTER 49— - FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL › § 2205
Summary
Administrator may run public education about fires, how to prevent them, and how people can prepare. This can use pamphlets, videos, demonstrations, or similar tools. Programs must give extra help for groups at higher risk, like children and the elderly. The Administrator must sponsor research and testing to find the best ways to teach people.
Full Legal Text
Title 15, §2205
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The Administrator is authorized to take such steps as the Administrator considers appropriate to educate the public and overcome public indifference as to fire, fire prevention, and individual preparedness. Such steps may include, but are not limited to, publications, audiovisual presentations, and demonstrations. Such public education efforts shall include programs to provide specialized information for those groups of individuals who are particularly vulnerable to fire hazards, such as the young and the elderly. The Administrator shall sponsor and encourage research, testing, and experimentation to determine the most effective means of such public education.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2013—Pub. L. 112–239 substituted “to take such steps as the Administrator considers appropriate to educate the public and overcome public indifference as to fire, fire prevention, and individual preparedness.” for “to take all steps necessary to educate the public and to overcome public indifference as to fire and fire prevention.”
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of all functions, personnel, assets, components, authorities, grant programs, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management relating thereto, to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, see section 315(a)(1) of Title 6, Domestic Security. For
Transfer of Functions
, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see former section 313(1) and section 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Functions of National Fire Prevention and Control Administration [now United States Fire Administration] and National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control generally transferred to Federal Emergency Management Agency. For further details see
Transfer of Functions
note set out under section 2202 of this title.
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Citation
15 U.S.C. § 2205
Title 15 — Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73