§2225 Fire Prevention and Control Guidelines for Places of Public Accommodation

Summary

Requires public places that affect commerce to have hard-wired, single-station smoke detectors in every guest room, installed under National Fire Protection Association Standard 74 or its replacement. It also requires automatic sprinkler systems under NFPA 13 or 13‑R (or their replacements) in those places unless the building is three stories or lower. A building with a sprinkler system put in before October 25, 1992, that met the government-approved standard then and had a sprinkler in each sleeping area does not have to meet the new sprinkler rule. If another rule prevents following a specific part of NFPA 13 or 13‑R, the place is excused only from that part. States and local governments may still make or enforce their own fire safety rules. Definitions — smoke detector: an alarm that senses particles from burning; automatic sprinkler system: a supervised piping system with sprinklers that discharges water when heat from fire activates them and gives required alarm signals; governmental authority having jurisdiction: the government body that approves fire safety systems in a locality.