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1-1 Copyright @ 2023 National Fire Protection Association°. All Rights Reserved. NFPA° 1 Fire Code 2024 Edition This edition of NFPA 1 Fie Cods ws prepared by the Technical Committes on Building Sysms and Special Ocupancies; Fundamentals of the Fire Code; and Special Equipment Processes and Hazardous Materials. It was released by the Correlating Committee on Fire Code. It was isued by the Standards Council on August 25 2023 with an effctive date of September 14 2023 and supersedes all previous editions This document has been amended by one or more Tentative Interim Amendments (TIAs) and/or Errata. See °Codes & Standards" at wwc.nfpa.org for more information. This cdition of NFPA 1 was approved as an American National Stundard on September 14 2023 Origin and Development of NFPA 1 This Code was originally developed as a result of the requests of many members of the National Fire Protection Association for a dlocument covering all aspects of fire protection and prevention that used the other developed NFPA codes and standards. NFPA stafinitiated this work in 1971 upon a directive from the NFPA Board of Directors The original code was writen around a format oficialswerexled from themain text f tedoment t werenled withinappendices s that served as a guide for th development of a local fire pevention code. Prerogatives of lcal guidance for exercising desired prerogatives. Marshals Asociation [IFMA]) undertook the task of developing a code that was more self-contained In the late 19s0s the Fire Marshals Association of North America (no the Intermational Fire ading adinistratie sections and xtracting heasily from other FPA codes and standards The draft was submitted to the Fire Preventjion Code Commite. Tbe mitee examined changes n CodA speial task grouponazardousmateria xamine technologcal changesthehanlling the built eironment as it is affcted by fire and incorporated sigificant portions of the Lje Sfey storage anduse of flammable and bustible materials Chapters extracting hazardous matria requirmentslacdgeatrmphasisnrottionflifandpropeyfrmchemicalros made and used in the environment. A major rewrite resulted in the 1992 edition of the Finz Pzuntiom Code. The 1997 edition updated the text extracted from other NFPA codes and standards and added pliance with additional NFPA codes and standards as part of the requirements of NFPA 1. The 2000 edition of NFPA 1 was a plete revision that updated the text extracted from other eential to a code ficils use of the document were aded.The mitte ao added a new are eq sprepueis pue sopoo vddN oj soouaupau oaup qeuopppy sprepueis pue spoo yddN section on performamce-based design as a tool for code officials and design profesionals. NFPA 1 was restructured to be more functional with respect to administration code enforcmet and regulatory adoption processes The 2003 edition of NFPA 1 U/mjfom Fr Codr" was a lete revisio. It incorporated provisions frm teWestFire ChfsnjfomFCdeparerhipbenNPAand WestemFireChiefs whileit upated and xanded the provisions xtracted from ther keyNFPA codes and standards. To emphasize the partnership the document was renamed NFPA 1 Uniform Fir Coxdle" The U/niform Fizr Cxdis a tradlemark of the Westem Fire Chiefs Association. NFPA 1 U/nijorm Fne Cod was restructured into parts to be more patible with the regulatory adoption procedures inclding administratio and code nforcement occupancies procses cquipment and hazardous materials provisions The Committee included a neudy expanded chapter on performancebsed design as an enhanced tool for code officials and design professonals. Additional extracts and rferences from NFPA codes and standards that are essential to a code oficial’s use of the document were added bringing the number of referenced NFPA codes and NFPA and National Fire Proteioe Asociation are regisered trademarks of the Natonal Fre Pretion Asociation. Quincy Masschsets 0218.