Life safety code
Overview
National Fire Protection Association
The National Fire Protection Association is a United States trade association that creates and maintains private, copywrited, standards and codes for usage and adoption by local governments...
(NFPA), the Life Safety Code, known as NFPA 101 is the registered trademark of an American consensus standard
Standardization
Standardization is the process of developing and implementing technical standards.The goals of standardization can be to help with independence of single suppliers , compatibility, interoperability, safety, repeatability, or quality....
which, like many NFPA documents, is systematically revised on a three year cycle.
The standard, despite its title, is not a legal code
Legal code
A legal code is a body of law written by a governmental body, such as a U.S. state, a Canadian Province or German Bundesland or a municipality...
, it is not published as an instrument of law and has no statutory authority unless adopted by the authority having jurisdiction.
