NFPA 101 - Life Safety Code - 2015 Edition

NFPA 101® Life Safety Code, 2015 Edition

    Chapter 1 Administration

        1.1 Scope
        1.2 Purpose
        1.3 Application
        1.4 Equivalency
        1.5 Units and Formulas
        1.6 Enforcement

    Chapter 2 Referenced Publications

        2.1 General
        2.2 NFPA Publications
        2.3 Other Publications
        2.4 References for Extracts in Mandatory Sections

    Chapter 3 Definitions

        3.1 General
        3.2 NFPA Official Definitions
        3.3 General Definitions

    Chapter 4 General

        4.1 Goals
        4.2 Objectives
        4.3 Assumptions
        4.4 Life Safety Compliance Options
        4.5 Fundamental Requirements
        4.6 General Requirements
        4.7 Fire Drills
        4.8 Emergency Action Plan

    Chapter 5 Performance-Based Option

        5.1 General Requirements
        5.2 Performance Criteria
        5.3 Retained Prescriptive Requirements
        5.4 Design Specifications and Other Conditions
        5.5 Design Fire Scenarios
        5.6 Evaluation of Proposed Designs
        5.7 Safety Factors
        5.8 Documentation Requirements

    Chapter 6 Classification of Occupancy and Hazard of Contents

        6.1 Classification of Occupancy
        6.2 Hazard of Contents

    Chapter 7 Means of Egress

        7.1 General
        7.2 Means of Egress Components
        7.3 Capacity of Means of Egress
        7.4 Number of Means of Egress
        7.5 Arrangement of Means of Egress
        7.6 Measurement of Travel Distance to Exits
        7.7 Discharge from Exits
        7.8 Illumination of Means of Egress
        7.9 Emergency Lighting
        7.10 Marking of Means of Egress
        7.11 Special Provisions for Occupancies with High Hazard Contents
        7.12 Mechanical Equipment Rooms, Boiler Rooms, and Furnace Rooms
        7.13 Normally Unoccupied Building Service Equipment Support Areas
        7.14 Occupant Evacuation Elevators

    Chapter 8 Features of Fire Protection

        8.1 General
        8.2 Construction and Compartmentation
        8.3 Fire Barriers
        8.4 Smoke Partitions
        8.5 Smoke Barriers
        8.6 Vertical Openings
        8.7 Special Hazard Protection
        8.8 Inspection and Testing of Door Assemblies

    Chapter 9 Building Service and Fire Protection Equipment

        9.1 Utilities
        9.2 Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning
        9.3 Smoke Control
        9.4 Elevators, Escalators, and Conveyors
        9.5 Waste Chutes, Incinerators, and Laundry Chutes
        9.6 Fire Detection, Alarm, and Communications Systems
        9.7 Automatic Sprinklers
        9.8 Other Automatic Extinguishing Equipment
        9.9 Portable Fire Extinguishers
        9.10 Standpipe Systems
        9.11 Fire Protection System Operating Features
        9.12 Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection and Warning Equipment
        9.13 Special Inspections and Tests

    Chapter 10 Interior Finish, Contents, and Furnishings

        10.1 General
        10.2 Interior Finish
        10.3 Contents and Furnishings

    Chapter 11 Special Structures and High-Rise Buildings

        11.1 General Requirements
        11.2 Open Structures
        11.3 Towers
        11.4 Water-Surrounded Structures
        11.5 Piers
        11.6 Vehicles and Vessels
        11.7 Underground and Limited Access Structures
        11.8 High-Rise Buildings
        11.9 Permanent Membrane Structures
        11.10 Temporary Membrane Structures
        11.11 Tents

    Chapter 12 New Assembly Occupancies

        12.1 General Requirements
        12.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        12.3 Protection
        12.4 Special Provisions
        12.5 Building Services
        12.6 Reserved
        12.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 13 Existing Assembly Occupancies

        13.1 General Requirements
        13.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        13.3 Protection
        13.4 Special Provisions
        13.5 Building Services
        13.6 Reserved
        13.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 14 New Educational Occupancies

        14.1 General Requirements
        14.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        14.3 Protection
        14.4 Special Provisions
        14.5 Building Services
        14.6 Reserved
        14.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 15 Existing Educational Occupancies

        15.1 General Requirements
        15.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        15.3 Protection
        15.4 Special Provisions
        15.5 Building Services
        15.6 Reserved
        15.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 16 New Day-Care Occupancies

        16.1 General Requirements
        16.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        16.3 Protection
        16.4 Special Provisions
        16.5 Building Services
        16.6 Day-Care Homes
        16.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 17 Existing Day-Care Occupancies

        17.1 General Requirements
        17.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        17.3 Protection
        17.4 Special Provisions
        17.5 Building Services
        17.6 Day-Care Homes
        17.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 18 New Health Care Occupancies

        18.1 General Requirements
        18.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        18.3 Protection
        18.4 Special Provisions
        18.5 Building Services
        18.6 Reserved
        18.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 19 Existing Health Care Occupancies

        19.1 General Requirements
        19.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        19.3 Protection
        19.4 Special Provisions
        19.5 Building Services
        19.6 Reserved
        19.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 20 New Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies

        20.1 General Requirements
        20.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        20.3 Protection
        20.4 Special Provisions
        20.5 Building Services
        20.6 Reserved
        20.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 21 Existing Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies

        21.1 General Requirements
        21.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        21.3 Protection
        21.4 Special Provisions
        21.5 Building Services
        21.6 Reserved
        21.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 22 New Detention and Correctional Occupancies

        22.1 General Requirements
        22.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        22.3 Protection
        22.4 Special Provisions
        22.5 Building Services
        22.6 Reserved
        22.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 23 Existing Detention and Correctional Occupancies

        23.1 General Requirements
        23.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        23.3 Protection
        23.4 Special Provisions
        23.5 Building Services
        23.6 Reserved
        23.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 24 One- and Two-Family Dwellings

        24.1 General Requirements
        24.2 Means of Escape Requirements
        24.3 Protection
        24.4 Reserved
        24.5 Building Services

    Chapter 25 Reserved

    Chapter 26 Lodging or Rooming Houses

        26.1 General Requirements
        26.2 Means of Escape Requirements
        26.3 Protection
        26.4 Reserved
        26.5 Building Services
        26.6 Reserved
        26.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 27 Reserved

    Chapter 28 New Hotels and Dormitories

        28.1 General Requirements
        28.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        28.3 Protection
        28.4 Special Provisions
        28.5 Building Services
        28.6 Reserved
        28.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 29 Existing Hotels and Dormitories

        29.1 General Requirements
        29.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        29.3 Protection
        29.4 Special Provisions
        29.5 Building Services
        29.6 Reserved
        29.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 30 New Apartment Buildings

        30.1 General Requirements
        30.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        30.3 Protection
        30.4 Special Provisions
        30.5 Building Services
        30.6 Reserved
        30.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 31 Existing Apartment Buildings

        31.1 General Requirements
        31.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        31.3 Protection
        31.4 Special Provisions
        31.5 Building Services
        31.6 Reserved
        31.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 32 New Residential Board and Care Occupancies

        32.1 General Requirements
        32.2 Small Facilities
        32.3 Large Facilities
        32.4 Suitability of an Apartment Building to House a Board and Care Occupancy
        32.5 Reserved
        32.6 Reserved
        32.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 33 Existing Residential Board and Care Occupancies

        33.1 General Requirements
        33.2 Small Facilities
        33.3 Large Facilities
        33.4 Suitability of an Apartment Building to House a Board and Care Occupancy
        33.5 Reserved
        33.6 Reserved
        33.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 34 Reserved

    Chapter 35 Reserved

    Chapter 36 New Mercantile Occupancies

        36.1 General Requirements
        36.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        36.3 Protection
        36.4 Special Provisions
        36.5 Building Services
        36.6 Reserved
        36.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 37 Existing Mercantile Occupancies

        37.1 General Requirements
        37.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        37.3 Protection
        37.4 Special Provisions
        37.5 Building Services
        37.6 Reserved
        37.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 38 New Business Occupancies

        38.1 General Requirements
        38.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        38.3 Protection
        38.4 Special Provisions
        38.5 Building Services
        38.6 Reserved
        38.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 39 Existing Business Occupancies

        39.1 General Requirements
        39.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        39.3 Protection
        39.4 Special Provisions
        39.5 Building Services
        39.6 Reserved
        39.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 40 Industrial Occupancies

        40.1 General Requirements
        40.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        40.3 Protection
        40.4 Special Provisions
        40.5 Building Services
        40.6 Special Provisions for Aircraft Servicing Hangars
        40.7 Operating Features

    Chapter 41 Reserved

    Chapter 42 Storage Occupancies

        42.1 General Requirements
        42.2 Means of Egress Requirements
        42.3 Protection
        42.4 Special Provisions
        42.5 Building Services
        42.6 Special Provisions for Aircraft Storage Hangars
        42.7 Special Provisions for Grain Handling, Processing, Milling, or Other Bulk Storage Facilities
        42.8 Special Provisions for Parking Structures
        42.9 Operating Features

    Chapter 43 Building Rehabilitation

        43.1 General
        43.2 Special Definitions
        43.3 Repairs
        43.4 Renovations
        43.5 Modifications
        43.6 Reconstruction
        43.7 Change of Use or Occupancy Classification
        43.8 Additions
        43.9 Reserved
        43.10 Historic Buildings

    Annex A Explanatory Material
    Annex B Supplemental Evacuation Equipment
    Annex C Informational References
    Index

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