Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards: Smoke Alarms
HUD · hud-manufactured-home · Published 2002-03-19 · 67 FR 12812
Document
Document number
02-6026
Federal Register citation
67 FR 12812
CFR reference
24 CFR 3280
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
hud-manufactured-home
Agency
US Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publication date
2002-03-19
Docket
Docket No. FR-4552-F-02
Abstract
This rule amends the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards to revise the requirements for the location and placement of smoke alarms. The purposes of these amendments are to improve the effectiveness and performance of smoke alarms in early warning detection of manufactured home fires and to reduce the rate of fire fatalities in new manufactured housing.