# Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards: Smoke Alarms
> **US Department of Housing and Urban Development** · Final rule. · Published 2002-03-19 · 67 FR 12812
## Document
- **Document number:** 02-6026
- **Category:** hud-manufactured-home
- **Agency:** US Department of Housing and Urban Development
- **Federal Register citation:** 67 FR 12812
- **CFR reference:** 24 CFR 3280
- **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.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2002/03/19/02-6026/manufactured-home-construction-and-safety-standards-smoke-alarms)
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