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15 USC § 2212 - Fire safety effectiveness statements

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identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s2212"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "15 USC § 2212 - Fire safety effectiveness statements"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "2212"
section_name: "Fire safety effectiveness statements"
chapter_number: 49
chapter_name: "FIRE PREVENTION AND CONTROL"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 93–498, § 13, Oct. 29, 1974, 88 Stat. 1544.)"
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# § 2212. Fire safety effectiveness statements

The Administrator is authorized to encourage owners and managers of residential multiple-unit, commercial, industrial, and transportation structures to prepare Fire Safety Effectiveness Statements, pursuant to standards, forms, rules, and regulations to be developed and issued by the Administrator.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 93–498, § 13, Oct. 29, 1974, 88 Stat. 1544.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of all functions, personnel, assets, components, authorities, grant programs, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management relating thereto, to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, see , Domestic Security.

For transfer of functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, including the functions of the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relating thereto, to the Secretary of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see former section 313(1) and sections 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of , as modified, set out as a note under .

## Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

Functions of National Fire Prevention and Control Administration [now United States Fire Administration] and National Academy for Fire Prevention and Control generally transferred to Federal Emergency Management Agency. For further details see Transfer of Functions note set out under .