State Fire Marshal Larry L. Flowers is pleased to announce the initiation of the Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of State Fire Marshal’s (SFM) administrative rule update process for the 2011 Ohio Fire Code (OFC) and associated SFM rules (also known as Ohio Administrative Code sections 1301:7-7- 01 through 1301:7-7-47). The targeted effective date of the new OFC will be early in 2017, which will match that of the next major update to the Ohio Building Code.
Similar to the last major revision of the Ohio Fire Code, this process will encompass: