Georgia
NFPA 855, Standard for the Installation of Stationary Energy Storage SystemsThe effective date is not on file. Instrument: Rule 120-3-3-.04, State Minimum Fire Safety Standards with Modifications.
- Applies
- Adopted directly
- Instrument
- Rule 120-3-3-.04, State Minimum Fire Safety Standards with Modifications
- Citation
- Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 120-3-3-.04
- Scope
- Statewide
- Amendments
- Substantial
- Read on
- Oct 24, 2026 from 3 state pages
- Transition rule
- Not on file yet. Which permit date decides the edition is planned research.
What the record says
The passages that set the edition, quoted from the state’s own pages, each 30 words or fewer.
Exceptions and notes
Safety Fire Commissioner rule document names NFPA 855 (2020) by name and the IFC 2018 edition. Version date of that document is unknown. Rule lists NFPA 855, 2020 edition, with a Georgia modification: stricter of the IBC/IFC or NFPA 855 applies unless approved by the State Fire Marshal.
Coming next
Adoptions, proposals, and bills that would change this value.
Aug 2025 hearing moved NFPA 101 to the 2024 edition (rule .04 amendment, date not stated). Gwinnett County 2026 page lists IFC 2024 locally.
Open questions from the research
- Two readings differ: first ifc_ch12/2023 (International Fire Code, 2024 Edition, adopted under Rules of the Safety Fire Commissioner 120-3-3 and DCA minimum standards), second direct/2020 (Rule 120-3-3-.04, State Minimum Fire Safety Standards with Modifications). Held at lead until settled.
- Fetched rule pages did not name IFC edition or NFPA 855.
- Georgia amendments to chapter 12 unchecked.
- Redlined .04 document is undated and was truncated; confirm current IFC and NFPA 855 edition in the current rule.
- Dec 2025 rulemaking (first pass) not opened.
- DCA 110-11-1-.29 not opened.
Cross-check
What the code adoption trackers list for Georgia. Where one differs, the state’s own record decides.
No tracker reading is on file for this value.
How Georgia adopts the NFPA 855
Not yet researched.
History
Dated NFPA 855 actions on file for Georgia.
No dated NFPA 855 action is on file for Georgia yet.
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