International Fire Code
Kentucky uses another model code in place of the IFC
Kentucky uses another model code in place of the IFC. Its code is the Kentucky Standards of Safety. It has been in force since Sep 26, 2023. Adopted by Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction (Public Protection Cabinet). The legal citation is 815 KAR 10:060.
Record of adoption
Edition in force
Another model code
Kentucky Standards of Safety
Partial
- In force since
- Legal citation
- 815 KAR 10:060
- Adopted by
- Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction (Public Protection Cabinet)
- Second reading
- Applies
- Based on another model code
- Also called
- 815 KAR 10:060, NFPA 1 Uniform Fire Code
State fire code is NFPA 1 (2018), not the IFC; DHBC also lists the 2015 IFC for new construction only where the KBC references it.
Exceptions
- The 2018 Kentucky Building Code applies the 2015 International Fire Code only to new construction where the KBC specifically references it
How Kentucky adopts the IFC
The Department promulgates administrative regulations under KRS 198B.050 and 198B.080 after notice under KRS Chapter 13A, incorporating a new edition of the Kentucky Building Code or Residential Code (or the state fire standards for fire). Each regulation is reviewed by the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee and a legislative subject-matter committee, which can defer, request amendment or find it deficient, but a deficiency finding leaves the Governor to decide whether it takes effect; no statute names an edition.
Cycle. Irregular; the Kentucky codes are still based on 2015 model codes, with the NEC updated separately to 2023 effective about 2025.
How it was checked
Partial
Researched in the state’s own record. The seal stays broken until the passage is on file word for word.
Read twice: a second, blind reading of the state’s record agreed with the first on .
The state’s record was last read on , from two source pages.
Evidence 3 sources
Sources for the record itself come first, the state’s own records ahead of others. A label marks a source about something else, such as an exception. A source marked secondary is not the state’s own record.
“NFPA 1, Uniform Fire Code, 2018 edition”
815 KAR 10:060. Standards of Safety.Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (KAR)apps.legislature.ky.gov (opens in a new tab)Administrative codeRetrieved “49 Ky.R. 2145; 50 Ky.R. 673; eff 9-26-2023.”
815 KAR 10:060. Standards of Safety.Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (KAR)apps.legislature.ky.gov (opens in a new tab)Administrative codeRetrieved About the note
“2015 International Fire Code (New construction projects, only when specifically referenced by the body of KBC)”
Find Currently Enforced CodeKentucky Department of Housing, Buildings and Constructiondhbc.ky.gov (opens in a new tab)Agency pageRetrieved
Tracker cross-checks
Code adoption trackers are a cross-check. They are not Kentucky’s own record.
ICC’s code adoption mapCross-checkDoes not agree with the record
State Kentucky 15 15 12 15 09 12 X 15 (IFC taken as third value: 2012)