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+title: "NFPA 72: National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code (2019)"
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+# NFPA 72: National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code (2019)
+
+<!--
+This note is provided for future use.
+Chapter headings can be extracted to new files with format `nfpa-72_00.md`.
+-->
+
+## Chapter 1 Administration
+
+### 1.1 Scope.
+
+### 1.2 Purpose.
+
+### 1.3 Application.
+
+### 1.4 Retroactivity.
+
+### 1.5 Equivalency.
+
+### 1.6 Units and Formulas.
+
+### 1.7 Code Adoption Requirements.
+
+## Chapter 2 Referenced Publications
+
+### 2.1 General.
+
+### 2.2 NFPA Publications.
+
+### 2.3 Other Publications.
+
+### 2.4 References for Extracts in Mandatory Sections.
+
+## Chapter 3 Definitions
+
+### 3.1 General.
+
+### 3.2 NFPA Official Definitions.
+
+### 3.3 General Definitions.
+
+## Chapter 7 Documentation
+
+### 7.1 Application. (SIG-FUN)
+
+### 7.2 Minimum Required Documentation. (SIG-FUN)
+
+### 7.3 Design (Layout) Documentation.
+
+### 7.4 Shop Drawings (Installation Documentation). (SIG-FUN)
+
+### 7.5 Completion Documentation.
+
+### 7.6 Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance Documentation. (SIG-TMS)
+
+### 7.7 Records, Record Retention, and Record Maintenance.
+
+### 7.8 Forms.
+
+## Chapter 10 Fundamentals
+
+### 10.1 Application.
+
+### 10.2 Purpose.
+
+### 10.3 Equipment.
+
+### 10.4 Design and Installation.
+
+### 10.5 Personnel Qualifications.
+
+### 10.6 Power Supplies.
+
+### 10.7 Signal Priority.
+
+### 10.8 Detection and Signaling of Conditions.
+
+### 10.9 Responses.
+
+### 10.10 Distinctive Signals.
+
+### 10.11 Alarm Signals.
+
+### 10.12 Fire Alarm Notification Appliance Deactivation.
+
+### 10.13 Carbon Monoxide (CO) Notification Appliance Deactivation.
+
+### 10.14 Supervisory Signals.
+
+### 10.15 Trouble Signals.
+
+### 10.16 Emergency Control Function Status Indicators.
+
+### 10.17 Notification Appliance Circuits and Control Circuits.
+
+### 10.18 Annunciation and Annunciation Zoning.
+
+### 10.19 Monitoring Integrity of In-Building Fire Emergency Voice/Alarm Communications Systems.
+
+### 10.20 Documentation and Notification.
+
+### 10.21 Impairments.
+
+### 10.22 Unwanted Alarms.
+
+## Chapter 12 Circuits and Pathways
+
+### 12.1 Application.
+
+### 12.2 General.
+
+### 12.3 Pathway Class Designations.
+
+### 12.4 Pathway Survivability.
+
+### 12.5 Shared Pathway Designations.
+
+### 12.6 Monitoring Integrity and Circuit Performance of Installation Conductors and Other Signaling Channels.
+
+### 12.7 Nomenclature.
+
+## Chapter 14 Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance
+
+### 14.1 Application.
+
+### 14.2 General.
+
+### 14.3 Inspection.
+
+### 14.4 Testing.
+
+### 14.5 Maintenance.
+
+### 14.6 Records.
+
+## Chapter 17 Initiating Devices
+
+### 17.1 Application.
+
+### 17.2 Purpose.
+
+### 17.3 Performance-Based Design.
+
+### 17.4 General Requirements.
+
+### 17.5 Requirements for Smoke and Heat Detectors.
+
+### 17.6 Heat-Sensing Fire Detectors.
+
+### 17.7 Smoke-Sensing Fire Detectors.
+
+### 17.8 Radiant Energy–Sensing Fire Detectors.
+
+### 17.9 Combination, Multi-Criteria, and Multi-Sensor Detectors.
+
+### 17.10 Gas Detection.
+
+### 17.11 Other Fire Detectors.
+
+### 17.12 Carbon Monoxide Detectors.
+
+### 17.13 Sprinkler Waterflow Alarm-Initiating Devices.
+
+### 17.14 Detection of Operation of Other Automatic Extinguishing Systems.
+
+### 17.15 Manually Actuated Alarm-Initiating Devices.
+
+### 17.16 Fire Extinguisher Electronic Monitoring Device.
+
+### 17.17 Supervisory Signal–Initiating Devices.
+
+## Chapter 18 Notification Appliances
+
+### 18.1 Application.
+
+### 18.2 Purpose.
+
+### 18.3 General.
+
+### 18.4 Audible Characteristics.
+
+### 18.5 Visible- Visual Characteristics -- Public Mode.
+
+### 18.6 Visible- Visual Characteristics -- Private Mode.
+
+### 18.7 Supplementary Visible- Visual Signaling Method.
+
+### 18.8 Textual Audible Appliances.
+
+### 18.9 Textual and Graphical Visible- Visual Appliances.
+
+### 18.10 Tactile Appliances.
+
+### 18.11 Standard Emergency Service Interface.
+
+## Chapter 21 Emergency Control Function Interfaces
+
+### 21.1 Application.
+
+### 21.2 General.
+
+### 21.3 Elevator Phase I Emergency Recall Operation.
+
+### 21.4 Elevator Power Shutdown.
+
+### 21.5 Fire Service Access Elevators.
+
+### 21.6 Occupant Evacuation Elevators. (OEE).
+
+### 21.7 Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) Systems.
+
+### 21.8 High Volume Low Speed (HVLS) Fans.
+
+### 21.9 Door and Shutter Release.
+
+### 21.10 Electrically Locked Doors.
+
+### 21.11 Exit Marking Audible Notification Systems.
+
+## Chapter 23 Protected Premises Alarm and Signaling Systems
+
+### 23.1 Application.
+
+### 23.2 General.
+
+### 23.3 System Features.
+
+### 23.4 System Performance and Integrity.
+
+### 23.5 Performance of Initiating Device Circuits (IDCs).
+
+### 23.6 Performance of Signaling Line Circuits (SLCs).
+
+### 23.7 Performance of Notification Appliance Circuits (NACs).
+
+### 23.8 System Requirements.
+
+### 23.9 In-Building Fire Emergency Voice/Alarm Communications.
+
+### 23.10 Fire Alarm Systems Using Tone.
+
+### 23.11 Suppression System Actuation.
+
+### 23.12 Off-Premises Signals.
+
+### 23.13 Guard's Tour Supervisory Service.
+
+### 23.14 Suppressed (Exception Reporting) Signal System.
+
+### 23.15 Protected Premises Emergency Control Functions.
+
+### 23.16 Special Requirements for Low-Power Radio (Wireless) Systems.
+
+## Chapter 24 Emergency Communications Systems (ECS)
+
+### 24.1 Application.
+
+### 24.2 Purpose.
+
+### 24.3 General.
+
+### 24.4 In-Building Fire Emergency Voice/Alarm Communications Systems (EVACS).
+
+### 24.5 In-Building Mass Notification Systems.
+
+### 24.6 Wide-Area Mass Notification Systems.
+
+### 24.7 Distributed Recipient Mass Notification Systems (DRMNS).
+
+### 24.8 Two-Way, In-Building Wired Emergency Services Communications Systems.
+
+### 24.9 Two-Way Radio Communications Enhancement Systems.
+
+### 24.10 Area of Refuge (Area of Rescue Assistance) Emergency Communications Systems, Stairway Communications Systems, Elevator Landing Communications Systems, and Occupant Evacuation Elevator Lobby Communications Systems.
+
+### 24.11 Information, Command, and Control.
+
+### 24.12 Performance-Based Design of Mass Notification Systems.
+
+### 24.13 Documentation for Emergency Communications Systems.
+
+## Chapter 26 Supervising Station Alarm Systems
+
+### 26.1 Application.
+
+### 26.2 General.
+
+### 26.3 Central Station Service Alarm Systems.
+
+### 26.4 Proprietary Supervising Station Alarm Systems.
+
+### 26.5 Remote Supervising Station Alarm Systems.
+
+### 26.6 Communications Methods for Supervising Station Alarm Systems.
+
+## Chapter 27 Public Emergency Alarm Reporting Systems
+
+### 27.1 Application.
+
+### 27.2 General Fundamentals.
+
+### 27.3 Management and Maintenance.
+
+### 27.4 Communications Methods.
+
+### 27.5 Alarm Processing Equipment.
+
+### 27.6 Alarm Boxes.
+
+### 27.7 Public Cable Plant.
+
+### 27.8 Emergency Communications Systems (ECS).
+
+## Chapter 29 Single- and Multiple-Station Alarms and Household Signaling Systems
+
+### 29.1 Application.
+
+### 29.2 Purpose.
+
+### 29.3 Basic Requirements.
+
+### 29.4 Remote Annunciation.
+
+### 29.5 Notification.
+
+### 29.6 Assumptions.
+
+### 29.7 Carbon Monoxide Detection.
+
+### 29.8 Detection and Notification.
+
+### 29.9 Power Supplies.
+
+### 29.10 Equipment Performance.
+
+### 29.11 Installation.
+
+### 29.12 Optional Functions.
+
+### 29.13 Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance.
+
+### 29.14 Markings and Instructions.
+
+## Annex
+
+### Annex A Explanatory Material
+
+### Annex B Engineering Guide for Automatic Fire Detector Spacing
+
+### Annex C System Performance and Design Guide
+
+### Annex D Speech Intelligibility
+
+### Annex E Sample Ordinance Adopting NFPA 72
+
+### Annex F Wiring Diagrams and Guide for Testing Fire Alarm Circuits
+
+### Annex G Guidelines for Emergency Communication Strategies for Buildings and Campuses
+
+### Annex H Carbon Monoxide
+
+### Annex I Informational References