Codes and Standards
In view of the variety of business, professional and consumer interests represented in code making, “it is hardly surprising that codes are products of compromise amid competing aims and viewpoints,” the commission observed and added, “Often the process of political compromise leads to serious compromise in fire safety.”
The commission deplored the differences among national model codes and local codes, but most of all the commission was disturbed by “the fact that many jurisdictions have no codes whatsoever.”
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