San Francisco County Municipal Code § 1.1 General

These regulations shall be known as the 2025 San Francisco Fire Code, may be cited as such, and will be referred to herein as “this code.” This code incorporates by reference the 2025 California Fire Code (Title 24, California Code of Regulations, Part 9), including appendices adopted by the State, except for those portions of the 2025 California Fire Code that are expressly deleted, modified, or amended herein. In addition, this code incorporates by reference those portions of the 2024 International Fire Code that were not adopted by the California Building Standards Commission in the 2025 California Fire Code, except for those portions of the 2024 International Fire Code that are expressly deleted, modified, or amended herein.

In undertaking the adoption and enforcement of this code, the City and County of San Francisco is assuming an undertaking only to promote the general welfare. It is not assuming, nor is it imposing on itself or its officers and employees, an obligation for breach of which it is liable in money damages to any person who claims that such breach approximately1 caused injury. CODIFICATION NOTE

1. So in Ord. 39-26.

The Chief of the San Francisco Fire Department (hereinafter “Fire Department” or “SFFD”) shall review all adoptions of the California Fire Code by the California Building Standards Commission. Within 180 days of publication of such adoptions, the Chief shall recommend to the Board of Supervisors, through the Fire Commission, more restrictive standards as are reasonably necessary to accommodate local climate, geological, or topographical conditions. This section does not prohibit amendments to this code in the interim between code adoptions by the California Building Standards Commission.