State Fire Marshal:
Has authority to adopt building, fire, mechanical codes
Richard Boothby, State Fire Marshal/Director
5700 E. Tudor Rd.
Anchorage, AK 99507
Phone: (907) 269-5511
Contact: Lloyd Nakano, Assistant State Fire Marshal, 907-269-5491, e-mail: Lloyd.Nakano@Alaska.gov
Codes in Alaska are adopted by administrative rulemaking by either the Alaska State Fire Marshal or the Department of Labor. The adopted codes by state agencies are mandatory and fall under state inspection programs unless a local jurisdiction has been delegated the code program as a “deferred jurisdiction.” When this occurs, the local jurisdiction administers and enforces their local program of the adopted state codes. Buildings of four units or more are subject to the code and inspections by the SFM office who is also the building department in Alaska. Some banks require other inspections for bank-financed projects that are not subject to SFM inspections or code.
Please review the information found here for state code adoptions: https://dps.alaska.gov/Fire/regulations
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No update schedule has been provided. During the last update in May of 2017, the state chose to update the state code but continues to reference the 2012 editions of the International Codes. Updating to a more recent edition of the I-Codes may occur at any time. Individual city jurisdictions can adopt and enforce any editions of the I-Codes which take precedence over the state codes. Anchorage adopted the 2018 I-Codes effective October 2020.