An 8 to 2 vote by the California Building Standards Commission on March 16 moved to rescind a prior decision by the administration of former Gov. Gray Davis to adopt the NFPA 5000 code, according to the California Building Industry Association in Sacramento.
The controversial NFPA 5000 Building Code and NFPA 1 Fire Code, published by the National Fire Protection Association, have been abandoned as the basis for the state's next set of building and fire codes. Instead, the commission will be using the International Building Code, the International Residential Code and the International Fire Code, all published by the IBC and used extensively throughout the United States.