NFPA 72 code sections · Regulatory Compliance & Inspections
Use the code's forms: Record of Completion and Inspection & Testing
The code provides standard forms — the Record of Completion for new work and changes, and the Inspection and Testing Form for ITM — and the AHJ can require them. They capture the information the code says must be documented: system type, AHJ, monitoring arrangement, device counts, circuit classes, battery and voltage-drop results, software revision, and signatures of the installer, owner and AHJ. A contractor's own one-page 'test report' that omits half of that information is a common reason an inspector refuses to accept the ITM record.
NFPA 72 reference
Chapter 7 — Documentation
7.8 Forms (Figure 7.8.2(a) Record of Completion; Figure 7.8.2(b) Record of Inspection and Testing) — the AHJ may require these or equivalent forms; 7.5.6 Record of Completion content; 14.6.2.4 ITM form
References use NFPA 72 2019/2022 numbering — section numbers can shift between editions, so confirm in the edition your AHJ has adopted.
On the job
A county fire marshal's office receives 60 annual test reports a month in 60 formats. It issues a policy accepting only the NFPA 72 Inspection and Testing Form or a form containing every field on it. Reports that omit the device-by-device results and the supervising station transmission test are returned — and the contractors who used the code form never notice.
Quick check
1. The AHJ may require ITM documentation on:
2. The Record of Completion is signed by:
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