Kan. Admin. Regs. § 22-17-1
Shall is intended to indicate requirements.
Approved means acceptable to the authority having jurisdiction. The national fire protection association does not approve, inspect or certify any installations, procedures, equipment or materials nor does it approve or evaluate testing laboratories. In determining the acceptability of installations or procedures, equipment or materials, the authority having jurisdiction may base acceptance on compliance with NFPA or other appropriate standards. In the absence of such standards, said authority may require evidence of proper installation, procedure or use. The authority having jurisdiction may also refer to the listings or labeling practices of nationally recognized testing laboratories,* i.e., laboratories qualified and equipped to conduct the necessary tests, in a position to determine compliance with appropriate standards for the current production of listed items, and the satisfactory performance of such equipment or materials in actual usage.
Listed: Equipment or materials included in a list published by a nationally recognized testing laboratory that maintains periodic inspection of production of listed equipment or materials, and whose listing states either that the equipment or material meets nationally recognized standards or has been tested and found suitable for use in a specified manner.
Labeled: Equipment or materials to which has been attached a label, symbol or other identifying mark of a nationally recognized testing laboratory that maintains periodic inspection of production of labeled equipment or materials, and by whose labeling is indicated compliance with nationally recognized standards or tests to determine suitable usage in a specified manner.
Authority having jurisdiction shall mean the state fire marshal or any of his authorized deputies.
(Authorized by K.S.A. 31-133; effective May 1, 1975.)
* An example of a laboratory that is nationally recognized would be Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., 207 East Ohio Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.
Kan. Admin. Regs. § 22-17-1