Elk Grove, CA Building Safety: Fire Sprinkler Requirements (2026)
Key Facts
- Applies to
- New manufactured homes, 2-unit manufactured multifamily
- Added Fire Code section
- CFC § 903.2.8.1.1 (local amendment)
- Construction standard
- Title 25, Cal. Code of Regulations
- Enforcing agency
- Cosumnes CSD Fire Department
- Violation penalty
- $100-$1,000 fine or up to 180 days jail
- Appeal path
- Cosumnes Community Services District
Summary
Elk Grove's local amendment to the California Fire Code requires fire sprinkler systems in new manufactured homes and in two-unit multifamily manufactured homes, built to Title 25 state mobile-home standards. The Cosumnes Community Services District Fire Department enforces the rule under the adopted 2025 Fire Code.
Section 903.2.8.1.1 Group R-3 Manufactured Housing. Fire sprinkler systems shall be installed in new manufactured homes (HSC Sections 18007 and 18009) and multifamily manufactured homes with two dwelling units (HSC 18008.7) in accordance with Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations. ... Section 113.4 Violation penalties. Persons who shall violate a provision of this code or shall fail to comply with any of the requirements thereof or who shall erect, install, alter, repair or do work in violation of the approved construction documents or directive of the fire code official, or of a permit or certificate used under provisions of this code, shall be guilty of an infraction or a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars($100) and not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment not exceeding 180 days, or both such fine and imprisonment. Each day that a violation continues after due notice has been served shall be deemed a separate offense.
Full Breakdown
010 adopts the 2025 California Fire Code and lists Elk Grove's local amendments alphabetically. 7, installed to Title 25 of the California Code of Regulations. 030(E) defines 'R-3' as single-family residences for purposes of this chapter. 040. This manufactured-housing sprinkler mandate is a targeted local addition; it does not itself restate the separate site-built single-family sprinkler mandate that flows from the state-adopted Fire and Residential Codes referenced in the same adoption section.
Violations & Fines
Fire Code violations, including installing a new manufactured home without the required sprinkler system, are enforced as amended by § 17.04.010(B): a violation is an infraction or misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $1,000, imprisonment of up to 180 days, or both, and each day a violation continues after notice has been served is a separate offense.
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