Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 477 - State Fire Marshal
PORTABLE FIRE EXTINGUISHERS AND FIXED FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEMS
Regulation of Persons Engaged in Business Related to Portable Fire Extinguishers and Fixed Fire Extinguishing Systems
Section 477.405 - Approval of equipment; prohibited equipment; label required

1. No portable fire extinguisher or component of a fixed fire extinguishing system may be sold or leased in this State unless it has been approved, labeled or listed by Underwriters Laboratories Inc., Underwriters' Laboratories of Canada, FM Global Technologies LLC, Applied Research Laboratories, the United States Coast Guard or any other testing laboratory approved by the State Fire Marshal.

2. No portable fire extinguisher or fixed fire extinguishing system may be sold, leased, installed or serviced in this State if it uses as an extinguishing agent carbon tetrachloride, chlorobromomethane, methyl bromide, trichlortrifluoroethane or any other agent which has not been accepted by a laboratory approved under subsection 1. Any accepted fire extinguishing agents must be approved by the State Fire Marshal or the authorized representative of the State Fire Marshal. Plans for proposed Halon installations must be submitted to the State Fire Marshal or the authorized representative of the State Fire Marshal with an application for approval. No portable fire extinguisher containing Halon as an extinguishing agent may be sold or used except as approved by the authority having jurisdiction for use in commercial occupancies or other special applications.

3. Inverting type extinguishers may not be hydrostatically tested. Each such extinguisher which becomes due for hydrostatic testing must be permanently removed from service.

4. Each portable fire extinguisher must bear a label which includes the following information: