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Ohio Codes Are Accessible Free Online

Have you ever been out on a site and needed to check the code? Did you know that Ohio Code books are all right in your pocket in a mobile friendly format?

The Ohio e-Codes include free access to the Ohio Mechanical Code, Ohio Plumbing Code, Fire Code, Energy Code and the Residential Code of Ohio.

Bookmark and share this link with your employees: https://codes.iccsafe.org/codes/ohio

The e-Codes page is published by the International Code Council (ICC). They are linked from the Ohio Board of Building Standards, Codes and Interpretations page.

OCR participates in the ICC preferred provider program to offer ICC credit on many of our classes.

Electrical Codes

As of this writing, the current edition of the NEC in effect in Ohio is the 2017 National Electrical Code®
for Commercial (effective date: 11/1/2017). For One-, two- and three-family dwellings it is the 2017, with Ohio amendments (effective date: 7/1/2019)

Free access version is available online at the NFPA 70 page.

The latest updates on the states where the NFPA codes are in effect are here on the NFPA website.

The NFPA also provides an online CodeFinder reference Tool that includes all 50 states and territories and some other countries.

An additional/alternate source of free online basic codes access is at up.codes/codes/ohio.

This article last updated on 7/16/2022