There are a few members here that periodically write NFPA amendments and national standards, however, the archived dialogs that lead to these new developments usually refer to relevant authorities, and codes.
While forum dialogs absent of such authority are not ignored, they seem to serve a different purpose, which may best be described as a source of amusement .
Regardless if common sense is on their side, predominately inspectors, these characters that don't back up opinion with code usually make the easiest targets to goat, gore, and barbecue, since toying with them usually results in glorious flaming displays of self-destructive implosion, and barrels of giggles for the lurking audience.
I hear iwire kindly hinting where the authority may be found, "in the local administrative code," but that olive branch was ignored.
