Safety Standard for Automatic Residential Garage Door Operators

What it does

In October 2025, updates to the entrapment protection provisions in the UL 325 standard were accepted under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 1990 (Improvement Act) for inclusion in the Commission's mandatory safety regulation for automatic residential garage door operators. In this direct final rule, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (Commission) is amending the Commission's automatic residential garage door operators mandatory regulation to align with the changes in UL 325.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 16 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

16 CFR 1211

Compared with

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published 10 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 8 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

The rule is effective on December 29, 2026, unless we receive significant adverse comments by November 30, 2026. If we receive a timely significant adverse comment, we will publish a notification in the Federal Register, withdrawing this direct final rule before its effective date. The incorporation by reference of certain material listed in this rule is approved by the Director of the Federal Register as of December 29, 2026. The incorporation by reference of certain other material listed in this rule was approved by the Director as of May 9, 2016.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket CPSC-2015-0025 on Regulations.gov
• Title 16 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register