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It shall be unlawful for any person to remove batteries from a carbon monoxide detector required under this chapter, or in any way to make inoperable a carbon monoxide detector required under this chapter, except that this provision shall not apply to any building owner or manager or his agent in the normal procedure of replacing batteries.
Any person who violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than $300.00 nor more than $1,000.00 and/or confinement for a period of not more than six months.
(Added Coun. J. 3-2-94, p. 46875)
The owner of a structure shall supply and install required carbon monoxide detectors. The owner shall test and maintain carbon monoxide detectors located other than in a dwelling unit. The owner shall provide written information regarding carbon monoxide testing and maintenance to at least one adult tenant in each dwelling unit. The tenant shall test, provide general maintenance, and replace required batteries for carbon monoxide detectors located in the tenant's dwelling unit.
(Added Coun. J. 3-23-94, p. 47711)
Every new or existing building or part thereof hereafter designed, erected, altered or converted for the purposes of a Class B institutional unit or a Class C assembly unit as defined in Sections 13-56-050, 13-56-060 and 13-56-070 of this Code shall be equipped with approved carbon monoxide detectors.
(Added Coun. J. 3-23-94, p. 47711; Amend Coun. J. 3-6-96, p. 17599, effective 10-1-96)
In every Class B institutional unit as defined in Sections 13-56-050 and 13-56-060 and in every Class C assembly unit as defined in Section 13-56-070, not less than one approved carbon monoxide detector shall be installed per every 10,000 square feet, or fraction thereof, (a) on every floor on which a fossil fuel-burning appliance, boiler or furnace is located, and (b) on every floor heated by any type of warm air heating plant as described in Chapter 18-28 that burns fossil fuel. On every floor of a Class B institutional unit which contains sleeping quarters, one approved carbon monoxide detector shall also be installed within 15 feet of each room used for sleeping purposes that are either (a) located near a fossil fuel burning appliance, boiler or furnace or (b) heated by any type of warm air heating plant, as described in Chapter 18-28, which burns fossil fuel. Floor area shall be computed separately for each floor.
(Added Coun. J. 3-23-94, p. 47711; Amend Coun. J. 3-6-96, p. 17599, effective 10-1-96; Amend Coun. J. 7-31-96, p. 26646, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 3-14-07, p. 99609, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-9-16, p. 36266, § 14; Amend Coun. J. 9-6-17, p. 55278, Art. VI, § 20)
In every building, regardless of occupancy, that is heated by a central fossil fuel powered heating unit, one approved carbon monoxide detector must be installed in the room containing the central heating unit.
(Added Coun. J. 3-2-94, p. 46875; Amend Coun. J. 9-6-17, p. 55278, Art. VI, § 21)
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