(A) The owner of a dwelling shall be responsible for supplying and installing in an operable condition the required detectors and for providing the manufacturer’s maintenance and testing instructions to a tenant.
(B) The owner of a dwelling shall be responsible for maintenance and testing of detectors, in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, which are located in common areas or detectors in rooming units where the tenant usually has short periods of occupancy, such as hotels, motels or tourist homes.
(C) The tenant shall be responsible for maintaining and testing the detector, in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, which are within his or her exclusive control during the life of the tenancy. The tenant shall be responsible for notifying the owner when a detector becomes inoperable, whereafter the owner shall have ten days in which to repair or replace the inoperable condition of the detector. In the battery-operated type of detector, battery replacement shall be the responsibility of the tenant.
(D) At every change of tenancy, it shall be the duty of the owner to test and ascertain that those detectors contained in the unit are in operable condition, and if not, the owner shall be responsible for placing them in operable condition.
(Ord. 5-84, passed 5-21-1984) Penalty, see § 154.99