A. Required: Each dwelling shall be provided with an approved, listed and labeled smoke and carbon monoxide detector sensing visible or invisible particles of combustion installed in a manner and located consistent with its listing. When actuated, the detector shall provide an alarm suitable to warn the occupants within the dwelling. These detectors shall be located within each sleeping room.
B. Location: Smoke alarms shall be installed in the following locations:
1. In each sleeping room.
2. Outside each separate sleeping area in the immediate vicinity of the bedrooms.
3. On each additional story of the dwelling, including basements but not including crawl spaces and uninhabitable attics. In dwelling units with split levels and without an intervening door between the adjacent levels, a smoke alarm installed on the upper level shall suffice for the adjacent lower level provided that the lower level is less than 1 full story below the upper level.
When more than 1 smoke alarm is required to be installed within an individual dwelling unit the alarm devices shall be interconnected in such a manner that the actuation of 1 alarm will activate all of the alarms in the individual unit. (Ord. 2008-09-01, 9-24-2008)