(a) No person shall, without privilege to do so, knowingly move, deface, damage, destroy or otherwise improperly tamper with a smoke detector or carbon monoxide (CO) detector required to be installed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter so as to destroy or diminish its effectiveness or availability for its intended purpose.
(b) Any smoke detector or carbon monoxide (CO) detector found to be tampered with shall be replaced with a hard wired device (missing or inoperable batteries shall not constitute tampering).
(1) Any smoke detector which is missing a battery or has an inoperable replacement battery shall be replaced by the responsible party with a tamper-proof smoke detector with a sealed battery.
(2) On January 1, 2000, all battery powered smoke detectors in the City shall be tamper-proof smoke detectors with a sealed battery.
(Ord. 24-97. Passed 6-16-1997.)