(A) All owners of residential units shall install smoke detectors in every bedroom and in all common hall areas to bedrooms or sleeping areas, and shall install carbon monoxide detectors on each floor or level of every residential unit. In buildings providing a dormitory or separate sleeping area that are designed for closure by closed or locked doors off a common hallway shall have separated smoke detectors in each dormitory or sleeping room, unless the Code Enforcement Officer shall approve placement of fewer units at designated areas that in his or her judgment shall sufficiently provide an audible alert to persons sleeping in the dormitories or rooms.
(B) It shall be the duty of all tenants or persons sleeping in residential units to maintain smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. Maintenance shall include keeping smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors serviceable by inserting batteries when necessary or by keeping them attached to an electrical source so that they may remain capable of transmitting an alarm in the presence of smoke or carbon monoxide. The removal or destruction of any smoke detector or carbon monoxide detector by any person except an owner for the purpose of immediate replacement is strictly forbidden.
(C) The Code Enforcement Officer shall make every effort to ensure that this subchapter is strictly enforced.
(D) If the Code Enforcement Officer is called to inspect a property where smoke detectors or carbon monoxide detectors are required and the Code Enforcement Officer determines that such are not installed as required, then in addition to correcting the same, the owner or the tenant, as the case may be, shall pay to the borough an inspection fee in an amount established from time to time by resolution of the Borough Council for each such inspection.
(2006 Code, § 7-302) (Ord. 92-1, passed 5-21-1992, Art. 2; Ord. 12/21/2000, passed 12-21-2000, § 9; Ord. 2006-3, passed 7-10-2006; Ord. 2019-6, passed 11-12-2019)
Penalty, see § 91.99