A. Any person, partnership, corporation, organization, LLC or other entity, owning a building or structure used as a hospital, church, theater, hotel, motel, apartment house, rooming house, dormitory, rest home, nursing home, day nursery, convalescent home, auditorium, child care institution, residential home, or business existing or constructed in the City of Purcell shall install in such building or structure a smoke detector or detectors in accordance with the nationally recognized codes, standards, or practices adopted by the State of Oklahoma Fire Marshal Commission or other fire code [that] is now in force and effect or that may later be adopted by the City of Purcell to safeguard life and property from the hazards of smoke and fire.
B. For the purpose of this section, the term "smoke detector" means a device which is:
1. Designed to detect visible or invisible products of combustion;
2. Designed with an alarm audible to the rooms it serves;
3. Powered by either battery, alternating current, or other power source; and
4. Tested and listed for use as a smoke detector by a recognized testing laboratory.
C. Any person, partnership, corporation, LLC or other entity who is a lessor of a residential or commercial rental property shall explain to the lessee or tenant the method of testing the smoke detector to ensure that it is in working order. The responsibility for checking a smoke detector to find out whether such detector is in working order is with the tenant or lessee leasing or renting a dwelling, including an apartment in each apartment house, and not with the person, partnership, corporation, LLC or other entity who is a lessor of the rental property to the lessee or tenant.
D. Beginning February 6, 2014, all new construction or remodeling of residential and/or commercial dwellings which require a building permit shall include the installment of smoke detectors or the electrical wiring necessary for the installment of electrical smoke detectors.
E. Any person, partnership, corporation, LLC or other entity who violates any provision of subsections (A) and (C) of this section or any person who tampers with, removes, destroys, disconnects or removes power from any installed smoke detector, except in the course of inspection, maintenance or replacement of the detector, upon conviction, is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).
F. The City Manager and Fire Chief shall prescribe, adopt, and promulgate the rules necessary to effectuate the provisions of this section which shall include a practical time table for compliance with the provisions of this act.
(Ord. No. 14-02, § 1, 2-3-2014)