Owners and/or managers of apartment buildings containing four or more dwelling units with or without an automatic fire suppression sprinkler system which contain independent cooking and bathroom facilities shall install and maintain an approved, automatic, laboratory-tested, fire extinguishing device designed to suppress fires over each stove located in all apartment residences. The devices shall be activated without human intervention, and shall require no maintenance, inspection, or re-certification within the life span of the device. All devices shall be inspected annually by the apartment owner or manager and replaced as recommended by the manufacturer before the expiration date listed on the device. This ordinance applies to all new construction and in renovations of more than fifty percent (50%) of an apartment building.
(Ord. 17-22. Passed 4-4-22.)