(A) The owner of a dwelling shall be responsible for supplying and installing in an operable condition the required detector(s) and for providing the manufacturer’s maintenance and testing instruments to a tenant.
(B) The owner of a dwelling shall be responsible for maintenance and testing of detectors, in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, which are located in common areas and/or detectors in rooming units where the tenant usually has short periods of occupancy (hotels, motels, tourist homes).
(C) The tenant shall be responsible for maintaining and testing the detector, in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions, which are within his or her exclusive control during the life of the tenancy. The tenant shall be responsible for notifying the owner in writing when a detector(s) becomes inoperable, and the owner shall have ten days after receipt of the written notice in which to repair or replace the detector(s) in an operable condition. Battery replacement in smoke detectors shall be the responsibility of the tenant until the conversion to a hard wire AC primary power source has been accomplished as required by § 93.16 of this code.
(D) At every change of tenancy in all multi-family residential units and dormitories, it shall be the duty of the owner to test and ascertain that those detectors contained in the unit are in operable condition, and if not, the owner shall be responsible for placing them in operable condition.
(E) In all hotels, motels, rooming houses or tourist homes it shall be the duty of the owner to test the detectors on a regular basis in accordance with manufacturer’s instructions, and the owner shall be responsible for maintaining the units in an operable condition. A log of smoke detector inspections and findings shall be maintained by the owner, and shall be made available to fire inspectors upon request.
(Prior Code, § 93.18) Penalty, see § 93.99