(a) Detectors shall be installed to protect each separate sleeping area in any dwelling occupied by a single family or in any mobile home occupied by a single family at a location between the bedrooms and other use areas. Detectors shall be installed to protect inhabitants of each dwelling unit in a hotel or motel, boardinghouse, multiple family dwelling or similar dwelling at a location between the bedrooms and other use areas in the dwelling unit itself.
(b) The detectors shall be mounted in the ceiling and at the central point between walls of the hallway or stairway, as the case may be.
(c) A smoke detector installed at the head of the stairs shall be so located so as to insure that smoke rising in that stairwell cannot be prevented from reaching the detector by an intervening obstruction.
(Ord. 2030 Passed 12-17-79.)