2023-96 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 70 Property Maintenance Code

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Standard Association. (ii) Dwelling Unit. A room or suite of rooms used for human habitation, and includes a single family residence as well as each living unit of a multiple family residence and each living unit in a mixed use building. (iii) Section 1. Carbon Monoxide Detector. (a) Every dwelling unit shall be equipped with at least one approved carbon monoxide alarm in an operating condition within 15 feet of every room used for sleeping purposes. The carbon monoxide alarm may be combined with smoke detecting devices provided that the combined unit complies with the respective provisions of the administrative code, reference standards, and departmental rules relating to both smoke detecting devices and carbon monoxide alarms and provided that the combined unit emits an alarm in a manner that clearly differentiates the hazard. (b)Every structure that contains more than one dwelling unit shall contain at lease one approved carbon monoxide alarm in operating condition within 15 feet of every room used for sleeping purposes. (c) It is the responsibility of the owner of a structure to supply and install all required alarms. It is the responsibility of a tenant to test and to provide general maintenance for the alarms within the tenant's dwelling unit or rooming unit, and to notify the owner or the authorized agent of the owner in writing of any deficiencies that the tenant cannot correct. The owner is responsible for providing one tenant per dwelling unit the written information regarding alarm testing and maintenance. The tenant is responsible for replacement of any required batteries in the carbon monoxide alarms in the tenant's dwelling unit, except that the owner shall ensure that the batteries are in operating condition at the time the tenant takes possession of the dwelling unit. The tenant shall provide the owner or the authorized agent of the owner with access to the dwelling unit to correct any deficiencies in the carbon monoxide alarm that have been reported in writing to the owner or the authorized agent of the owner. (d) The carbon monoxide alarms required may be either battery powered, plug-in with battery back-up, or wired into the structure's AC power line with secondary battery back-up. Exemptions: The following residential units shall not require carbon monoxide detectors: (1) a residential unit in a building that: (i) does not rely on combustion of fossil fuel for heat, ventilation, or hot water; (ii) is not connected in any way to a garage; and(iii) is not sufficiently close to any ventilated source of carbon monoxide, as determined by the local building official, to receive carbon monoxide from that source. (2) a residential unit that is not sufficiently close to any source of carbon monoxide so as to be at risk of receiving carbon monoxide from that source, as determined by the local building official. (oo): Penalty. That no person, firm or corporation shall erect, construct, alter, extend, repair, remove, demolish, maintain, operate, use or occupy any structure or equipment regulated by the provisions of this chapter or of the Code adopted hereby, or by the rules or directives promulgated or notices issued thereunder, or cause the same to be done, contrary to or in conflict with or in violation of any of said provisions, rules, directive or notices, and any person, firm or corporation violating or found to be in violation thereof shall upon conviction be fined not less than One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00) nor more than Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00) for each offense, and each day on which a violation occurs or continues shall be considered a separate offense.