[Added 12-18-1995 by Ord. No. 2.22.95]
This article shall be known as "Carbon Monoxide
Detectors" and is supplementary to applicable provisions of the New
York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code.
A.
Except as hereinafter provided, every building of
residential or mixed occupancy and having more than one residential
unit shall be equipped with approved carbon monoxide detectors in
accordance with this article.
The following residential units shall not require
carbon monoxide detectors:
A.
A residential unit in a building that does not rely
on combustion of fossil fuel for heat, ventilation or hot water and
is not sufficiently close to any ventilated source of carbon monoxide,
as determined by the Building Commissioner, to receive carbon monoxide
from that source.
B.
A residential unit that:
(1)
Is heated by steam, hot water or electric heat;
and
(2)
Is not connected by duct work or ventilation
shafts to any room containing a fossil fuel-burning boiler or heater;
and
(3)
Is not sufficiently close to any ventilated
source of carbon monoxide, as determined by the Building Commissioner,
to receive carbon monoxide from that source.
A.
Not less than one approved carbon monoxide detector
shall be installed in a residential unit. The detector shall be installed
within 40 feet of all rooms used for sleeping purposes.
B.
In every hotel and motel, one approved carbon monoxide
detector shall be installed for every 10,000 square feet of floor
area, or fraction thereof, on every floor on which a fossil fuel-burning
appliance, boiler or furnace is located and on every floor on which
sleeping rooms are heated by any type of warm air heating plant that
burns fossil fuel. Floor area shall be computed separately for each
floor.
Each residential unit employing space heating
equipment that is located within the dwelling unit and that burns
fossil fuel shall be equipped with at least one carbon monoxide detector.
Each approved carbon monoxide detector shall
comply with all applicable federal and state regulations and shall
bear the label of a nationally recognized standard testing laboratory
and shall meet the standard of UL 2034 or its equivalent. The Building
Commissioner shall issue rules and regulations not inconsistent with
the provisions of this chapter for the implementation and administration
of the provisions of this chapter relating to carbon monoxide detectors.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be
unlawful for any person to remove batteries from a carbon monoxide
detector required under this article or in any way to make inoperable
a carbon monoxide detector required under this article. This provision
shall not apply to any building owner or manager or his agent in the
normal procedure of replacing batteries.
The owner of a structure shall supply and install
required carbon monoxide detectors. The owner shall test and maintain
carbon monoxide detectors located other than in a dwelling unit. The
owner shall provide written information regarding carbon monoxide
testing and maintenance to at least one adult tenant in each dwelling
unit. The tenant shall test, provide general maintenance and replace
required batteries for carbon monoxide detectors located in the tenant's
dwelling unit.
In every building that is heated by one main central-fossil-fuel-powered heating unit, and that is not exempted under § 133-78.3, one approved carbon monoxide detector must be installed in the room containing the central heating unit. The requirements in this section are in addition to the requirements in § 133-78.4 of this article.
Whenever used in this article, the term "fossil
fuel" shall include coal, natural gas, kerosene, oil, propane and
wood.
[Amended 4-16-2001 by Ord. No. 4.11.01]
Any person violating any section of this article shall be subject to penalties as set forth in Chapter 133A of this Code.
