[Ord. No. 22-2014, 15, passed 10-26-2015]
As used in this article, certain terms are defined as follows:
A single- or multiple-station carbon monoxide alarm listed as
complying with the Approved American National Standard for Single
and Multiple Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms (ANSI/UL2034) or a carbon
monoxide detector listed as complying with the Approved American National
Standard for Gas and Vapor Detectors and Sensors (ANSI/UL2075) installed
in accordance with this article.
A device that may be combined with a smoke alarm or smoke detector
and meets all of the following:
Complies with either of the following:
The Approved American National Standard for Single and Multiple
Station Carbon Monoxide Alarms (ANSI/UL2034) for carbon monoxide alarms
and the Approved American National Standard for Single and Multiple
Station Smoke Alarms (ANSI/UL217) for smoke alarms.
The Approved American Standard for Gas and Vapor Detectors and
Sensors (ANSI/UL2075) for carbon monoxide detectors and the Approved
American National Standard for Safety for Smoke Detectors for Fire
Alarm Systems (ANSI/UL268) for smoke detectors.
Emits an alarm in a manner that clearly differentiates between
detecting the presence of carbon monoxide and the presence of smoke.
A carbon monoxide detection system that includes carbon monoxide
detectors and audible notification appliances that are installed and
maintained in accordance with the National Fire Alarm and Signaling
Code (NFPA 72) and the Standard for the Installation of Carbon Monoxide
(CO) Detection and Warning Equipment (NFPA 720) and are in compliance
with the Approved American National Standard for Gas and Vapor Detectors
and Sensors (ANSI/UL 2075).
A building or part therein, other than a hotel, motel or
rooming house, where meals, linen service, and/or lodging are provided
for compensation, whether direct or indirect.
An owner-occupied building including only one dwelling unit,
which is freestanding and unattached to or abutting any other building
by a common or party wall or other physical connection.
A building including one or more dwelling units, including
those units as set forth in Article 1303.19 of the Zoning Code, but
shall not include a detached single-family home.
A residential living area for one household that is used
for living and sleeping purposes, and that has its own cooking facilities,
and a bathroom with a toilet and a bathtub and/or a shower.
Coal, kerosene, oil, wood, fuel gases and other petroleum
or hydrocarbon products which emit carbon monoxide as a by-product
of combustion.
A home licensed and approved for use by individuals who are
physically, developmentally or behaviorally disabled. Such disability
shall include those which substantially limit one or more of such
person's major life activities, a record of having such an impairment,
or being regarded as having such an impairment, but such term does
not include the use of or addiction to a controlled substance.
An establishment where the public may, for a consideration,
obtain sleeping accommodations with meals, having at least six permanent
bedrooms for the use of guests, a public dining room or rooms operated
by the same management, and a kitchen, apart from the dining room
or rooms, in which food is regularly prepared for the public.
A carbon monoxide alarm that is hardwired into the electrical
wiring, directly plugged into an electrical outlet without a switch,
other than a circuit breaker, or, if the alarm is battery-powered,
attached to the wall or ceiling of a dwelling, multi-unit building,
hotel, motel, rooming house, or boardinghouse, in accordance with
the Standard for the Installation of Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection
and Warning Equipment (NFPA 720).
A series of attached rental units, normally one- or two-story
structures, with individual entrances from the exterior of the building
to each unit, operated as a business for the purpose of providing
lodging to transient guests. An office and single dwelling unit may
be included as secondary uses in conjunction with the operation of
a motel. The term "motel" includes buildings designated as tourist
courts, tourist cabins, motor lodges and similar terms.
A building containing two or more dwelling units that are
not completely separated from each other by vertical party walls.
Working and in service.
A building or part therein, other than a hotel, motel or
boardinghouse, in which sleeping rooms are available for hire as lodging
but without meals and linen service.
[Ord. No. 22-2014, 15, passed 10-26-2015]
(a)
Dwellings. Upon the sale of a dwelling building, including a detached
single-family home, the seller shall disclose information regarding
the installation of carbon monoxide detectors on the property disclosure
statement required by 68 Pa.C.S.A. Ch. 73 (relating to seller disclosures).
(b)
Dwellings, group homes, hotels, motels, multi-unit buildings, rooming
houses, and boardinghouses. Each unit in a dwelling, group home, hotel,
motel, multi-unit building, rooming house, and boardinghouse that
uses or is served by a fossil-fuel-burning heater or appliance, fireplace
or an attached garage must have an operational, centrally located
and approved carbon monoxide alarm installed in accordance with the
installation instructions of the manufacturer in the vicinity of the
bedrooms and in the vicinity of the fossil-fuel-burning heater or
appliance. This requirement shall not apply to detached single-family
homes.
[Ord. No. 22-2014, 15, passed 10-26-2015]
(a)
Owner responsibilities. The owner of a dwelling, multi-unit building,
group home, hotel, motel, rooming house, and boardinghouse that uses
or is served by a fossil-fuel-burning heater or appliance, fireplace,
or an attached garage used for rental purposes and required to be
equipped with one or more approved carbon monoxide alarms shall:
(1)
Provide and install, in accordance with the installation instructions
of the manufacturer, an operational, centrally located and approved
carbon monoxide alarm in the vicinity of the bedrooms and in the vicinity
of the fossil-fuel-burning heater or fireplace.
(2)
Replace, in accordance with this article, an approved carbon
monoxide alarm that has been stolen, removed, found missing or rendered
inoperable during a prior occupancy of the rental property and which
has not been replaced by the prior occupant before the commencement
of a new occupancy of the rental property.
(3)
Ensure that the batteries in each approved carbon monoxide alarm
are in operating condition at the time the new occupant takes residence
in the rental property.
(b)
Maintenance, repair, or replacement. Except as provided in Subsection (a), the owner of a dwelling, group home, multi-unit building, rooming house, or boardinghouse used for rental purposes is not responsible for the maintenance, repair or replacement of an approved carbon monoxide alarm or the care and replacement of batteries while the building is occupied. Responsibility for the maintenance and repair of carbon monoxide alarms shall revert to the owner of the building upon vacancy of the rental property.
(c)
Occupant responsibilities. The occupant of each dwelling and multi-unit
building used for rental purposes in which an operational and approved
carbon monoxide alarm has been provided must:
(1)
Keep and maintain the device in good repair.
(2)
Test the device.
(3)
Replace batteries as needed.
(4)
Replace any device that is stolen, removed, missing or rendered
inoperable during the occupancy of the building.
(5)
Notify the owner or authorized agent of the owner in writing
of any deficiencies pertaining to the approved carbon monoxide alarm.
[Ord. No. 22-2014, 15, passed 10-26-2015]
Willful failure to install or maintain in operational condition
any approved carbon monoxide alarm required by this article is a summary
offense punishable by a fine of $50 for the first offense and a doubling
of the fine for every offense thereafter.
[Ord. No. 22-2014, 15, passed 10-26-2015]
This article shall become effective January 1, 2016.
