Amending Chapter 9 Update sections concerning Fire Prevention

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SECTION VI. Chapter 9, Article 2, Section 9-12 of the South Bend Municipal Code is amended to read as follows : Section 9-12. Required; Responsibility for Installation and Maintenance; Standards. (a) All multiple-dwelling units and rental units as heretofore defined shall be equipped with smoke detectors . ( b) The owner, manager or agent of the heretofore defined multiple-dwelling units and rental units shall be responsible for the installation and maintenance of all smoke detectors . (c) In apartment houses, rental units and existing hotels and motels, the smoke detectors shall be mounted on the ceiling or wall every fifty ( 50) feet, at a point centrally located in the corridor, and in the area giving access to the rooms used for sleeping purposes. (d) In boardinghouses, lodging houses, rooming houses and new construction hotels and motels, or those hotels and motels in which corridors or sleeping rooms are remodeled after the passage of this article, the smoke detectors shall be centrally located on the ceiling of each room used for sleeping purposes and every fifty ( 50) feet along each corridor. (e) All smoke detectors shall be located within twelve (12) inches of the ceiling, and no detector shall be recessed into the ceiling . (f) When actuated , all smoke detectors shall provide an audible alarm of at least eighty-five (85) decibels at ten (10) feet, and such alarm shall be capable of persisting for at least four (4) minutes. (g) Each and every apartment house and rental unit to be built or in the process of being built and those existing units which undergo electrical work to the extent that a new service panel is put in and individual room circuits to each dwelling unit are added , must have a smoke detector permanently mounted to a standard electrical outlet or junction box without a disconnect