Amending Chapter 9 Amend the Requirments for Smoke Detectors

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(4) "C on each a multiple we Sec. 9 -12 ' shall be defined as a hallway or other area ig access to in ividuai dwelling areas within Smoke Detectors Required. (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 multiple- family- dwellings 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 WRe e- sleeping -Teems -are en- an- xpper- level; - the- deteeter- shall -be- plaeed -at- the- eenter -e€ the - eeiling- direetly- abeve- the - stairway- (d) In apartment- kexses; boardinghouses, lodginghouses, rooming houses, and new construction hotels and motels or those hotels and motels in which corridors or sleeping rooms are re- modeled 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 (35) decibels at ten (10) feet, and such alarm shall be capable of persisting for at least four (4) minutes. (g) Each and every a artment house and rental unit to be built or in the process o being built and those existing units which under o e ectrical work to the extent that a new service anel is ut in and individual room circuits to each wellin unit are added, must have a smoke detector permanently mounted to a standard electrical outlet or 'unction box without a disconnect wa switch. On those smoke etectors reco nine or use under Sec. of the Indiana Construction Rules and Regu ations, Vo- lume 1. 1978 Ed., as amended from time to time.will satisfy the Sec. 9 -13. Maintenance. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper or remove any smoke detector except when it is necessary for maintenance or inspection purposes. (b) Any smoke detector removed for repair or replacement must be reinstalled or replaced so that it is in place when the room is occupied. Sec. 9 -14. Enforcement. (a) The Building Department of the City with the assistance of the Fire Department of the City shall be charged with the duty of enforcing the terms of this Article. (b) Before a license can be issued for the operation of any hotel, motel, rooming house or lodginghouse, pursuant to Sec. 11 -20 of this Code, said buildings shall be inspected to ensure that all smoke detectors required by this Article are in place and operable. - 2 -