Carbon Monoxide Detectors

Question 1

By laws Carbon Monoxide Alarms

DEFINITIONS

Dwelling

Answer 1

• shall mean a building occupied or capable of being occupied as a HOME or sleeping place by one or more persons

Question 2

By laws Carbon Monoxide Alarms

DEFINITIONS

Dwelling Unit

Answer 2

means A SUITE operated as a housekeeping unit, used or intended to be used as a domicile by one or more persons and usually containing cooking, eating, living, sleeping and sanitary facilities

Question 3

By laws Carbon Monoxide Alarms

DEFINITIONS

Fuel burning appliances

(remember two unusual appliances)

Answer 3

” means appliances such as, but not limited to furnaces, refrigerators, clothes dryers, water heaters, boilers, fireplaces, wood stoves, charcoal grills, gas ranges and space heaters, which are fired by flammable fuels such as, but not limited to natural gas, propane, heating oil, kerosene, coal, gasoline, wood and charcoal

Question 4

By laws Carbon Monoxide Alarms

DEFINITIONS

Lodging, Rooming or Boarding House

(what does this NOT include) ?

Answer 4

• shall mean a dwelling in which rooms or room and board are supplied for hire or gain, for more than two persons,
• ***but shall not include a hotel, motel, group home or other similar establishment***

Question 5

By laws Carbon Monoxide Alarms

DEFINITIONS

Occupant

Answer 5

means any person or persons over the age of 18 years, or any firm or corporation, in possession of any dwelling unit; and

Question 6

By laws Carbon Monoxide Alarms

DEFINITIONS

Suite

Answer 6

• means a single room or series of rooms of complementary use, operated under a single tenancy, and includes dwelling units, boarding houses dormitories and rooming houses

Question 7

By laws Carbon Monoxide Alarms

VERY IMPORTANT

By law

Every owner of a dwelling unit shall install

a minimum of ONE alarm in each of the following dwelling units ? (three)

In buildings with (multiple occupancies)

1. Each dwelling unit containing what appliance ?
2. Each Dwelling unit, on what floors?

Answer 7

1. Each dwelling unit (house) containing a fuel burning appliance
2. *buliding (with multiple occupancy ) each dwelling unit located on the same floor as the fuel burning appliance
3. *buliding (with multiple occupancy ) each dwelling unit located on the FIRST AND SECOND floor above the floor with the fuel burning appliance

EACH UNIT with an appliance

EACH UNIT THE FLOOR with the appliance

EACH UNIT The TWO floors ABOVE the appliance

Question 8

By laws Carbon Monoxide Alarms

IMPORTANT (number 5)

By law

Every owner of a dwelling unit shall ensure that each carbon monoxide alarms is ? (five things)

1. Installed according to what ?
2. Installed according to what instructions?
3. In what kind of condition?
4. Accordance to what ?
5. Equipped with an alarm that is audible where?

Answer 8

• *installed according to the by law
• *installed according to manufacturers instructions
• in good operating condition
• in accordance to the manufacturer
• equiped with an alarm that is audible in bedrooms when doors are closed

Question 9

By laws Carbon Monoxide Alarms

IMPORTANT

By law

Every owner that every ELECTRICALLY powerd alarms shall ?

(hardwired)

1. ❤️Be equiped with what indication its working?
2. Have no switches between the alarm and ?

Answer 9

• Be equipped with a VISUAL indication its in working condition (light)
• **Have NO switch between the alarm and the panel**

Question 10

By laws Carbon Monoxide Alarms

By law enforcing

Who enforces these bylaws ?

NOT POLICE or BYLAW

Answer 10

• Fire chief
• Fire prevention (under chief)