City of Baltimore - File #: 08-0019

• File #: 08-0019
• Version: 0
• Name: Building Code - Dwellings - Carbon Monoxide Alarms
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 1/28/2008
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 8/20/2008
• Enactment #: 08-59
• Title: Building Code - Dwellings - Carbon Monoxide Alarms FOR the purpose of requiring the installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide alarms in dwellings, hotels, motels, boarding or rooming houses, or other structures that provide living or sleeping facilities; defining certain terms; adopting certain standards; prohibiting certain conduct; and generally relating to protection from carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Sponsors: James B. Kraft, Edward Reisinger, Mary Pat Clarke, Warren Branch, Agnes Welch, Sharon Green Middleton, Belinda Conaway, Rochelle Spector, President Young, Helen L. Holton, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake
• Indexes: Alarms, Building Code, Carbon monoxide, Dwellings

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/20/2008	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
8/11/2008	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
7/21/2008	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably with Amendment
7/21/2008	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Rdr., Adopted Comm. Report
2/25/2008	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
2/6/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
2/6/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
2/6/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
2/6/2008	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
1/28/2008	0	City Council	Introduced
1/28/2008	0	City Council	Assigned

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
Title
Building Code - Dwellings - Carbon Monoxide Alarms

FOR the purpose of requiring the installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide alarms in dwellings, hotels, motels, boarding or rooming houses, or other structures that provide living or sleeping facilities; defining certain terms; adopting certain standards; prohibiting certain conduct; and generally relating to protection from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Body
BY adding
Article - Building, Fire, and Related Codes
Section(s) 2-103 (IBC § 1211), 7-102 (PMC § 704.5), and 8-102 (FC § 907.11)
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

Baltimore City Revised Code

Article - Building, Fire, and Related Codes

Part II. International Building Code

§ 2-103. City modifications.

The additions, deletions, amendments, and other modifications adopted by the City are as follows:

Chapter 12
Interior Environment

SECTION 1211 CARBON MONOXIDE ALARMS.

1211.1 DEFINITIONS. IN THIS § 1211 , THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE MEANING INDICATED.



1211.1.1 CARBON MONOXIDE ALARM. "CARBON MONOXIDE ALARM" MEANS A DEVICE THAT:

1. SENSES CARBON MONOXIDE,

2. WHEN SENSING CARBON MONOXIDE, EMITS A DISTINCT AND AUD...