§ 1235-3. Early Fire Warning System Required.

The owner of a building for which no early fire warning requirements have been imposed by any other applicable municipal ordinance or state law shall install an operable early fire warning system and be responsible for assuring that an operable early fire warning system is continuously present on the premises on or before April 1, 1998. An early warning fire system shall be installed, and maintained, outside of each separate sleeping area in the immediate vicinity of the sleeping areas in each living unit. Each of these detectors shall be audible in each adjacent, separate sleeping area in each living unit when all intervening doors are closed and all household equipment that may be in operation at night are in full operation. An early warning fire system shall also be placed, and maintained, on each additional story without a sleeping area, including basements or cellars but excluding crawl spaces and unfinished attics. All detectors shall be installed and maintained in accordance with NFPA Standard No. 72 (as referenced in the Cincinnati Building Code) Household Fire Warning Equipment.

An owner may not permit a building or dwelling unit to be occupied without an approved and properly operating detector.

No person shall occupy a living unit without an approved and operating detector.

(Ordained as Sec. 1245-3 by Ord. No. 363-1981, eff. Oct. 10, 1981; repealed and reordained as Sec. 1235-3 by Ord. No. 385-1984, eff. Sept. 6, 1984; a. Ord. No. 37-1986, eff. Jan. 23, 1986; a. Ord. No. 292-1997, eff. Oct. 4, 1997; a. Ord. No. 83-1998, eff. April 10, 1998)