Is your place legal? Does your home or rental unit comply with the new law requiring carbon monoxide detectors?
You can see it as a great boon for housing safety or as one more time the Legislative Assembly has over-reached. Either way, it's time for all owners with homes for sale and all landlords with housing to rent to get ready to comply with the State of Oregon's new law and regulations on carbon monoxide detectors.
Any single family home, duplex, manufactured dwelling, or multifamily housing that contains a source of carbon monoxide (CO) emissions.
A heater, fireplace, furnace, appliance or cooking source that uses
COAL, WOOD, PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
KEROSENE, NATURAL GAS OR PROPANE.
An attached garage
with a door, ductwork, or ventilation shaft
that directly connects to a living space.
If you are a landlord or a homeowner planning to sell a rent or sell in the State of Oregon, here's what you need to know:
If you sell your home on or after April 1, 2011, it must have one or more carbon monoxide detectors.
Each rental home, duplex or apartment unit having a carbon monoxide source must have or or more carbon monoxide detectors:
1. If you enter into a new rental or lease agreement with a tenant after July 1, 2010. (Yes, it's already in effect.)
2. If you sell the property on or after April 1, 2011.
3. If you continue to own the rental after April 1, 2011.
One must be installed inside - or within 15 feet of - each bedroom.
If the bedrooms are adjacent that might mean one. If they are separated, that will mean more.
If the bedrooms are on more than one level, a dectector must be installed on each level.
For more info on the requirements for homes for sale or dwellings for rent in Oregon, go to the full details about the law and it's requisite regulations as promulgated by the state Fire Marshal at:
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