HomeMy Public PortalAbout1982_06_23_O024TOWN OF LEESBURG
IN
LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA
ORDINANCE NO. 82-0-24
PRESENTED June 9, 1982
AMENDED June 23~ 1982
ADOPTED June 23, 1982
ORDINANCE: AMENDING CHAPTER 7 OF THE TOWN CODE TO ADD ARTICLE ~(I, SMOKE
DETECTORS
ORDAINED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg in Virginia as follows:
SECTION I. Chapter 7 of the Town Code is amended to add Article XXI, Smoke
Detectors, to read as follows:
ARTICLE XXI. SMOKE DETECTORS
Sec. 7-440. Smoke detectors required.
The owner thereof shall install, service, repair or replace smoke
detectors in locations specified in the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building
Code in the following structures or buildings constructed prior to the
adoption of the Uniform Statewide Building Code:
(1) Any multi-family building containing four or more dwelling units;
(2)
(3)
Any hotel or motel regularly used, offered for, or intended to be
used to provide overnight sleeping accomodations for one or more~
persons; and
Rooming houses regularly used, offered for, or intended to be
used to provide overnight sleeping accomodations and which con-
tain four or more units.
"Smoke detectors", when used in this Article, shall mean battery
operated or alternating current powered devices capable of sensing visible
or invisible products of combustion that sound an audible ala~ and satis-
fying the requirements of the BOCA Basic Building Code for smoke detectors.
Sec. 7-441. Responsibilities in multi-family buildings.
(a) The owner of a dwelling unit, which is rented or leased in a
multi-family building containing four or more dwelling units, shall fur-
nish the tenant at the beginning of each tenancy and at least annually
thereafter with written certification that all smoke detectors required
by Section 7-440 have been inspected and are in good working order.
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(b) The tenant shall be responsible for reasonable care of the
smoke detectors and for interim testing and for providing written notice
to the owner for repair of any malfunctioning smoke detector. The owner
shall be obligated to provide and pay for service, repair or replacement
of any malfunctioning smoke detector. Such service, repair or replace-
ment must occur within five days of receipt of written notice from the
tenant that a smoke detector is in need of repair.
(c) The owner of a dwelling unit, which is rented or leased in a
multi-family building containing four or more dwelling units, shall pro-
vide written notification to the tenant of the responsibilities and
duties imposed by paragraph (b) of this section.
SECTION II. This ordinance shall be effective upon its passage.
PASSED this 23rd day of June
, 1982.
, ?
G. Dewey Hi1/, Jr.,~'
Town of Le~'sburg
ATTEST:
Clerk of Co~l