HomeMy Public PortalAbout1983_02_23_O009The Town of Leesburg in Virginia
PRESENTED February 23~ 1983
ORDINANCE NO. 83-0-9
ADOPTED February 23~ 1983
AN ORDINANCE: AMENDING SECTION 7-440 SMOKE DETECTORS REQUIRED
ORDAINED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg in Virginia as follows:
SECTION I. SECTION 7-440 of the Town Code is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 7-440. Smoke detectors required.
(a) The owner thereof shall install, service, repair or replace smoke de-
tectors 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 multifamily building containing four or more dwellings units;
(2)
Any hotel or motel regularly used, offered for, or intended to be used
to provide overnight sleeping accommodations for one or more persons;
and
(3)
Rooming houses regularly used, offered for, or intended to be used to
provide overnight sleeping accommodations and which contain four or
more units;
(4)
Smoke detectors shall be installed in all commo~ areas, hallways and
stairwells described in 1, 2, or 3 above and shal~ be installed in
accordance with Section 1716.6 (Distances) of..the Building. Code, but
in no instances shall the distance exceed 200 feet between deteCtors
and they shall be effectively heard above all other sounds by all
occupants in every occupied .space within such building.
(b) "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 alarm and satisfying the
requirements of the BOCA Basic Building Code for smoke detectors.
SECTION II. This ordinance shall be in effect upon its passage.
PASSED this 23rd day of February
ATTEST:
Clerk of Co,il
, 1983.
Robert E Sevx~, Mayor
Town of Leesburg