I am reading the cliff notes of this bill and I am thinking if any of those Legislators ever had a rental unit themselves....….I bet not.

It will make it a Class B infraction if a landlord fails to:
(1) Properly install a smoke detector at the time a tenant
moves in; or
(2) Repair an inoperative hard wired smoke detector within
seven days of receiving notice of the need for repair.
The penalty is increased to a Class A infraction for a
subsequent offense.

How often have I seen rental units a disassembled smoke detector and the landlord had put in the property detectors and had tried to make sure they are in working order only to have a tenant take the batteries out because they need them for who knows what.

“Provides that a landlord and a tenant may not waive the requirement that a smoke detector be installed in each rental unit.
Requires a tenant to replace batteries as needed in a battery operated smoke detector and to provide written notice of any malfunctions of a hard wired smoke detector to the landlord.
Permits a fire department to inspect a private dwelling upon the request of the owner or primary lessee who resides in the dwelling.”

Do you think the tenet will change the batteries out in the detector only because out legislators tell them too….sure as well as they will change out the filters in a heater to keep the heater in property working order and I hope the fire department has enough personnel for all the requested inspections on a property when the tenant calls when the tenant and the landlord have a disagreement.

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