Bill Text: MI SB0379 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Construction; safety; requirement for installation of carbon monoxide detectors in certain public accommodations; provide for. Amends sec. 4d of 1972 PA 230 (MCL 125.1504d).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-16 - Referred To Committee On Regulatory Reform [SB0379 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-SB0379-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 379

 

 

May 16, 2017, Introduced by Senators BIEDA, JONES, CONYERS, GREGORY, JOHNSON and WARREN and referred to the Committee on Regulatory Reform.

 

 

     A bill to amend 1972 PA 230, entitled

 

"Stille-DeRossett-Hale single state construction code act,"

 

by amending section 4d (MCL 125.1504d), as added by 2008 PA 376.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4d. (1) Beginning December 1, 2009 and involving only

 

buildings and structures newly constructed on or after that date,

 

the The owner, operator, or builder of a residential occupancies

 

where structure newly constructed on or after December 1, 2009 the

 

occupants of which are primarily transient in nature, including,

 

but not limited to, a boarding houses, hotels, and motels, house,

 

hotel, or motel, shall install 1 operational carbon monoxide device

 

at each source point and in each room or area that adjoins a source

 

point.

 

     (2) The carbon monoxide device described in subsection (1) may

 

be battery-powered, plug-in with or without battery backup, wired

into the dwelling's AC power line with secondary battery backup, or

 

connected to a system by means of a control panel. The carbon

 

monoxide device required under subsection (1) shall have an alarm

 

that is audible. If the international building code contains a

 

requirement for a carbon monoxide device and that requirement is

 

adopted by the director as part of a code adopted after the

 

effective date of the amendatory act that added this subsection,

 

December 23, 2008, those requirements apply and shall be followed

 

upon the effective date of the code.

 

     (3) A person who installs, in accordance with the

 

manufacturer's published instructions in existence at the time of

 

installation, a carbon monoxide device shall have no liability, is

 

not liable, directly or indirectly, to any person with respect to

 

the operation, maintenance, or effectiveness of the carbon monoxide

 

device.

 

     (4) The owner or operator of the residential occupancy

 

described in subsection (1), who installs or arranges for the

 

installation of and who maintains a carbon monoxide device in

 

accordance with the manufacturer's published instructions in

 

existence at the time of the installation, shall have no liability,

 

is not liable, directly or indirectly, to any person with respect

 

to the operation or effectiveness of the carbon monoxide device.

 

     (5) As used in this section:

 

     (a) "Carbon monoxide device" means a device that detects

 

carbon monoxide, alerts occupants via a distinct and audible signal

 

that is either self-contained in the unit or activated via a system

 

connection, and is certified by a nationally recognized testing

laboratory to conform to the latest standards of the underwriters

 

laboratories Underwriters Laboratories standards.

 

     (b) "Operational" means working and in service.

 

     (c) "Source point" means an area where a mechanism is present

 

that provides a common source of heat from a fossil-fuel-burning

 

furnace, boiler, or water heater, but does not include only the

 

presence of a wood or fossil-fuel-burning fireplace or a wood or

 

fossil-fuel-burning space heater.