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299F.51

Statute ID: 12416

Carbon Monoxide Detector Requirements

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Statute Number:

299F.51

Enactment Date:

Jun 1, 2006

Effective Date:

Jan 1, 2007

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Carbon Monoxide Detector Requirements

Statute ID:

12416

Created:

Aug 1, 2008 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Aug 1, 2008 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Corrected

Legal Analyst Comment:

2006 c260 art3 s21

Summary Text:

Carbon Monoxide Detector Requirements

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/299F/51.html

Legislative Session:

2006 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jul 18, 2024

Subdivision 1.
Every single family dwelling and every dwelling unit in a multifamily dwelling must have an approved and operational carbon monoxide alarm installed within ten feet of each room lawfully used for sleeping purposes.

Subdivision 1.
(a) Every single-family dwelling and every dwelling unit in a multifamily dwelling must have an approved and operational carbon monoxide alarm installed within ten feet of each room lawfully used for sleeping purposes.

(b) Every guest room in a hotel or lodging house must have an approved and operational carbon monoxide alarm installed in each room lawfully used for sleeping purposes.

Subd. 2.
(a) The owner of a multifamily dwelling unit which is required to be equipped with one or more approved carbon monoxide alarms must:

(1) provide and install one approved and operational carbon monoxide alarm within ten feet of each room lawfully used for sleeping; and

(2) replace any required carbon monoxide alarm that has been stolen, removed, found missing, or rendered inoperable during a prior occupancy of the dwelling unit and which has not been replaced by the prior occupant prior to the commencement of a new occupancy of a dwelling unit.

(b) The owner of a hotel or lodging house that is required to be equipped with one or more approved carbon monoxide alarms must:

(1) provide and install one approved and operational carbon monoxide alarm in each room lawfully used for sleeping; and

(2) replace any required carbon monoxide alarm that has been stolen, removed, found missing, or rendered inoperable during a prior occupancy and that has not been replaced by the prior occupant prior to the commencement of a new occupancy of a hotel guest room or lodging house.

Subd. 4.
No person shall remove batteries from, or in any way render inoperable, a required carbon monoxide alarm

Subd. 6.
A first violation of this section shall not result in a penalty, but is punishable by a safety warning. A second or subsequent violation is a petty misdemeanor.