Full Text of SB2086 94th General Assembly
SB2086sam002 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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Sen. Don Harmon
Filed: 4/11/2005
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| AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2086
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| AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2086, AS AMENDED, | 3 |
| by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the | 4 |
| following:
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| "Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the | 6 |
| Carbon Monoxide Alarm Detector Act. | 7 |
| Section 5. Definitions. In this Act: | 8 |
| "Approved carbon monoxide alarm" or "alarm" means a carbon | 9 |
| monoxide alarm that complies with all the requirements of the | 10 |
| rules and regulations of the Illinois State Fire Marshal, bears | 11 |
| the label of a nationally recognized testing laboratory, and | 12 |
| complies with the most recent standards of the Underwriters | 13 |
| Laboratories or the Canadian Standard Association. | 14 |
| "Dwelling unit" means a room or suite of rooms used for | 15 |
| human habitation, and includes a single family residence as | 16 |
| well as each living unit of a multiple family residence and | 17 |
| each living unit in a mixed use building. | 18 |
| Section 10. Carbon monoxide detector. | 19 |
| (a) Every dwelling unit shall be equipped with at least one | 20 |
| approved carbon monoxide alarm in an operating condition within | 21 |
| 15 feet of every room used for sleeping purposes. The carbon | 22 |
| monoxide alarm may be combined with smoke detecting devices | 23 |
| provided that the combined unit complies with the respective |
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| provisions of the administrative code, reference standards, | 2 |
| and departmental rules relating to both smoke detecting devices | 3 |
| and carbon monoxide alarms and provided that the combined unit | 4 |
| emits an alarm in a manner that clearly differentiates the | 5 |
| hazard. | 6 |
| (b) Every structure that contains more than one dwelling | 7 |
| unit shall contain at least one approved carbon monoxide alarm | 8 |
| in operating condition within 15 feet of every room used for | 9 |
| sleeping purposes. | 10 |
| (c) It is the responsibility of the owner
of a structure to | 11 |
| supply and install all required
alarms. It is the | 12 |
| responsibility of a tenant to test and to provide
general | 13 |
| maintenance for the alarms within the
tenant's dwelling unit or | 14 |
| rooming unit, and to notify
the owner or the authorized agent | 15 |
| of the owner in
writing of any deficiencies that the tenant | 16 |
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correct. The owner is responsible for providing
one | 17 |
| tenant per dwelling unit with written information
regarding | 18 |
| alarm testing and maintenance. | 19 |
| The tenant is responsible for replacement
of any required | 20 |
| batteries in the carbon monoxide alarms in
the tenant's | 21 |
| dwelling unit, except that the owner
shall ensure that the | 22 |
| batteries are in operating
condition at the time the tenant | 23 |
| takes possession of
the dwelling unit. The tenant shall provide | 24 |
| the owner
or the authorized agent of the owner with access to
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| the dwelling unit to correct any deficiencies in the
carbon | 26 |
| monoxide alarm that have been reported in writing to
the owner | 27 |
| or the authorized agent of the owner. | 28 |
| (d) The carbon monoxide alarms required
under this Act may | 29 |
| be either battery powered, plug-in with battery back-up,
or | 30 |
| wired into the structure's AC power line with secondary battery | 31 |
| back-up. | 32 |
| Section 15. Violation. | 33 |
| (a) Willful failure to install or
maintain in operating |
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| condition any carbon monoxide alarm
required by this Act is a | 2 |
| Class B misdemeanor. | 3 |
| (b) Tampering with, removing, destroying,
disconnecting, | 4 |
| or removing the batteries from any
installed carbon monoxide | 5 |
| alarm, except in the course of
inspection, maintenance, or | 6 |
| replacement of the
alarm, is a Class A misdemeanor in the case
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| of a first conviction, and a Class 4 felony in the
case of a | 8 |
| second or subsequent conviction.
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| Section 20. Exemptions. The following residential units | 10 |
| shall not require carbon monoxide detectors: | 11 |
| (1) A residential unit in a building that: (i) does not | 12 |
| rely on combustion of fossil fuel for heat, ventilation, or | 13 |
| hot water, (ii) is not connected in any way to a garage, | 14 |
| and (iii) is not sufficiently close to any ventilated | 15 |
| source of carbon monoxide, as determined by the local | 16 |
| building commissioner, to receive carbon monoxide from | 17 |
| that source. | 18 |
| (2) A residential unit that is not sufficiently close | 19 |
| to any source of carbon monoxide so as to be at risk of | 20 |
| receiving carbon monoxide from that source, as determined | 21 |
| by the local building commissioner.".
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