Bill Text: PA SB29 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Providing for the requirement of carbon monoxide detectors.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-01-20 - Referred to URBAN AFFAIRS AND HOUSING [SB29 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB29-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 13
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 29 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY WASHINGTON, FERLO, WILLIAMS, STOUT, BROWNE AND KITCHEN, JANUARY 20, 2009
REFERRED TO URBAN AFFAIRS AND HOUSING, JANUARY 20, 2009
AN ACT
Providing for the requirement of carbon monoxide detectors.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Short title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the Carbon
Monoxide Protection Act.
Section 2. Definitions.
The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Apartment." A room or suite of two or more rooms occupied
or leased for occupation, or intended or designed to be
occupied, as a domicile.
"Department." The Department of Environmental Protection of
the Commonwealth.
"Dwelling." An apartment, hotel, multiple dwelling premises
or tenement building.
"Hotel."
(1) The term includes:
(i) A hotel, motel, bed and breakfast, homestead,
inn, guest house or other structure, which holds itself
out by any means, including advertising, license,
registration with an innkeepers' group, convention
listing association, travel publication or similar
association or with a government agency, as being
available to provide overnight lodging or use of facility
space for consideration to persons seeking temporary
accommodation.
(ii) Any place which advertises to the public at
large or any segment thereof that it will provide beds,
sanitary facilities or other space for a temporary period
to members of the public at large, or any place
recognized as a hostelry.
(2) The term does not include any portion of a facility
that is devoted to persons who have an established permanent
residence or a college or university student residence hall
or any private campground or any cabins, public campgrounds
or other facilities located on State land.
"Multiple dwelling premises." Any area occupied by dwelling
units, appurtenances thereto, grounds and facilities which
dwelling units are intended or designed to be occupied or leased
for occupation, or actually occupied, as individual homes or
residences for three or more households. This term includes
mobile home parks.
"Secretary." The Secretary of Environmental Protection of
the Commonwealth.
"Tenement building." Any house or building, or portion
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thereof, which is intended or designed to be occupied or leased
for occupation, or actually occupied, as a home or residence for
three or more households living in separate apartments and where
cooking is done upon the premises.
Section 3. Requirements.
(a) General rule.--Every unit of a dwelling space in a
dwelling shall be equipped with one or more carbon monoxide
sensor devices that bear the label of a nationally recognized
testing laboratory and have been tested and listed as complying
with the Underwriters Laboratories standard 2034 or its
equivalent as approved by the department by regulation.
(b) Exemption.--A dwelling may be exempt from the general
rule in subsection (a) if it is determined that no potential
carbon monoxide hazard exists for that unit. Any such
determination shall be made upon application by the owner of the
dwelling in the manner prescribed by the department.
Section 4. Penalties.
(a) Administrative penalties.--The department may impose an
administrative penalty of $100 for each dwelling unit not in
compliance with the requirements of this act.
(b) Appeal process.--This section is subject to 2 Pa.C.S.
Chs. 5 Subch. A (relating to practice and procedure of
Commonwealth agencies) and 7 Subch. A (relating to judicial
review of Commonwealth agency action).
Section 5. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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