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92_HB4122

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning carbon monoxide detectors.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 1. Short title. This Act  may  be  cited  as  the
 5    Carbon Monoxide Detector Act.

 6        Section 5. Definitions. In this Act:
 7        "Assembly  unit"  means  a building or part of a building
 8    designed or used for  the  assembly  of  persons  for  civic,
 9    political,  educational,  religious, social, recreational, or
10    other similar activities.  "Assembly unit" includes,  without
11    limitation,    the   following:   amphitheaters,   aquariums,
12    armories,  art  galleries,   assembly   halls,   auditoriums,
13    ballrooms,  banquet  halls,  boards of trade, bowling alleys,
14    churches, community  houses,  community  theatrical  centers,
15    concert  halls,  convention  halls, court rooms, dance halls,
16    exhibition areas, field houses, funeral parlors,  gymnasiums,
17    lecture  halls,  libraries,  motion  picture houses, museums,
18    nightclubs,      passenger      stations,       planetariums,
19    playhouses-in-the-round,   radio   and   television  studios,
20    recreation  halls,  restaurants,   rinks,   schools,   indoor
21    stadiums, indoor swimming pools, taverns, and theaters.
22        "Family"  means  one  or more persons each related to the
23    other  by  blood  or  adoption,  together  with  those  blood
24    relations' spouses, who  are  living  together  in  a  single
25    dwelling  and  maintaining  a  common  household.  A "family"
26    includes domestic servants and not more than  one  gratuitous
27    guest  residing with the family.  A "family" also consists of
28    the residents of a family home.
29        "Fossil fuel" includes, without limitation, coal, natural
30    gas, kerosene, oil, propane, and wood.
31        "Institutional unit"  means  a  building  or  part  of  a
 
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 1    building  designed  or  used  for  the harboring of 3 or more
 2    persons for medical,  correctional,  penal,  or  other  care,
 3    treatment,  or  detention.    "Institutional  unit" includes,
 4    without limitation, the following: hospitals; nursing  homes,
 5    including  skilled  care,  intermediate  care, and child care
 6    nursing homes and homes for the developmentally  disabled  or
 7    mentally   retarded;  sheltered  care  facilities,  including
 8    shelter care homes, homes for the aged, and residential  care
 9    or  "halfway"  homes;  jails, asylums, and reformatories; day
10    care centers harboring children under 2  years  of  age;  and
11    orphanages.
12        "Residential unit" means a building or part of a building
13    designed  or used for one or more family units or designed or
14    used for sleeping accommodations other than for family units,
15    but does not include institutional units.  "Residential unit"
16    includes the following:
17             (1) A single-family dwelling, which  is  a  building
18        containing  one  dwelling unit only, one group home only,
19        or  an  intermediate  care  facility  for  15  or   fewer
20        developmentally disabled persons.
21             (2)   A  multiple  dwelling,  which  is  a  building
22        designed or used for 2 or more family units  or  designed
23        or  used  for  sleeping  accommodations,  other  than for
24        family units, for more  than  10  persons.    A  multiple
25        dwelling  includes,  without  limitation,  the following:
26        apartment buildings, boarding  houses,  clubs,  convents,
27        dormitories,  fraternities,  group homes, hotels, housing
28        for elderly persons, lodging houses, monasteries, motels,
29        rooming   houses,   single-room   occupancy    buildings,
30        temporary  overnight  shelters  (regardless of capacity),
31        tourist houses, and transitional shelters (regardless  of
32        capacity).
33        "Warm air heating plant" means either of the following:
34             (1)  A forced warm air heating plant, which consists
 
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 1        of  one  or  more  warm  air  furnaces,  enclosed  within
 2        casings, together with necessary  appurtenances  thereto,
 3        consisting  of  warm  air pipes and fittings, cold air or
 4        recirculating pipes, ducts, boxes,  and  fittings,  smoke
 5        pipes   and  fittings,  registers,  faces,  and  grilles,
 6        blowers, or other means of moving or forcing warm air for
 7        the purpose of heating the building  in  which  they  are
 8        installed.
 9             (2) A gravity warm air heating plant, which consists
10        of  one  or  more  warm  air  furnaces,  enclosed  within
11        casings,  together  with necessary appurtenances thereto,
12        consisting of warm air pipes and fittings,  cold  air  or
13        recirculating  pipes,  ducts,  boxes, and fittings, smoke
14        pipes  and  fittings,  registers,  borders,  faces,   and
15        grilles  for the purpose of heating the building in which
16        they are installed.

17        Section  10.  Carbon  monoxide  detectors   required   in
18    residential  units.  Every  building  of residential or mixed
19    occupancy and having one or more residential  units  must  be
20    equipped   with   approved   carbon   monoxide  detectors  in
21    accordance with this Act.

22        Section 15. Exemptions. The following  residential  units
23    do not require carbon monoxide detectors:
24             (1)  A  residential unit in a building that (i) does
25        not  rely  on  combustion  of  fossil  fuel   for   heat,
26        ventilation,  or  hot  water and (ii) is not sufficiently
27        close to any ventilated source  of  carbon  monoxide,  as
28        determined by rules adopted by the State Fire Marshal, to
29        receive carbon monoxide from that source.
30             (2)  A residential unit that (i) is heated by steam,
31        hot water, or electric heat, (ii)  is  not  connected  by
32        ductwork  or  ventilation shafts to any room containing a
 
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 1        fossil fuel-burning boiler or heater, and  (iii)  is  not
 2        sufficiently  close  to  any  ventilated source of carbon
 3        monoxide, as determined by rules  adopted  by  the  State
 4        Fire  Marshal,  to  receive  carbon  monoxide  from  that
 5        source.

 6        Section 20. Location of carbon monoxide detectors.
 7        (a)  Not  less than one approved carbon monoxide detector
 8    must be installed in each residential unit. The detector must
 9    be installed within 40 feet of all rooms  used  for  sleeping
10    purposes.
11        (b)  In  every  hotel  and  motel,  one  approved  carbon
12    monoxide  detector  must be installed for every 10,000 square
13    feet of floor area, or fraction thereof, (i) on  every  floor
14    on  which  a fossil fuel-burning boiler or furnace is located
15    and (ii) on every floor on which sleeping rooms are heated by
16    any type of warm air heating plant that  burns  fossil  fuel.
17    Floor area must be computed separately for each floor.

18        Section  25. Dwelling units heated by space heaters. Each
19    dwelling unit  employing  space  heating  equipment  that  is
20    located  within  the dwelling unit and that burns fossil fuel
21    must be equipped with at least one carbon monoxide detector.

22        Section 30. Standards; rules.
23        (a) Every approved  carbon  monoxide  detector  (i)  must
24    comply  with  all  applicable  federal and State regulations,
25    (ii) must bear the label of a nationally recognized  standard
26    testing  laboratory,  and  (iii) must meet the standard of Ul
27    2034 or its equivalent.
28        (b)  The  State  Fire  Marshal  shall  adopt  rules   not
29    inconsistent with the provisions of this Act to implement and
30    administer this Act.
 
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 1        Section 35.  Battery removal; penalty.
 2        (a)  It  is  unlawful  for any person to remove batteries
 3    from a carbon monoxide detector required under this Act or in
 4    any  way  to  make  inoperable  a  carbon  monoxide  detector
 5    required under this Act, except that this provision does  not
 6    apply to any building owner or manager or his or her agent in
 7    the normal procedure of replacing batteries.
 8        (b)  Any person who violates this Section commits a Class
 9    B misdemeanor.

10        Section   40.   Residential   unit   owner   and   tenant
11    responsibilities.
12        (a)  The  owner  of  a  structure must supply and install
13    required carbon monoxide detectors. The owner must  test  and
14    maintain  carbon  monoxide  detectors located other than in a
15    dwelling unit. The owner  must  provide  written  information
16    regarding carbon monoxide testing and maintenance to at least
17    one adult tenant in each dwelling unit.
18        (b)  A tenant must test, provide general maintenance for,
19    and replace required batteries for carbon monoxide  detectors
20    located in the tenant's dwelling unit.

21        Section  45. Institutional and assembly units.  Every new
22    or existing building or part of a building designed, erected,
23    altered, or converted for the purposes  of  an  institutional
24    unit  or  an  assembly  unit  must  be equipped with approved
25    carbon monoxide detectors.

26        Section 50. Location of detectors  in  institutional  and
27    assembly units.
28        (a)  In  every  institutional  unit and in every assembly
29    unit, not less than one  approved  carbon  monoxide  detector
30    must  be  installed per every 10,000 square feet, or fraction
31    thereof, (i) on every floor on which  a  fossil  fuel-burning
 
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 1    appliance,  boiler,  or  furnace is located and (ii) on every
 2    floor heated by any type of warm air heating plant that burns
 3    fossil fuel. Floor area must be computed separately for  each
 4    floor.
 5        (b) On every floor of an institutional unit that contains
 6    sleeping quarters, one approved carbon monoxide detector must
 7    also  be  installed  within  40  feet  of  all rooms used for
 8    sleeping purposes that are either (i) located near  a  fossil
 9    fuel-burning  appliance, boiler, or furnace or (ii) heated by
10    any type of warm air heating plant that burns fossil fuel.

11        Section 55.  Buildings  heated  by  central  fossil  fuel
12    powered heating unit. In every building that is heated by one
13    main central fossil fuel powered heating unit and that is not
14    exempted  under  Section  15,  one  approved  carbon monoxide
15    detector must be installed in the room containing the central
16    heating unit.

17        Section  60.  Penalties.  Any  person  who  violates  any
18    provision of this Act for which a  separate  penalty  is  not
19    provided  commits a petty offense and is subject to a fine of
20    not less than $300 and not more than $1,000. Every day that a
21    violation is allowed to continue constitutes a  separate  and
22    distinct offense.

23        Section  99.  Effective  date.   This Act takes effect on
24    January 1, 2003.

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