PRINTER'S NO. 133
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No.
259
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY FONTANA, KITCHEN, SCHWANK, HUGHES, SMITH, COSTA,
TARTAGLIONE AND BREWSTER, JANUARY 15, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMUNITY, ECONOMIC AND RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT,
JANUARY 15, 2015
AN ACT
Providing standards for carbon monoxide alarms in certain
lodging establishments; and imposing penalties.
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 Alarm Standards in Lodging Establishments 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:
"Approved carbon monoxide alarm." The term includes:
(1) A single or multiple station carbon monoxide alarm
listed as complying with the approved American National
Standard for Safety for Single and Multiple Station Carbon
Monoxide Alarms (ANSI/UL2034) or a carbon monoxide detector
listed as complying with the approved American National
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Standard for Safety for Gas and Vapor Detectors and Sensors
(ANSI/UL2075) installed in accordance with this act.
(2) A device that may be combined with a smoke alarm or
smoke detector if the combined smoke alarm or detector meets
all of the following:
(i) Complies with either of the following:
(A) The approved American National Standard for
Safety for Single and Multiple Station Carbon
Monoxide Alarms (ANSI/UL2034) for carbon monoxide
alarms and the approved American National Standard
for Safety for Single and Multiple Station Smoke
Alarms (ANSI/UL217) for smoke alarms.
(B) The approved American National Standard for
Safety for Gas and Vapor Detectors and Sensors
(ANSI/UL2075) for carbon monoxide detectors and the
approved American National Standard for Safety for
Smoke Detectors for Fire Alarm Systems (ANSI/UL268)
for smoke detectors.
(ii) Emits an alarm in a manner that clearly
differentiates between detecting the presence of carbon
monoxide and the presence of smoke.
(3) A carbon monoxide detection system that includes
carbon monoxide detectors and audible notification appliances
that are installed and maintained in accordance with the
National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code (NFPA 72) and the
Standard for the Installation of Carbon Monoxide (CO)
Detection and Warning Equipment (NFPA 720) and are in
compliance with the approved American National Standard for
Safety for Gas and Vapor Detectors and Sensors (ANSI/UL2075).
"Fossil fuel." Coal, kerosene, oil, wood, fuel gases and
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other petroleum or hydrocarbon products which emit carbon
monoxide as a by-product of combustion.
"Installed." A carbon monoxide alarm that is hardwired into
the electrical wiring, directly plugged into an electrical
outlet without a switch, other than a circuit breaker, or, if
the alarm is battery-powered, attached to the wall or ceiling of
a lodging establishment or a unit, in accordance with the
Standard for the Installation of Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection
and Warning Equipment (NFPA 720).
"Lodging establishment." Any of the following:
(1) a hotel, motel, inn, guest house or other structure
which is held 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;
(2) any place which advertises to the public at large or
any segment thereof that it provides beds, sanitary
facilities or other space for a temporary period to members
of the public at large; or
(3) any place recognized as a hostelry.
The term includes any portion of a facility that is devoted to a
person who pays consideration to occupy one or more units as an
established permanent residence. The term does not include a
college or university student residence hall.
"Operational." Working and in service.
"Unit." A room or a suite of two or more rooms of a lodging
establishment that are occupied, leased for occupation or
intended or designed to be occupied either as overnight lodging,
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temporary accommodation or as a permanent residence.
Section 3. Administration.
Nothing in this act is intended to modify the authority and
responsibilities of the Department of Labor and Industry under
the act of November 10, 1999 (P.L.491, No.45), known as the
Pennsylvania Construction Code Act.
Section 4. Carbon monoxide alarm requirements.
(a) Lodging establishment.--Each lodging establishment which
uses a fossil fuel-burning heater or appliance or has an
attached garage must have an operational, centrally located and
approved carbon monoxide alarm installed in the vicinity of the
fossil fuel-burning heater or fireplace and in every unit that
is located on the same story as the fossil fuel-burning heater,
appliance or attached garage within 18 months of the effective
date of this section.
(b) Maintenance, repair or replacement.--The owner of a
lodging establishment is responsible for providing for the
maintenance, repair or replacement of an approved carbon
monoxide alarm or the care and replacement of batteries in the
lodging establishment.
Section 5. Enforcement.
Willful failure to install or maintain in operating condition
any approved carbon monoxide alarm required by this act is a
summary offense punishable by a fine of up to $50.
Section 6. Effective date.
This act shall take effect immediately.
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