(Formerly Sec. 29-40). Fire Safety Code. Carbon monoxide and smoke detection and warning equipment. Certificate of occupancy. Liability.

(2) The Fire Safety Code shall require each hotel, motel or inn to install or furnish smoke detection and warning equipment which, when activated, shall provide a visible alarm suitable to warn occupants, in at least one per cent of the units or rooms in such establishment having one hundred or more units or rooms and to install or furnish at least one such visible alarm in establishments having less than one hundred units or rooms. (b) (1) No certificate of occupancy shall be issued for any residential building designed to be occupied by one or more families, unless the local fire marshal or building official has certified that such building is equipped with smoke detection and warning equipment complying with the Fire Safety Code and State Building Code. (2) No certificate of occupancy shall be issued for any (A) new residential building not exempt under the Fire Safety Code, or (B) public or nonpublic school building for which a building permit for new occupancy is issued on or after January 1, 2012, unless the local fire marshal or building official has certified that such residential or school building is equipped with carbon monoxide detection and warning equipment complying with the Fire Safety Code and State Building Code. (c) (1) No municipality, local or regional board of education, or supervisory agent of a nonpublic school, and (2) no employee, officer or agent of such municipality, board of education or supervisory agent acting without malice, in good faith and within the scope of his or her employment or official duties shall be liable for any damage to any person or property resulting from the failure to detect carbon monoxide within a public school building, provided carbon monoxide detection equipment is installed and maintained in accordance with the manufacturer's published instructions and with the Fire Safety Code. See Sec. 7-282b re installation and connection of automatic calling devices. See Sec. 29-251a re review of regulations for conflicts with Fire Safety Code. See Sec. 29-252a re compliance of state buildings with Fire Safety Code. Annotations to former section 29-40: Not an unlawful delegation of legislative power; it prescribes standards as a guide in adoption of regulations; constitutionality upheld. 141 C. 524. Cited. 143 C. 1. Annotations to present section: Cited. 204 C. 410; Id., 429; 211 C. 501. Cited. 33 CA 422; 45 CA 46.