Albany, NY Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

City Code Article XIB requires every building of residential or mixed occupancy with more than one residential unit to have approved carbon monoxide detectors. At least one detector must sit within 40 feet of every room used for sleeping. Units heated by steam, hot water, or electric heat with no nearby fossil-fuel source are exempt, as are units not close enough to a combustion source to receive its carbon monoxide. Hotels and motels need one detector per 10,000 square feet of floor area on any floor with a fossil-fuel appliance or boiler, or with fossil-fuel-heated sleeping rooms. Owners must supply and install required detectors and give at least one adult tenant per unit written testing and maintenance instructions; tenants test, maintain, and replace batteries in their own units. Detectors must meet UL 2034 or an equivalent standard.