Bend, OR Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)
Key Facts
- Requirement
- Fire-safety checklist with each annual license application
- Covers
- Fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors
- Applies to
- Licensed short-term rentals only, not all homes
- Ongoing duty
- Owner must keep unit code-compliant, BC 7.16.070(C)(2)
- Consequence
- License denial or revocation, not a direct fine
Summary
In the City of Bend, a citywide carbon monoxide detector mandate is not printed in the Bend Code; the only city rule appears in the short-term rental licensing chapter. BC 7.16.070(C)(1) requires every short-term rental owner to submit a completed fire-safety checklist covering fire extinguishers, smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors with each annual operating license application and renewal.
1. Fire and Emergency Safety. A completed checklist for fire safety (fire extinguishers, smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors, etc.) shall be required with each annual operating license application and renewal.
Full Breakdown
10 govern CO alarm installation in new construction generally, and this record does not quote that adopted state text. 070(C), Health and Safety, requires a completed fire-safety checklist, covering fire extinguishers, smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, with every annual short-term rental operating license application and renewal. 070(C)(2). 500, not to long-term rentals or owner-occupied homes generally. 090 if the City documents a substantiated safety complaint. There is no dollar penalty specific to a missing CO detector; the consequence runs through the licensing process itself, either blocking approval of the annual application or triggering the warning-and-revocation sequence, rather than a standalone citation.
Violations & Fines
There is no separate fine tied only to a missing carbon monoxide detector. Failing to submit the required fire-safety checklist, or letting fire and safety conditions lapse, can result in denial of an annual operating license renewal under BC 7.16.070, or revocation of an existing license under BC 7.16.090's warning-and-revocation procedure, cutting off the right to operate the short-term rental.
Frequently Asked Questions
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