Blue Hill, NE Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

Ordinance No. 746, adopted July 8, 2025, created Blue Hill's short-term rental licensing program, and Municipal Code § 5-703(B) lists the minimum safety standards an applicant must certify to the city clerk before a license issues. Item 2 covers carbon monoxide: detectors must be present and operational on each level of the unit that has a fuel-burning appliance, an attached garage, or a fuel-burning appliance located within one floor of that level. The section requires the detectors to be maintained in working order for the life of the rental, not just checked once at licensing.

This CO standard sits next to six other STR conditions in the same section: smoke alarms, adequate egress or sprinklers, visible street address numbers, a clean and code-compliant property, a 45-minute emergency contact, and a rule against sleeping outside designated sleeping areas. Licenses run one year, cost $50, and are not transferable, so the certification is renewed annually along with the license. If an inspection or complaint shows a unit no longer has working carbon monoxide protection, § 5-704(B) authorizes the city to revoke the license for failing to meet minimum health and safety requirements, separate from the noise-complaint ground in § 5-704(A).

Because this requirement lives in the short-term rental article of Chapter 5 rather than the general building code, it binds licensed short-term rentals specifically; owner-occupied homes and long-term rentals are governed instead by the building and housing codes Blue Hill adopts by reference in Chapter 9.