Cherokee County, GA Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

Sec. 18-383(e)(2), part of the short-term rental division's safety requirements, requires that the area outside each bedroom offered for short-term rental be equipped with an operational carbon monoxide detector meeting the applicable adopted residential building code, maintained in good working order at all times. It sits alongside companion safety mandates in the same subsection: a smoke detector in and near every bedroom and on every story, an operable emergency escape window or door in every bedroom, a minimum five-pound ABC fire extinguisher on each floor meeting NFPA standards, a visible house number, general compliance with the county's Property Maintenance Code (Chapter 14, Article II) and Zoning Ordinance, an adequate sewer or septic connection sized for the approved bedroom count, and compliance with the International Swimming Pool and Spa Code for any private pool.

Compliance with the safety package is verified as part of the Development Services Center's certificate review and ongoing investigation authority under Sec. 18-387, which lets the director inspect the property, review complaint records and online listings, and pull in the county marshal's office, sheriff's office, fire department or board of health as needed. Because the requirement is written into the short-term rental division rather than a county-wide residential or fire code chapter, it binds certificated short-term rentals specifically; the general code text supplied does not contain a separate carbon monoxide mandate reaching every owner-occupied or long-term rental home in the unincorporated county.