Davis, CA Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing law
- Davis Municipal Code Section 18.11.050(c)(1)
- Parallel rule
- Section 18.11.040(c)(1) for multifamily units
- Trigger
- Fossil-fuel heater, fireplace, or attached garage
- Correction window
- 30 days after notice
- Max fine
- $200 per offense
- Checked at
- Move-in inspection
Summary
Before a tenant moves into a Davis rental home or apartment, the owner must install a carbon monoxide device in any unit with a fossil-fuel heater, fireplace, or attached garage. Skipping it, after a thirty-day correction notice, is an infraction carrying up to a two-hundred-dollar fine per offense.
Prior to the commencement of a tenancy of a single-family rental unit, an owner must install a carbon monoxide device in each existing dwelling unit having a fossil fuel burning heater or appliance, fireplace, or an attached garage. If an owner is found in violation of this section, the owner shall receive a thirty-day notice to correct. If the owner fails to correct within the time period, a violation of this section is an infraction punishable by a maximum fine of two hundred dollars for each offense.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4915048; v22 updated 2026-05-19).
Full Breakdown
11, which applies separately to registered single-family rental units and multifamily rental units. 040(c)(1) imposes the identical requirement on multifamily rental unit owners. The same subsections require a smoke alarm in every unit, with tenants responsible for reporting an inoperable one and owners responsible for correcting it, entering with twenty-four-hour notice except in an emergency. If an owner is found in violation of the carbon monoxide requirement, the city issues a thirty-day notice to correct before any penalty attaches; only a failure to fix the problem within that window becomes a chargeable infraction. 130 and applies current building code standards for installation and location rather than the fossil-fuel-source trigger used for rentals. 050(e).
Violations & Fines
Failing to install a required carbon monoxide device, after a thirty-day notice to correct goes unaddressed, is an infraction under Sections 18.11.040(c)(1) and 18.11.050(c)(1) punishable by a maximum fine of two hundred dollars for each offense. The same two-hundred-dollar per-offense cap applies to an owner's failure to correct a reported deficient smoke alarm once notified.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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