Weber County, UT Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)
Key Facts
- Requirement
- CO detectors installed and maintained
- Standard applied
- Current building and fire codes
- Applies to
- Licensed short-term rentals
- Governing section
- Land Use Code § 108-11-8
- Violation class
- Minor Violation (§ 108-11-9)
Summary
Weber County requires every licensed short-term rental to have working carbon monoxide detectors installed and maintained per the current building and fire codes, under the Section 108-11-8 fire safety operating standards enforced by the Planning Division.
Fire safety. ... Smoke and carbon monoxide detectors must be installed and maintained per current building and fire codes. Fire extinguishers must be placed in an approved location on each level of the property and adjacent to outdoor fire pits.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: ?).
Full Breakdown
" The requirement sits alongside other fire safety mandates for licensed rentals: a fire prevention system approved by the fire marshal, primary access along a fire-marshal-approved fire access road, fire extinguishers on each level and next to any outdoor fire pit, and a posted emergency egress plan. Properties inside the Wildland-Urban Interface must additionally comply with the current WUI code. Because this sits inside Chapter 108-11 (Short-Term Rentals), the CO detector mandate is enforced as a licensing condition, not a freestanding building-code citation: an owner who fails to maintain working detectors is out of compliance with the operating standards that keep the rental license valid.
A violation is classified and penalized under Sections 108-11-9 and 108-11-10, the same complaint and administrative-penalty framework that covers the rest of Chapter 108-11's operating standards, and repeated fire-safety violations count toward the minor/major violation thresholds that can trigger license revocation under Section 108-11-11.
Violations & Fines
A missing or non-functioning CO detector is a violation of the Section 108-11-8 operating standards, which the code classifies as a Minor Violation under Section 108-11-9. A first minor violation in 12 months draws a warning with three calendar days to correct it; unresolved or repeated violations escalate to administrative fines under Section 108-11-10 and can count toward the four-in-three-months or six-in-twelve-months threshold for license revocation under Section 108-11-11.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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