Glen Cove, NY Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

Section 168-22G of the Housing Standards, added February 8, 2005, is Glen Cove's carbon monoxide requirement. Every residential building, structure and dwelling unit in existence on or before January 1, 2003 must provide, install and thereafter maintain in working condition one carbon monoxide alarm, which may be battery operated, installed on the lowest floor level on which any bedroom is maintained and located in the immediate vicinity of that bedroom. The owner or landlord of a multiple dwelling subject to the registration duty in Section 168-57 must install and maintain at least one working carbon monoxide alarm in the same location, and that duty took effect October 1, 2003 (§168-22H).

As with the chapter's smoke detector rule, it is separately prohibited to render an installed carbon monoxide alarm inoperable by breaking it, painting over it, taping over it, disabling the alarm, removing the battery, or any other method that stops it from working (§168-22I). The Building Department Administrator enforces the requirement as part of Chapter 168 generally, inspecting premises and issuing written violation orders under Sections 168-54 and 168-55, and an owner who fails to install or maintain the alarm, or who disables one, is subject to the chapter's standard penalty schedule: $1,000 to $2,000 for a first conviction, up to $3,500 for a second within five years, and up to $5,000 for a third, with each week of continuing violation a separate offense under Section 168-63A.