Glendale, CA Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

Municipal Code Section 5.56.050(K) sets a specific life-safety condition on every home-sharing license: any dwelling used for home-sharing shall contain functional smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, fire extinguishers and information related to emergency exit routes, and emergency contact information. This condition sits inside the chapter's broader operating prohibitions and regulations, which also bar excessive noise (Section 5.56.050(A)), require compliance with the loud-party ordinance (Section 5.56.050(B)), and require hosts to provide guests with a code of conduct (Section 5.56.050(L)). Because the carbon monoxide detector requirement is a license condition rather than a stand-alone building permit trigger, it is enforced the same way as the rest of Chapter 5.56: a host who lets the dwelling fall out of compliance risks having the community development director deny, decline to renew, suspend, revoke, or add new conditions to the home-sharing license under Section 5.56.040(D), which lists noncompliance with 'provisions or conditions of Titles 8 and 30 of this code' and 'provisions of this chapter' among the grounds for that action. A host or license holder aggrieved by such a denial, suspension, or revocation can appeal through the procedure set out in Section 5.04.110.