Grand Forks, ND Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

Section 19-0121 adopts "the International Residential Code, 2021 edition, Chapters 1 through 11 and 44," a range that includes Section R315, the IRC chapter titled Carbon Monoxide Alarms. Unlike the sprinkler chapter R313, which item (46) of the same section deletes entirely, the council left R315 standing and touched only one subsection: item (48) reads "R315.2.2. Add exception '#4. When determined to be infeasible by the Building Official.'" That means the base carbon monoxide alarm placement rules published in the 2021 IRC apply in Grand Forks exactly as the International Code Council wrote them, and the single local deviation lets the Building Official excuse an alarm location that installation makes impractical, rather than excusing the alarm duty altogether.

The Department of Building Safety, which administers Article 1 of Chapter XIX, enforces the requirement as part of the inspected work on new construction, additions, and alterations covered by the same adopted code and the dozens of other numbered amendments listed in § 19-0121. Because the council chose to strike R313 by name rather than leave it untouched, and chose to amend rather than strike R315, the printed amendment list itself is the clearest evidence that carbon monoxide alarms remain mandatory while sprinklers, for one- and two-family homes, do not; no other exception to the carbon monoxide chapter is printed anywhere in the article.