Irvington, NJ Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

Section 365-25A(4) of the Township Code, part of the Land Use Procedures fee schedule, sets Irvington's charge for inspecting carbon monoxide alarms: $50 to inspect between one and 20 alarms in a building, and $100 to inspect more than 20. The same subsection ties an inspection fee to mechanical work: when a gas-fired or oil boiler or hot water heater is newly installed or replaced, the fee should be appropriately charged, meaning a swap-out of that equipment triggers its own CO-alarm inspection charge rather than folding into a flat permit fee.

This is Irvington's current answer on carbon monoxide alarms; the Township had a dedicated smoke-and-CO detector inspection fee section, former § 307-25, added in 2013 by Ord. No. MC 3497, but it was repealed in 2018 by Ord. No. MC 3641, and the fee now lives in the Land Use schedule instead. The underlying duty to install and maintain carbon monoxide alarms in New Jersey dwellings comes from the state's Uniform Fire Code and Uniform Construction Code, not from a separate Irvington ordinance; Irvington's own contribution is the local inspection-fee structure that funds enforcement whenever a covered appliance changes hands or is installed.