Richland County, SC Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

Section 6-217(d) of the Richland County Code sets eleven conditions that make a mobile or manufactured home substandard and a nuisance, and item (11) targets carbon monoxide risk directly: a home with a fossil-fuel-burning appliance or an attached garage must have an operational carbon monoxide alarm, and a home without one is deemed substandard. The requirement was added by Ordinance No. 002-15HR, effective February 10, 2015, as part of the county's Chapter 6 mobile home park regulations, and it sits alongside other (d)-list hazards, including inoperable heating equipment, unvented fuel-burning appliances, and faulty weather protection, all of which the Property Maintenance Division can cite during the same inspection.

The parallel list for permanent buildings and structures in Section 6-217(c) does not carry its own carbon monoxide item, so this specific mandate is tied to the mobile/manufactured home list. Once the Division documents a missing or inoperable alarm, it issues a written notice describing the violation and orders it corrected within 30 days under Section 6-217(g), the same notice-and-cure process used for the chapter's other substandard conditions. The registered owner, or the park operator if the home's identification numbers cannot establish ownership, receives the notice.