Medford, OR Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

Medford added carbon monoxide protection to its Property Maintenance Code rather than leaving it to the base 2012 IPMC, which does not include a CO alarm section. 1, Carbon Monoxide Detectors, directly into the adopted code, requiring alarms in residential units per the Oregon Residential Specialty Code, Section 315. That cross-reference pulls in the state code's placement and testing rules rather than restating them locally, so compliance in Medford tracks whatever the current Oregon Residential Specialty Code § 315 requires for detector location and maintenance in residential occupancies.

2, all inserted in the same 2016 amendment package (Ord. No. 2016-56). 1 is a maintenance-code addition rather than a stand-alone chapter, it is enforced the same way as every other Property Maintenance Code provision: by the Police Department's Code Enforcement Division, under the general Chapter 9 violation and penalty procedure, not a separate fire-code citation process.