Moore, OK Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

Sec 5-204 adopts the 2018 International Residential Code with local amendments, one of which rewrites Section M2005.2 governing enclosures that house fuel-fired appliances such as furnaces and water heaters. Moore's amendment adds the word 'Existing' to the start of the second sentence, extends the listed room types to sleeping rooms, toilet rooms and surgical rooms, and inserts a new sentence permitting access from the bedroom or bathroom on one specific condition: the doorway must be a solid door, weather-stripped to the same air-leakage standard as an exterior door, fitted with an approved self-closing device, and the enclosure must have a carbon monoxide alarm installed.

Without all of those features together, an appliance enclosure cannot be entered directly from a bedroom or bathroom under the city's amended code. The rule is enforced as part of the mechanical inspection that accompanies a building or remodel permit, administered by the Community Development Department's building official under the same penalty structure that covers the rest of the building code. Because the amendment is tied to the 2018 IRC's mechanical provisions rather than a stand-alone city ordinance, it applies to one- and two-family construction and remodels reviewed under that code, and any conflict between it and a stricter state requirement is resolved in favor of whichever standard is more restrictive under Sec 5-203.