Mountain View, CA Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

City Code Sec. 108, governing safe parking programs, lists mandatory site and vehicle standards a permitted safe-parking provider must meet. " This sits among a cluster of fire- and life-safety conditions specific to vehicles used for overnight habitation under the program: propane tanks must be secured to the RV's mounting bracket (subsection b), a 2-A:10-B:C fire extinguisher must be mounted within 75 feet of any occupied area (subsection c), open fires and outdoor cooking or barbecuing are prohibited, and any cooking equipment must be factory-installed in the RV and unmodified (subsection d), and cooking inside passenger cars is banned outright (subsection e).

A safe parking program must first obtain a permit from the police chief under Sec. 106, following either a conditional use permit under Chapter 36 or confirmation the site is exempt from one, and the police chief and fire chief may inspect any site to confirm compliance with these standards under Sec. 106(c). Refusing an inspection can lead to suspension or termination of the program's permit under Sec. 1. Because this CO detector duty is written into the safe-parking chapter rather than the building or residential code, it applies specifically to RVs sheltering program participants overnight, not to fixed dwellings citywide.