Oxnard, CA Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)
Key Facts
- Local amendment
- Oxnard Code § 14-25(II)
- Amends
- CFC § 705.1 (2025 ed.)
- CRC-covered dwellings
- install per CRC § R315
- Enforcing agency
- Oxnard Fire Prevention Bureau
- Max penalty
- $1,000 fine and/or 6 months jail
Summary
Oxnard's local amendment to California Fire Code Section 705.1 requires carbon monoxide alarms in dwellings citywide, installed under the Fire Code generally, or under Section R315 of the California Residential Code for dwellings covered by that code, and enforced by the city's Fire Prevention Bureau.
Section 705.1: Amend Section 705.1 to read as follows: 705.1. General. Carbon monoxide alarms shall be installed in dwellings in accordance with the California Fire Code, except that alarms in dwellings covered by the California Residential Code shall be installed in accordance with Section R315 of that code.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Contains Supplement current through 1-26-2026).
Full Breakdown
Article XV of the Oxnard Code adopts the 2025 California Fire Code by reference in Sec. 14-24, and Sec. 14-25 sets out the city's local amendments. Subsection (II) rewrites CFC Section 705.1 to state plainly that carbon monoxide alarms must be installed in dwellings in accordance with the California Fire Code, except that dwellings covered by the California Residential Code must instead install them under Section R315 of that code. This amendment sits immediately after the city's Section 704.6.4 smoke-detection amendment in the same 2024 fire code update (Ord. No. 3070), so the two life-safety detection requirements are adopted together as part of the same local fire code revision. The fire code official, who heads the Oxnard Fire Prevention Bureau created under Sec. 14-25(B), administers and enforces both the smoke and carbon monoxide alarm requirements as part of ordinary fire code plan review and inspection.
Violations & Fines
Sec. 14-25(I), amending Fire Code Section [A]113.4, applies here as elsewhere in the Fire Code: violating the carbon monoxide alarm requirement is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment of up to six months, or both, with each day a violation continues after notice treated as a separate offense.
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