Rapid City, SD Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)
Key Facts
- Local mandate
- None; IPMC Section 705 deleted by ordinance
- Also deleted
- IPMC Sections 704.6, 704.7 smoke alarm rules
- Adopting ordinance
- Ordinance 6264 (2019)
- What remains
- IPMC egress and fire-resistance Sections 702-703
- Effect
- No IPMC-based CO alarm duty in RCMC Chapter 15.14
Summary
Rapid City struck the carbon monoxide alarm requirement out of the International Property Maintenance Code when it adopted the code: Section 15.14.440 deletes IPMC Section 705, Carbon Monoxide Alarms and Detection, in its entirety, along with the single- and multiple-station smoke alarm sections of IPMC Chapter 7, leaving no municipal CO alarm mandate.
The following sections of IPMC Chapter 7, are hereby deleted in their entirety. Section 704.1 Inspection, testing and maintenance. Section 704.2 Standards. Section 704.3.1 Emergency impairments. Section 704.4.2 Removal of existing occupant-use hose lines. Section 704.4.3 Termination of monitoring service. Section 704.5.1 Fire department connection access. Section 704.6 Single- and multiple-station smoke alarms. Section 704.7 Single- and multiple-station smoke alarms. Section 705 Carbon Monoxide Alarms and Detection.
Full Breakdown
440, in force since Ordinance 6264 in 2019, deletes a specific list of IPMC Chapter 7 sections in their entirety rather than amending them. 7 covering single- and multiple-station smoke alarms, and finally Section 705, Carbon Monoxide Alarms and Detection. By deleting Section 705 outright rather than replacing it with city language, Rapid City left itself with no Property Maintenance Code provision requiring a carbon monoxide alarm in any existing structure. 3 still requires egress doors to open without a key, and Section 703 still governs maintenance of fire-resistance-rated construction.
What is missing from the file, and from Rapid City's code, is any surviving IPMC-based duty to install or maintain a carbon monoxide detector; that duty simply was not carried forward when the city adopted the 2018 IPMC with local amendments.
Violations & Fines
There is no local penalty for lacking a carbon monoxide alarm because the Property Maintenance Code provision that would have required one, Section 705, was deleted outright rather than enforced. A property found without a CO alarm faces no citation under Chapter 15.14 on that basis alone.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Rapid City require carbon monoxide detectors in rental housing?
Why would the city delete a safety requirement like this?
Were smoke alarm rules deleted along with the CO alarm rule?
Are any IPMC Chapter 7 fire-safety rules still in effect?
Sources & Official References
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