Roseville, MN Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

Roseville handles carbon monoxide alarms in Section 906.09, the fire safety requirements of its property maintenance chapter. Paragraph (d)(13)a is short: carbon monoxide alarms shall be installed in dwellings in accordance with the state building code. The city does not print its own count or placement table here. It points to the Minnesota State Building Code, which § 901.01 adopts as the city building code, and leaves installation to that code.

The city adds its own maintenance duty in (d)(13)b. Carbon monoxide alarms and detection systems must be maintained in accordance with NFPA 720, and alarms or detectors that become inoperable or begin producing end-of-life signals must be replaced.

Responsibility is spelled out in § 906.09(a)(2): the owner of the premises must provide and maintain the fire safety facilities and equipment, and a person cannot occupy as owner-occupant, or permit another person to occupy, any premises that do not comply with the section. Paragraph (d)(3)e lists carbon monoxide alarms and carbon monoxide detection systems among the fire protection systems that must be inspected, maintained and tested in accordance with fire code requirements. Under (d)(2), systems required by the city's title, the state fire code or the state building code must be installed, repaired, operated, tested and maintained in accordance with the title, and (d)(5) requires records of inspections, tests and maintenance required by the referenced standards.

Section 906.03(b) adds that repairs, alterations, additions to and change of occupancy in existing buildings must comply with the current edition of the state building code. The section carries the history note Code 1995, § 906.09; Ord. No. 1583, 4-13-2020.