Worcester, MA Building Safety: Carbon Monoxide Detectors (2026)

c. 148, § 26F1/2) requires carbon monoxide alarms in most residential buildings, and Worcester's Revised Ordinances of 2008 handle the inspection side of that mandate in Chapter Ten, Section 13, Fees for Certain Licenses, Permits and Services. Under Section 13(c), if a smoke detector inspection under Section 26F and a carbon monoxide alarm inspection under Section 26F1/2 happen at the same visit, the property owner is not charged an additional fee for the carbon monoxide check, only the single combined fee. Inspected separately, neither inspection fee can exceed a schedule tied to building size: fifty dollars for a single-family dwelling or a single dwelling unit, one hundred dollars for a two-family dwelling, one hundred fifty dollars for any building with six or fewer residential units, and five hundred dollars for any building with more than six units.

c. 40, Section 22F, described in Section 13(b). Because the underlying alarm requirement itself comes from state law, Worcester's own ordinance does not add a separate mandate to install carbon monoxide alarms; its local role is capping and structuring what the fire department can bill for verifying that the state-required alarms are present and working, and for issuing the compliance permit referenced elsewhere in Chapter Ten as the Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Inspection Permit.